Cloud9 leaves CSGO due to \u201cremote training\u201d struggles ELEAGUEAccording to a pair of new reports and an official announcement, Cloud9 are leaving CSGO and disbanding their team due to \u201cfinancial\u201d and \u201cremote training\u201d struggles, as the organization takes a \u201cpause\u201d from competing in the storied esport. Cloud9 has been a big name in the Counter-Strike esports community for what seems like forever, but the organization will be taking a step back from competition, at least temporarily, according to new reports and an anouncement from C9. According to a report from March 26 by French esports site 1pv, sources obtained by CS\/Valorant reporter neL said that following the team\u2019s failure to qualify for the EPL Season 13 playoffs, Cloud9 decided to stop their CSGO \u201cproject.\u201d Subsequently, the organization confirmed their temporary disbandment. \u201cThe players have all been placed on the bench and Cloud9 could very well stop its involvement in the Counter-Strike scene,\u201d 1pv initially reported. Shortly after 1pv\u2019s report came out, CSGO news site RushB also dropped a scoop of their own. They managed to speak directly to Cloud9 CEO Jack Etienne, who confirmed that the team would be taking a break. Etienne reports ongoing global events have drug on longer than the US-based org thought they would initially, and caused \u201cundue stress and difficulties in providing bootcamps, housing, and the mental health of the players,\u201d according to RushB. It\u2019s certainly not what Cloud9 CSGO fans want to hear, and for fans of the esport it almost seems like an out of season April Fool\u2019s joke from the team that won the $500,000 Boston ELeague Major just in 2018. Cloud9\u2019s CSGO roster at the time news broke is as follows: Alex \u201cALEX\u201d McMeekin – William \u201cmezii\u201d Merriman – Patrick \u201ces3tag\u201d Hansen – Ricky \u201cfloppy\u201d Kemery – Erick \u201cXeppaa\u201d Bach – If you\u2019ve been keeping tabs on CSGO news of late though, it hasn\u2019t been hard to see the cracks appearing in Cloud9\u2019s infamous \u201cColossus,\u201d parting ways with Turkish AWPer \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u2018woxic\u2019 Eker just three months into his three year contract, and of course the ever-growing popularity of Valorant esports. In the org\u2019s official announcement, they emphasized the inability to assemble together in North America as a decisive factor \u2014 professing that goals could not be met given the current global emphasis on \u201cremote training.\u201d While Etienne told RushB that Cloud9 would not be leaving CSGO esports forever and would be back eventually, the chances of the team looking anything like the Colossus are slim to none. The announcement confirms that the C9 \u201cremain passionate about competing in CS:GO,\u201d but that they can\u2019t return to the esport until \u201cconditions allow us to work and train in the ways we know help teams to be successful.\u201d Read More: Top 10 wasted talents in CSGO history – Exactly what will happen to the now-benched players remains to be seen, but they, more than likely, will find homes on other team, or make the jump to Valorant as a lot of their peers have done already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cloud9 leaves CSGO due to \u201cremote training\u201d struggles ELEAGUEAccording to a pair of new reports and an official announcement, Cloud9 are leaving CSGO and disbanding their team due to \u201cfinancial\u201d and \u201cremote training\u201d struggles, as the organization takes a \u201cpause\u201d from competing in the storied esport. Cloud9 has been a big name in the Counter-Strike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}