Cloud9 (eSports)
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| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
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| Founded | 2012 |
| Manager(s) | Jack Etienne, Danan Flander, Aisultan Sugurbayev |
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Red Bull Logitech HTC G2A MSI Twitch Axe Curse Ibuypower Hyperx Crunchyroll Intel NeedforSeatUSA LolWiz |
| Divisions | League of Legends, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Overwatch, Vainglory |
| Website | Official website |
| Sport | League of Legends |
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| Founded | 2013 |
| Division titles | NA LCS: Summer 2013, Spring 2014 |
Cloud9 (C9) is an American eSports organization. Sponsored by HTC and previously known as Cloud9 G2A, it fields teams in League of Legends, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Overwatch, and Vainglory.
Cloud9's League of Legends team competes in the North American League of Legends Championship Series and has finished either first or second in the league since it joined in the summer of 2013 except for the summer split in season 5 and the spring split of season 6. The Cloud9 Challenger League of Legends team competes in the North American League of Legends Challenger Series. The owner and manager of the team is Jack Etienne. In 2015, Cloud9's Heroes of the Storm team, won the 2015 Heroes of the Storm World Championship, becoming the first world champions of the game.
Cloud9 has its origins in the League of Legends team of Orbit Gaming, which had several current C9 team members. After Lone Star Clash in November 2012, members of Orbit Gaming signed with Quantic Gaming, which had only been sponsoring a StarCraft II team. Quantic Gaming was an esports team and media company founded in 2010 by Simon Boudreault, a Quebec native who had come upon a large inheritance upon the death of his father and decided to invest nearly all of it in esports. During its existence, several players and coaches claimed that they consistently missed payments from Boudreault. When QG failed to make the 2013 LCS Spring split Boudreault cut off contact with society and soon dissolved the company. Despite being owed tens of thousands of dollars, former players say they are no longer considering legal action against Boudreault. Former Team SoloMid manager Jack Etienne bought the team for US$10,000 in December 2013 and also became its manager.
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