Unfortunately, at the time of the interview, Cloud9 had high hopes of advancing with their 2-1 record, but they failed to proceed after dropping their last two games.

Cloud9 had a fickle year in 2016 with a few interesting roster changes, a wonderful tournament victory, and some questionable tournament play. You could grade their IEM performance much like their past year; they started off strong by taking out eventual Group B first place finishers, Heroic and DreamHack Masters Las Vegas second place team, SK Gaming.





Then they hit a wall or should one say, plow.





It seemed the tilt was too strong and the team couldn't overcome the defeat even though they made a decent comeback attempt against North.





Now the questions and doubts remain: Did Cloud9 make the right decision to stay together and weather out the storm, or will something need to happen? Let's not forget that Virtus.pro made a similar decision last year and they were rewarded with a major victory.