Cloud9 Tempest

Overview

Match History

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Cloud9 Tempest
Team Information
Location:	United States
Managers:	Jack "Jack" Etienne Danan "Kaniggit" Flander
Website:	http://www.cloud9.gg/
Sponsor(s):	Logitech G G2A NVIDIA Overwolf HTC ZAM
Youtube:	C9ggTV
Facebook:	Cloud9
Twitter:	Cloud9gg
Organization
Organization:	Cloud9
Sister Teams (Former):	Cloud9 Eclipse Cloud9 Challenger
History
Created (1):	2014-01-20
Disbanded (1):	2014-05-04
Created (2):	2015-01-10

Cloud9 Tempest is a North American Challenger team, which was first formed in January 2014, with Cloud9 acquiring the roster of The Walking Zed to form a sister team. It later disbanded, and was then reformed in January 2015.

History

2015 Season

After about ten days of open tryouts involving over thirty players, Cloud9 formed a new Challenger team in January 2015 with a roster including Solo, Hard, Yusui, LOD, and Stixxay in January 2015. Under the name C9 Charlies Angels, they placed fifth in the ranked 5's ladder leading up to the NACS Spring 2015 qualifier. Following Stixxay's move to CLG.Black, Fade joined the team, replacing Stixxay as starting support. The team defeated Roar and then Team Confound to qualify for the season. However, prior to the start of the season, it was revealed that the team had used a ringer in their matches against Team Confound. As a result, Cloud9 Tempest were disqualified from participating in the NACS, and Team Confound took their place.

After the disqualification, Fade left the team; however, the other four members remained with the organization, and at the end of March all five members of the roster who had initially been banned from competitive play were re-approved for competitive play starting on May 11th.

Now unbanned, Cloud9 Tempest participated in the NACS Summer Qualifier, with nearly the same roster as they had competed with in the spring qualifier, except that LOD moved to AD carry, and Sheep joined. After their first two rounds, Yusui was temporarily banned for four weeks for purchasing botted accounts, and Jintae was used as a substitute for the finals against CLG Black, which the team won, successfully qualifying for the Summer Season.

Prior to Yusui's reinstatement, kt Smurf played in the first week of the season, and from then on the team used their full roster of Solo, Hard, Yusui, LOD, and Sheep. The team finished with a 5-5 record and in fourth place. In the playoffs, they also finished fourth, after losses to Renegades and Team Imagine. They missed out on the Summer Promotion Tournament but retained an automatic seed into the NACS Spring 2016 Season.

After the conclusion of their 2015 season run, Cloud9 announced open tryouts for a new Challenger team, which would be built around Meteos. However, after Meteos left, Cloud9 dropped the team and sold their NACS spot for Spring 2016 to Ember.

Timeline

• 2015
• 2014

• January 10th, Cloud9 Tempest is reformed. Solo, Hard, Yusui, LOD, and Stixxay join.
• January, Stixxay leaves.
• January, Fade joins.
• February 18th (approx.), Fade leaves.
• April 14th, Sheep joins.
• May 21st, Bubbadub joins as coach.
• June 10th (approx.), Jintae joins.
• June 13th, Yusui is suspended from all Riot-affiliated competition for a period of four weeks.
• July 18th, Bubbadub is moved to Cloud9. Charlie joins as head coach.
• August 12th, Yusui retires.
• October (approx.), Roster disbands. Solo, Hard, LOD, Sheep, and Charlie leave.

• January 20th, Cloud9 acquires the roster of The Walking Zed to form Cloud9 Tempest. Yazuki, Kez, Bischu, Altec, and gleebglarbu join.
• April 28th, Bischu retires.
• May 4th, Roster disbands. Yazuki, Kez, Altec, and gleebglarbu leave.

