Cloud9 Esports, Inc., or simply Cloud9 (C9), is an American professional esports company based in Santa Monica, California. The company was originally founded as a professional League of Legends team by Jack and Paullie Etienne in May 2013 and was incorporated into Cloud9 Esports, Inc. on September 6, 2016. Cloud9 has received US$78million in total raised equity via venture capital funding and was ranked the world's fifth-most valuable esports organization in mid-2022.
Cloud9 has held divisions in numerous esports throughout its existence, establishing eight by 2014. In 2018, Cloud9 won three international championships: the Rocket League Championship Series Season 6 World Championship, the 2018 Overwatch League Grand Finals, and the ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018. The company currently operates two franchised teams: Cloud9 League of Legends of the League of Legends Championship Series and Cloud9 Valorant of the Valorant Champions Tour Americas also operate non-franchised teams in Apex Legends, Counter-Strike 2, Fortnite, Halo, Hearthstone, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Rocket League, Super Smash Bros., Teamfight Tactics, and World of Warcraft.
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Cloud9 Esports, Inc., or simply Cloud9 (C9), is an American professional esports company based in Santa Monica, California. The company was originally...
Cloud9 IDE is an Online IDE (integrated development environment), published as open source from version 2.0, until version 3.0. It supports multiple programming...
The League of Legends division of Cloud9 (C9) is a gaming team based in Los Angeles, California, and competes in the League Championship Series (LCS),...
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player for Cloud9. In April 2020, he transitioned to Valorant, playing for Cloud9. He took a break from professional Valorant...
Ultimately, negotiations continued, and the Summer Split started two weeks late. Cloud9 won the spring split playoffs, directly qualifying them for the 2023 Mid-Season...
2020, it was announced that Emiru had joined the esports organization Cloud9 as a content creator. On January 2, 2022, it was announced that Emiru had...
Adolescent and Lost & Found. He is founder of ASTRO Stuffs merchandise and Cloud9 Entertainment agency. He got listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 under Asia Entertainment...
dubbed the "Group of death" by the media, and along with North America's Cloud9, Rogue were not expected to be able to advance. However at the end of the...
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tied for second place. In the end, they lost a second-place tiebreaker to Cloud9 and so ended up in third place in the regular season. Ultimately, CLG lost...
semi–finals, where they defeated Counter Logic Gaming 2–0 before falling 3–0 to Cloud9 in the finals. In Summer, Team SoloMid ended at 16–12, which was good enough...
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Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan+Hong Kong. Cloud9 had previously competed in North America Challengers as "Cloud9 Blue". X10 CRIT had previously competed...
2020). "Cloud9 vs 100 Thieves LCS Spring 2020 Playoffs Preview". The Game Haus. Retrieved March 4, 2022. Esguerra, Tyler (April 5, 2020). "Cloud9 sweep...
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semifinals, before facing Cloud9 in the finals for the third consecutive postseason. In championship match, TSM defeated Cloud9, winning their second NA...
Clan, North, Cloud9, and Astralis—and the group runners-up—G2 Esports, Fnatic, Team EnVyUs, and Heroic. Astralis defeated Fnatic and Cloud9 to reach the...
of Legends player who was a streamer for Cloud9 and who most recently played substitute support for Cloud9 of the North American League of Legends Championship...
of the League of Legends roster of Cloud9 Challenger, which was the sister team of the Cloud9 organization. Cloud9 Challenger qualified for the North...
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US$35 million[2] (2021)