51 Facts About Cloud9

Cloud9 Esports, Inc, or simply Cloud9, is an American professional esports company based in Santa Monica, California.

Cloud9 has received million in total raised equity via venture capital funding and was ranked the world's fifth-most valuable esports organization in mid-2022.

Cloud9 has held divisions in numerous esports throughout its existence, establishing eight by 2014.

In 2018, Cloud9 won three international championships: the Rocket League Championship Series Season 6 World Championship, the 2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, and the ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018.

Team that would become Cloud9 originated after esports organization Quantic Gaming released all of their League of Legends players.

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Cloud9 was then reacquired by Quantic Gaming on April 1,2013, and later rebranded the team back to Cloud9.

That month, Cloud9 received a total of million from series A funding in a round led by Founders Fund, along with other investors Craft Ventures, former Facebook, Inc executive Chamath Palihapitiya, Reddit Inc cofounder Alexis Ohanian, and Major League Baseball player Hunter Pence.

The following month, Activision Blizzard announced that Cloud9 had purchased a London-based franchise slot for the upcoming Overwatch League ; with the requirement that all organizations in the OWL create separate business entities and branding, Cloud9 created the subsidiary under the name London Spitfire.

In November 2017, Riot Games announced that Cloud9 had secured a League of Legends Championship Series franchise slot for a reported million, marking the second owned franchised team by the company.

In June 2018, Cloud9 announced a major sponsorship deal with Red Bull, which included a deal that would place the Red Bull logo on the Cloud9 jerseys.

In 2018, at a time when many esports teams were significantly downscaling their operations and only focusing on a select few games, Cloud9 reached top-level international success in Counter-Strike, Rocket League, Overwatch, and League of Legends.

In November 2019, Cloud9 was fined by Riot Games for violating League of Legends Championship Series rules.

Cloud9 was fined $25,000 for each player violation, totaling $175,000, and had to pay additional money to its players.

Cloud9 was again ranked by Forbes as the world's most valuable esports company in 2019, along with Team SoloMid; the company was valued at $400million, a $90million increase over the previous year.

The following month, Cloud9 reentered Dota 2 esports after a hiatus of almost three years.

Cloud9 created its Valorant division in April 2020, and in October, they created their first all-female esports team for Valorant.

Cloud9 was officially created in 2013 after Jack Etienne purchased the contracts of all of Quantic Gaming's League of Legends players.

Cloud9 made it to the LCS finals in the 2014 NA LCS Summer Split and 2015 NA LCS Spring Split, but fell to Team SoloMid each time.

Cloud9 lost to Team Dignitas in the quarterfinals of the 2017 NA LCS Summer Split.

On September 14,2020, Cloud9 parted ways with head coach Bok "Reapered" Hangyu, who had been the head coach of the team for the past four years.

On June 26,2014, Cloud9 announced the formation of their Hearthstone division after acquiring team DogeHouse.

Cloud9 signed former team Archon player James "Firebat" Kostesich in March 2016.

Mango's first tournament under Cloud9 was Get On My Level 2014 in Toronto, where he took first place.

Cloud9 entered the professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene on August 1,2014, with the acquisition of compLexity Gaming's North American roster.

Cloud9 placed thirteenth to sixteenth at MLG Columbus 2016, losing to Natus Vincere and G2 Esports in the group stage.

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On September 6,2020, Cloud9 announced that they would undergo a complete rebuild in their CS:GO division.

The next day, Cloud9 unveiled their new general manager Henry "?HenryG?" Greer and new coach Aleksandar "?kassad?" Trifunovic.

On January 24, the return of Chris “Elmapuddy” Tebbit as new Head Coach was announced, along with the promotion of m1cks from analyst to the Assistant Coach position Cloud9 disbanded their CS:GO division in March 2021, citing difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cloud9 won IEM Dallas on June 6,2022, after defeating ENCE 3:0.

Cloud9 formed its Overwatch division in March 2016 after signing team "google me".

Later that month, Cloud9 finished in fourth place at the OG Invitational tournament after losing to Northern Gaming in the third place match.

Cloud9 was one of four western teams invited to compete in South Korea's OGN Overwatch APEX Season 2, which began in January 2017.

Cloud9 failed to qualify for Overwatch Contenders North America season one; afterwards, the company acquired the former Laser Kittenz roster and established their European team Cloud9 EU for season one of Overwatch Contenders Europe.

The following month, in September 2017, Cloud9 established their third Overwatch team after acquiring South Korean team KongDoo Panthera and competed under the moniker Cloud9 KongDoo.

Cloud9 first entered Fortnite competitively in 2018, and formally re-entered the circuit in the summer of 2019.

Cloud9 announced its entry into Valorant on April 12,2020, by signing its first player, Tyson "TenZ" Ngo.

On March 13,2021, Cloud9 Blue acquire Anthony "vanity" Malaspina from Version1.

On May 15,2022, Cloud9 traded xeta and Autumn to T1 for Rahul "curry" Nemani.

In October 2020, Cloud9 signed orgless all-female team "MAJKL" to compete in First Strike under Cloud9 White.

Cloud9 created their Rocket League division in July 2017 after acquiring DreamHack Atlanta champions team The Muffin Men.

Cloud9 made it to the RLCS Season 5 World Championship tournament but were eliminated by eventual champions Team Dignitas.

Cloud9 won five consecutive elimination matches in the lower bracket and advanced to the Grand Finals, where they faced undefeated European team Team Dignitas on November 11,2018.

Cloud9 followed up their Season 6 run with a semifinals loss in the Season 7 RLCS World Championship.

Cloud9 finished North America RLCS Season 8 in seventh place, which put them at risk of being relegated to the Rocket League Rival Series, a lower division for the RLCS.

On September 1,2016, Cloud9 acquired Nemesis Hydra from Team Nemesis, getting their feet into the mobile esports scene.

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At the 2017 World Championship, Cloud9 would make it all the way to the semifinal, before losing to Tribe Gaming, the former roster of Immortals.

Cloud9 announced that they were adding Rainbow Six Siege to their competitive roster on Twitter on June 18,2018.

However, the team that was originally put together by Cloud9 was eventually moved to Team Reciprocity, announced by Team Reciprocity on January 7,2019.

Cloud9 announced that it was re-entering the Rainbow Six Siege competitive circuit on April 6,2019, with a new team of five players, one coach, and one assistant coach.

On November 20,2018, Cloud9 announced on their Twitter that the organization was picking up the North American PUBG Mobile Star Challenge Champions, who were originally a part of Team Gates Mobile for the North American Regional Star Challenge.

On October 30,2020, Cloud9 released their entire PUBG Mobile roster after they failed to qualify for PUBG Mobile Global Championship.