#cloud9 csgo

[txttletale]

i'll actually in a limited capacity defend the overwatch league's regional teams gimmick but the execution was bad. having regional teams could have been hype. like--during astralis' 2018-2019 csgo run, danish esports fans went fucking insane for them. and like of course they did. there's inherently something exciting about having a team you can in some way 'identify' with. and geography does create natural sports rivalries and pre-writes your stories.

there were two glaring bad problems in the dumb way blizzard did this though. one is forcing teams to come up with brand new branding. this was a horrible idea. it forced well-established esports organizations with strong fanbases across different games like cloud9 and optic to try and build new brands up from scratch. they realized this with their call of duty leage where they let teams play as 'atlanta faze' and 'optic texas' but yknow. kind of too little too late

the other one (and this is also the glaring fatal flaw in the overwatch league's entire silly, silly business plan) is the idea of a global league. now if you don't know much about esports you might think 'wait whats wrong with that. its gaming you can do it online players can be anywhere'. however that's not true! first of all, esports--well esports doesn't make money, esports when managed correctly is essentially a loss leader for the game it's an esport for--but esports makes a lot of its money on live events. yeah, people go to see esports games:

much more importantly, ping is a huge factor in esports. the higher the level you're playing at, especially in a game like overwatch that's full of twitchy hitscan aiming, the more a 10ms latency difference can make or break a game. you need to be running in-person events in order to have a competitive esports league and to make a good chunk of your revenue.

and that means that a global esports league runs into the exact same problem a global normal sports league would run into and the reason why that doesn't exist, which is travel logistics. the overwatch league has a london team, a san francisco team, and a chengdu team. these cities are very far away from each other [citation needed] and although overwatch league people will often blame covid for ruining their plans, i honestly think it actually saved them by preventing the horrible idea they had for how the league would work from actually happening. imagine all the problems that travel causes in a league like the NBA--jet lag, exhaustion, the obvious budgetary expenditure. now imagine that the travel itinerary also includes flights across the atlantic and/or pacific.

that's not even all! the thing about esports is that, because practicing for ten hours a day doesn't physically destroy your body like it would for regular sports, esports players and teams... do that. if you spend seventeen hours on a plane from paris to hangzhou for a match that's seventeen hours where you're not practicing. when you arrive, you can't just stay at a hotel--you need to be able to practice in the days leading up to the match too, especially because it's esports, which means the game can change. if you miss some practice as a sports team, you're gonna be rusty--if you miss some practice as an esports team, the rules of the game might have literally changed since your last practice session.

the result of this, by the way, is that the london and paris teams have never been actually based in europe--and that right now the dallas team is based in korea. it is very silly. every other multinational esport ever invented has created regional leagues--league of legends has a league for korea, china, europe, north america, pacific, vietnam, brazil, japan, and latin america. but blizzard entertainment are god's special little gamers and they weren't going to let something like 'the ocean' get in the way of their global league dream.

and ultimately this means that the entire local team concept was pointless. most of the teams aren't locally based. and even if they were -- the madcap way they play against each other mean that those city affiliations don't matter. when manchester united play liverpool f.c., even if you are not a big football fan, if you're from manchester you presumably have an opinion of liverpool and liverpudlians, and vice versa. there is an emotional hook to latch on to. if manchester united were to play khon khaen united, you would probably say 'where the fuck is khon khaen'. for the localisation to work, the overwatch league's london team needed a manchester or glasgow or dublin or amsterdam or brussels team (etc.) to play against. if you're invested in the esport itself and the players, you can get invested in a philadelphia-london or chengdu-houston rivalry--but the localisation aspect of it isn't doing the work it should there.

tldr: the overwatch league was a bad idea ever since the moment it was announced. people are too harsh on the team localization idea but the way it was executed was hot garbage and it's no wonder this entire venture failed badly

[riflerscorner]

Ax1Le insta stories @ IEM Dallas 2022

[nartouthere]

Cloud9 execute the A Site on Dust2 from Short A with a unique take. C9 make a wall of smokes from Bricks to Gandalf. They get behind the smokes to lineup their Site Mollies. Before the smoke fades, they Molotov Site and Goose. Then advance their way onto Site with flashes as well as a Ramp Molotov.

