Cloud9 bench Perfecto, HObbit

22-4-2024 20:17

The North American organization is down to two active members.

Perfecto and HObbit have been moved to the bench

Cloud9 have announced the benching of Ilya "⁠Perfecto⁠" Zalutskiy and Abay "⁠HObbit⁠" Khassenov, with the duo available for transfer. The organization also announced it has parted ways with its assistant coach, Ivan "⁠F_1N⁠" Kochugov.

The move brings Cloud9 down to just two active members, following their recent sale of Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov to Virtus.pro in an unexpected move. The two remaining players are IGL Kirill "⁠Boombl4⁠" Mikhailov and Sergey "⁠Ax1Le⁠" Rykhtorov, who has recently shown an uptick in form that means he keeps his spot on the active roster.

Cloud9 CEO Jack Etienne confirmed on Twitter that the team will not be disbanding and that the organization is "in a full rebuilding process in collaboration with Ax1Le and Boombl4."

Virtus.pro sign electroNic

The change comes after a rough start to 2024 for Cloud9, who began the year with an unorthodox no-AWPer approach after losing Dmitry "⁠sh1ro⁠" Sokolov to Spirit. The team qualified for the Major but was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by Vitality, with their other results, such as a 13-16th placing at IEM Katowice and an early exit at IEM Chengdu, prompting the team to look elsewhere.

HObbit joined the organization in April of 2022 and won IEM Dallas during his first year under Cloud9, with the team peaking at No. 3 in the world rankings during his two-year tenure.

Perfecto signed for Cloud9 in July 2023, when the organization announced the blockbuster additions of electroNic and Perfecto from Natus Vincere to form a super team. Things didn't go as planned for Cloud9, however, as they failed to secure a title during their time together.

Perfecto kept up a 1.07 rating in a turbulent time for the team, which meant HLTV's Anchor of 2022 needed to pick up the AWP on some maps, but seemingly didn't do enough to keep his place on the roster.

Cloud9 have just under a month before their next tournament at BetBoom Dacha Belgrade, where they will compete alongside Spirit and MOUZ.

Cloud9 are now:

Sergey "⁠Ax1Le⁠" Rykhtorov
Kirill "⁠Boombl4⁠" Mikhailov

Konstantin "⁠groove⁠" Pikiner (coach)

Abay "⁠HObbit⁠" Khassenov (benched)
Ilya "⁠Perfecto⁠" Zalutskiy (benched)

"Be afraid, be very afraid"

2024-04-22 20:17

44 replies

biggest failure ever omg

2024-04-22 20:18

9 replies

True

2024-04-22 20:28

C9 era

2024-04-22 20:33

1 reply

Vp era now

2024-04-25 03:06

Actually so sad to see, so hype after the initial tweet but man this team was just disappointment the whole way through

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It really feels like a theme with new rosters that get drummed up as the next big thing, doesn't it. And that's even when the lineup makes sense on paper.

2024-04-22 22:04

Who could've thought, playing without one of the key roles hasn't worked out

2024-04-22 22:14

Right. Lol, It will be fun to see where Perfecto and Hobb1t land tbh. Poorly mismanaged to have not had an awper or cemented IGL by now.

2024-04-23 16:30

this isnt even the biggest failure for a c9 roster lole

2024-04-23 16:24

Yeah, I remember buying into the hype. Thought this team was going to do big things.

2024-04-30 18:52

clown9 coming back to NA maybe?

2024-04-22 20:25

16 replies

The ceo said there will not be a disband, that means that Boombl4 and Ax1le stay

2024-04-22 20:29

8 replies

yeah, sadly, i would like to see c9 coming back to americas

2024-04-23 03:21

5 replies

I mean they can just add 3 NA players and relocate both of them to NA

2024-04-23 07:40

4 replies

boombl4 will not compete with americas bots

2024-04-23 17:48

the org could definitely force them if they wanted to, but I don't think axile speaks very good english so no

2024-04-24 08:29

yes you´re right

2024-04-24 22:29

Just give him a line, he'll do whatever

2024-04-30 18:53

We will see

2024-04-23 03:57

Ahhhh, so this is not a disband ahahahah

2024-04-23 10:31

+ swisher + Jeorge + Junior

2024-04-23 01:27

Betboom Somalia winners

2024-04-23 09:57

XDDD

2024-04-23 10:02

LMAO

2024-04-23 17:53

hahahaha

2024-04-28 03:12

t100 players

2024-04-23 16:21

top60-80 instantly

2024-04-23 01:32

Why did they bench perfecto omegalul

2024-04-22 20:53

why not?

2024-04-22 21:19

to make space for Stewie

2024-04-22 21:41

fingers crossed

2024-04-23 00:09

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yeah, I would love to see that dumpster fire!

2024-04-23 02:24

perfecto might have benched himself honestly, team sucks, lost your best mate to VP, have groove as coach + washed Ax1Le. I would not be surprised if this was the case

2024-04-22 21:52

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He did (according to leaks so ehh)

2024-04-23 05:05

- norbert + perfecto for VP would've been potentially the only good move for Perfecto and VP too.

2024-04-24 04:16

norbert is playing better rn, may be not better that pick perf, but not that bad to be replaced.

