Golden ruled out for ECS Season 6 Finals; valens to stand in

22-11-2018 14:39

For the second time in one month, Cloud9's coach will fill in for Maikil "⁠Golden⁠" Selim, who will miss the entirety of the Texas event because of ongoing health issues, FACEIT have confirmed to HLTV.org.

Golden will miss action at the second event in a row, as the Swedish in-game leader also sat out the first day of matches at BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen 2018 earlier this month.

The 24-year-old came back to play on the second day in the Danish capital, but FACEIT have now confirmed to HLTV.org that he will also miss the ECS Season 6 Finals in Arlington, Texas due to health issues. Standing in for the Swede will be Cloud9's coach Soham "⁠valens⁠" Chowdhury, who also took over in Copenhagen.

Golden will miss another event due to his health

In spite of retiring as a player in 2015, valens held his own at BLAST Pro Series, as the 29-year-old garnered a 0.93 rating over two maps, including a best-on-one win against MIBR.

After the first day of matches, valens said in an interview with HLTV.org that he still plays a lot with teammates and friends, and also stated that he believes the best way of being a coach is to "keep playing the game, stay up to date with the meta.".

With Golden ruled out for the ECS Season 6 Finals, Cloud9 will field the following lineup in Texas:

Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist
Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey
William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba
Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta
Soham "⁠valens⁠" Chowdhury

Again? WTF C9

2018-11-22 14:39

25 replies

Expected

9 replies

At least this time it isn’t because of visa issues

2018-11-22 14:42

8 replies

Its always about it or health issues...

2018-11-22 14:55

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Not talking about golden only, I’m talking about all teams/players that need to withdraw from tournaments in NA because of vida issues

2018-11-22 14:56

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what do you mean by vida issues?

2018-11-22 15:20

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he misstyped, visa issues*

2018-11-22 15:22

Mistype man sry

2018-11-22 15:30

Ikr, im just saying that is commun being withdrawed with the reasons: visa issues or health issues

2018-11-22 15:27

And personal reasons

2018-11-22 15:31

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Too

2018-11-22 15:55

2018-11-22 14:40

rip my bet

Ebat eto shutka takoe anonsit za chas do igri? Prosto last turik ya ponyal mb neojidanno no tut ochevidno chto eti health issues nikuda ne devalis, ne mojet je bit sovpadenie chto snova pryamo pered nachalom Ya ne stavil no eto prosto smeshno naskolko cs unprofessional v etoi situacii Che to triggerit pzdc

2018-11-22 17:24

2018-11-22 18:35

not wtf c9 but wtf golden

There are so many health issues I don’t get it. When I used to skip school for health issues I just played video games all day

2018-11-22 15:51

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Now imagine missing playing video games bc you are actually sick.

2018-11-22 16:19

Dude he probably has a serious illness and you can't compare casually playing to professionally playing

2018-11-22 17:16

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Jokes m8. It is weird to me that a lot gamers have like long term health issues. Like Golden and device and gtr. Then again “gamer lifestyle” was typically unhealthy.

2018-11-22 19:27

I think it's just that a lot of people get health issues, not just gamers, you're just noticing it more in this environment. It's still a minority of players getting these problems. But there are some health issues directly related to gaming like olofmeisters old wrist problem or whatever it was. This is also a much more intensive and demanding way of playing video games than playing when off sick from school.

2018-11-22 20:30

Yea I agree. Sidenote I considered Olof and guardian to have had injuries. When I hear health issue I think flu or depression or a chronic disease

2018-11-22 21:33

Sad

2018-11-22 14:43

Vallens is enough to beat mibr on the losers match lol

2018-11-22 15:14

nt choke clan

2018-11-22 16:56

mibr so bad xaxaxaxax

2018-11-22 15:15

Health issues again? FeelsBadMan

rip

Nooo why? Just release golden

Who would you replace him with? They need a good IGL and golden has been doing ok

2018-11-22 14:51

Ok doesnt equate good but ok

2018-11-22 15:04

Valens

2018-11-22 15:37

Nice bait

2018-11-22 17:17

-1 stupid comment

2018-11-22 15:13

valens > golden

Yea, sure

Get rid of this bot already

need him to keep major spot

2018-11-22 17:20

C9 back at NA line up unlucky

Actually it's upgrade for c9 lul I hope it's nothing serious with golden tho and he will fix his health issues

Norway is like Sweden but less gay country

2018-11-22 15:19

2018-11-22 15:35

No it's not lul

FeelsBadMan c9

Why cant cloud9 ever be stable again monkaS

We're cursed, I swear, everything that can go wrong in esports happens to us.

