Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #7 Xeppaa Erick Bach v1c Victor Truong mitch Mitch Semago neT Michael Bernet OXY Francis Hoang have signed two fresh prospects, Dylan "runi" Cade and Jake "jakee" Anderson, ahead of their first match in the VCT 2023 Americas League.
Formerly of Soniqs Soniqs Inactive , runi and his team often found themselves falling just outside of top placements in Tier 2 tournaments such as Knights Monthly and BoomTV Proving Grounds events, usually finishing among the top four teams as they prepared for the upcoming Challengers Leagues.
After exiting early from the Challengers League: NA Open Qualifiers, runi and the rest of Soniqs fell to The Nation The Nation Inactive brax Braxton Pierce Rossy Daniel Abedrabbo Stewie2k Jake Yip TiGG Tanner Spanu WARDELL Matthew Yu in the early stages of the LCQ, but managed to keep their hopes alive after performing a lower bracket run to meet OREsports OREsports Inactive nillyaz Chase Linder Paincakes Jake Hass in the lower final. One match away from qualifying for Split 1, Soniqs fell to their adversaries in a heartbreaking overtime defeat. Shortly after his bout against ORE, runi found himself without a team for a time being before signing with Cloud9.
Prior to joining Cloud9, jakee also made appearances in the Tier 2 scene, most notably playing for Team Reckaroo Team Reckaroo Inactive Blahst Nathan Brand Tim Timothy Braun kev Kevin Pham Nanners Anderson Lutkehus yiinel Elias Soto for a year before attempting to earn a ticket to Split 1 with NSIC NSIC Inactive epathy Ngawang Chonjor neptune Jason Tran Lear Dayton Akau riku Chris Piasecki snirot Edmon Ghanem . Although his team was unable to make deep runs in either of the Challengers League qualifiers, jakee was able to find success elsewhere after joining UST Esports UST Esports North America Unranked nate Nathanael Miles Xhowi Luis Enmanuel Corcino Garcia seyq GLYPH Conner Garcia Korsonix Korey Anderson and taking them through the CVAL South Winter Tournament to qualify for the College Valorant Championship LAN in May.
Cloud9's new pickups join after the release of Jaccob "yay" Whiteaker and Anthony "vanity" Malaspina following the team's short-lived run at LOCK//IN, where a three-map match against DRX DRX Korea Rank #4 Flashback Cho Min-hyuk (조민혁) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) Athan Na Ha-jun (나하준) free1ng No Ha-jun (노하준) HYUNMIN Song Hyun-min (송현민) sent Cloud9 to the skies on their way back from Brazil. The team is set to play in the Americas League and will debut runi and jakee in their first match against Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses North America Rank #22 Derrek Derrek Ha NaturE Nicholas Garrison supamen Phat Le icy Jacob Lange yay Jaccob Whiteaker on Sunday, April 2.
Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #7 Xeppaa Erick Bach v1c Victor Truong mitch Mitch Semago neT Michael Bernet OXY Francis Hoang 's complete roster is now: