fnatic replace Cloud9 at YaLLa Compass

28-5-2024 14:04

Cloud9 have pulled out of the event as they are not able to register a full roster in time.

blameF will make his LAN debut with fnatic in Abu Dhabi

The YaLLa Compass organizers have announced that fnatic will take the place of Cloud9 at the event, as the American organization failed to register a complete roster before the deadline.

Cloud9 recently sold Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov to Virtus.pro and benched Abay "⁠HObbit⁠" Khassenov and Ilya "⁠Perfecto⁠" Zalutskiy, which left the team without a full roster and forced them to withdraw from ESL Pro League S19, BetBoom Dacha Belgrade, and now Yalla Compass.

Cloud9 bench Perfecto, HObbit

Replacing Cloud9 are fnatic, who are set to make their LAN debut with Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer. The team played only one event since the Dane's signing, CCT Global Finals 2024, where they suffered a group-stage exit after losses to GamerLegion and ENCE despite blameF putting up a 1.23 rating.

YaLLa Compass will be played in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and feature a $400,000 prize pool. The event will begin with two six-team BO1 round-robin groups, which will feed into a six-team playoff bracket.

The team list for the tournament is:

good for blame

2024-05-28 14:05

Sad for them

Surely we get a team together soon, right?

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With who?

2024-05-28 15:23

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2024-05-28 15:51

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rush together a team for the major, yk for sticker money, then maybe buyouts after major

2024-05-29 09:54

Disband when?

cloud9 what doink

Imagine blamef vs astralis

Cloud9? more like cloud none amiright

Is that hard to find 3 russians to complete the team?

2024-05-28 14:06

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There must be something horribly wrong with C9 management that T3 CIS players decline to go there.

2024-05-28 14:46

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its not only the players i think, russian bookie orgs are contract jails. they are asking ridiculous amounts for tier2-3 players

2024-05-28 14:50

High CIS buyouts are well known. But according to overdrive, players themselves don't want to go to C9. If 9pandas can get shalfey, C9 could afford too.

2024-05-28 15:00

not necessary. forze was disbanding thats why shalfey was relatively cheap. other teams just dont want to sell their players.

2024-05-28 15:01

There are rumours about horibble management hence why everyone decided to leave the team

2024-05-28 15:52

Russians or russian speaking? I think they could dump the whole roster after the break.

2024-05-28 15:48

what is C9 cooking?

fellas still haven't bought any groceries

2024-05-28 14:16

then Stabbi incoming, they both cant carry the grocery bags?

2024-05-28 14:27

nothingburger

2024-05-28 14:48

Theyre cooking a spectacular disband

C9 still no roster AHAHAHA

my team is cooked man

2024-05-28 14:07

cloud9 is a disaster unfortunately, if the rumours are true and they are so desperate that they get keoz, I will not watching a single game from them.

2024-05-28 14:08

keoz wtf

2024-05-28 14:11

Why stick to a russian speaking roster then? If ur best RU speaking player u can get to play for you is keoz, you might as well switch to english and find better players. Its not like the money is the problem for c9

2024-05-28 14:19

hahahahahh

xdxd

C9 should just sell roster and go back to NA core or let Smooya build a team, fun mix that won’t cost much and has outside chance of making RMR. Need to drop the ruski outfit

2024-05-28 14:09

Also something like the BnE guys would probably be good aswell, they might get into a major and definitely would be cheaper than getting top CIS players

2024-05-28 14:22

EU players cheaper than russians? No way, maybe in buyouts only. Then again,could just be the case of bookie jails. BNE maybe, but but they already failed one org enough to disband completely.

2024-05-28 14:30

I think in BNE’s case this situation with Guild dumping them / disbanding probably has decreased their value in the market. But thats just a guess, who knows what goes behind the scenes.

2024-05-28 14:36

What's going on is Guild saw those guys making like 3 majors in a row without an org and thought it's worth a shot and almost guaranteed sticker money. Only for them to shit the bed when they got actual org behind them. And they never really did anything notable outside the majors anyway. Orgs are in this not to simply provide support for the players and teams they took a liking to. They are in this for publicity and attracting sponsors. And for that they need to play at least something and show some kind of results there. Even if it's just playoffs in tier-3 league or qualification to closed qualifiers of something big.

2024-05-28 14:43

"Led by BlameF" so that's why they bombed out with him having 1.23 rating

Was confused by this sentence too. Isn't Body the one leading the team?

2024-05-29 15:53

BlameF id not the igl but he does help in leadership and second calling

2024-05-30 12:56

Ez trophy claims for EF

2024-05-28 14:14

Just disband c9

it seems like c9 only exists these days to be replaced by someone at some tourney lol

Ez for godF

BlameF redemption

2024-05-28 14:20

C9 behaves just like NaVi last year after Paris Major. - Disappointing Major - check - Skipping events - check - Left with 2 players - check - Ridiculous transfer rumors - check - Going international - ? They are just copying NaVi first with taking players and then with whole transfer process. Funny af :)

2024-05-28 14:25

'Led by blameF, @FNATIC takes their place!' LMAO is he igling again, or just a brainfart from the compass sm manager?

cloud9 should just sign whoever just to sell axile and boombla to betboom

So much for a super-team 😂

Shit9 signed ego bots and now paying for it

2024-05-28 14:26

waiting for superteam part 3

Fnatic? xd

2024-05-28 14:31

Damn, they really take their time building this roster. How many events have they skipped already

2024-05-28 14:55

clown2

Cloud9 xDDD

2024-05-28 15:02

What an absolute joke

2024-05-28 15:08

blameF vs Astralis lets go

2024-05-28 15:11

"led by BlameF..." Surely body is still the igl right?

2024-05-28 15:12

yes ! But BlameF got important position (Krimz take Kuybi old position) Soooo BlameF will carry (Maybe)

2024-05-29 15:56

lwl

2024-05-28 15:27

another last place collect till they hold fr bots in squad

2024-05-28 15:33

Get your "things" together already C9 :)

2024-05-28 15:38

Yalla Yalla

2024-05-28 16:15

Will goatF school stabbi?

2024-05-28 16:28

"The team played only one event since the Dane's signing, CCT Global Finals 2024, where they suffered a group-stage exit after losses to GamerLegion and ENCE despite blameF putting up a 1.23 rating." 💀 HLTV is still trying to cover for this guy

2024-05-28 16:50