2024-04-24 07:27

norbert's been playing really well lately and it's not like perfecto has been in some insane form, so it's an unnecessary risk for the org

2024-04-24 08:31

rather -fl0p no?

2024-04-28 03:13

Spirit could potentially upgrade, but not so likely ig. Unless hes willing to join an English team ofc. He would certainly significantly improve G2, Vitality and Falcons (role overlap probably tho)

2024-04-29 18:37

They probably keep the players interested in rebuilding and they probably overpaid for perfecto. With perfecto electronic salary and sticker money, they can rebuild a decent team and dominate t3 cs and disband in 6 months.

2024-04-22 23:53

After Elec leave, he benched himself I believe.

2024-04-23 03:13

Probably told them he wants out

2024-04-23 04:42

Likely wasn’t happy with the way things were going. Electronic bounces, Shiro bounces. Things didn’t go as planned Among other things. Cause really i feel if he wanted to stay and still had it in him, perfecto axile boom is a perfect start to a new roster but now it’s just the latter 2

2024-04-23 06:11

rip

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Wtf why -Hobbit

2024-04-22 20:59

36 replies

why -perfecto wouldve made more sense to bench boombl4 and ax1le, maybe even hobbit as well but not perfecto.. but atp just build a whole new roster if you ask me

2024-04-22 21:20

33 replies

-perfecto (most passive player) +awper (also passive and trader) makes sense imo

2024-04-22 21:38

17 replies

for his roles ax1le is performing the worst so hes the one who should be replaced they already had a spot open for an awper after elec left

2024-04-22 21:53

He benched himself C9 needs to start from scratch and go international Maybe something like blameF, nilo, m0nesy niko and Boombl4

2024-04-23 07:08

they wont be able to get m0nesy and niko i dont think and putting them with boom, blamet and nilo is a horrible idea perfecto benching himself makes sense and starting from scratch as well but then id say with a lower budget roster first to develop a stable core and maybe add m0nesy and maybe also niko later

2024-04-23 14:35

Hello??? Axile star roles and gets 4 kills/map Wtf mens u never watch this team???

2024-04-23 05:55

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Star roles lmfao

2024-04-23 10:04

12 replies

yes essentially he had the best roles on c9 was also included in the latest ner0 article

2024-04-23 14:30

#419

2024-04-23 15:47

nice one

2024-04-23 15:50

Oh its up to check for mods bc its a long reply

2024-04-23 15:51

again #418

I FUCKING REPLIED TO THAT BUT THE REPLY NEEDS TO GET CHECKED BY MODS FIRST SINCE THATS HOW IT WORKS ON HLTV IF YOU REACH A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CHARACTERS #419

2024-04-23 15:53

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2024-04-23 16:01

halt die goschn 40kg mute irl

2024-04-23 16:11

du denkst ich wieg 40 kilo und bin stumm?

2024-04-23 16:13

your link doesnt work if you didnt notice btw you moron lmao #418

yeah bro u blind or something ? hltv.org/news/38785/target-rating-identi..

2024-04-23 15:21

super disagree with this article. its easy to build averages and yap something with them and then say something about a single player. they literally built ratings based on POSITIONS, rather than other criteria. Ax1Le plays FIRST CONTACT everywhere in C9. He either gets a multikill or dies in a 50:50 fight. Other players like Perfecto always peek last and are able to refrag and play safe, this article however says perf would play hard spots. Bs. You can play ANY spot more active or passive. Like apex in connector for example. Ofc he plays this shit completely different in comparison to idk.. elec for example. But you can‘t just throw every rating into a blender and then say „hey look at that player!“ when EVERY fking team plays these spots differently. In C9 Ax1Le was always peeking for the first fight on CT side. I‘m not defending him and saying this justifies his old slump, but that is a very different approach to some baiter like ropz for example who‘s scared to peek. If i already talk about axile: that guy plays solo anchor or first contact anchor instead of passive anchor who gives the other team the site and tries to retake (like perfecto). Imo that didn‘t work out and imo it doesn‘t make sense. Now that they slowly adjusted his positions and roles in that position he became better instantly. But in c9 in general you could have seen a clash in ideologies. You had Hobbit, who wants to go for openings, boombi4, who wants to go for openings, electronic who wanted to go for openings leaving the rest like axile forced to play passive on t side. While playing aggro or first contact on ct side xD it didnt make sense at all. They used their „best rifler“ in the hardest positions. In the positions where they could leave him alone because they trusted his ability to play solo, peek and kill all. That didn‘t work out. That guy defo did not play „easiest“ roles because other teams set up their star player in the same position differently in such way that he can bait all and get 1000 kills. Axile never had anyone to bait in c9, he was the bait.

They need money, sell best players $$$

2024-04-22 22:20

they dont need money. they sold electronic for more than they paid, sold sh1ro for a lot of money and C9 is rich AF. if they sold axile they would break even or maybe be a bit up.

2024-04-23 02:26

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Imagine thinking there's a cap on money making lmao

2024-04-23 06:28

Yo, you said they "need" money. They don't need it at all. They might want more money, but they don't need it

2024-04-23 19:00

Lmao, meds!