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[overwatchcontenders]

stewie2k trolling at the eleague major

[inter-somniac]

Ranked

Stewie X Reader

Fandom: Cloud9/CS:GO

Requested(?): Yes

You watched your chat as you logged into the CS server. You were getting ready for a Rank S stream and lots of questions were floating around about you and various players.

“Am I dating Shroud? No, Mikey is like my brother. I did bite him the other day though. He tried to take my cloud plushie! You know I don’t part with Lawrence.”

You laughed and answered some more questions as you got put into a game. You looked at your teammates. Stewie, hazed, Shroud, and mOE. The audio picked up and you immediately started talking.

“Mikey, my twitch chat was convinced we were dating.”

“Seriously?! You bit me!”

“You tried to take Lawrence!”

Hazed and mOE soon joined in, but Stewie stayed quiet. Very quiet. It was very unusual for him. As soon as you were done, you took your headphones off and made your way to his room.

“Jake?”

“Shouldn’t you he with your precious Mikey?”

“Don’t be butthurt at me! I wanted to tell everyone we were dating so things like this didn’t happen. But you didn’t want that. So I didn’t push you. I still won’t. But it’s not your place to be angry at me for it.”

He let his head tilt back and he sighed.

“I know...there are just days it gets to me. You’re...you’re what all of us are looking for.”

“And I’m all yours. I promise you that. A few comments about my friendship with Mike during ranked is going to change that.”

“I love you.”

Not only had you not told any of the fans, you hadn’t told the team. So it was a bit of a shock for Tarik when he walked in on a heavy makeout session. He couldn’t stop staring as your cheeks flushed and Jake hid your face in his neck.

“Do you need something, Tarik?”

“Nope. Nothing.”

“Then do you mind?”

“Wow I didn’t expect her to be quite that wild.”

“Tarik!”

“Sorry, going.”

[rjbailey]

(via Cloud9 Heads to the E-League Major: Boston 2018 - YouTube)

[theantagonist1]

Fuck yes. FINALLY. WELL FUCKING DESERVED. I’m fucking happy for them. My god.. OT was terrifying.

I’m just sad that n0thing wasn’t playing... that guy is beast. A 1.6 legend.

Well fucking done boys. LET’S GOOO

[ppnightshade]

CSGO BOSTON 2018 IS LIVE

So many teams participating on this great event. Really good kills and nice participation of every team I see on this first day :) Hope that one NA team wins a Major this time :D #GoCloud9 

[winsomepanda]

INSANE GAME!! Cloud9 vs Sprout HIGHLIGHTS Brazy Party 2023 l CSGO

[riflerscorner]

Nafany @ IEM Dallas post-match interview

[ionthepeek]

>Be C9.  >13-15 in semi final of tournament. >Rush B through smoke >die >tilt

RENEGADES DIED FOR THIS FUCK.

[egameinsider]

反恐精英CSGO：尋求改變 Complexity招入前Cloud9選手RUSH

https://sm.egameinsider.com/c00498cb4c00471ebca5ab407edbf160453497.jpg

在招入前Heroic指揮blameF不久後，Complexity隨後宣佈隊伍已招入了前Cloud9選手RUSH，這位25歲的步槍手將攜手丹麥人一起加入到這支北美俱樂部。

Source

from 遊戲内參 https://egameinsider.com/p/qdrapq68c68d/

[pinoymalgy]

Sorry it took so long for the merch to come in. Happy Birthday Lil Bro! 📸: @lauren.malgapo #cloud9 #csgo #happybirthday #familia #siblings #counterstrike #c9 #autimatic #RUSH #flusha #kioshima #zellsis #adreN #n0thing #tarik #stewie2k #skadoodle https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt9ylDahf6W/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1itihktypubf3

[gravityboom]

CSGO - When I'm Cloud9 (ELEAGUE Boston 2018 Playoffs)

[bestcsgo]

deagle > awp

[winsomepanda]

G2 vs Cloud9 HIGHLIGHTS BLAST Premier Final 2023 l CSGO