Cloud9 replace EG in DreamHack Masters Winter

23/11/2020 - 21:00

The 'Colossus' received a last-minute invitation following the North American team's withdrawal.

Cloud9 will take Evil Geniuses' spot in DreamHack Masters Winter's European division, the tournament organiser announced on Monday. The decision was made after the North American team were forced to put their travel plans on hold due to "Covid-19 related restrictions".

Evil Geniuses had announced earlier on Monday that they would skip this week's BLAST Premier Fall Showdown, in which their spot will be filled by Heroic. This makes the IEM Global Challenge, which will be held between December 15 and 20, the only tournament that Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz's side will play until the end of the year.

Cloud9 will face Gambit in the first round

Cloud9 will replace EG in the Group A bracket, taking on Gambit in the first round of the double-elimination group stage. Prior to this tournament, the European team will play the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown, in which they will be seeking redemption following a group stage exit in Flashpoint 2.

DreamHack Masters Winter's European division will be held online from November 30 through to December 6, with $150,000 on offer. The updated groups for the tournament can be found below:

Group A

Group B

The opening match-ups are the following:

Group A

Heroic vs. c0ntact
FaZe vs. Spirit
Complexity vs. ENCE
Cloud9 vs. Gambit

Group B

Astralis vs. GODSENT
Liquid vs. mousesports
G2 vs. Sprout
FURIA vs. North

EG will disband cya in valorant

2020-11-23 21:00

4 replies

Clown9 disband when?

2020-11-23 21:31

3 replies

yesterday

2020-11-23 23:26

2 replies

Not gonna lie, Gambit is pretty fkin good right now, so this will be a tough match, but I believe! No chance they beat Complexity though :P

2020-11-23 23:28

1 reply

Ye, gambit are no slouch and will be a tough team to beat (not just for C9)

2020-11-24 01:07

lmfao

2020-11-23 21:01

ez for 6 mil team

right...

2020-11-23 22:45

I feel like this is probably going to be this C9 lineups Make-or-Break tournament if they don't place well at BLAST. I guess it's slightly unreasonable to expect a brand new team to become good in less than a month but anything less than honestly doesn't justify how HenryG has talked the team up and the money C9 has spent on them

2020-11-23 21:12

17 replies

Nip will crush them 2-0

2020-11-23 21:11

what an idiot statement LOL lets dash a 6m team away after 2 bad results in 2 months because their price tag was high.

2020-11-23 21:15

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I'm obviously not saying they should disband

2020-11-23 21:16

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Well then what are you saying will happen if they fail at blast?

2020-11-23 21:39

Ride out their contracts playing t2 cs :()

2020-11-23 22:10

A roster change?

2020-11-24 06:36

make or break is basically disband or stay.

2020-11-23 21:57

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+1, what else should happen at break?

2020-11-23 23:35

Probably a roster change since I was talking about this exact 5 player lineup

2020-11-24 06:39

well you would need to have a sizeable amount of brain damage to bench a player you spent a fortune on after just two tourneys

2020-11-24 14:39

12k is not a fortune for Cloud9

2020-11-24 14:58

>this C9 lineups Make-or-Break l i n e u p s

2020-11-24 06:37

Not yet. Just their second tournament if I'm mow mistaken, but it once again looks like a complete joke of a team, despite the little time together

It's the third, they start playing Blast tomorrow

2020-11-23 21:17

Not*

2020-11-23 21:32

Their opening match is against gambit. If they lose that one, I give up on this team.

2020-11-23 23:08

Everyone clowned on Complexity, OG last year, and look at them now. You can't expect a new team to perform as if they're top 5 out of the blue

2020-11-24 01:55

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2020-11-24 11:31

eg disband inc

2020-11-23 21:02

Why are ENCE and c0ntact here?

c0ntact qualified. ENCE were invited

to add to this, ence were likely invited not because they´re good, but cuz they signed the louvre agreement

2020-11-23 21:07

colossus that didnt win even 1 match nt

2020-11-23 21:03

Not even a map lol

2020-11-23 22:31

Not deserved

This is a joke, and a bad one... Team 150+ on HLTV ranking invited to event like this one. Maybe they should at least win one official match first? All others team need to play first 9999 tier 3 tournaments to get any chance to fight in tournament like this one, and C9 get 2nd chance in this month just to be smash. Shame.

