Hobbit blames former CS:GO teammate for Cloud9’s poor outcomes

Cloud9 have been underperforming in CS:GO over the previous couple of months, resulting in them making roster modifications forward of Counter-Strike 2. Considered one of their present gamers pointed the finger of blame at a former teammate for the workforce’s poor outcomes.

Hobbit believes C9’s former in-game chief, nafany, didn’t have sufficient expertise to cause them to success. In his eyes, this was the primary purpose C9 didn’t rise to their full potential.

“In my private opinion, the issue with the earlier roster is that we didn’t have such an skilled caller as in lots of tier-1 groups – nafany. Due to this, many issues arose,” Hobbit mentioned in an interview with Escorenews on Aug. 3, in accordance with machine translation.

ElectroNic screaming in joy after winning a round at IEM Cologne 2023.
ElectroNic is the brand new man answerable for C9. Picture by Stephanie Lindgren by way of ESL FACEIT Group

Nafany purportedly responded to those accusations on his Telegram, according to comments on Reddit. In his response, he claimed he gained’t reveal how the dynamics and relationships labored contained in the workforce and mentioned he doesn’t want for a “flame warfare.” On high of that, he wished all the perfect to electroNic and Perfecto.

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This opinion was met with a blended reception in CS:GO group. Some followers don’t see nafany as the primary problem of C9’s former roster and say Hobbit is giving him an excessive amount of flak. Others, nevertheless, say the IGL’s type wasn’t fitted to main proficient gamers like Ax1le and sh1ro.

C9 are now led by electroNic, who switched groups after virtually six years with Natus Vincere. The 24-year-old is the primary voice behind the workforce’s calls now, assisted solely by sh1ro, in accordance with Hobbit.

Within the final yr or so, C9 didn’t qualify for BLAST.television Paris CS:GO Main and solely gained one LAN match, IEM Dallas 2022. Now, certainly the one approach is up?

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Mateusz Miter

Polish Employees Author. Mateusz beforehand labored for quite a few retailers and gaming-adjacent firms, together with ESL. League of Legends or CS:GO? He loves them each. In reality, he wonders which sport he loves extra on daily basis. He wished to go professional years in the past, however someplace alongside the way in which determined journalism was the extra wise possibility—and he was proper.

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