2018-11-22 17:22

Feels bad man

Not again...

damn that sucks :/

best coach inc

2018-11-22 14:41

Ofc... Nice 4 frags

what is his health problem?

Valens>Golden

4 kills btw

2018-11-22 17:18

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Golden would do less

Golden has been quite good in c9 and he's an IGL idiot

A child does not understand rofl?

Yes

2018-11-22 17:26

Valens has been grinding FPL C recently so ez for c9

What a shame. :(

I was hoping forsaken would stand in... Easy title

fucking hell

take care golden

flusha doesn't deserved for rekt he had only one super bad map which caused this rating

Atleast he has allah so who cares

lmao are you fucking serious? What is heppening to golden? Just when I thought cloud9 could finally have the opportunity to show what they can do, valens isnt that bad but they would be so much better and consistent with golden, its over now

valens >>>>>>>>>>>>> golden Daalbhatpower24hour

Yea sure hahaha

fucks sake, was excited to watch the cloud9 astralis match

2018-11-22 14:44

-valens +ska = win in Texa$

hope he gets better soon!

And its actually funny because cloud9 is back to being american for this event

lul

2018-11-22 15:29

ty for laughing

Kick bot golden pls

Kick bot valens

2018-11-22 17:19

Come on Golden, get better dude

EU flag > US flag rip c9

2018-11-22 14:46

Oh for god's sake Health is the top priority but fck I was so expectent to watch them in this tourney

Lets see the bright side of it; Cloud9 shouldnt even be there at first and got there thanks to renegades visa issues, but yeah at this point if golden health continues to be bad they should find a guy that could stand in instand of getting their coach

2018-11-22 14:50

It's hard to positive w/ how much C9 has been getting canned and the haters of FaZe and Astralis. I swear the haters are getting to me.

kioshima IGL now?

lolll

2018-11-22 14:49

FeelsBadMan

Wtf... Golden is always AFK/LEAVER report himmmm

Is this c9’s plan to keep its an status secretly =3

2018-11-22 14:52

New meta - talented coach

Talented hahaha

because of dwarfism?

2018-11-22 14:53

Actually better for them LUL

2018-11-22 14:54

NA brain LUL

If golden played, it would be 16-0 because you know it's clown9...

Nah golden could've made some good calls which would've lead to more rounds

2018-11-22 17:27

+1 it was just a joke

expected tbh

Atleast Cloud9 is under the AMERICA FLAG/BANNER AGAIN 🤣

Get well soon Golden

2018-11-22 15:02

MIBR IN CHOKE VALENS REKT MIBR

You know you suck when you get kicked for your 200kg coach

Kicked?

with or without they go home after 0-2

-tarik +taco -taco +tarik -Stewie +fnx -Golden +Stewie yes

2018-11-22 15:05

EZ valens

2018-11-22 15:10

Cry

2018-11-22 17:21

Will Golden miss the whole event or only first days ?

[...,]who will miss the entirety of the Texas event because of ongoing health issues[...]

2018-11-23 06:22

Nooo :(

1000 iq play by golden, making c9 an na team again

2018-11-22 15:16

Cry is free

Valens is actually pretty good

2018-11-22 15:17

It doesn't make too much sense even for me, but is it ridicoulos to state the difference between Golden and valens isn't that big? I mean valens did really great in Blast PRO, I was really impressed in general. He was doing his job well and I can't see too much of an improvement with Golden, which seems to be dumb to say. But is it? Since early 2018 and the two titles, there is nothing for Golden to show or impress, at least for me. For sure I underestimate him, or more especially the relevance of his IGL abilities, but logic tells me this and not actual experiences. I hope he will prove himself, for now he seems to be replaceable though.