Cloud9 confirm ATK signing

6-1-2020 17:05

Cloud9 have announced the signing of the ATK roster, confirming a report from DBLTAP that first linked the two organizations in November.

Cloud9 found themselves struggling to post results in 2019 as they fumbled to find a working roster composition, with their lacklustre showings at offline events eventually leading to the departure of the core trio of Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta, Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele, and Kenneth "⁠koosta⁠" Suen to Gen.G.

Instead of once again looking to rebuild around their remaining players, Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas and Tyson "⁠TenZ⁠" Ngo, Cloud9 have instead opted to sign an entirely new roster, acquiring a roster who ended the year on a high note in the form of ATK.

Cloud9 have acquired the ATK roster

Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou and company made their first appearance at a Big Event at the ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals in Odense, Denmark, where they impressed by notching best-of-three victories over North and G2 before being eliminated by the eventual tournament champions MOUZ to end their run in 7-8th place.

Notably, Cloud9's last place finish in their ESL Pro League Season 10 Americas group left them facing Relegation if they hoped to hold on to their spot in the league for Season 11. However, according to Ryan Friend of Rush B Media, Cloud9 were also looking to acquire ATK's ESL Pro League license as part of the signing to avoid that step, although the organization have yet to confirm if that is indeed the case.

"Joining Cloud9 is a dream come true for the entire squad. Words can't describe how excited we all are to represent such a prestigious organization," coach Tiaan "⁠T.c⁠" Coertzen said in a statement.

"We're very grateful for the opportunity. I think it came at the perfect timing to provide us with more resources to continue our growth and to strive for new heights. Our team is still very young and 'm very excited to see how far we can go with the support Cloud9 can offer."

Cloud9 now have:

Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou
Ian "⁠motm⁠" Hardy
Ricky "⁠floppy⁠" Kemery
Josh "⁠oSee⁠" Ohm
Aran "⁠Sonic⁠" Groesbeek

Tiaan "⁠T.c⁠" Coertzen (coach)

Tyson "⁠TenZ⁠" Ngo (inactive)
Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas (inactive)

Expected

2020-01-06 17:06

9 replies

C9 Floppy

7 replies

what a great addition to tier 4 counter strike

2020-01-06 17:08

6 replies

expected

2020-01-06 17:09

1 reply

Cloud Africa LUL

2020-01-06 17:13

lmfao

2020-01-06 17:49

3 replies

Disband inc. wouldve been smarter to sign tricked roster

2020-01-06 19:15

2 replies

BuT tHEy hAVe to KeeP it NA reeeeeeeee

2020-01-06 23:04

keeping it SA+NA lol

2020-01-07 22:44

2020-01-06 17:07

Lol, nice tier 5

10 replies

kick osee

2020-01-06 17:18

better than OG tho LUL

2020-01-06 18:04

5 replies

GENG::::DDDsd

2020-01-06 19:09

4 replies

Better than fluke ence

2020-01-06 19:29

+11111111111

2020-01-06 19:44

+1 8/8

2020-01-07 18:42

Better than geng.g

2020-01-06 18:19

Lul u drunk m8

2020-01-07 01:14

Yes m8

2020-01-07 06:58

clown9 is back

wauw... never read that 'Clown9' joke before. great... kudo's mens

newfag? edit: im more of a newfag than you, how have u never heard of this joke? baiting?

2020-01-06 20:01

sarcasm not detected

2020-01-07 01:55

yeah... his flag checks out

2020-01-07 17:13

floppy daddy

3rd :/

nt you are number 6

2020-01-06 23:54

fuck

2020-01-07 11:12

bad team

Gen.g is no hope team

2020-01-06 17:16

2 trash teams

Lul u are delusional

2020-01-07 01:15

GODS <3

Gl for guys

Let's go boys!

pog

nice for c9

Expected!

LMFAO HAS ALL THIS MONEY AND SIGNS ATK XAXAXAXAXAXAXA

15 replies

which other decent NA team they could buy?

2020-01-06 17:35

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not buying an na team lmfao they could’ve went for the dignitas strategy and reform a old roster for revenue or with all that c9 money, buy out a big team ex. reuniting ex vp

2020-01-06 17:40

The issue is that with Immortals/C9 trying to spearhead this North American CS league, they need a roster that at least seems competitive (or at least could qualify for the league). ... This team is a project and not guaranteed to work, but it still has more upside than their previous disasters of teams

2020-01-06 17:47

it has potential but not up to par on what c9 wants, thats for sure. they want a tier 1 roster, not a tier 3 na one

2020-01-06 17:54

bitches about a promisg talent full of youngsters suggests they should buy pasha, neo, taz :Ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

2020-01-06 19:48

did u read what i said “market value”. they’ll sell a ton of jerseys and merch from having a washed up team. atk is never going to win a tier 1 lan most likely and isn’t a popular team already with a lot of followers

2020-01-06 19:51

they’d surely get a lotta sponsorships to keep the team going with them being top 150

2020-01-06 20:22

vanity Zellsis WARDELL Infinite floppy (??)

