Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #4 Xeppaa Erick Bach runi Dylan Cade moose Kaleb Jayne OXY Francis Hoang has emerged victorious in the Red Bull Home Ground NA Play-ins, punching their ticket to Berlin to compete in the main event.

The four teams competing to represent North America were Cloud9, Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #2 Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid , Moist x Shopify Moist x Shopify North America Rank #6 oderus Chad Miller , and YFP Gaming YFP Gaming North America Rank #13 jakee Jake Anderson bdog Brandon Sanders penny Erik Penny thief Brady Dever fiziq Lucas Blow . The teams clashed in front of a live crowd in Seattle, Washington, with the winner earning a chance to vie for the trophy in Berlin.

Cloud9 debuted a new roster at this event, playing with mitch from Oxygen Esports Oxygen Esports Inactive skuba Logan Jenkins mitch Mitch Semago Verno Andrew Maust Reduxx Yassin Aboulalazm dapr Michael Gulino and v1c from Moist x Shopify, the team that would be their first opponents. MXS struck first, taking map one with relative ease, but Cloud9 stomped them in the next two maps, both in 13-3 fashion. Meeting them in the grand finals was the fan favorite Sentinels, with their newcomer Reduxx making his debut. Cloud9 took the first map of Lotus, and then jumped out to a 9-3 half on the second map of Bind. Sentinels would mount a comeback to tie the score at 10-10, but a clutch from Xeppaa helped halt the comeback and allowed Cloud9 to close out the map and series 2-0.

Cloud9 will represent North America in Berlin.

This is Cloud9's third time competing in Red Bull Home Ground, having finished as the runner-ups in both of their previous appearances. They are now the fourth out of eight teams competing in the main event taking place in Berlin, joining the reigning champions of FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #2 Boaster Jake Howlett Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder , as well as Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #31 MAGNUM Martin Penkov tomaszy Tomás Machado N4RRATE Marshall Massey marteen Martin Pátek sh1n Ryad Ensaad and FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #23 Lime Jacob Foster bucher Maximilian Bucher SEIDER Mathias Seider al0rante Felix Brandl YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes . The final four teams will be determined by the EMEA, APAC, and International Play-ins. The participants of these Play-ins are still being finalized.

These final eight teams will face off from November 20 to 23.