Cloud9 confirm Zellsis departure

4-3-2019 19:38

Cloud9 have dispensed with the services of Jordan "⁠Zellsis⁠" Montemurro, the North American organisation have announced.

The 21-year-old spent two months on trial with the team as a replacement for Maikil "⁠Golden⁠" Selim, who was forced to spend some time on the sidelines due to medical issues.

During this time, Cloud9 placed 5th-6th at iBUYPOWER Masters and second at the ELEAGUE CS:GO Invitational, and reached the New Legends Stage of the IEM Katowice Major, in which they went out with a 2-3 record, beating MIBR and HellRaisers, and losing to Astralis, Vitality and FaZe.

Zellsis leaves Cloud9

Zellsis, who averaged a 0.87 rating while playing with Cloud9, has set his sights on a return to Swole Patrol alongside the likes of Bradley "⁠ANDROID⁠" Fodor, Braxton "⁠swag⁠" Pierce and Sam "⁠s0m⁠" Oh, according to a report from Rush B Media.

This is the second confirmed change from the line-up that competed at the Major after Golden was brought back into the fold, replacing Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist, who is taking some time off from the game after losing his mother.

"I still have a lot to learn as a player, but it was an honor to spend my first major with such an incredible group of players," Zellsis said in a statement.

"Thank you to everyone at Cloud9 for giving me this opportunity and I plan on coming back bigger and better than ever."

Cloud9, who will make their next appearance at BLAST Pro Series Miami, on April 12, currently have:

Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta
William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba
Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey
Maikil "⁠Golden⁠" Selim

2019-03-04 19:39

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hahaha rush: we will give zellsis time 1 week later -zellsisss

2019-03-04 19:53

4 replies

Well, they didnt lie

2019-03-04 20:14

1 reply

bad joke 😑

2019-03-06 06:19

Lull

2019-03-04 20:31

Xdddddddd

2019-03-06 17:52

expected

noo :(

RIP

OMEGALUL

Damn

Swole Patrol?

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Report from rudh b media

2019-03-04 19:41

From tier 2.5 to tier 3

2019-03-04 21:48

more to follow wtf? :O

hypee

2019-03-04 19:47

swole

Glad he got some valuable experience. Hope he uses this to build his game so he can one day take it to the next level

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He was a very good player... For a newbie at the pro scene. Rush played more shit than he did

2019-03-04 19:40

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thank you!!!! zell was pretty decent...rush t3 player

2019-03-04 19:43

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Agree with both you guys, Rush needs to find form again or he will be out possibly after the next major.

2019-03-04 19:44

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he was lucky that autimatic is still in c9. not for long...probably very soon auti will go to liquid

2019-03-04 19:46

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I'll never say never but I think Auti is to loyal to c9. I think he ends his career in c9.

2019-03-04 19:48

no way ..its too young and he looked very strong with flusha & kio

2019-03-04 19:51

i hope he doesn't leave ever since ska and stew left auti has truly stepped up in the fragging department

2019-03-04 21:41

Every player on Liquid is better than Auti he isn't going anywhere.

2019-03-04 20:38

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>Stewie2k >Better than autimatic Pick one

2019-03-04 21:25

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Both of them are really bad atm but Stewie2k still has potential to improve, Auti is already past his peak and on the decline.

2019-03-04 21:27

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Auti>>>>>stewie also what a bs with potential lol

2019-03-04 21:42

Ok let's compare them since you are such a fanboy shit look both can't awp they think they can awp but they are both worse than shahzam ffs next stewie is just way more versatile and has a skill set with potential, Auti is a one dimensional player and already on the decline.

2019-03-04 23:28

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Did you just say Auti is rlly bad rn? He just finished major with a 1.19 rating carrying C9. He had a higher rating than every player on TL, with Twistzz being the highest at 1.13. Slightly weaker opponents overall sure, but hard carrying 2 maps still. That is literally the 11th highest rating in the tournament. He's better than nitr0 and stewie2k atleast and arguably better than Twistzz and Elige. NAF is still better than everyone on C9. Don't say just awping, nitr0 and stewie2k have both been a much weaker awper than Autimatic even though they have had it for longer and Autimatic has more than half his major kills on AUG and AK. Autimatic is also way more versatile than all players on TL, Thorin made a whole video about how he is the most versatile NA player and you can tell by the fact he plays awp, AK, different positions and can be both aggressive and passive when required. There's a reason why Autimatic was first pick before Stewie and Tarik for MIBR but he didn't join.