2020-11-23 22:24

This is because the players have lots of tournament points - So when they are in the same team the points adds up. This is the reason for the invite. You can argue its a stupid way. And I agree.

2020-11-24 17:02

What a bad replacement

2020-11-23 21:04

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

2020-11-23 21:05

Excited!

Bye EG

2020-11-23 21:06

EG lol

Gambit 2-1

2020-11-23 21:08

Gambit 2-0

Gambit 420-69

2020-11-23 21:13

wasted spot

spotted waste

2020-11-23 21:14

The future doesn't look good for EG. One year ago they looked pretty convincing and, now, they are almost irrelevant. Almost as irrelevant as this constantly-changing Clown9, a team we can't even keep up with roster rebuilds.

flag checks out

2020-11-23 22:03

Why no NiP?

Wasted spot.

2020-11-23 21:18

EG disband (

2020-11-23 21:19

152 in the rank getting a direct invite . NICE JOKE

2020-11-23 21:20

Instead of inviting nip,fnatic even mad lions...they invite this "hype team"...makes no sense

2020-11-23 21:21

Are they paying for this invite? That must be the only explanation.

2020-11-23 21:22

Free invite

2020-11-23 21:23

Says you

2020-11-23 21:24

UNDESERVED they won 0000000000000 matches they just invited them for viewers

Why not Nip or mibr istead of C9?

2020-11-23 21:26

BIG would've been better, guess they were not invited cause of flashpoint

2020-11-23 21:30

replace 13-16th with 13-16th wp

2020-11-23 21:35

NA shuffle inc??

2020-11-23 21:37

Really unfair and not deserved. The team hasnt proved anything yet and got invites

2020-11-23 21:43

Where's NiP and Fnatic :o

2020-11-23 21:46

I feel Nip got fkd over viewership and fnatic focus on FP2

2020-11-23 22:23

group A vs group B hahah

2020-11-23 21:55

im just sad eg are not coming who cares about clown9 i hope they dont disband fellow eg fans pray withe me

2020-11-23 22:05

FREE MONEY FOR BETS CLOWN9

2020-11-23 22:06

EZ gambit

2020-11-23 22:15

It's such an undeserved and at the same time a cheek to all the other teams that have been playing well lately. No matter how you play, but who you play for... Shame. Teams like Endpoint, Saw, Wisla, MadLions would rape that C9 joke.

2020-11-23 22:19

EG Disband Good news

Covid still being the no.1 killjoy

2020-11-23 22:47

hmm poor EG

2020-11-23 22:56

Wow, are this not too many cs matches for ALEX

waste of money

2020-11-23 23:14

WTF???????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Group A final will be complexity or faze vs heroic Group B final will be Astralis vs G2 ez bet for those group.

2020-11-23 23:30

Lets gooo

free win for Gambit))

2020-11-23 23:38

Sold out for slightly more viewers than usually, it should've been someone else...

2020-11-24 01:06

LETS GO

2020-11-24 01:15

I don't understand how some of these organisations afford such massive contracts. The prize money remains the same but salaries keep on increasing

2020-11-24 02:05

I think Sponsors, merchs and player live stream have more % to the team's income rather than tournament prize money since normally orgs only take 10% of the prize money. Explains why faze still operates despite their high profile player signing with subpar achievements.

2020-11-24 03:57

But only NA players and few others like s1mple have a big following, right? Sponsors agreed, merchandise - does it bring in that much revenue? I'm just worried these orgs are all going to burn out of cash and csgo bubble is gonna burst :(

2020-11-24 17:10

Rip sprout XDDDDD

2020-11-24 07:13

Why Cloud9? There are teams that deserve this spot more. Sad that EG can' t play, they had potential to do some damage in this tournament.

2020-11-24 07:53

What will happen to E.G???? :/ tell me mens im scared now :/

2020-11-24 07:57

Crown9. Let's go steel!

2020-11-24 08:14

Nice group A ahahaha

2020-11-24 11:40

2020-11-24 11:41

HenryG doing the impossible to get this team into tournaments, such a wasted spot...we already know the result: 15-16th spot for clown9

2020-11-24 12:49

With those investments, Cloud9 have shown that they are here for the long run and for top spots. Should be very attractive to other players, giving them a good chance to build a great roster. Time will tell.

2020-11-28 00:13