What a roller coaster! Cloud9 defeated FaZe Clan 2-1, after an electric third map that went to double overtime. They become the first American roster to win a CS:GO Major. Ever. It was also watched by a Twitch record of more than 1.1 million viewers.





After the impressive performance, the members of Cloud9 spoke their minds on their accomplishment, and how they took down FaZe Clan.

Tarik “Tarik" Celik on how he feels after winning:





Tarik: I feel great. It’s hard to describe it because it was a roller coaster of emotion. At points, I was really losing my mind on Inferno. I feel like I went through every emotion possible, but right now I feel amazing. It’s great.





Timothy "Autimatic" Ta on if they ever lost faith:





Autimatic: After we lost the first map, we were a little bit sad but when we were walking back to the stage I remember telling my teammates that this was going to be a great story. We went from 0-2 to the finals and we are about to go from 0-1 to win the final. Everyone stayed really confident, even on Inferno when we were losing clutches.





Tarik on how they exploited FaZe on Overpass:





Tarik: On CT side we had to bring the game to them and not let them play the style they were comfortable with. Being aggressive was a big key to that. One special detail was having short B control, which autimatic had for most of the match.





Will "RUSH" Wierzba and Soham "valens" Chowdhury on how they kept their cool in overtime on Inferno:





Rush: If you look at the player cameras, everyone lost their mind at some point. People had hands in the air and even Stewie threw his headset off. I think it’s about how your mentality is moving into the next round. Everyone had that in the back of their minds the whole time. No matter how we looked, we were all still in the game regardless of the scoreline.





Valens: I think people put too much stock into what you look like when something negative happens. It matters way more on how you bounce back and all these guys know how to.





Tarik on how their performance may impact the North American CS:GO scene:





Tarik: Hopefully it inspires more people in our scene to push further. The North American scene has been lackluster for a long time. Now that we won this Major, there will be a lot of players out there that are inspired. Maybe we can build the talent further and get another championship in North America.





Valens on the pick ban phase against FaZe:





Valens: Every time we play FaZe it’s always the same three or four maps. We both knew what the maps were going to be. So whoever had the better game plan and executed it properly was going to win and clearly, that was us.

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