2019-03-05 01:43

Did you really just write a wall of text based on someone's rating like wtf? The guy could of had a 2.00+ rating in rating 2.0 and I would still say he's shit because he can't awp for shit and he's the awper of his team.

2019-03-05 16:30

Did you read more than the first 2 lines???? obviously not

2019-03-05 22:16

" Past his peak and on the decline".. the guy is 5 years old and better than ever.

2019-03-05 18:18

Who Would automatic replace on liquid, nitro?

2019-03-04 20:53

Autimatic shouldn't replace anyone on Liquid. TL is doing well, if they did replace anyone it would be Stewie imo.

2019-03-05 01:44

I was asking mr comment #81 Who, in their opinion, auti would replace on TL if he had left c9 for TL. I do agree that TL needs to let this current roster grow and blossom cause like naf said, it's basically an NA faze. But just to ask you man, you rate nitro over stew? I guess I would disagree with that myself but that'd just be my 2 cents for what it's worth.

2019-03-05 01:55

For now i would as Nitr0 is a decent IGL while Stew has less results as an IGL

2019-03-05 03:31

0.87 ranking but ok

Go watch the games. Compare rush and him in impact. Stats are good to use for metric but not in this case

2019-03-04 19:54

"very good player" ... Don't know about that one chief. He was an okay player, forced into a lot of bitch spots, whose lack of experience glowed. He isn't ready for T1 CS (edit: unlike Stewie, where the potential was obvious)

2019-03-04 19:59

you said it , forced into bitch spots , still performed good. stewie will not happen again. that's super rare. in EU and NA

2019-03-04 20:57

F in chat

Ez4ence

Rip

Rip Zellsis good luck to him

Nice, he was not what they need rn, they need experience and firepower

Rip he played well

Hahahahaa funny

He did, great up and coming player, had a lot of impact and didn't lose it.

2019-03-04 19:42

I think it's C9s loss. He showed huge potential.

2019-03-04 22:28

rip

Pretty sure he's going to Swole Patrol

Shame, he was starting to perform well and become more consistent.

lol wut that was a short run

smoooooooooooooya

Yep that's most possible option i can see...

2019-03-04 21:10

Swole Patrol ZellSis Again confirmed You heard it here first.

Nt you are not first

lol

Hahahahahha

Fucking unexpected.

expected, why would they keep a bad 12yo??

but y tho

Stupid.

C9 Karrigan or C9 Smooya 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

Think about it. Why would C9 needed 2 igls? Don't think karrigan and golden bring that much firepower as they're mostly on the bottom of scoreboard.

2019-03-04 21:13

flusha better

Poor guy

Not poor guy he id joining swole patrol its confirmed

Where its confirmed

Rush b media or just check dust2

2019-03-04 19:45

sydney with swag & s0m incoming

Swole patrol roster is confirmed but they wont have their sidney spot but will have their pro league spot due to rules

loved watching them 3-0 eU, best final I've watched in a while.

2019-03-04 19:55

eUnited isn't taking the spot right ?

2019-03-05 00:45

2019-03-05 10:59

RIP9

+FNS

They have a igl

FNS is the best, he plays well in any role

gg4c9

Meaningfully

-Zellsis +Who ?

smooooyaa

2019-03-04 21:14

maybe styko' chrisj' smooya' karigan' fugly

He was doing good c9 wtf

coz tournament casters said so? LOL! look closer how he plays.

2019-03-05 21:08

Zellsis to Swole Patrol

LMAO

Braxton "swag" Pierce Sam "s0m" Oh Jordan "Zellsis" Montemurro Michael "dapr" Gulino Bradley "ANDROID" Fodor

Stole acc

2019-03-04 22:27

+ethan confirmed +brezzzz confirmed

They only need a fifth and highly unlikely they would leave considering tarik was just added

lmao...