2024-04-24 10:45

like, cloud 9 is one of the richest orgs in é-sports and actually profited from all the transfers, he is right!! maybe YOU need meds

2024-04-24 17:00

??? What lmao, he's saying there's a cap on money, when money is always good to be made when it makes sense

2024-04-25 10:18

funny how the only person to even mention a 'cap' on money is you.. where you got that is beyond the rest of us. the guy you're claiming said there's a cap on money just said they don't NEED more money since they're one of the richest organizations. he's right and you're the one fighting an imaginary ghost about words you yourself put into the conversation :p

2024-04-25 12:46

Thank you. Mr German doesn't understand the meaning of the word "need"

2024-04-27 17:15

boomba is igl uwant him to get benched and replace him with washed one ? He needs awper

2024-04-22 22:28

i dont have all too much confidence in boombl4

2024-04-22 23:24

Boom definitely got the bad end of everything. He looked amazing when he could igl with 1win and c9 with sh1ro. I wish they could just find room for boom on aurora with deko again.

2024-04-23 09:55

he replaced sh1ro, he never igld with sh1ro

2024-04-23 14:31

Perfecto benched himself

2024-04-22 22:46

if thats true then itd make sense

I feel like hobbit was the best out of them all, he was doing dirty jobs, his last performance also was much more better than 1/2 years ago so idk

2024-04-23 12:38

+11111

2024-04-23 13:57

Oh shit.

+jks

Would be huge

2024-04-22 20:41

KRL confirmed on stream that jks has been learning Chinese or whatever

2024-04-22 22:23

lol

2024-04-22 23:32

lmao

2024-04-23 01:33

this is a joke right?

2024-04-24 14:41

Why everyone coping about jks

2024-04-23 00:35

Cause he is the australian goat

2024-04-23 01:18

fairly sure it's like anarchychess' "google en passant" joke, just a joke to fall back on that always gets a laugh.

2024-04-23 17:33

aharchychess?

2024-04-23 18:00

Unexpected tbh

c9 nonstop farming L

Wow, unexpected

Has to be international for C9 now. No other way since all the good CIS players are under contract

22 replies

C9 come back to na 🙏🙏🙏

2024-04-22 20:46

C9 has money. Are they willing to spend is another question

2024-04-22 20:56

15 replies

they already did for this roster, im pretty sure they will not break the bank

2024-04-22 21:10

I bet they got alot for electronic tho

2024-04-22 22:41

they sold shiro for 1.700.000$ and elec for 1.500.000 they spent 1.000.000$(Gambit roster) + 2.000.000 (elec+perf) they already have cons from this , and they will sell perfecto and hobbit for good money

2024-04-22 23:06

this is true, however we have not yet calculated in any salaries, sticker-payments, prize money that the players get, even if they sell perfecto for good money (hobbit probs wont bring that much) they will probably not go break-even on this whole venture. that being said, esports almost never is a profitable business so they might just spend the money they got for elec, shiro and the rest to build a new (albeit less high-value) team

2024-04-23 12:02

russian insider said that its gonna be Magnojez(BB TEAM) ICY(Amkal) Boombi4 Ax1le Interz

2024-04-23 12:56

looks good but I think that ICY isnt tier 1 sniper, maybe try to take degster , but he didn’t play cs for a year

2024-04-23 12:57

+interz is something I've been asking for for so long, glad to see him back. if you look back its really what destroyed the team in the first place.

2024-04-23 12:59

Ye that he put amazing 0.90 rating everygame, for that just leave hobbit

2024-04-23 13:08

interz was good after his kick , team was broken

2024-04-23 13:49

They are gonna have to splash some insane money to match what they had before

I forgot their namens but i think there are actually 2 really good russian youngstars. I guess their buy out is not that high since the youngstars did not make a name themself

2024-04-22 23:51

There is plenty of Russian talent to pick up tbf. AMKAL, Aurora, Spirit academy, parivision, free agents. Don't think u got to spend more than 1 mill to make a more competitive roster.

2024-04-23 08:45

Russian talent, yeah, if you want to be a decent t2-t3, that's a good option.

There is plenty of t1 potential talent.

2024-04-23 10:08

Wrong!! boombl4 and ax1le can give them the edge they need to get to t1 level

2024-04-25 03:38

no other region has as many good players as Russia

2024-04-22 22:57

Did you read what I said? :) All the good ones under contract

2024-04-22 22:58

Contracts can be bought out

2024-04-23 00:52

Fine they could buy out Auroras core, but is that something they want to do? idk

2024-04-23 01:05

I think u have some decent players +Mir +Monesy (if He wont leave g2 than +degster) +interz

hmm

+s1mple inc soon

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I doubt s1mple would play with boombl4

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why? He broke up with hix toxic GF. I think they could do that.

2024-04-22 20:35

S1mple won't play with russians. Too risky for his reputation, even if he was willing himself.

2024-04-22 20:57

+1 and given Boombl4's history, I doubt he would do that

what did Boombl4 do?

2024-04-25 00:45

he said that he wouldn’t play with 4 russians , but if there are 3 and less its okay

2024-04-22 23:08

I won't put words to his mouth, but I don't still think he will play with any russians. He would get lots of critism from his own country which he can avoid completely by just not playing with russians.

