Cloud9 confirmed at IEM Sydney

22/3/2018 - 03:58

Current Major champions Cloud9 has been officially confirmed on the IEM Sydney team list.

Shortly after mousesports' invitation a couple of days ago, ESL announced the North American side as the fifth team to compete at the $250,000 Australian event on May 1-6.

Cloud9 will be looking to improve on their results following a few disappointing exits recently at StarSeries i-League Season 4, IEM Katowice, and WESG World Finals.

Cloud9 will travel to IEM Sydney in early May

IEM Sydney will be the eighth event in consideration for the Intel Grand Slam, which will award a whopping $1 million prize to the first team that wins four out of ten premier events hosted by ESL and DreamHack.

You can find the updated 16-team list for the Aussie tournament below:

SK	FaZe
Renegades	MOUZ
Cloud9	TBA
TBA	GG:Origin Qual.
Europe Qual.	NA Qual.
Asia #1	Asia #2
Asia #3	Oceania #1
Oceania #2	Oceania #3

THE MAJOR CHAMPIONS WILL BE TRAVELING DOWN UNDER! 🇦🇺
Witness @Cloud9 live at #IEM Sydney 2018 this May 🙌https://t.co/wkpO8HZxfy pic.twitter.com/ELo3AnVK4w
— Intel®ExtremeMasters (@IEM) March 22, 2018

Fist

2018-03-22 03:59

#C9WIN

hopefully they dont disappoint again

MAJOR CHAMPIONS

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my ass - fallen

2018-03-22 07:08

3 replies

Knifed by Tarik in that game

2018-03-22 16:07

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HAHAHA

2018-03-23 00:02

talk trash get slashed

2018-03-23 04:40

but why not liquid instead

10 replies

Don't worry they'll probably be next

2018-03-22 04:01

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hope so!

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Cuz liquid is shit 0 majors

2018-03-22 04:51

Liquid > C9 at the moment, despite their lack of official achievements.

2018-03-22 06:25

2018-03-22 09:17

1 reply

2018-03-22 10:00

Uh no. I think they are about equal. There's no clear better team.

2018-03-22 10:11

It’s a huge waste to invite more NA teams, there in only 2 decent ones (C9 and liquid), if they invite both then the NA qualifier slot will go to some useless team. Better give rest of invites to EU teams so we get the best possible event.

2018-03-22 12:06

That's exactly why you invite the NA teams so they get better... Some people need to get their head out their ass.

2018-03-22 13:45

NA has had more chances than any other region. Even when C9 and Liquid was total shit they still got invites since they where the best in NA. ESL PL gives free slots to NA each season, the minor system makes it super easy to qualify from NA. How many free chances does NA deserve? Do you always see quotation as the solution for a weaker group? Reward before performance? Reward based on who you are or where you are from, not based on who performed the best?

2018-03-22 14:00

expected

2018-03-22 04:00

ez for C9

WASTED SPOTY

My guess would be liquid and fnatic next

Swear they confirmed all the teams in like December?

Stew had leeked it before in a now deleted tweet

2018-03-22 09:50

I mean as in im sure ESL did promo vids for it back in 2017 with the teams

2018-03-22 23:58

Wasted spot should iNvite rogue instead

Finally C9 confirmed

Two spots for Asia and two for Australia would've been perfect. Three for each, is too much, will only make the overall level decrease.

2018-03-22 04:04

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+1000

2018-03-22 04:07

It's a Asia / Australia comp it's the only chance some of these teams will ever play against tier 1 eu/na teams

2018-03-22 04:10

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Still too much. Australia already have Renegades invited, so two other Australian teams would be good already. Asia had lots of opportunities to play vs top teams, they always suck, only TyLoo was able to get good results (bo3 win vs LG in 2016 and bo3 win vs fnatic in 2018). Mongolz, Recca, Flash, DS and all others plays big lans here and there, they never showed any sign of evolution as well.

2018-03-22 04:23

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watch out we got einstein over here

2018-03-22 04:33

EU and NA idiots complained about the schedule all the time last time round so IEM decided to focus on Asian viewers instead this time because they can actually watch and now they complain about that too. Gotta love the CSGO fanbase.

2018-03-22 04:37

People that complain about schedule are spoiled kids that don't realize there are lots of people living FUCKING FAR from their own countries, so they cry because the match will start at 4am or something like that. Complaining about time zones is something only true retards do. What I'm complaining about, is the LEVEL OF THE TEAMS, it's something very different.

2018-03-22 04:40

You should be familiar now that tournament organizers don't always invite the best teams possible, or else VP would not have been at any T1 LANs for the past several months. I honestly think one spot for a local AU team and one for an Asian team is enough but hey if they decided to have more then what can I do? Most Aussies are just happy to have an international tournament in Aus.

