Cloud9 close in on Xeppaa

5-1-2021 14:39

The North American youngster could soon join the 'Colossus' after shining during his time with Chaos.

Cloud9 are close to signing former Chaos player Erick "⁠Xeppaa⁠" Bach, HLTV.org and 1pv.fr have learned. The 20-year-old is currently out of contract after Chaos released their Counter-Strike lineup at the end of December, citing the "ongoing impacts" of the coronavirus pandemic.

It remains unclear whose spot Xeppaa will take in case he signs with the North American organisation. Cloud9 General Manager Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer has made no secret that the team will have an expanded roster, but he has described the sixth player as a backup plan in case "anything goes wrong" and not as someone who will be used as part of squad rotation on certain maps.

Xeppaa could soon link up with Cloud9

Xeppaa is regarded as one of the best young prospects in his region. He joined Chaos in May 2020 alongside Nathan "⁠leaf⁠" Orf and has excelled for the team, who ended the year on a high note by winning IEM Beijing North America — beating Evil Geniuses in the semi-finals and then Triumph in the grand final — and DreamHack Masters Winter North America.

ex-Chaos are qualified for FunSpark ULTI 2020, which will take place in China sometime this year, and the IEM Katowice Play-In stage, but their future has been cast into further doubt after Anthony "⁠vanity⁠" Malaspina confirmed that he was moving to VALORANT. The remaining players and team coach Matthew "⁠mCe⁠" Elmore are yet to announce their future plans.

Cloud9 are also slated to attend IEM Katowice's Play-In stage, scheduled for February 16-17. The European team, who moved up to 22nd in the world rankings on Monday, are currently without a coach after Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović was relieved of his duties last month following a "stylistic clash" with in-game leader Alex "⁠ALEX⁠" McMeekin, according to HenryG.

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nice

2021-01-05 14:40

34 replies

good player

31 replies

sick news actually nevermind it said 6th player as emergency, not a rotating roster rip :(

2021-01-05 14:48

24 replies

messi>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>that cheator

2021-01-05 14:47

8 replies

Name doesnt check out

2021-01-05 14:59

Yeah but Zywoo signed 5 year contract so he is unreachable

2021-01-05 15:28

6 replies

wtf, whos talking about zywoo

2021-01-05 16:36

5 replies

Zywoo is messi and S1mple is CR7 down here

2021-01-05 17:02

4 replies

Wtf I'm no football

2021-01-05 17:55

1 reply

Me neither

2021-01-05 18:17

I'm pretty sure he meant Mezzi IDK tho :/

2021-01-06 05:17

It's the joke tho

2021-01-06 07:43

It doesn’t say 6th man in the article.

2021-01-05 15:02

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"It remains unclear whose spot Xeppaa will take in case he signs with the North American organisation. Cloud9 General Manager Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer has made no secret that the team will have an expanded roster, but he has described the sixth player as a backup plan in case "anything goes wrong" and not as someone who will be used as part of squad rotation on certain maps." so im not 100% sure if he's replacing someone or not, i just assumed he wouldnt replace anyone

2021-01-05 15:03

13 replies

Upcoming talent like this would not sign to sit on the bench, just saying..

2021-01-05 15:13

12 replies

dunno astralis took bubzkji out of his prime in mad lions, the best he'd ever played and sat him on the bench

2021-01-05 15:14

11 replies

Tbf he plays nuke...

2021-01-05 15:48

Astralis can afford to do that, they have a team of players who have proven they are the best. C9 have done nothing of note with this roster. Xeppa over mezii is an absolute no brainier though.

2021-01-05 15:51

Ok and Xeppaas only options are go to Valorant or get a fat salary at cloud 9 and possibly work his way into the line up.

2021-01-05 18:12

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I honestly would be shocked if he didn't end up in the starting lineup ahead of someone else. He's a little rough around the edges but is overall a solid player.

2021-01-05 18:48

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I agree he is a fantastic player. I'm just saying the NA scene doesn't have a lot of opportunity rn unless some orgs step up.

2021-01-06 11:17

Yeah. No, you're right. I don't disagree.

2021-01-06 15:21

wtf mezii is literally C9's top fragger half the time

2021-01-05 18:15

??? He's been the statistically their worst player. Granted the team have barely played any matches, but he's the least experienced of the group, and most equal to Xeppa in that respect.