2024-04-22 23:17

he isn’t racist he often plays with russian on streams he doesn’t care bout critism from ukranians because when war started , he said that not all russians bad

2024-04-22 23:19

It does not matter if he is racist, if he plays with russians on streams, if he does not care about critism or if he thinks all russians bad. He is important public person and understands his responsibility as such. The amount of scrutiny and critism would be immense and unknown and its much more safer option for him to not do that for both his mental wellbeing and reputation. He is in position that he can join pretty much any team. Why join a team that comes with extra burden?

2024-04-22 23:30

2024-04-23 00:06

"The amount of scrutiny and critism would be immense", yeah I think you are overestimating the amount of people that would give a fuck. I have yet to see anyone caring about zont1x playing with four russians for example. Also, if anyone would bitch about it, it would just be from terminally online randoms on reddit/hltv/twitch/twitter – absolutely nothing to care about in other words.

2024-04-23 07:59

zont1x is a literal nobody compared to s1mple lmao

2024-04-23 10:06

the full ukranian team b8 has russian coach. nobody give a f

2024-04-23 10:30

lol calm down

2024-04-23 08:11

I get there's toein the line, but he comes across as a guy who doesn't give a fuck what others think of him.

s1mple himself said that he is not gonna play with russians

2024-04-23 01:25

I think there is a huge difference with playing with only 1 russian rather than 4

2024-04-23 03:43

he said that he wouldnt play with 4 russians , not russians in general

2024-04-23 10:29

Huh

g2 +perf 2x kovacs + 2x ilyas = ez era

-Nexa +Perfecto (perfect role swap) would be insane, amazing roster move

2024-04-22 22:55

-hunter would be even better but he has the Kovac shield

2024-04-22 22:59

does perfecto speak English?

2024-04-25 07:13

Why did they bench their best player? Anyway, godbit pls dont go to g2 man, they dont deserve you

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-nexa +Perfecto would be a very good move for G2

2024-04-22 20:21

nope. hunter is the problem. I'm not saying nexa is better than perfecto of course but this move would be another fake fix for G2 that they waste months pretending it will solve their problem (hunter).

2024-04-22 23:39

Hunter and NiKo should be punished for drinking in the night clubs every week before matches, after that I think they can improve

2024-04-23 00:39

Niko should have been removed like 3 years ago, he's the problem with his mentality and inability to listen to IGL's

Probably a big roster overhaul

2024-04-22 20:30

according to harumi on telegram, perfecto self benched and no clue why hobbit was benched

2024-04-22 21:13

he was signed in 22 so his contract run out soon and c9 might be don't want sign him any one longer due of age also boom and axile speak English on good level so going international is option

2024-04-22 22:16

Hobbit might be old, but still quite good. If he joins t2-3 russian speaking team he will instantly elevate them. But i think he still can find his place soehwere on t1 if he wants to go international

2024-04-23 00:28

BetBoom +Hobit

2024-04-25 07:15

#207

2024-04-22 22:17

Finally, some official confirmation.

rip, thanks for nothing electronic

Superteam failed

2024-04-22 20:19

they actually did it lmao

How can groove keep getting away with it lmao. And Axile????

groove's on his way out too apparently. Just wait a while.

2024-04-22 20:22

And just like that the "superteam" is over

2024-04-22 20:20

they didn't even last a year, damn

the superteam ended when sh1ro left

This, i stopped watching their games with any hopes of them winning after that.

superteam never started sh1ro was in no way 'super' before he left

2024-04-22 22:27

Top 4 2021, top 3 2022, top 8 2023, definitely a superstar

2024-04-23 16:27

Are you having a conversation with yourself?

2024-04-23 18:15

rebuilding around ax1le is insane

Probably selling perfecto and hobbit

2024-04-22 20:31

I'm excited to see where they will end up. Will Spirit go for electronic? Which bookie org will end up signing hobbit?

Do you mean perfecto?

2024-04-22 22:02

Yes

2024-04-22 22:03

They tried to bench Axile and Bombies as well. But the bench broke...

2024-04-22 21:55

Lol

2024-04-23 03:24

bro

2024-04-23 04:27

not only no elec no win more like no elec no team

I was here

damn

Hope hobbit can find a good new team because he still has something to show us

XAXAXAXA

time to disband

Now perfecto goes to Spirit instead of zontiX. They are both anchor/clutch players, but perf doesn't shit pants in quarters.

why should Spirit downgrade, zont1x has longevity and more potential. If they bench his ass just for Perfecto, Spirit is straight up trolling this time. ArtFr0st getting replaced was understandable, but there's no justification to bench zont1x.

Depends if the zont1x playoff debuff continues, if he can overcome his demoms I am down to call Perf for zont1x a bullshit call. Also zont1x could make Ukrainian lineup woth s1mple for example, I would loke that actually.

I gotta love the recency bias on this website. Guy has literally one bad map and everybody making assumptions like “playoff debuff”. Weird he didn’t have that in Katowice, or the very previous map of the same match people referring to, isn’t it?

2024-04-22 20:50

Perfecto 1 major > zontix 0

Homtix 1 iem katowice > perfecto not title since 2021 lol

2024-04-23 02:47

Wtf? No zontix has much better ratings. Just because of 1 bad bo3 at major against faze? 0iq honestly

I think Perfecto would be able to take magixx’s role.