2019-03-04 20:21

Finally

finally, get someone who can have a positive rating in a game

New cloud9 is: Rush Autimatic Tarik ChrisJ Karrigan 3 leaders = better strats = many wins

0/8

Hopefully they can add a star awper like a Cerq

2019-03-04 20:15

I don't think they'd be allowed to play with 6 players, it would be unfair

2019-03-04 20:54

You're mom gay lol

2019-03-04 21:03

No you're an mom the gay isn't it please

2019-03-04 22:40

reported

2019-03-04 22:58

what the fuck

2019-03-04 20:39

I lol’d +HLTV Gold

2019-03-04 23:43

better add FNS back while we're at it

2019-03-07 08:29

Expected since day 1

Smooya or ropz incoming

ropz? wtf are you talking about?

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There's very small unlikely possibilty that mouz would disband if they couldn't find the perfect match for team. which would make us all sad Even Tomča said they're gonna kick him.(jk :)

2019-03-04 21:19

They already signed new players. Ropz said on stream the new lineup gonna be released this week

yeah surely karrigan and there are baits about frozen aswell I really hope it's not going to happen. flusha would be perfect but he just took a break tho...

2019-03-05 08:52

well it looks like it was true rip oskarfans

2019-03-05 14:45

Fan of sunny, who is close to signing with c9 lol

2019-03-05 09:17

Fan of NaVi, who isn't able to comprehend timestamps

2019-03-05 09:19

That means???, idk prob another europe guy? +smooya? or if they want to keep c9 na flag, prob again going for +infinite????

2019-03-04 19:49

No way infinite if they let zellsis go, id say their options are fugly, smooya, eunited players? Or some random eu

brah, tbh infinite is kinda nuts, thats why they target him first than zellsis, but fuking garbagae ryx posted about the racism and that stuff, so thats why i put him over zellsis, and i dont think getting fugly is the best choice, thats a downgrade tbh

they need to be in na to get local invites and sponsors since they relegated themselves as a usa team

They can be a eu team if they wanted sponsors are not affected as rhey are still a us based org

2019-03-04 20:44

Ok nice move Cloud9 but getting rid of Flusha? Nah thats a really bad move, this team has grown alot thanks to him lately, if they replaced Zellsis before the major this team would have done much better...

2019-03-04 19:50

They didnt get rid of Flusha, Flusha decided self to take break from CS:GO for a while. He's mum passed away in the Major and he took a break.

1. flusha left on his own terms to take time off cause he just lost his mother 2. c9 couldn't get rid of zellsis because it was already past the roster lock

And im pretty sure he left right now as he can join swole

2019-03-04 20:46

zellsis new slemmy :(

Nice Zellsis braindead player

Tarik plz

Ie user?

tarik is already taken ):

I just want to see him reunited with his fam on Cloud9. He’ll do well on NRG though.

2019-03-05 03:51

Sucka but was going to happen either way

Hazed C9 MAKE IT REAL

WELCOME TO THE MAJOR YOUNG MAN

:( why god zellsis

are you fuckin.. bro golden could have developed him under his system he was doing ok within a forced igl

2019-03-04 19:57

Finally I tought cloud9 was needed new young blood for this team. But not even like Zellsis. I gonna not say Zellsis is good tallented young player.In the other handHe have good aim control good communication. But sorry U ARE NOT GOOD PLAYER ZELLSIS. You haven't experience. Especially in tier 1 team. You have to improve yourself. When cloud9 takes Zellsis i thought they just trusted young blood. But it doesnt work. Experience is always better than luck of young yolo playler at least !. IN the end that roster change was GOOD, so they need to take new young talented player for their team(Not even like Zellsis) there is tons of good young players ! you have to just search him around the world ! But experience is 1st one !

2019-03-04 19:58

+smooya pls

Flusha back?

Scream soon

He was temporary from the beginning anyway. Dropping Flusha is more surprising, as well as bringing back Golden.

Flusha wasn't dropped he stepped down from cloud9 and decided to take a break from cs as his mother just passed away and he's having a rough go with it

2019-03-04 23:00

Him stepping down is what's surprising.

2019-03-04 23:14

-flusha +flusha

LUL HAHAHH

AMANEK INCOMMING !

thanks god

2019-03-04 20:00

Smooooooya

Would love to see ChrisJ instead of Golden

Cool

+smooya

2019-03-04 20:02

underrated player imo

Time to get a good player now C9 Sad for Zellsis, he did his best in the major despite all the critics. GL for him in the future :)

they missed out on tarik XDDDD

2019-03-04 20:06

im pretty sure they didnt want tarik if they did they would have taken him already

2019-03-04 21:08

Currently in the Swole Patrol ESEA TEAM.

