Reaching for the clouds

Michael
9 min readJul 17, 2020

Remembering Cloud9 at the 2018 World Championship.

Fnatic face off against Invictus Gaming in the 2018 World Championship finals (Photo by Richard Ye)

NA LCS 2018 Summer.

At the end of Week 5, Cloud9 was 3–7 and in last place. They trailed Clutch Gaming and Optic Gaming, each tied at 4–6.

Cloud9 had just lost to Optic in a definitive stomp.

Prior to the split, fan-favourites Jensen, Sneaky, and Smoothie had been subbed out for their academy…

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Michael

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. — Thomas Sankara