2024-04-23 03:55

worse than astana dragons or not ?

what you mean?

astana dragons is another cis superteam back in 2013 that supposed to be big thing

i know but i didnt understand context

2024-04-22 20:54

like signing 2 navi players and yet not reaching the success people would expect

2024-04-22 20:34

ah right thank you for explanantion

2024-04-22 20:55

fanx for da memories

2024-04-22 23:57

welp, thats about it for an "era"

do they not realize Ax1le is the problem?

2024-04-22 20:23

Axile was miserable because of Hobbit. Now watch him comeback strong.

Just crazy. I bet perfecto regrets leaving Navi now

2024-04-22 20:24

flag, flair, name

????? content

flag xDDDDDD

2024-04-23 18:59

tbh I think he also left cuz of personal reasons. In his time at Navi there were rumors that him and Tonya were dating and I think the things didn`t go well and he left to not make it more awkward.

2024-04-22 21:08

You know I thought about that too and rumors might have been true because at one point, he was looking to get Ukrainian citizenship.

2024-04-22 21:24

He also got bullied by s0mple apparently

2024-04-22 21:25

Fun fact Every time electroNic leaves a team roster implodes

elec leaves navi navi wins major

2024-04-22 21:32

If that is the rule where is FlipSid3's Major?

2024-04-22 21:34

who are the possible additions now?

no one knows. That's the thing. Only thing known officially is that Jack stated that they'll be rebuilding with "collaboration with Ax1Le and Boombl4". So they might be having the duo choose who'll be the replacements on the team.

such a shame things had to go down this way.. no proper awp, ax1le underperforming.. everyone were so hyped for this russian superteam when they added elec and perf.. lets see what c9 can come up with

It's now VP who look super interesting with elec, as we know mir was the weakest link. This C9 roster were kidding themselves when they said they could play without a dedicated awper. Doubt anyone thought they could actually win S-tier events like that.

2024-04-23 04:49

There IS mir, Monesy, degster, interz, nafany (if they wanna kick boom) And some i dont remember atm

2024-04-23 06:19

...and it's ax1le they're gonna keep? Like... What? 🤣

from a money POV it's better to sell the players who are doing okay and keeping the player who is underperforming, if you believe he can go back to more comfortable roles and recover his form. that way he will regain value and you can still sell him later. selling ax1le now - to whom? who would buy him after he's been bad for so long? it's kind of the opposite logic of when a team is near the top and wants to make that one change that will make them top 3 material or major winner material. in those cases you kick your worst player no matter the financial implications. this isn't what C9 are doing, they have mismanaged this team so badly by not getting an AWPer to replace shiro that the players probably all hate each other now and there is no future where they play together.

2024-04-22 23:48

at this point just go back to NA

C9 Disband machine since 2019

almost a year ago this was the most feared lineup on paper

C U R S E D O R G

-aleksi -IM?

2024-04-22 20:26

-konfig.. oh

Tempting, but who'd IGL? Hobbit didn't work out too well in that role.

anyone can be an IGL in 2024 man

0 cs knowledge

2024-04-22 20:58

… except elec

2024-04-22 22:54

Meds

meds

bro.. your meds

2024-04-23 01:31

monesy to c9 believers in shambles

now is the perfect moment for that move tbh

2024-04-22 21:22

2024-04-23 03:08

Sad for Hobbit

2024-04-22 20:27

What is groove still doing there? He is big part of the problem.

Cloud9 going back to NA maybe? I would like to see it honestly

traded our only major for a lack of success after... back to NA or intl?

c9 going back to na to farm t3 tournaments

-Hobbit, yes. Good move, he needs to get humbled.

he has highest rating on team with shit roles

2024-04-22 22:05

#366

2024-04-23 09:38

Tf? Only one who needs to get humbled is u buddy

2024-04-22 23:36

He needs to learn to control his ego, stop wanting to have a voice in everything and respect callers. None of the players over there in C9 were enjoying playing CS because of annoying Hobbit. Players were miserable because of him.

2024-04-23 09:37

Source : I made it up

2024-04-23 18:29

last few months hobbit the only player who showed consistency in the team

2024-04-23 01:35

Throw away your meaningless numbers. #366

are you for real? he's showing stats while others slacking

2024-04-23 07:47

2024-04-23 09:34

nothing to see here, just c9 doing c9 things

+ Simple + Shiro + Donk + Monesy + Wonderful ez major for the ultra colossus

It would look like “donk go push mid and kill them, we will cover you” (4awp in window covering donk)

2024-04-22 20:32

kkkkkkk seems legit and could work

2024-04-22 21:18

So it Begins...

Hahah

nice, bench russia. fatfecto

Unlucko hobbit

First the henryg project and now this💀

they didn't look smart getting styko, golden and kio in 2018/2019 either tbh

Damn bro , hobbit get to some decent team now please .

2024-04-22 20:36

"m0nesy to c9 is dope solution"🤡

No awp = downhill since day 1

2024-04-22 20:38

Wow! That was unexpected. Excited to see what the future holds.

SUPER TEAM

2024-04-22 20:42

damn m0nesy must cost a lot

2024-04-22 20:44

RIP

finally

I said it years ago, Cloud9 can sign even freaking aliens, it will alway be Clown9 no matter what.