2019-03-04 20:07

YESSS

C9 Smooya

2019-03-04 20:10

Honestly, he was a really good support player. Could see him grow during the matches as well. Hope that with time he gets a better team than Swole

2019-03-04 20:11

i mean this new swole is not really that bad

finally

2019-03-04 20:12

shit MDL player zywoo is younger and good. Pls retire Zellsis.

I would go for Wardell and keep a NA core.

2019-03-04 20:19

his buy out will be insane tho...imo not gonna happen

2019-03-04 20:23

C9 has the money and even if he doesn't have too much experience on big stages, he isn't some unproven MDL kid. C9 should aim high, at least to be the best NA team.

2019-03-04 21:45

I personally believe c9 won't go for an awper as Tim probably wants to keep that role and I don't see why he shouldn't because he's been doing a damn good job on it. They'll likely target someone who can fill Flusha's shoes (Not sure where they'll get a player like that from though. Definitely not NA that's for sure)

2019-03-04 23:05

I agree that auti has been great on his new role but I don't think there is a more capable rifler than him available to C9 right now, but if not Wardell I wouldn't give the AWP to anybody else tho (I don't see someone as Smooya as an improvement). I just hope they keep the NA core to don't see NA scene start going downhill until all local talent is replaced with foreigners on top teams as they did on other e-Sports.

I agree that it would be nice to see them stay as an NA core, but realistically NA doesn't bring a whole lot to the table. NA produces insane aimers but they don't have the game sense nor the patience to compete on a Tier 1 level. There's just no one who isn't already on NRG or Liquid besides maybe Wardell like you mentioned that can consistently compete at a Tier 1 level. If these rumours are true and Sunny may be coming to cloud9 I'm actually quite happy about it, EU majority or not. I don't support cloud9 because of nationality I just genuinely like the brand and love the team and I think firepower and the wits that sunny brings to the table could be exactly what c9 need to bolster them into the top 5 and be a contender for t1 tournaments

2019-03-05 23:40

Cant understand this..

Turkish brain overheating?

Try to ask me in a full sentence, maybe i will answer you.

2019-03-04 20:35

2019-03-04 23:37

2019-03-05 06:42

2019-03-05 09:37

good

2019-03-04 20:27

FugLy confirmed

2019-03-04 20:32

Seemed like a good lad GL

2019-03-04 20:33

clown9

2019-03-04 20:36

C9 tarik again? Pog

NRG already signed turok

2019-03-04 20:40

are they even gonna get a stable roster instead of wasting money and changing lineup every 1 week ... how players can get synergy... wtf c9

2019-03-04 20:37

He is trash anyways Thank God

Poor lad

flusha back btw

+smooya?

2019-03-04 20:45

was expected. this dude wasnt that good

2019-03-04 20:47

Expected. Hes just not good enough.They need an solid rifler

ska coming back NoCap

2019-03-04 20:50

Good

2019-03-04 20:52

Rip tarik, just signed for NRG and now there is a free spot in Cloud9 :D

He wouldn't join back as he already left them for better oppurtunity.

2019-03-04 21:36

Well to be fair, NRG has more potential and stability than C9 at the moment

2019-03-04 22:04

thank jesus

2019-03-04 21:04

C9 s0m

2019-03-04 21:09

I wonder who they would sign?

2019-03-04 21:11

smooya

good player but I'd love to see him grow up and be more mature first tbh. The sunNy rumors seem to be more true at the moment.

2019-03-08 01:36

stupid decision

Best support player in na lives c9... Riiip

2019-03-04 21:16

expected i don't know where did they found him but it feels gud that they release him

2019-03-04 21:17

Got him from swole patrol

C9 n0thing soon

2019-03-04 21:18

expected he is pure trash random lvl 10 faceit player

+chrisJ +smooya

2019-03-04 21:20

They only need 1

2019-03-04 21:57

Omg

2019-03-04 21:24

good luck to him in the future c9 needs t1 players

papa beast

2019-03-04 21:28

That had to be a tough position to be in. Last minute pickup for an eclective Euro-NA lineup; Listed as "coach" with their on-again-off-again IGL listed as a player; Oh, and a major to boot. Sink or swim. Nearly an impossible ask. Showed moments of brilliance is about the best one could ask for. It's all about getting out of comfort zone to improve.

2019-03-04 21:34