2021-01-05 18:49

Bubzkji was benched for months before going to Astralis, so neither in his prime nor sacrificing his career as a 6th man.

2021-01-05 21:00

bubzkji was playing the best CS of his life before astralis, and then he sat on the bench for months.

2021-01-05 21:01

Dude, bubzkji was sitting on the MAD Lions bench for months before he went to Astralis. And then got subbed in Astralis because he wasn't much of a team player and kept pulling agressive plays out of his ass instead of following the IGL.

2021-01-06 01:22

lmao leaf in c9 val xeppa in c9 cs

2021-01-05 15:09

cheater do caraio

2021-01-05 15:56

LUL mad br

2021-01-05 16:14

VTC

2021-01-07 23:04

virtual trucking company, nice nice

2021-01-08 13:35

Yes kkkk

2021-01-08 13:56

UwU

2021-01-05 14:41

2021-01-05 14:42

POG

POGGERS

Lok

🤡9

tier4

pog

poggers

YES

lul wtf, they need to buy some good eu player, forget about na region xd

Kazakhstan speaking

2021-01-05 14:43

respect Kazakhstan 2 major finals

2021-01-05 14:45

Kazakhstan 3 major winners and rn VP better than 98% of NA

2021-01-05 14:49

But VP isn't Kazakh team xD

2021-01-05 15:25

Oh yeah adren lleft XDDD and sanji not Kazakhstan oops

2021-01-05 16:00

Ramstore best shop in the world

2021-01-05 15:00

Kazakhstan>>>>>NA

2021-01-05 15:12

nt na brain, kazakhstan 2 stronk 4 u

2021-01-05 15:27

maaaan, even kz scene (not cis) better than na scene, sooo

2021-01-05 20:02

Kazakh scene is worse then NA and 80% went to valorant xeppaa is better than any kazakh up and comer except maybe nealan

2021-01-06 01:46

NA population: 579 millions KZ population: 18 millions cg man, everyone is impressed that NA have 1 young talent joining t2 team xd have same self respect pls

2021-01-06 19:55

Did you read his first comment sir?

2021-01-07 13:44

xd, xeppa is not better than buster, qikert, hobbit, mou, nealan and more. they are all playing stable on tier 1-2 scene, while na players leaving csgo xd

2021-01-07 21:06

Pog

pog, hope he plays intead of woxic

whos gon awp then

2021-01-05 14:44

Xeppa is an awper...

no? vanity was?

2021-01-05 14:50

oh my bad i thought he was

2021-01-05 23:01

Vanity was AWP in Chaos

2021-01-05 14:51

No he is not.

2021-01-05 14:55

Ok i understand this guy's logic cuz he would be a better AWPer than chrisJ

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That's not a very high bar

2021-01-05 15:29

haha that's the joke

2021-01-05 15:30

but bro what about the wolf of wall street !!

2021-01-05 17:08

+1 wtf

2021-01-05 17:13

GOD BONGJ

2021-01-05 17:18

yesyes one highlight play per year men))

2021-01-05 17:25

Seems to be enough to keep that paycheck

2021-01-06 14:12

rip twistzz

Like twistzz would ever consider downgrading xD

2021-01-05 15:18

flair doesnt checks out wtf

2021-01-05 20:34

With or without Arduino?

Reminder a rag-tag group of young bucks DECIMATED mibr

2021-01-05 14:46

He don’t use Arduino for cheating It’s another method

Arduino for sure, combined with a R3 Atmega32u4 hardware...

2021-01-05 15:04

fuck off back to vacsucks

2021-01-05 20:15

May the love be with you!

2021-01-06 20:31

cry is free

2021-01-05 15:54

nice, who will leave though?

10 replies

probably 6th player

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i hope not

2021-01-05 15:01

same, he would be wasted in that role, the only person i could see him replacing in the main team is Floppy? or Mezii?

Mezii seem to be on the chopping block , Floppy was beast in the lineup. Or maybe they realized Pric3tag only looked better because he played in Astralis

i doubt they will cut Es3tag cuz they spent so much on him, but Mezii was cheap and Floppy was 'free' basically

lets see how things turn out

Think Mezii is most likely to be cut. His performances haven't been that great. Saying that though, the team has barely been together for half a year yet and havent played many matches. Floppy has been crazy good in their recent matches, no way they'd get rid of him (unless there are internal issues which we don't know)

2021-01-05 15:16

i mean no one should be cut YET, Mezii is playing a support role so he can't really shine, i think they might just be trying to get Xeppaa as a Temp 6th so no other team can get him and use him yet

Ah Astralis approach, killing theit competition

2021-01-05 15:35

pretty much

2021-01-05 15:37

YOOO SICK MOVE

colossus of xiteros safados

who

intereesting

Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer has made no secret that the team will have an expanded roster, but he described the sixth player as a backup plan in case "anything goes wrong" and not as someone who will be used as part of squad rotation on certain maps. Alright so who's going to be the water boy then

mezii for sure.