2020-01-06 18:01

i +1 this would be much better and cheaper

the only one you could there is wardell lmao

2020-01-06 23:56

its cheaper lol atk was prob a 1mill+ buyout and wont yield anything that is a team of free agents

2020-01-07 00:00

Floppy is on atk? He aint a free agent. And 1m buyout for the team that only made it to big event once? doubt it.

2020-01-07 23:37

renegades were like 3 million and in top 8-10 at the time, atk prob at least 800-900k and didnt notice my bad

2020-01-08 03:50

from a major to this in under 2 years. That's some Gambit stuff right here.

2020-01-06 19:08

LMFAO

2020-01-06 19:16

Did they run out of money or did they ever state their change of strategy? I mean they used to simply just buy expensive players like it's nothing. Now this team, lol I mean good for them but I don't get it

Building a new roster from scratch seems hard nowadays... They kinda did what VP did. Although I see more future in VP than this roster tbh

Simply buying expensive players obviously didnt work for them. So i guess that they decided to rather buy off a decently established promising roster. And see where that would go.

2020-01-06 17:19

But they're not exactly that. This team has no chance to reach any significant tournament any time soon

2020-01-06 17:22

+1 would be a miracle if they did

2020-01-06 17:30

Let's see if they build up over time .

2020-01-06 17:34

Said by who?

2020-01-06 18:20

LETS GO FLOPPY

They gonna regret it soon enough

F for mixwell

Yes he was neglected the most in all of this

Big F

2020-01-07 01:17

clown9

Sad for mixwell, feel like his talent has been wasted away the last 2-3 years

Mixwell is a bench warmer since OpTic disband. That was in 2015 iirc. So no, more than four years

2020-01-07 14:47

+1: Time goes fast, sheeesh.

2020-01-07 18:36

hmmmmmmmmm

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Floppy god

2020-01-06 17:20

no one cars

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mad burger LUL enjoy your tier3 clown9 fandom

2020-01-06 17:23

#79

cba spending time scrolling for mad burgeritos

nice joke Clown9

Tier5 bad still better than N♿rth and ♿2

Pog

Disband in 2 months or less?

Why? The core has been together for quite a long time.

2020-01-06 17:14

Because I find it hard to believe that this roster is enough to have any impact on a T1 tournament. Hopefully I'm wrong, tho

That's obvious. C9 didn't sign this roster to win tier 1 tournaments. They just want to stay in the scene with an NA roster. They are playing it safe after all the shitty teams they assembled the last couple of times.

2020-01-06 17:51

I don't think C9 expects them to win t1 tournaments right out the gate. I would look at this as more of a long term project as the ATK guys are skilled, but 1 or 2 roster changes or them finding good chemistry and teamplay together could turn them into real contenders

2020-01-07 01:20

lol

tier 3 but gonna get steal spots with invites cuz org

2020-01-06 17:10

Good signing for C9. Time to get a stable roster that has shown progress

I scanned thru the article, twice.. what flag is that?

2020-01-06 17:11

South Africa

Rip c9

old news Clap9

Might've made sense if Detrony was in the roster

Tbf old bravado + floppy would b way better than this

lol the two SA guys are the worst on the roster. should add TenZ and Nifty instead

???? Sonic is and has been considered the best player from SA. JT is the igl so it makes sense that his aim is not great, but I think if they swapped him out for Vanity they could get to the next level

2020-01-07 01:23

But yeah it is a major milestone for South African CS & gaming in general - big news... Wishing our boys the best

100%

2020-01-06 23:50

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA MajorWinner Cloud9 finally became Tier5 team GG

NA Gets hyped over a tier5 team XDdd

better decision than trying to make a shitty mixed team work.

2020-01-06 17:12

Tier 99 confirmed

From major winner to NA tier3 axaxaxaxaxaxa

NICE, finally

Pretends to be shocked ...

I still can't believe this roster beat G2 on Bo3. glhf c9!

lmao

Best of luck to them

u ´dont car

EXPECTEDD

Great to see how far the ZA boys have come

expected, but hyped tbh

2020-01-06 17:17

+floppy +stewie2k plss

when you lose to a pug team in mythic cup but still get signed for cloud9 Pog.

Let's see how long this new Clown9 roster lasts

+autimatic

let's go

Good news for the Dutch cs scene!!

from tier 1 to tier 99

2020-01-06 17:21

I gotta change my name

I mean technically it's still true

2020-01-07 01:25

No my username when I made this comment was let_c9_die_slowly Now I change my mind

2020-01-07 04:53

better team than the one who won major by fluke.

