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Cloud9 Esports, Inc., or simply Cloud9 (C9), is an American professional esports company based in Santa Monica, California.The company was originally founded as a professional League of Legends team by Jack and Paullie Etienne in May 2013 and was incorporated into Cloud9 Esports, Inc. on September 6, 2016.
The win gave the team their first LCS title since 2014. With an overall 26–2 game win–loss record, including playoffs, for the split, Cloud9 set a LCS record for the highest winning percentage ever in a single split by a North American team at 92.9%, breaking their previous record of 90.9% from the 2013 Summer Split.
In October 2016, n0thing's Cloud9 team became the first North American team since 2006 to win a major tournament, after they won ESL Pro League Season 4 and US$200,000 over SK Gaming. Despite n0thing having played Counter-Strike professionally for his entire adult life, it was his first time winning a major international CS:GO tournament.
Team Liquid's CS:GO team earned $2.31 million in 2019. [15] ... ESL Pro League Season 9: Team Liquid $250,000 1st 2019-06-02 DreamHack Masters Dallas 2019
For the 2016 Summer Split, Hai moved to Cloud9's North America League of Legends Challenger Series (NA CS) team. [25] Cloud9 Challenger made it past the NA CS promotion tournament to clinch a spot for the 2017 LCS Spring Split, although Cloud9 had to sell the spot, as one organization could not have more than one team in the league. [26]
TenZ's professional career began in July 2019 when, at the age of 18, he joined the Cloud9 team in the first-person shooter title Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO). He was seen as a rising North American prodigy. He had previously stood in for some organizations.
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All 16 teams from the previous major, PGL Major: Kraków 2017, directly qualified for the Major, while another eight teams qualified through their respective regional qualifiers. Boston 2018 was the fifth consecutive Major with a prize pool of $1,000,000. This was also the first CS:GO Major to take place in two cities. [4] [5] [6]