Cloud9 and Complexity breezed through their final regional opponents, BIG and Team Liquid, respectively, to each take the top spot at the online BLAST Fall Showdown. The tournament was the last one before the first Counter-Strike tournament to be played on CS2, the latest iteration of the franchise.
On a dead game and with a roster that was nearly six feet under, a retooled Cloud9 burned through their side of the bracket, only dropping a single map to a talented G2 squad and blanking all others. Recently, they dropped beleaguered IGL nafany and subsequently moved H0bbit to the important role. This has freed up world-class rifler “electroNic to play like his old self. It showed as he notched a 1.19 HLTV Rating over the course of the tournament, as the team was led by the stellar 1.30 HLTV rating from sh1ro.