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Cloud9 SHOCK LOUD With 2-1 Victory

Cloud9 now go 3-0 in Stage 1 of VCT Americas after shocking the Brazilian giants, LOUD, 2-1 in a banger of a match between the two sides that got 1st and 2nd place in VCT Americas League last season.

Cloud9 but up an admirable fight on Bind but eventually lost the map 13-11 to LOUD but bounced back only letting LOUD have 13 rounds across the next two maps. Cloud9 took Icebox 13-4 and then Lotus 13-9 with OXY topping the charts and dominating the server with 63 frags.

Stats Courtesy of vlr.gg

After comments at the beginning of the year from Demon1, saying that OXY is the worst duelist in Americas, he seemed to have taken that in and is proving the world Champion duelist wrong with multiple aces already in the opening stage of VCT Americas.

After spending the first year of franchising on G2 Esports in Tier 2 of VALORANT, he got his chance in the top tier of VALORANT with Cloud9 picking him up and sticking by him through their 3 roster changes that they have made so far this stage.

That proved to be the right decision with OXY showing Demon1 and other people who have doubted him that he is here to create waves throughout the VALORANT world and hopefully make it to an international LAN through this with Shanghai.

Cloud9 now go on to face 100 Thieves later on tonight with hopes of them going 4-0 in the regular season with LOUD being shocked and going 0-2 in this part of the season with their hopes of play-offs looking bleak already despite being one of the two sides to make it to Masters Madrid alongside the winners, Sentinels.

Runi Returns to Cloud9 Alongside moose To Round Out Roster

After Cloud9 announced the departures of wippie and jakee, there were two spots left to fill on the roster. It has been decided that the return of Runi to the roster will be implemented and Moose will make his VCT debut for the NA side.

Runi, was dropped from the roster for the start of the 2024 VCT season due to unknown reasons, however it seems that it was short lived with himself returning to a completely different roster where it is assumed that he will not be IGL’ing the roster since Vanity remains despite being the IGL last year which got them to second place in VCT Americas.

In an X video (seen above), Cloud9 announce their roster for Split 1 of VCT Americas where they are hoping for similar success to last year with a different roster only having Xeppaa and Runi remain from their top 2 run.

There were rumours of pANcada joining the team or possibly Monyet, after both of the players have been moved to the bench on their respective superteams despite being very impressive technical players mechanically and vocally.

moose found himself on the short end of the stick in challengers NA last year after going out to G2 Esports and M80 who were the two finalists in the Ascension for VCT Americas this year. After this loss, he briefly moved to Turtle Troop, another Challengers team, before opting to join YFP Gaming. The newly-formed troupe of talent breezed through the open qualifiers and secured a spot at Challengers in 2024 before moose left the team for a spot in franchising with Cloud9.

Cloud9 is now:

  •  Anthony “vanity” Malaspina (IGL)
  •  Erick “Xeppaa” Bach (Flex)
  •  Dylan “runi” Cade (Initiator)
  •  Kaleb “moose” Jayne (Sentinel/ Smokes)
  •  Francis “OXY” Hoang (Duelist)
  •  Ian “Immi” Harding (Coach)
  •  Guglielmo “GUGLi” Carraro (Assistant coach)

Cloud9’s new roster will debut against Latin American rivals Leviatán in Week 1 of the Stage 1 Americas League on April 6th streamed on YouTube and Twitch with watch parties coming from streamers such as Tarik, s0m and FNS.

Cloud9 Release jakee Before the Start of VCT Americas

Cloud9 have parted ways with Jake “jakee” Anderson ahead of VCT Americas Stage 1. This leaves only three players currently on the Cloud9 roster: Erick “Xeppaa” Bach, Francis “OXY” Hoang, and Anthony “vanity” Malaspina.

After coming in 2022 as the ‘yay’ replacement, fans werent expecting much from the rookie on his debut year of VCT however, he defied all expectations and odds and placed 2nd in the VCT Americas despite bombing out of the international qualifications.

After over a year on the roster, he has been dropped just a month after his teammate ‘wippie’ was dropped after their failure in the VCT Americas: Kick-Off event earlier this year.

There have been no names put up to replace these two stars in the roster however, there is speculation on reddit and other websites as to who will be joining the roster with some rumours pointing the way of low salaried players that aren’t looking for big paychecks.

If your hopes are up for s0m and FNS, the expectations for that would be ridiculously high as they arent planning for any big spending this year for their roster which was made clear when they put together their original roster for the upcoming season which has already expanded.

Cloud9 will face Leviatán to start Americas Stage 1 on April 6 with their matchup being the kick off of the VCT Americas 2024.

Cloud9 Knock 100 Thieves Out Of Ludwig x Tarik Invitational 2

After a long fought overtime match against 100 Thieves, Cloud 9 come out on top against this new roster beating them 2-1 in the lower bracket taking them out of the tournament completely on day 1.

Both of these tier 1 teams took losses in their first games to tier 2 opponents leaving them with one last chance to stay alive in this invitational staged in LA.

Stats Courtesy of vlr.gg

Cloud9 Oxy starred in this thriller match dropping a combined 73 frags across the 3 maps with his direct counter part, Cryocells, dropping only 54.

The debut of new IGL Boostio, didn’t go down as well as 100T might’ve wanted to but there is promise shown with him coming as the second frag for the team, which shows that his fragging potential shown on EG last year hasn’t gone to waste with this new roster dropping 59 frags across the maps.

Tomorrow is set to be the final day of the invitational with Cloud9 facing off against Oxygen Esports for a place in the final to face off against Moist x Shopify for the grand final.

There will also be a showmatch at the tournament with Team Ludwig vs Team Tarik where the face of VALORANT, SEN TenZ, will be on team Ludwig in a BO1 match.

These stream will be available on Ludwig’s YouTube stream and Tarik’s Twitch stream.