Virtus.pro spoil new-look Cloud9 debut

12-11-2020 16:40

The Flashpoint 2 group C opener went the way of CIS side, who swept the new European roster on Inferno and denied their comeback attempt on Overpass for a 2-0 victory.

Cloud9 wasn't able to start things off with a bang as the debuting lineup led by Alex "⁠ALEX⁠" McMeekin lost to a rising Virtus.pro.

The CIS side, currently ranked #15 in the world, limited their opponents to just five rounds on their first map, Inferno, but Cloud9 was able to show more on Overpass. A new face on the top level, William "⁠mezii⁠" Merriman, displayed his potential with a 1.29 rating on the map and was the team's best performer alongside Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker. However, Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali's brilliant late-round play and some misplayed advantages for Cloud9 cost them a chance to push the series to the decider.

Virtus.pro will now advance to the winners' match of Group C, where they will wait for the victor of OG - Gen.G, while Cloud9 will try to bounce back against the loser of the same match.

Jame won key rounds to ensure the win for Virtus.pro

Retaking B worked out for Cloud9, earning them their first-round played with the new lineup, but the excitement was short-lived as Virtus.pro bounced back with a second-round force. After Sanjar "⁠SANJI⁠" Kuliev denied mezii's clutch attempts twice, the CIS side was up 5-1, with Jame's 1v3 clutch ensuring a strong T-side for Virtus.pro.

ALEX had to step up with two triple kills, one on A and one on B, to earn Cloud9 two more rounds on the CT side, but that was all for the half as Virtus.pro ran up a 12-3 lead. Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis added to that with a quad kill from Pit in the pistol, and after some force-buys being traded, Virtus.pro closed out their map confidently, 16-5.

A scrappy, clutch-heavy start to Overpass resulted in Cloud9 taking a 3-1 lead, with rookie mezii leading the way for the European mixture. Jame stepped up in a couple of key rounds that followed, seeing Virtus.pro regain the lead and build on the momentum to finish the half 10-5 up.

The deficit Cloud9 found themselves in was increased as Jame won a 1v3 in the second pistol, his fourth clutch on the map. A hero play from Patrick "⁠es3tag⁠" Hansen with the USP-S translated into an eco victory for his side and gave them a chance to recover on the defense, with Ricky "⁠floppy⁠" Kemery's Deagle triple really kicking off the comeback. ALEX and co. pulled it all the way back to 15-14 and overtime looked guaranteed as they found themselves in a 4v2 situation, but Timur "⁠buster⁠" Tulepov and Aleksei "⁠Qikert⁠" Golubev stole away the round to conclude the series 2-0.

Flashpoint 2Best of 3

Cloud9

Matchpage

12th November 2020

Virtus.pro

Inferno

Overpass

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Özgür 'woxic' Eker woxic	35 - 36	-1	69.1	78.4%	1.08
William 'mezii' Merriman mezii	39 - 35	+4	73.2	70.6%	1.04
Alex 'ALEX' McMeekin ALEX	36 - 42	-6	81.9	66.7%	0.99
Patrick 'es3tag' Hansen es3tag	34 - 42	-8	85.4	76.5%	0.99
Ricky 'floppy' Kemery floppy	22 - 37	-15	56.7	62.7%	0.70

Virtus.pro	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis YEKINDAR	45 - 37	+8	86.1	72.5%	1.28
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali Jame	38 - 30	+8	76.5	74.5%	1.23
Sanjar 'SANJI' Kuliev SANJI	34 - 32	+2	71.0	80.4%	1.20
Timur 'buster' Tulepov buster	38 - 34	+4	86.6	80.4%	1.20
Aleksei 'Qikert' Golubev Qikert	36 - 34	+2	78.8	64.7%	1.10

2020-11-12 16:41

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lucky =/= ez

2020-11-12 17:22

5 replies

if clown9 choke it doesnt mean that vp or anyone else was lucky

2020-11-12 17:31

C9 trash

2020-11-12 17:37

Triggered C9 fanboy spotted

2020-11-12 18:02

NT Poland

2020-11-12 20:14

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ahahah

2020-11-13 02:56

bruh

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tier 2 good established team won against new team full of tier2/3 players, did anybody expect c9 to actualy win ?