2021-01-05 14:57

-mezi +xeppaa

Yea. I think so to

cheater lul

flair and flag checks out

2021-01-05 14:54

was waiting to see this xd

2021-01-06 18:13

unexpected, and not a bad move honestly

So a benchwarmer?

sign MarKE wtf

+1 marke beast

Wrath was better

nah, but xeppaa is better than both

2021-01-05 16:58

Who already be kicked?

ALEX mens

Lmao +1

2021-01-05 15:15

Instant improvement

WAIT WHAT THIS IS HUGE

Nice for keeping Xeppa in cs

who??

YOOO WTF NO WAY

xeppa in EU pog?

Nice

messi>>>>>>>>>>>

Jame 2.0? :D

He got 0 in-game characteristics of Jame

2021-01-05 14:52

long hair tho

no one talking about in-game characteristics of Jame

2021-01-05 16:15

You called him Jame 2.0 which imply he is like Jame and Jame is famous for his specific CSGO style

2021-01-05 16:18

not only

2021-01-05 16:19

nice wtf

roster changes in 2020 and later. add a 6th player and tell people that you are expanding your roster just to have someone in case that something happens. slowly bench one of the starting 5. it's just obvious that c9 isn't happy with its current state and looks forward to make roster changes, but covering it as "expansion" , 'risk management".

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You haven't read the article right nor any of the statements from the org, HenryG, players or listened to heir interviews, right?

2021-01-05 14:53

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i did read everything and its bullshit. coverin up the fact that they a have shit roster and look for replacements.

I don't think that is the case here...

They will def. Replace someone for xeppaa.

2021-01-05 15:59

I think you forgot to switch back to the correct account

2021-01-05 16:04

Please explain what u mean.

2021-01-05 16:22

sheeple hltv.org/news/30920/woxic-benched-in-clo..

2021-01-07 02:26

We don't know that for certain. Just because it is implied does not mean it will happen.

It is also just a report. He is still not signed and I know at least two more orgs wanna sign him in CSGO as well as Valorant orgs

2021-01-05 16:26

Ah, fair enough. Unlike the two users currently discussing whether or not you are ovine, I prefer not to count my chickens till they have hatched. To each their own, I guess.

2021-01-05 16:35

hltv.org/news/30920/woxic-benched-in-clo.. he got rekt.

This! Everyone here believes in 100% of what they’re reading, and when u use a little bit of logic then every kid bashes u lol.

2021-01-05 15:58

sheeps these days. they'll never think on their own. actually this lagge15 user has replied to many negative posts under this article. maybe he is an undercover admin or c9 player.

2021-01-05 16:24

Indeed. Not so sure about that conspiracy theory, i think he’s only here to play ”hey, i’m the one to look up to, because i know it all”. He replied my comment above right away haha

2021-01-05 16:27

it looks suspicious to me that he is so dedicated to defend c9's decisions.

2021-01-05 16:31

Having an opposing opinion doesn't make you ovine, friend.

2021-01-05 16:33

what role he play ?

will be cleaning shoes

Awp

Vanity was AWP in Chaos. Xeppaaa was a late player who usually stayed behind

he'll probably be 6th and I expect either him and mezii will be swapped out in between games or him and floppy

Give info

Lets go. Happy he didnt move to valorant

Expanded roster eh. Imo they do need to change something so this could be interesting.

why not add me?

Who's going to be the 6th man

native american headhots

it's already falling apart

oh yeah this move 100% will make cloud9 strong contender (no)

"Definition of contender : one that contends especially : a competitor for a championship or high honor" Merriam-Webster Lost to #1 and #2 in Flashpoint, Lost to #1 in Blast Showdown, lost to #2 in DreamHack Masters Winter, Lost to #2 in NineToFive 7 If you beat Cloud9 you are a top 2 team in the event (Gambit exception that makes the rule) which means that Cloud9 is the very definition of a CONTENDER!

