{"id":15406,"date":"2018-02-07T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15406"},"modified":"2018-02-16T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T19:27:10","slug":"the-bi-weekly-gamer-cloud-9-makes-history-after-double-overtime-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/02\/07\/the-bi-weekly-gamer-cloud-9-makes-history-after-double-overtime-win\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bi-weekly Gamer<\/em>: Cloud9 makes history after double overtime win"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I\u2019ve never really followed competitive Counter Strike: Global Offensive<\/i> (CS:GO<\/i>) as much as I have other games, I\u2019ve watched the odd tournament or match. But that might change now. Just recently, one of the largest tournaments in CS:GO<\/i> history took place at the ELEAGUE Boston Major. Cloud9, one of the esports industry\u2019s top brands, had been struggling a lot leading up to the tournament. After replacing their starting lineup constantly, the team finally settled on the lineup you can see today.<\/p>\n

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The Bi-weekly Gamer<\/em> is a column about competitive gaming that appears in every issue of Nexus<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After going down 0-2 in the group stage, fans of the blue and white team were losing hope fast. But Cloud9 turned it around in front of their home crowd and took it all the way to the finals in a gruelling run, taking down the top four teams in the world.<\/p>\n

The final match, against FaZe Clan, pulled in a peak viewership of 1.1 million viewers on streaming platform Twitch alone. I\u2019ve always understood CS:GO <\/i>and I\u2019ve even tried to play competitively a few times, but seeing some of the reaction times and plays that the players were making was one of the most thrilling experiences I\u2019ve had watching esports.<\/p>\n

In a back-and-forth match, Cloud9 came out on top by a thread by winning in the second overtime round, after being on match point for nearly five rounds. This win is more than just another win, though: North America had never won a CS:GO<\/i> major before. Cloud9\u2019s performance throughout their playoff run was that of top-tier European teams, which have historically dominated the scene. They showed adaptation and growth beyond what their region normally produces; it paid off, and they walked home with the trophy.<\/p>\n

But the most surprising feat of all was the fact that all of the previous attempts to compete in a major resulted in Cloud9 leaving in the group stages. The team have shown to the world that they are to be feared; if this is how the future of CS:GO<\/i> is looking, I\u2019ll definitely be keeping a close eye on the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I\u2019ve never really followed competitive Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) as much as I have other games, I\u2019ve watched the odd tournament or match. But that might change now. Just recently, one of the largest tournaments in CS:GO history took place at the ELEAGUE Boston Major. Cloud9, one of the esports industry\u2019s top brands, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-february-7-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15428,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions\/15428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}