2020-11-12 18:16

Considering the hype of HenryG it is quite fun to see them lose. And it'll continue for a while. Being a T1 IGL is quite a lot easier when you have players like Zywoo in your team.

2020-11-12 18:51

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+1 men

2020-11-12 19:16

yup, when he stepped down from Vitality he literally put a shotgun shell between the eyes of his career. Painful to see as British CS is historically weak, and what few players that are in the pro scene seem to make really silly decisions.

2020-11-13 17:04

When an org spends shit load of money the org expects it to win but a lot of people expected this result. It was fun to watch VP trash clown9 🤣 Especially the last round of the 2nd map 🤣

2020-11-12 21:24

yeah that last round was clown fiesta from c9

2020-11-13 15:35

Cloud9_0_major_FaZe_1_major

2020-11-17 14:40

Mezii suck

Suck???? Kurwa you stupid?

2020-11-12 16:43

He played well. floppy wasn't great, C9 will likely play Gen.G next. They should beat them, and we'll see how they do next. Difficult for a new team to get off to a good start when playing against a hot-looking VP though

geng is shitting on OG and OG will easily win over c9 unless they are having some weird inner issues that caused him this performance against geng

2020-11-12 18:46

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This was said in the thinking that double stand-in GenG would not be a good team. But it does appear that they are proving me wrong. Agree that OG should beat C9 in any case though

2020-11-12 18:57

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Wouldn’t be so sure anymore

2020-11-12 22:06

Though to be fair, there isn't any data on how GenG plays with their stand-ins. This might have left OG a bit dry on how to play against them. Not saying that OG should have lost, but you can get my point? I do think OG SHOULD win against C9, but I'm ready to be surprised

2020-11-13 00:17

Yeah, it seems that OG are lost if they cant antistrat

2020-11-13 19:06

clown 9

C🤡llOMEGALULsus

Underrated comment XD

2020-11-12 17:04

Lol

2020-11-12 17:12

2020-11-12 17:43

+1 spending millions on t3 🤣

2020-11-12 21:25

colossal :/

EZ4VP

#AlgaVP mens)))

2020-11-12 17:44

Ggggggg

YEKINDAR tier 1 player everybody else tier 3

I guess you haven't seen those Jame clutches

2020-11-12 16:57

but i saw those jame saves and baits.

2020-11-12 16:59

Croatian cs omegalul

2020-11-12 18:09

flair checks out

2020-11-12 18:10

2020-11-12 19:41

sanji is rekting tier 1 players w mp9

2020-11-13 04:54

HenryG I'm so sorry 😀😀😀

omg

Clearly need to work on coms, I just hope they can make it out of groups. Still nice showing on overpass!

COLOSSERS

Everyone wants to hate on stuff, just support the scene wtf lol

Hating =/= laughing

2020-11-12 18:24

Sadge

hltv running out of verbs to use

6m well spent I think

2020-11-12 16:44

lul...nothing more..just lul

Floppy XDDDDD NA kid cant do a shit in eu, what a surprise hahahhah

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Neither could eg or furia, WHAT A SUPRISE

2020-11-12 16:46

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Ikr

2020-11-12 16:47

I’m not on your side, it’s called sarcasm ikea man

2020-11-12 16:48

Idgaf, sry. Move on 🤡9 fanboy.

if that was sarcasm then I'm the queen of england

2020-11-12 16:55

Pls share immortality secret pls I pinky promise no leak 🥺🥺

2020-11-12 20:18

a cup of bang and a good tea once a day you're welcome

2020-11-12 20:24

😢mens

2020-11-12 21:05

mibr could because they werent lazy streaming and partying like furia and eg

2020-11-12 17:00

Not bad

Expected 2:0 win for the very top tier pro gamers from Virtus.pro. Not too sure why anyone would have thought that this could’ve gone the other way, unfortunately for C9 it couldn’t have ever gone the other way, vp too good for their level. Gg bb :) Hopefully in the future they get better and win some games, its just the beginning, hopefully not a quick end and they do live to the hype.