2021-01-05 16:03

if u kick mezii good move

2021-01-05 14:56

0/8.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Nice!

Xitteer in the cloud9? usa usa usa

flag checks out

2021-01-05 15:05

e x p a n d

-who?

2021-01-05 14:58

i think -mezii but idk

I don't think he is what Cloud9 needs. He is really good but I don't think it's him who C9 should take.

Probably the first "negative" comment that actually got some reasoning behind it.

+1 A good example of the difference of opinions being utilised correctly and to full effect. EDIT: I forgot a period.

Oh no, don't want a belated period scare!

2021-01-05 16:05

I'm truly annoyed I missed a typo in post #123... :D It looks awful.

2021-01-05 16:09

congrats on being a mother

2021-01-05 16:11

My man Lagge15, I didn't see you on HLTV for a while. Btw. nothing negative in my comment, that's just what I think.

2021-01-05 17:38

Positive: Thinking this is a good move Negative: Thinking this is a bad move You were negative If you read the comments here you might get why I stopped using HLTV as much as I used to

2021-01-05 17:44

If you say so. And yeah I get it, this site is annoying to me sometimes aswell, but I can't stop using it.

2021-01-06 10:36

you know where to look if you need a proper CSGO discussion with me

2021-01-06 10:57

I was talking a bit yesterday, I rarely use Discord but maybe I will turn it more often from now on.

2021-01-06 21:19

It is till quite small community with dedicated people. Perfect for discord discomfortable, like myself.

2021-01-06 21:37

I mean, maybe it's small but there are only nice ppl there, so it's good.

2021-01-06 23:26

rip messi

nice finaly

COLOSSUS KKKKKKKKKKKKK

Getting someone like him as 6th would be a waste of a talent. Maybe getting rid of Mezii.

Good

2021-01-05 15:06

HUGE POG

2021-01-05 15:10

alex is in clown9 so who cars

+1 1st he kicking kassad and now replacing mezzi what a faker

prob just 6th

2021-01-05 15:39

6 man roster?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHA COLOSSSUS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

The Colossus LUL

2021-01-05 15:17

-botxic toxic idiotxic +godeppa nice1

Cant believe theyre bringing someone that all pro scene knows its a cheater. Colossus my dick.

"all pro scene" = "crying favela dwellers"

Assumed to be a cheater* Once again, you attempt to express your opinion as though it were factual...

2021-01-05 16:06

es3tag back to astralis bruf

2021-01-05 15:19

I think it's a good addition to the Cloud9 roster. XEPPA is insanely good right now, soit would make sense provided C9 sort their internal problems first hand.

Stop being rational and logical. Just read the comments, feel the vibe Clown9 dead team and they will never be top 4 in any event (except for the ones they've been it in) and they will never be top 30 (except that they are), and they will never be good (except they are) and they will always lose to horrible teams that are barely top 40....

2021-01-05 15:57

Yeah I saw the comments... it's a shame the difference of opinions remains illusory and indecisive, as there is no reason why we cannot express them in a rational, logical, constructive or even a reasonable way. Instead of actually reading the article, assumptions are made and when corrected, of course we're the bad guys, aren't we? ;)

2021-01-05 16:02

I see you read #49 Apparently impossible!

Post #169. Trying to keep discussion respectable isn't a crime nor should it be a task, but that is the brilliance of individualism.

2021-01-05 16:07

BR fan talking about Chaos players as if they're proved cheaters... while their actually "godfather" and his friends are proved to be cheaters. I kinda see some logical fallacies here.

It's unfortunate such posts give the BR fanbase such a bad reputation... it's already pretty bad anyway, but it doesn't need to be on HLTV.

I would guess a notably large amount are just NA and EU trolls having BR fake accs to spread the toxicity and divide the fans

2021-01-05 16:21

Yeah, I concur with that assumption... we will never truly know but you can never know with HLTV users.

2021-01-05 16:37

Feels bad having to go from a top 20 team to a non-top 20 team, hopefully he can grind back up to where he was.

2021-01-05 15:20

They're 22nd right now, and with this move, it means ex-chaos will drop below them, which put them on 21st place. Depending on point decay they might make top 20 before next event start

Would not like to se him as a 6th player, hes to good for that

Clown9 keeps spending money on dead team since announcement

Chinggis Khaan, now that's a Collusus!