2024-04-22 20:47

Boston 2018 must eat at your insides daily.

2024-04-23 04:51

Not really history proved it was a fluke and Cloud9 remained Clown9 while Faze are one of the best teams in CS history winning both major and IGS :)

2024-04-23 07:16

Fluke beating best 3 teams in world at the event in BO3. Holy shit rofl

2024-04-26 02:32

Lmao everyone knows it was fluke plus they had cheating crowd which helped them massively against SK in semis. Major champions in the very next event they play hltv.org/matches/2319211/cloud9-vs-liqui.. not being able to win with free map advantage over LULQUID xDDD Keep coping Cloud9 fluke boys achieve big fat zero before that major and achieved big fat zero after that major which is FLUKE. Faze is one of the best teams in CS history winning both major and grand slam and right now building a legacy as the best team of early CS2, while ex-Clown9 member are not even good enough to play CS at all or they play like Noob2k in tier 10 brazilian team.

2024-04-26 03:38

XDDD DISBAND

2024-04-22 20:48

Now +patsi +qikert +artfr0st and profit

2024-04-22 20:49

Ngl biggest fail ever

Damn from super team that everybody hyped to rebuilding, very sad

The American Continent Arc is coming: Biguzera Kscerato TwistZz NAF Hen1

Its better to stay NA and go for an eu awper: stanislaw Twistzz Lake den1ed degster

2024-04-22 21:15

They what!? Ahahahhahahhahahah

2024-04-22 20:51

Defecto and snaketronic destroyed gambit

i guess hobbit`s t1 career is over

2024-04-22 20:52

why?

2024-04-22 22:49

he`s 30

2024-04-22 22:50

What about karrigan and rain?

2024-04-25 18:18

when benched in faze would also retire.

2024-04-25 19:22

Bruhhhhh

Clown9

''superteam'' poor perfecto who joined clown9 with eletronic as duo eletronic left for vp KEKW

for real. probably got baited by electronic to leave because not wanting to comm in english, joined a russian team of their former Nemesis team, then electronic just fucks off and leaves Perfecto there lmao

2024-04-22 21:00

yeah that's something with electronic lmao

2024-04-22 21:14

Idk why they benched perfecto tho, for me he is one of the best support players in the world

2024-04-22 21:09

agree, he is one of best player so far i don't like electronic anymore, he just left perfecto alone.. ''best duo'' yeye sounds like backstabber

2024-04-22 21:17

He was my fav player when he was at Navi and I still have huge respect for what he did here. But yeah what he did to perfecto is not cool. It is also perfecto`s fault tho cuz electronic was always cold and never emotional so you expect from him to take these kind of decisions without taking accountability of the friendship part.

2024-04-22 21:23

yeah he was monster at navi and yet, i like to see him when he plays on lan but electronic seems like idk wtf right now

2024-04-22 23:41

RIP C9 rn

and just like that, people stopped saying monesy to C9. I hope hobbit and perfect find a good home, both are very valuable. As for C9, I cannot imagine any top names signing to a dumpsterfire that was abandoned by 3 major winners in the past week and one of the best players of today's day and age, sh1ro, left several months ago. Red flag after red flag.

inb4 G2 go -hooxi -hunter -nexa +perfecto +hobbit +boombl4 and Niko learns Russian xd

2024-04-22 21:01

honestly -hunter +hobbit is a straight upgrade as hobbit's english is pretty good, he did similar roles in Gambit and has a higher ceiling than hunter does. (plus a major winner) Perfecto's English is potat so he's not an upgrade over Nexa in that regard. I do not think G2 has intentions to get rid of Hooxi, he's a solid IGL and has improved his personal performance to the point that he's delivering in his roles - and brand wise he's a huge thing to drive the engagement. If everyone's talking about G2 then sponsors have to pay more.

Another mastermind move from b1ad3 to destroy yet another "superteam"

- n0rb3r7 +perfecto

n0rb3r7 is better than Perfecto currently, he is an absolute turret on the anchor roles and overperforms for his positions more than any other anchor in T1 save Magisk.

2024-04-23 05:24

BRO WHATS HAPPENING IN THE C9 CAMP wtf

so, they benched their two best players according to this target rating

s1mple signing when?

-choko -nexo +s1mple +perfecto ez4g2

This is interesting, I have no idea whats going on on that camp.

so much for the "CIS SuperTeam" lmao

Expected

2024-04-22 21:03

Hobbit understandable, but PERFECTO????

Maybe he wanted out after the Electronic move. Big roster change

2024-04-22 21:45

hObb0t

+ArtFr0st +KENSI +Forester

Furia hobbit

2024-04-22 21:12

clown9 stay relevant to they name to make clown moves

clod9 failed two times. dunno how much they can endure :(

+kensi+Deko+resalt -groove+ hooch or GGWP

Image world when u got 5th best world ranking team and switch player one by one. Each End of era start with a bench.

Keeping Axile over Perfecto is crazy, unless it was a player's decision

player's decision.

2024-04-22 21:30

Sad, they didn’t get a proper shot with sh1ro or m0nesy or any other AWPer

2024-04-22 21:26

Only Putin can save C9.