2020-01-06 17:24

luuuuuuuuuul

2020-01-06 17:25

EXPECTED

2020-01-06 17:26

Are you fucking serious

2020-01-06 17:27

major winners to shit tier 100 team Cwho?

This "tier 100 team" beat G2, North, took a map from Liquid and beat MIBR. So what are you kids even talking about lol? Give these guys a chance, a super talented young squad. Now with a big org behind them the sky is the limit.

2020-01-06 17:32

no team < this I guess?

Expected. Pretty decent squad.

2020-01-06 17:28

who cares they are shit anyways xdxd

2020-01-06 17:29

Seriously, how can Mixwell got so unlucky :(

i hear C9 want create new na team around mixwell, but mixwell denied it :(

2020-01-06 17:42

He wanna gerrara here fast as possible kekw

there's a saying "QUE FASEEE"... from Major champs(fluke) to this OMEGA, sums up C9 really well

from winning a major to this .... the org seems to have no idea of what they are doing anymore

2020-01-06 17:33

Fluke team But gl to floppy

How can NA fans be happy about this ???

2020-01-06 17:37

dafuq are they doing at all

2020-01-06 17:39

Leaked by mixwell

how much

2020-01-06 17:41

C9 only signed so they can own some Africans

Bruh

2020-01-06 17:50

At least they are not black

2020-01-06 17:52

Flag checks out

2020-01-06 18:16

Decent pick.

2020-01-06 17:43

Cloud9's roster is getting worse and worse as years go by.

2020-01-06 17:44

Clown9 🤡 strikes again

2020-01-06 17:46

Epic

niice, gl gl

2020-01-06 17:57

mixwell come to sprout bro

New C9 > GenG

2020-01-06 17:58

dead team

2020-01-06 18:00

Why is everyone saying they’re bad when they’ve only lost on lan to Mouz (which won that tournament)

2020-01-06 18:02

When has the majority of HLTV hate ever proven to be justified or right? Just ignore all this crap, it is not worth anything at the end of the day.

2020-01-07 11:07

Solid top 30 team which at least is better than the previous line-up, plus a lot of these players aren't even close to their peak and still are developing

2020-01-06 18:06

agree

2020-01-06 18:08

U n e x p e c t e D

2020-01-06 18:07

this brand is not obviously tier 1-2 anymore

2020-01-06 18:24

?? ATK is a tier 2 team they beat North and G2 at their first big LAN together only losing to Mouz who went on to win the tournament

2020-01-07 01:28

Another team that will do nothing

2020-01-06 18:29

Another dissapointment. They'll flop and part ways after a month or two. We need some big money signings if we want to make a dent in the scene, not one-day rosters.

2020-01-06 18:58

PepeLaugh OH NO NO

2020-01-06 18:59

major winning team right there

2020-01-06 19:02

cloud9 complaining about this lineup is hilarious, sit the fuck down you entitled retards, this team is better than your shit org deserves, stop thinking you're too good for them because you fluked a major two years ago

2020-01-06 19:04

Complexity are heading in the direction come on c9

2020-01-06 19:06

INSANE

Clown9

2020-01-06 19:07

These guys are going to slay at LAN parties.

2020-01-06 19:25

2020-01-06 19:33

Cloud9 has all the money in the world they could've gotten the c9 summer boys to play for the right ammount of money yet they sign ATK

2020-01-06 19:39

Clown9 management in shambles, will be interesting how they make the most of this investment. If this doesn't work out for them, I see them jumping out of CSGO for a while and maybe coming back later when a good stack eventually arises.

2020-01-06 20:00

This is embarrassing, I used to play Rank G against motm, and the entire game he would cry about how stupid and how dumb every move I made was when I killed him. Embarrassing c9 recruited a clown like that for professional cs.

2020-01-06 20:27

LOL GET REKT

2020-01-08 00:12

Get Rekt? LOL, you mean motm would get wrecked every single game and cry because he couldn't hang lmfao.

2020-01-08 02:02

Literally he was like last choice for Rank G pugs, embarrassing. So many better players.

2020-01-08 02:03

mmm so why is he pro ? and so many other players not

2020-01-10 01:42

Good luck!

2020-01-06 20:48

I bet they do allright

2020-01-06 21:32

Disband in 3 months

2020-01-06 23:18

please keep tier 9000 news outside of hltv :)

2020-01-06 23:40

C9 most braindead org in CS history... from Major winners to Tier 900 line up

2020-01-06 23:41

RIP C9, so sad

2020-01-07 01:03

Disband in 2 months

2020-01-07 01:06

solid tier 3 team

2020-01-07 01:47

one decent player and 4bots n1

2020-01-07 01:48

rip money

2020-01-07 02:36

The past two years since Boston have been a disaster. Good to see they have done this, and great for the players to have access to top facilities and funding now. Good luck lads!

2020-01-07 02:47