2018-03-22 04:55

We can do nothing, but we can post our opinions here, and that's what I did: 2 spots for AU 2 spots for Asia Would've been perfect.

2018-03-22 04:57

No doubt tournament organizers go to sites like HLTV so I think posting opinions here is great. I just think people should stop the complaining that it will be a shit tournament because of them like no, there are 10 other teams who will provide just as good CS as ever before. Besides, nowadays there are so many tournaments in EU and NA (literally one every few weeks) that I don't think they should bother complaining about the one that will be different. Just be happy and watch the tournament is what I am gonna say, it will be fun! teams love Australia and no doubt the crowd will be even more energetic than last time. It will be one of the best of the year I imagine despite being one of the smaller T1 LANs.

2018-03-22 05:06

Thank you for actually being smart

+ 9999

2018-03-22 04:56

Yeah IEM Sydney is not a T1 event, just like last year it will be T1,5. It will have the best teams, but half the teams will be so bad that upsets in group stage for the good teams is impossible.

2018-03-22 12:07

If you watched iem Sydney last year you would know that there was a massive upsets

2018-03-22 18:09

No there wasn't. The only thing even close to an upset was chiefs barely beating North in the last game of groups when both where already eliminated.

2018-03-22 23:23

...I was at the event

2018-03-23 04:37

Are you implying that the results were different live than what was reported to HLTV? Please let me know which these massive upsets were?

2018-03-23 06:55

The whole event was a fiesta mate chiefs made it to quarters bahahaha

2018-03-23 13:04

I don’t doubt it was a fiesta, but I would like to point out that there was no quarter final at that event, is was a Swiss BO1 with 4 teams going straight to semis. Chiefs did play in the last Swiss round vs Optics (both 2-2) but that is not a quarter. But if we count the north win as an upset, which is fine I guess even if North hardly is a top team, they should beat chiefs, which other upsets happened?

2018-03-23 13:36

I know this is The big tier one Asian/Australian event of the year, but 3 Asian spots and 3 Oceanian spots seems like a huge waste of spots.

All spots are a waste just give Renegades the #1 spot already

2018-03-22 04:16

The idea is to give more ANZ/Asian teams the chance to compete against other teams that are much better than them. Big fish in a small pond rarely get a chance to improve their own skills.

2018-03-22 05:45

I get it, but honestly none of them will get out of groups with their only wins coming against other Asian/Oceanian teams.

2018-03-22 14:41

Liquid, fnatic or NiP next

nip over astralis and navi you are one funny person

2018-03-22 04:46

oh shit i thought astralis already had an invite

2018-03-22 05:28

fnatic astralis?

2018-03-22 04:17

fnatic and liquid but i would like astralis

2018-03-22 04:47

Why liquid? There is an NA qualifier, if they invite all good NA teams that slot will go to some crap team, better invite EU teams now and liquid will qualify with 100% chance since rest of NA is so bad.

2018-03-22 12:11

Do you see the other qualifier spots they dont care about having the highest level of competition possible

2018-03-22 15:07

Yes they want an emphasis on local teams, that doesn’t mean the none local teams should be low quality as well. Liquid will qualify, better invite other good teams.

2018-03-22 15:32

stewie2k has a small dick

Bait comfirm XD

2018-03-22 10:02

Probably. Asian genes, ya know?

2018-03-22 12:09

this event will be sick! go ausies

2018-03-22 04:24

#1 :( Invite me better than this mainstreamers

2018-03-22 04:32

omg clown9, wasted spot

2018-03-22 04:36

This should of been a major, so much potential!

NAVI and Fnatic last

2018-03-22 04:38

liquid >>>> navi

???? xD

2018-03-24 03:20

does not make the tournament organizers right for inviting a worse team just look at nv at marseille its just a joke to the tournament organizers

2018-03-24 03:22

Navi direct invitation? For what being bot and losing qualifier for ECS vs godsent? xD Gonna be same like Katowice they will have to fight their way thru which they can't.

2018-03-22 05:19

Correction: Cloud9 confirmed to win IEM Sydney

2018-03-22 04:48

Correction: Cloud9 to drop out of group stages at IEM Sydney

2018-03-22 04:49

Correction: Cloud9 confirmed to win London Major 2018,EPL S7 finals, ECS S5 finals and confirmed to be the best team in the history of gaming.