2024-04-22 21:29

rebuild using more NA talent. 3-4 players from NA and all under age of 24, and 1-2 from europe max. And scouting done by someone else than those who scouted the former roster, as it was never a superteam

+Smooya

2024-04-22 21:31

+sh1ro +nafany +interz

+deko is now or never for dekinho

KEKW

2024-04-22 21:37

Finally -Hobbot

Wow I wonder what player transfers are cooking. I guess the Org felt they had enough time to show better results

2024-04-22 21:44

Here I thought they would bring in an AWPer and become a top 4 team. Just sell everyone and go NA for the easier RMR.

2024-04-22 21:47

+art

2024-04-22 21:51

Good

That’s not a terrible start to the new C9 though We know what axile and boom are capable of I know it’s not happening but if they were to get monesy. There’s a solid 3rd piece and then go from there

2024-04-22 21:57

eh, can't say never until we have the whole thing. And the AWPer is the least of their worries, they need to prioritize finding a new anchor.

2024-04-22 23:46

Sadge

2024-04-22 22:00

Well, so far a big disappoinment

-nicodooz -shush +perfecto +s1mple Heroic is rich after selling jabbi&stavn and with nertz and young & good igl they can do harm

Heroic didnt sell them they just refused to resign contracts and went for free

2024-04-22 22:56

I thought their contracts had a year left and Heroic was going to keep them benched, so Astralis bought them out for $2m?

2024-04-23 05:28

Reported it cost 2m.

2024-04-23 13:55

What's wrong with Sjush tho? Lmao

2024-04-23 00:47

Nothing! He is great tbh. But if its a perfecto/s1mple deal, then.. Well.

FURIA Perfecto

NIce, it was not working properly. Maybe end of bif carrer for Hobbit, bit Perfecto can still do the great job on his positions.

2024-04-22 22:07

Omega F LOL

2024-04-22 22:13

What the hell is going on?

2024-04-22 22:21

+m0nesy +NiKo +s1mple

2024-04-22 22:24

How wonderful, the fools thought they were worth something without Blade.

2024-04-22 22:32

flag and flair

2024-04-22 23:45

He is right, results speaks for themselves

2024-04-25 18:16

idg it u got to major qfs and spot for awp after elec departure and you just disband instead of trying to build up on that and remain t1 events contender like wtf

2024-04-22 22:34

total failure, total disband when?

2024-04-22 22:35

they will lose major spot now (3 from core out) ??

2024-04-22 22:38

So Ax1le shits the bed, then has some life tournaments like the major and so he bought himself more time on Clown9 while Perfecto, arguably their best player when you take roles into account is kicked. Can this org even get more clownery anymore?

It was self bench

nvm

2024-04-22 23:50

Probs get s1mple and build around what he wants

hobbit was literally their best player

i arent think monesy is joining anytime soohn

2024-04-22 23:05

Ax1le should get benched too.. No impact at all

Either most insane esports move of all time or the biggest esports L of all time

2024-04-22 23:35

daym so the rumors are true... well hobbit gone is good riddance, idk about leaving groove. hard to care about c9 these days but we'll see

groove is likely on his way out as well. Just give it a while.

2024-04-22 23:47

i cant clown9 LMAO

2024-04-23 00:01

+ArtFr0st +BELCHONOKK +Patsi

2024-04-23 00:11

They rebuilt the core of a major winning team and failed miserably. The EG of EU

2024-04-23 00:32

So the rosters is only consisting of bommbl4 and ax1le I think thats enough right? Space already full

2024-04-23 00:42

how did one player just kill the entire org

2024-04-23 00:49

who can they really get now?

2024-04-23 00:57

so are they going international or are they picking up young russian talent

2024-04-23 00:58

Kinda questionable

2024-04-23 01:01

I HATE MY LIFE

2024-04-23 01:22

+shalfey +nickelback +xsepower =tier 2 farmers

2024-04-23 01:26

They should bench electronic, I think

two of their more consistent riflers. brilliant move.

2024-04-23 01:38

Sad it fell apart ever since the start, wonder if perfectos english is good enough

2024-04-23 01:45

should be good enough to join G2

2024-04-23 14:06

Benching the GOAT anchor, great... I cant wait to see where goatfecto will play.

2024-04-23 02:14

Benched himself

2024-04-23 02:50

Monesinho inc

2024-04-23 02:16

+s1mple ?

2024-04-23 02:45

i was thinking the same. He didnt want to play on a team of russians. Since they've sold their most expensive russian and bench another.

2024-04-23 03:05

When did s1mple say this?

2024-04-23 08:06

i likely just read it on here somewhere. Id just take it with a grain of salt.

2024-04-23 08:14

he did say that, i believe on stream. funny how it contradicts what he said when they won the major. also it's not like it's a russian team, they are stationed in serbia i believe. and funny how zont1x plays with 4 russians prob because he actually plays with 4 friends... this is harsh but s1mple turned out to be a hypocrite

2024-04-25 18:15

There was interview to ukrainian website, iirc there even was hltv article covering that

who tf is even going to be on this team now?

2024-04-23 02:52

groove is so bad, elec perf and hobbot are major winners

2024-04-23 02:56

perfecto? Anyway, this team has needed a shakeup for a very long time. -awper role was ridiculous. I'm not actually having a dig at them for giving it a go, just for persisting for so damn long when it had clearly failed. Will be interesting to see what happens!

