Cloud9\u2019s leaf targets revenge against Fnatic at Valorant Champions: \u201cNext time it\u2019ll be a lot easier\u201d Lance Skundrich \/ Riot GamesCloud9 Blue\u2019s Nathan \u2018leaf\u2019 Orf is hoping for a rematch against Fnatic following their 2-1 loss against the European team in their opening Valorant Champions match. Valorant Champions 2021 is well underway, with 16 of the world\u2019s best teams vying for the first-ever title of world champion in Riot Games\u2019 tactical shooter. The opening day of the tournament on December 1 was headlined by an intercontinental series between Fnatic and Cloud9 Blue. The European team, who missed the VCT Stage 3 Masters event, showed no signs of rust as they ran out 2-1 winners in this keenly-contested match that came down to the wire as the final map, Fracture, was decided in overtime. In a post-match interview with Dexerto, leaf rued the mistakes that his team made. Fnatic came out the better side on the opening map, Icebox, before Cloud9 responded on Split, hitting back from 11-6 down. At one point on Fracture, Cloud9 were down 11-4 before they managed to bring it back to overtime. \u201c[On Icebox], we weren\u2019t making plants fast enough, I guess, and that kind of hurt us with post plants,\u201d leaf said. \u201cWe won the pistol, then they went up 3-2 and it was all post-plant defuses. They were definitely doing good retakes. \u201cOn Fracture, I played like trash and we lost both pistols, so that definitely plays an important part,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we made a good comeback though, which is really good, it shows mental resilience.\u201d Leaf explained that Cloud9 didn\u2019t have enough information to go off of to fully prepare against Fnatic. The last time the Europeans played a VCT tournament was in July. While Fnatic still dabbled in smaller tournaments, like the Red Bull Home Ground and LVP Rising, those didn\u2019t really show the roster\u2019s strengths and weaknesses. \u201cWe haven\u2019t really had many VODs to watch from them,\u201d leaf said. \u201cThey only played like once a month ago or something, but even then it was three matches and Bo1s, so you can\u2019t learn that much from it. Fnatic are an anti-strat team too, so it was kind of bad that they had so many VODs of us and we didn\u2019t have any of them.\u201d Looking forward, Cloud9 will be looking for revenge against Fnatic, but first, they will need to overcome FULL SENSE. When asked which team he\u2019d like to face if they beat the Thai side, leaf mentioned Fnatic without hesitation. \u201cWe should\u2019ve closed it out on Icebox and beat them 2-0,\u201d he noted. \u201cI think next time it\u2019ll be a lot easier too because we\u2019ll be familiar with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cloud9\u2019s leaf targets revenge against Fnatic at Valorant Champions: \u201cNext time it\u2019ll be a lot easier\u201d Lance Skundrich \/ Riot GamesCloud9 Blue\u2019s Nathan \u2018leaf\u2019 Orf is hoping for a rematch against Fnatic following their 2-1 loss against the European team in their opening Valorant Champions match. Valorant Champions 2021 is well underway, with 16 of […]<\/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-66388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66388","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=66388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}