We could not beat the power of Kazakhstan, they are too stronk

More like the power of Kazakhstan, Latvia, Uzbekistan, Russia with all speaking RU, which leads to conlusion ---> expected as always from CIS pros being better overall, gl in the future!

2020-11-12 16:51

When will you guys invade...ahem, call those countries back to Mother Russia?

I just want everyone to be happy!

only happen after the reich successfully unify europe

2020-11-13 03:50

New mibr did good than this clown9s

For some reason ppl rate ALEX. No disrespect but it was kinda clear from Vitality stint that he is an avg igl. He himself says, his ststs were to enable zywoo, now his stats are to enable ... w0xic?

2020-11-12 16:45

woxic missing a lot of defolt shots he sucked on inferno ngl

2020-11-12 17:01

Dislike such teams whose win conditions depend on 1 or 2 players performing. Wanna support c9 so much :( but ..

2020-11-12 17:10

me too, because I like es3tag so much. but I support vp too after major when they faced Astralis in final. tbh, I wanted to VP win and going into grandfinals, when c9 will make it from lower bracked XD

They will be better next game #LETSGOC9

VP looks hot, Jame is hot. Easily favourites to win FP2.

Jame is hot, also he played great

2020-11-12 16:50

Jame was god, nah, he is a god with winning a lot of clutches

2020-11-12 17:02

They need to change roles

yekindar is a god, so is jame. then you add buster and qikert. prob better team than na'vi. going to be top 5 soon

Bro, how can you not include SANJI? His selflessness is one of the most important things about this roster.

ya sanji is dope ass player too

2020-11-12 17:26

virtus.pro didn't spoil this roster, the players did

1 NA guy -15 KEKW

everybody hating on a completely new roster -typical hltv

Isn’t this roster supposed to win FP2?

when flashpoint was announced it wasn't clear who was playing in it, it was just partner teams. it is a fair assumption that c9 coul win against many of them. vp, forze, fnatic, og, big are teams of another caliber though, establishedd, strong, vp is on fire right now. So there is no surprise c9 lost. they probably can't win the first officials agains established teams. they need time n experience as a roster.

2020-11-12 17:42

before the game everyone was on hype train, so...

2020-11-12 17:20

floppy living up to his name... kekw

2020-11-12 16:52

Gotta say Vp Looks great again :)

2020-11-12 16:53

ofc the only na player is deadweight last in ratings

2020-11-12 16:54

its there first match dont judge lol, Yekindar too stronkk

C9 don't have a single aggressive rifler, team roles make no sense. They have no entry, all their riflers are lurkers

floppy?

2020-11-12 17:05

floppy has never been entry in his life, he's always been a lurker clutch player, so has mezii and so has es3tag. The roles don't work

2020-11-12 17:08

es3tag is supposed to be entry, and apparently he wanted to be entry

2020-11-12 17:41

ahhahahahahaahhahahahhahahahha

Virtus.pro looking strong.

eh first match

clown 9 🤡 mezzi < ronaldo

2020-11-12 17:03

you know shits fucked when the only player to go positive is a British cs player

CLOWN9 KKKKKKKKK

expected from their first match. 14-16 is pretty good all things considered

2020-11-12 17:06

I wonder if it would've been interesting to have Jame in Navi in place of Perfecto as main awp and s1mple on rifle and 2nd AWP, hmmmmmm, i think it could've been tasty!

2020-11-12 17:07

Two baiters in one team bruh... I dont think so!!!

2020-11-12 17:27

honestly you can just -boombl4 -perfecto -flamie and +jame +yekindar +buster/qikert and that shit will be top 3 easily

So EZ for VP LUL

2020-11-12 17:09

Hype train over kids? didn`t expect casters to be so dumb to pick c9 over VP.