2024-04-23 03:15

Boombl4 Ax1Le deko/ArtFr0st Forester KENSI

2024-04-23 03:49

-KENSI +sdy

2024-04-25 18:13

superteam my ass everyone leaving this disgusting org

2024-04-23 03:52

I hope they build a team around degster 🙏

2024-04-23 04:30

+sdy +m0nesy

2024-04-23 04:32

right decision, g2 -hunter when

This is the time for hobbit to sell his soul and to call dastan and be like "homie, pull some strings"

2024-04-23 05:56

what a weird move

2024-04-23 06:14

damn, mabye henryg wasn't the problem

2024-04-23 06:25

+Awper?

2024-04-23 06:47

Hobbit is old, his time has already passed.

IT IS SO OVER!!!

2024-04-23 06:52

NIP please -bluephoenix +hObbit

2024-04-23 07:24

leave navi just to get benched hahaha

2024-04-23 07:39

The old NAVI was done at that point anyway. The decision to move to C9 was sound imo, it just didn't work out as expected like many things in life.

2024-04-23 08:37

We found him, the reasonable man on HLTV

2024-04-23 12:35

+nafany +ArtFrost +Sdaim-

2024-04-23 07:41

The era of clown9 died before it began. I remember how the kids were frothing at the mouth about how no one could compare to these bums and they would loot all the tournaments.

2024-04-23 07:49

Finally

2024-04-23 08:18

Imagine being a fan of this clownfiesta. Absolutely deserved. Cya in esea main

2024-04-23 08:24

before spirit half ru flags was fan of this superteam

2024-04-23 11:16

ArtFr0st or degster deserves a chance now and this should be it

2024-04-23 08:50

I think Boomb4 should go too, he doesn't show anything interesting

2024-04-23 08:53

Lmao u think they leave cuz the org’s too good for them?

2024-04-23 09:14

C9 era time is over? )))

2024-04-23 09:26

Hobbit is the best c9 player WTF

2024-04-23 10:43

Exactly, so the best thing he can do is go to the work team, he's not getting any younger

2024-04-23 11:01

groove will never win a major

2024-04-23 10:59

I wish NIP could pick them up but with the names they have nowadays I doubt they have the money for it.

2024-04-23 11:25

+ DANK1NG

2024-04-23 11:33

Degster hallo?

2024-04-23 11:54

does anyone else remember how every cs casters were like "WOW RUSSIAN SUPERTEAM WILL DOMINATE CS FOR 400 YEARS" lmao bunch of mid air time fillers.

2024-04-23 12:09

2024-04-23 12:30

Went to shit the moment they kicked Nafany

2024-04-23 14:01

Mediocre roster inc

2024-04-23 12:15

WTF why bench hobgod

2024-04-23 12:32

#381

2024-04-23 13:14

Cloud9 GOAT ORG in fumbling teams

2024-04-23 12:48

btw respect to OverDrive. never missing.

2024-04-23 13:13

C9 in shambles in every game out there…

2024-04-23 13:44

lol, lmao even

2024-04-23 13:56

another wasted roster and they were not given enough time to find their level. C9 as an organization is just doing panic moves and don't see how yet-another panic move would make things better in the future.

2024-04-23 14:02

There is such an incredible lack of CS competency at the management level, it's insane.

2024-04-23 14:39

C9 and furia two teams that everyone thought would surprise had the same end

2024-04-23 14:20

Why? What is the though process? They just signed an insane roster, made them play completely off-meta (ofc after allowing a star player who has clearly failed at IGL-ing before IGL). Then they just decide to lose three players out of five after going to the major playoffs, again, while playing completely off-meta. All they needed to do was kick one of the under-performers and sign a Russian AWP-er, maybe even some FPL prospect. Absolute clownfiesta.

2024-04-23 14:40

shouldve just kick hobbit, washed up player should retire and enjoy his kebab in his hometown

2024-04-23 16:18

seems like groove is the problem. Famous players left c9 one by one.

2024-04-23 15:48

Finally snakebit is gone

2024-04-23 15:57

+1 good thing they got rid of washed up hobbit, now c9 can finally move on

2024-04-23 16:08

''superteam'' poor perfecto who joined clown9 with eletronic as duo eletronic left for vp KEKW Clown9 with the colossus and now this ranks amongst the biggest failures in cs history

2024-04-23 15:58

Could we see american C9 again? with stew returning to esport?

2024-04-23 16:45

2024-04-23 17:50

C9 Curse

2024-04-23 20:34

Building NA core again

2024-04-23 22:13

+Mon$ey +Niko +Hunter when?

2024-04-24 03:25

"CIS SuperTeam!"

2024-04-24 10:47

+jks +sdy +headtr1ck

2024-04-26 14:36

tbh wouldnt be surprised if g2 +perfecto or something silly like that... dunno how good perfectos english is tho

2024-04-27 21:15

what is happening

2024-04-29 07:55

still better than furia. isnt it

2024-04-30 16:19

Perfecto is actually good. There no better CIS player to do this work, he's a worker. The is the oil that makes the team work. They should keep him and just get donk and m0NESY.

2024-05-05 08:35