Immunity have taken down North American powerhouse Cloud9 on home soil, winning 2-1 at the Crown's Counter-Strike Invitational (16-12 on de_cache, 7-16 on de_dust2, and 16-3 on de_overpass).

Although The World Championships has stolen much of this weekend's spotlight, the 55,555 AUD (~$40,000) Crown's Counter-Strike Invitational in Melbourne, Australia saw Cloud9 and Virtus.pro make their way down-under in order to challenge Renegades and Immunity, the winners of the Crown Invitational Australian qualifier.

The first semifinal paired Cloud9 up against Immunity, two teams who last attended the DreamHack Open Stockholm qualifier but who only ever got to face off many months ago at Gfinity Spring Masters II.



Immunity gave Cloud9 a taste of what it means to fly so far and walk away defeated

de_cache saw a fairly even first half (Cloud9 finishing up 8-7) make way for a confident Immunity T-side assault that led the Australians to take the map 16-12.

On the other hand, de_dust2 was the Cloud9 show and not much of a contest with the Canadian-American team winning 16-7. Things came down to a third map where Immunity surprisingly obliterated Cloud9 16-3, sending the North American out of the tournament much humbled.

Crown's Counter-Strike Invitational Best of 3 Cloud9 Matchpage 1 2 Immunity 12 Cache 16 16 Dust2 7 3 Overpass 16

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