Player Roster

Former

	ID	Name	Role	Next Team
	Solo	Colin Earnest	Top	Cloud9 Challenger
	Hard	Anthony Barkhovtsev	02 Jungle	Echo Fox
	LOD	Benjamin deMunck	04 AD	Top Dog Gaming
	Sheep	Jamie Gallagher	05 Support	Retired
	Balls	An Le	06 Sub/Top	Cloud9
	Westrice	Jonathan Nguyen	06 Sub/Top	None
	Incarnati0n	Nicolaj Jensen	08 Sub/Mid	Cloud9
	Sneaky	Zachary Scuderi	09 Sub/AD	Cloud9
	Bubbadub	Royce Newcomb	10 Sub/Support	Cloud9
	Yusui	David Bloomquist	03 Mid	Retired
	Jintae	Justin Dinh	08 Sub/Mid	None
	kt Smurf	Sujal Adhikari	08 Sub/Mid	Top Dog Gaming
	Fade	Ritchie Ngo	05 Support	Misfits NA
	Stixxay	Trevor Hayes	05 Support	CLG Black
	Yazuki	Gabriel Ng	01 Top	None
	Kez	Kevin Jeon	02 Jungle	compLexity Gaming
	Altec	Johnny Ru	04 AD	Evil Geniuses
	gleebglarbu	Nicolas Haddad	05 Support	Team SoloMid
	Bischu	Aaron Kim	03 Mid	affNity

Organization

Current

C	ID	Name	Position
	Jack	Jack Etienne	Owner
	Kaniggit	Danan Flander	General Manager

Former

C	ID	Name	Position	Next Team
	Charlie	Charlie Lipsie	Head Coach	NRG eSports
	Bubbadub	Royce Newcomb	11 Head Coach	Cloud9
	Timkiro	Tim Cho	Head Analyst	Cloud9
	AGeNt	Ferris Ganzman	Analyst	None

Team Achievements

In Premier Tournaments
Date		Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2015-08-11		A44th	2015 NA Challenger Series Summer Playoffs	0 : 2	Team Imagine	$ 3,000
2015-07-22		A44th	2015 NA Challenger Series Summer Season	5 : 5	Group Stage (W/L)	$ 10,000
2014-06-01		A55 - 8th	2014 NA Challenger Series Summer #1	FFL	Curse Academy	$ 1,250
2014-04-27		I1ZNQ	2014 NA LCS Summer Promotion	1 : 3	Evil Geniuses
2014-04-13		A22nd	2014 NA Challenger Series Spring Playoffs	2 : 3	LMQ	$ 10,000
2014-03-30		A22nd	2014 NA Challenger Series Spring #2	0 : 2	LMQ	$ 4,000
2014-03-25		A33 - 4th	NACL Season 2	1 : 2	LMQ	$ 2,000
2014-01-25		A55 - 8th	2014 NA Challenger Series Spring #1	0 : 2	Skyline	$ 1,250

In Major Tournaments
Date	Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2015-06-09	I1Q	2015 NA Challenger Series Summer Qualifier	2 : 1	CLG Black
2015-05-16	A33rd	AlphaDraft Challenger League	3 : 0	Legendary	$ 1,687.5
2015-02-04	I1YDQ	2015 NA Challenger Series Spring Qualifier	L : W	Team Confound	$ 7,500
2015-01-10	A55 - 8th	ESL Pro Series America Season XI	0 : 2	Team Dragon Knights	$ 1,000
2014-05-04	A22nd	Lone Star Clash 3	2 : 3	Team 8	$ 5,000

In Minor, Monthly, and Weekly Tournaments
Date	Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2015-06-22	A22nd	League One North American Cup Week 10	0 : 3	Team Liquid Academy	$ 450
2015-06-15	A11st	League One North American Cup Week 9	3 : 1	Aware Gaming	$ 800
2015-06-08	A11st	League One North American Cup Week 8	3 : 1	Maelstrom Gaming	$ 800
2015-06-01	A11st	League One North American Cup Week 7	3 : 0	Optimal eSports	$ 800
2015-05-25	A11st	League One North American Cup Week 6	3 : 1	Legendary	$ 800
2015-05-11	A11st	League One North American Cup Week 4	2 : 0	VwS Gaming	$ 600
2015-05-04	A11st	League One North American Cup Week 3	2 : 0	Legendary	$ 600
2015-04-27	A11st	League One North American Cup Week 2	2 : 0	Legendary	$ 600
2015-04-20	A11st	League One North American Cup Week 1	2 : 0	Frank Fang Gaming	$ 600
2015-03-09	A11st	League One Powered by D!ngIt	3 : 0	Dadslammers	$ 2,000

See also

• Teams