2020-11-12 17:11

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk 139k per month for this

ez 4 jame time

2020-11-12 17:13

6 million team... NO REFUND

2020-11-12 17:19

Astralis Scammed HenryG

2020-11-13 03:54

lmfao

2020-11-12 17:23

SLAPPED by jame and yeki...xd?????????

2020-11-12 17:32

50k/month OMEGALUL

2020-11-12 17:55

bruh the comments, give it time ffs. this is their first official match and if you think this isnt gonna be a good lineup u will have to wait and see. if u ask me this lineup has a lot of potential with floppy and mezii. GL C9

2020-11-12 18:00

LMAO LOOSING AGAINST TRASH VP HAHAHHAHA NICE TEAM U GOT THERE HENRY GO BACK TO CASTING YOU BRAINDEAD MORON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2020-11-12 18:04

Lesgoooo

2020-11-12 18:07

expected solid tier2 team vs clown tier5 team

2020-11-12 18:08

Even godsent are better than this overpaid lineup, feel sad for woxic and alex

2020-11-12 18:11

Virtus.Pro is looking great rn., TOP 10 team for me. As for Cloud9 it's looking dead rn., but maybe they need some time, in fact it's very likely that they do.

nice

2020-11-12 18:37

Cloud9 is such a joke lineup. Mezii is a nobody Woxic is extremly bad at communication with his team (reason booted from mousesport) Alex and es3tag are the only decent players on the team, Alex isn't an heavy fragger and Es3tag needs a team to set him up for his heavy hitting. Floppy is just a nobody that could frag somewhat against Na t2. One of the most money and time invested in making lineups of all time is just doomed to flop. No synergies in the team. -floppy + HS and they would get a player with experience in different teams and he could give them a decent start -woxic +GuardiaN his english has gotten really good lately and he's been pumping fpl matches lately with good performance, give him a few weeks in team enviroment and he's gonna pop off

2020-11-12 18:40

I am not a fan of woxic, but saying he is bad at communication is nonsense.

2020-11-12 18:58

Flag checks out, turkey flag, turkey player. You got any solid counterproof?

2020-11-12 19:07

So you saying is: - team is "doomed to flop" after one loss - change roster after one official match is the best way to make team work, - new player that has no team for a year that will come in will need few weeks to "pop off", but for some reason you will not give that time to current players, Man, your team management skills are off the roof. You know CS as nobody else. You should be hired by C9 or other org. :-)

2020-11-13 01:40

mezzi did great. shut mouf fat man

2020-11-13 05:35

-20K from salary for losing this match lmao

2020-11-12 18:50

Ahahahahahahaah

2020-11-13 03:34

2020-11-12 18:53

The CoLULsus Idk what happened to floppy ngl. He played awful.

2020-11-12 18:54

Collosus XD

2020-11-12 19:34

Clapped by YEKINDARGOD

2020-11-12 19:50

collosus bahahaha more like poopsus deluxe

2020-11-12 19:54

They'll get better with time. C'mon Cloud9 I believe in ya.

2020-11-12 20:06

NA colossus

2020-11-12 20:17

$6 MILLION WELL SPENT G IN HENRYG STANDS FOR GENIUS

2020-11-12 20:26

colossus OMEGALUL

2020-11-12 20:43

yekindar was better pick than i thought (and i thought it was good :P ) :)

2020-11-12 21:28

Oh wow, what a surprise, didn't expect Vp to beat the COLOSSUS /s

2020-11-12 21:48

Your everyday Clown9

2020-11-12 23:06

This is the team that they called COLOSSUS?? More like COLOLSUS

2020-11-13 00:18

Did anybody really expect Cloud9 to win? Virtus Pro aren't that great of a team, but Cloud9 finalized their roster not too long ago, so them winning against VP was a bit of a long shot. I like both teams, but VP has fallen off so hard over the past year and Cloud9 has some great players, but some of them lack experience playing against actual Tier 1 teams.

2020-11-13 00:27

Aint that great of the team? Huh? They win navi like 3 times in a row, so its pretty much confirmed vp > navi. Ofc navi “inst that good of a team also” but then who is? All the teams gets constantly fucked up by “upsets” atm.

2020-11-13 11:39