2018-03-22 04:53

at this point C9 might not even make it thru to EPL LOL

It's already clear that they will win EPL S7 lol if you think otherwise you're a subhuman

2018-03-22 04:58

0/8 bait i'd say NRG Lulquid Renegays have a 50/50 chance to beat them

2018-03-22 05:00

renegays? you mean reneGODS

2018-03-22 05:36

2018-03-22 10:17

EU/NA qualifier slots: 2 Asia/oceania: 6 i mean we will just see a tourney with 6 or more t5 teams

I can kind of understand the extra oceania slots due to it being in Sydney but with the renegades invite on top of 3 Asia slots it's going to be kind of meh event as far as groups like WESG.

2018-03-22 05:03

Renegades = NA though? The core is Australian, but they are based out of America. They could earn a spot through the NA or AU qualifiers if they really wanted to. This is a chance for the local teams to play in the big leagues and gain the experience needed to improve rather than remaining big fish in a small pond.

2018-03-22 05:47

As for renegades I said that since the last tournament I saw them play at was the major and they went through the Asia minor. Though after what you said I took a look and saw that as of recent they have been going through NA qualifiers which is solid. Though these low tier Oceania/Asia teams getting ruined in group stage isn't quality experience for them since most of the top teams save strats against these teams and just slaughter them. These teams can get experience through EPL APAC and MDL. I am not saying that Asia/Oceania teams don't deserve qualifier slots but 6 slots for them seems like a lot when NA only gets 1.

2018-03-22 21:34

Yeah, I get you but you've also got to consider that this is our one major tournament of the year. So for a lot of teams, this is their only chance to impress on the international level.

2018-03-23 00:17

I guess that is fair since the last IEM in Katowice had 5 EU Qualifier slots. Plus you can't count any of the IEMs before since that was before they had so many slots.

2018-03-23 01:26

EU/NA slots: 3* (GG.Origin cup is one slot from EU)

2018-03-22 09:41

Hopefully they won't disappoint us :)

2018-03-22 04:54

TBA = SA (?

No It’s for the teams that will be invited still

2018-03-22 14:55

ytb <3

2018-03-22 05:05

Pls name things with their proper name "THE MAJOR FLUKERS WILL BE TRAVELING DOWN UNDER!"

2018-03-22 05:16

NICE

2018-03-22 05:21

noooooo :(

2018-03-22 05:46

3 Au and 3 Asia spots but only 3 left for EU top teams Fnatic, Astralis, NiP, Navi, G2 Someone has to miss the event but we'll have to watch some t5 Aussie team go out without winning 10 rounds overall Strange format for the Grand Slam event

2018-03-22 05:49

I agree. 3 aussie teams is understandable but why are there 3 asian teams... just because au teams compete with asians but this is purely an issue of location. The only reason i have is that organisers want Aussie teams to make it to playoffs so dilute the competition with tier 5 asian teams who the aussies have been proven to be able to beat

2018-03-22 05:56

invite the team that cant even keep its epl spot

2018-03-22 05:55

could of put this up as soon as Stewie was stupid enough to tweet it out they would go to Australia with the dates added as this was the only event with those dates in Australia that lined up xD

2018-03-22 06:15

Tier2 event max with 3 teams from Asia and 3 teams from Oceania

2018-03-22 06:33

wasted spot major was a fluke

2018-03-22 06:48

Rogue > c9

wasted spot

2018-03-22 06:58

lmao 3x asia 3x auss when u have already renegades, low tournament inc and u are laughing when vp was invited to iem katowice (one home team) in iem sydney will be 4 home teams

2018-03-22 07:49

Yeah double from last year

2018-03-22 08:08

2018-03-22 07:50

plz inv us

what team are you playing in ? If you say maybe they can invite you.

2018-03-22 20:27

Where is fnatic?

in china

2018-03-22 08:34

We know who's gonna come second ;))))

2018-03-22 09:31

but teamone is better

2018-03-22 09:43

LMAO europe 2 spots na 1 spots ocenia and asia 6 spots what a wasted spots xd

2018-03-22 10:20

Arab talking about wasted slots xd

2018-03-22 14:42

flag checks out

2018-03-22 14:57

Typical arab education XDDD doesn't even know the difference between arabs and indians.

2018-03-22 21:02

typical indians education XDDD doesn't even know the difference between arabs and Turks

2018-03-22 22:23

Where r the south América qualifiers?

2018-03-22 14:14

Hopefully fnatic and astralis are next

2018-03-22 15:34

2018-03-22 15:50

Cool. C9 is definitely slumping since the major but the current travel break they are on might help them get their heads back on straight plus they still destroy SK on the reg. At this point I'd just like them to play to their pre-major levels and get some top 4s. Team seems really off as of late.

2018-03-22 17:38

the flukes will be traveling down under!

2018-03-22 17:50