The second round robin of Group C at the 2021 MSI started off with a huge upset, as the LCS representatives managed to take down the favorites of the tournament, DWG KIA. Despite looking shaky in the
Throughout this past week, our talented team of writers at Inven Global have been ranking the top 5 players participating in this year's MSI. We've ranked the top 5 laners in each role, and all that's
Cloud9 are once again LCS champions and will be heading to the org's first-ever Mid-Season Invitational appearance — a tournament they should've been at, only denied by the COVID-19 pandemic that canceled MSI 2020.
As reported by Travis Gafford, the founder, owner, and CEO of Team SoloMid, Andy “Reginald” Dinh, was fined $5,000 for his misconduct against the support player for Cloud9, Philippe "Vulca
Despite claiming they'd keep their roster together, Cloud9 has made a couple of changes, including promoting Fudge and Reignover. They've also been rumored to sign Perkz. Here is the current roster rumored for Cloud9:
After his recent addition to the Cloud9 team, IWillDominate interviewed the Cloud9 LCS roster about their failure to qualify for Worlds and what it means for the team, confirming they'll be sticking as a five-man unit going into 2021. Read more here:
After two back to back years of TSM missing Worlds, they make their return, climbing through the losers bracket of the LCS playoffs, defeating Cloud9 in four games. Read more on the series and playoffs here:
We've seen plenty of non-traditional strategies in pro play, and especially from Cloud9, who have locked in a brand new pair of champions, Lux and Sona. Get an in-depth look at the strategy here:
Cloud9 and Vulcan history last Spring with a 17-1 regular season record, followed by a 9-1 playoff run, prompting seven teams to make some roster moves. Here's what Vulcan has to think about the "new" opponents Cloud9 will face this Summer:
Cloud9 has spent an unbelievable season. After finishing the regular season with a 17-1 record, they went on and won the LCS championship. Over the whole spring split, including the playoffs, Cloud9
Leena Xu, President of esports organization TSM, faces controversy after screenshots from the team's Discord were used in a video by Duncan "Thorin" Shields. In one screenshot, Xu claims to have attempted to approach many players from Europe on behalf of TSM, and that the players she approached were under contract at the time of her reaching out. Inven Global has confirmed with a source close to the situation that organizations across the globe often go unpunished for the ways in which they circumnavigate certain rules when seeking to sign a player.
Dropping only two games in the entirety of the 2020 Spring Split, through both the regular season and the playoffs, Cloud9 have the most dominant season in LCS history, and claim their first title since 2014. Read more on their dominant 3-0 run here:
Blaber is your 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Spring Split Most Valuable Player. All five members of Cloud9 were All Pro first team. Top three came down to Blaber, Nisqy, and Zven with Blaber being crowned MVP. Read more on his acheivements here.
12 and 0. It's an amazing streak. Did you do something special during the offseason? There wasn't anything special. As soon as Zven and Vulcan signed their contracts, we started their bootcamp earlier
Vulcan joined Inven Global's Nick Geracie after defeating IMT to break down the farming Tahm Kench strategy, discuss Cloud9's dominance throughout the LCS Spring Split, and to give his opinion on who could contest C9 down the stretch towards the Spring Playoffs.
The bot laners of each region took their spots as the leaders of KDA in their respective regions. In the LCK, LPL, LCS, and the LEC, there’s an interesting trend in data (gathered up to the 17th), which is similar across all four regions. Bot laners of each region were in 1st place in KDA, and currently, there are two players that have a perfect KDA. In the LCK, All iN, the mid laner for Afreeca Freecs is a player that currently holds a perfect KDA. Previously known as SSUN, he only played two games in the league, so this data may not hold too much meaning. Even still, All iN played Pantheon in both of his games and with a total score of 5/0/13, he holds a perfect KDA.
Vulcan spoke with Inven Global about how he fits in the Cloud9 culture, as well as his goals of winning both splits and changing the NA narrative with the team. He details where he fits in the tier list of supports in NA, but notes how hard branding is for supports.
There is just one week left in the off-season and then the wait is over. Winter has come and gone (metaphorically speaking), and Spring 2020 has finally arrived! Teams are soon to take the Rift and sh
It's been exactly two weeks since "Huni" re-signed with DIG, and he still has no teammates. Every other player left the team. Huni's salary is impacting the team's overall ability to afford players.
Cloud9 is one of the most decorated orgs in the LCS, but hasn't actually won a title in numerous years. They've already shaken up their roster a bunch, here is what has been rumored so far.