Imagine signing a known cheater.

they didnt sign any of the mibr guys wdym?

2021-01-05 15:45

favelas still seething? LMAO

2021-01-05 16:12

Damn, now for real - disband this team.

2021-01-05 15:34

Brazilians already crying about him being a cheater here and on HLTVs twitter, lol. Stop crying, you guys are salty because he destroyed your team.

Pretty much exactly what it is. Instead of treating cheating as a possibility, it is being treated as an accusation.

2021-01-05 16:08

I couldn’t care less about the old MIBR core lol Everyone who has more than 2 brains knows that he and leaf put it up more suspicious clips on a bo3 than most pro players do on their life At that time they were unknown players against big teams playing ONLINE If you don’t believe there’s a lot of cheaters and matchfixers in the pro scene you’re naive as hell Bye

2021-01-05 16:59

"If you don’t believe there’s a lot of cheaters and matchfixers in the pro scene you’re naive as hell" When or where did i say "No pro cheats" or "No pro matchfixes"? lol. Pros have been caught cheating and matchfixing. But, Xeppaa is not cheating. I guess you dont remember when Stewie2k was a "unknown player" and he smashed Tier 1 pros and was also called a cheater by X amount of people, lol, and look at him now.

Stewie also smashed T1 players on LAN Something he and leaf never did. So many suspicious clips on one bo3 and people still excuse them just because was against MIBR lol If he does play that well on LAN against quality players, maybe I’ll rethink my opinion against him. But at the moment he got a lot to prove.

2021-01-05 17:41

typical brazilian cry baby, new year still same mentality

2021-01-05 17:07

finally a solid talent

2021-01-05 15:36

Why temporary though? It's easier to mould young players. Xeppa should be added in permanently.

2021-01-05 15:40

Nowhere in the article is the word temporary mentioned!

Played faceit with mezii and ALEX today, none of them will leave

2021-01-05 15:42

Maniac, NayNay and Smooya played with them today. Are you saying you're one of them?

faceit.com/en/csgo/room/1-bd567bce-ac50-..

2021-01-05 16:45

wtf? Maniac said he was going to play with them

2021-01-05 16:52

hes good

2021-01-05 15:43

-alex thankgod

Should have been in cloud9 instead of mezii since start. I don't like whole project still, but now it might make a bit more sense.

I think it's gonna be mezii getting benched, he and woxic didnt live up to their potential. But Xeppa is not an awper so it has to be mezii

HenryG is just burning Jack's money on this dead roster.

how does jack have so much money to spend in the first place..imo cs go is pretty dead with good career prospects only for top 10 teams...rest are just surviving....

Jack got venture capital investor money

hes investing all that money in a dead game and a dead team worst of all...poor guy doesnt know what hes getting himself into

How much mil spent?

????? it’s not funny anymore henry

Clown$$$9

LUL

2021-01-05 16:30

I really hope they dont waste xeppas potential benching him... Good luck, awesome player

WHY???

2021-01-05 16:32

Very good palyer

Xiapar

2021-01-05 16:39

dealing with cheaters pogchamp

2021-01-05 17:04

This will be interesting

2021-01-05 17:06

Xeppaa, really interesting name imo

2021-01-05 18:01

if youre building a "colossus", they should have someone with obvious potential and dedication like blamef or an already proven superstar like s1mple/zywoo/NiKo/device/elige/ropz. even og has mantuu and valde which is way more firepower than this c9 roster and alex igl is medicore for tier 1 standards this team of second hand rejects isnt getting anywhere lmao. xeppaa will be wasted in c9 but at least he will get a nice paycheck

2021-01-05 17:12

I was hoping for smooya :(

2021-01-05 17:15

Cheater

2021-01-05 17:27

floppa and xeppaa to save na

2021-01-05 17:30

is this a sub or woxic gonna be kicked?

2021-01-05 17:37

thought it was xantares for a second lol

2021-01-05 17:39

why c9 gonna sign a cheater?

2021-01-05 17:40

They have money to buy real players, why sign a cheater ? clown9

2021-01-05 17:45

and Junior is going to Furia, 6th player for a while

2021-01-05 17:52

Nice i am very happy for Xeppaa. Can someone explain what they mean by saying : Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović was relieved of his duties last month following a "stylistic clash" with in-game leader Alex "⁠ALEX⁠" McMeekin ??

2021-01-05 18:38