Renegades defeat Cloud9 CSGO team despite teammate\u2019s broken mic RenegadesThe Renegades\u2019 Counter-Strike roster from Australia delivered a massive uppercut to the surging Cloud 9 team in the first round of DreamHack Master Leipzig, and all while their teammate Liam \u2018malta\u2019 Schembri played with a broken microphone. There\u2019s nothing more frustrating or disappointing for a CSGO player trying to win a game than a teammate who won\u2019t talk. At the pro level, communication isn\u2019t just key to victory, it\u2019s absolutely vital. So for a team to have a player\u2019s ability to communicate down, that puts them at a massive disadvantage, especially when facing another roster that\u2019s come into a tournament with a lot of confidence. The Renegades faced off against Cloud 9 in their opening match. Both sets of players are relatively new to their respective organizations, with the ATK team joining C9 in January, and the Grayhound players signing with Renegades in December after the previous roster left for 100 Thieves. RNG emerged victorious over Cloud9, and even dominated the first half against the North American\/South African side. Malta had a quiet game at 18 kills and 19 deaths, as teammates Chris \u2018dexter\u2019 Nong and Joshua \u2018INS\u2019 Potter led the way with big performances, but that wasn\u2019t as quiet as he himself was on the comms. After the win, he tweeted that his microphone wasn\u2019t working \u201cthe whole game,\u201d forcing his teammates to watch him \u201crun around on the radar like a [matchmaking] teammate.\u201d First win up against @Cloud9, my mic didn’t work the whole game so the boys had to watch me run around on the radar like a mm teammate \ud83d\ude44 @BIGCLANgg up next, hopefully I get to comm this time \ud83d\ude0d \u2014 Liam Schembri (@malta_CS) January 24, 2020 FACEIT director and CS commentator James Bardolph asked the Australian lurker why he would play without a working mic, and malta replied that they went through a new PC, a new headset, and an attempt to fix settings in TeamSpeak, and still weren\u2019t able to get it working. He also said that his teammates could hear him a little if he yelled during pauses or quiet moments. Couldn’t find a fix, tried everything including new PC and headset + TS settings. If I yelled in freezetime or quiet parts of rounds they could hear me a little \u2014 Liam Schembri (@malta_CS) January 24, 2020 The boys from Australia were also playing with a relatively new signing in Jordan \u2018Hatz\u2019 Bajic, who joined the team less than two weeks before DreamHack after Oliver \u2018DickStacy\u2019 Tierney was forced to step down due to an eye condition. To win with a new teammate and with another one muted is even more impressive when you consider the roll that Cloud 9 has been on heading into the event, with successful qualification runs for this tournament and IEM Katowice coming in the same week. Renegades would subsequently fall to BIG in the Group A Winners\u2019 game, meaning they may end up facing Cloud 9 again if they can defeat Virtus.Pro in the Elimination match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Renegades defeat Cloud9 CSGO team despite teammate\u2019s broken mic RenegadesThe Renegades\u2019 Counter-Strike roster from Australia delivered a massive uppercut to the surging Cloud 9 team in the first round of DreamHack Master Leipzig, and all while their teammate Liam \u2018malta\u2019 Schembri played with a broken microphone. There\u2019s nothing more frustrating or disappointing for a CSGO […]<\/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-38831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38831","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=38831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}