Cloud9 mixes up roster for Week 2 of Contenders

tamagao

August 25, 2017

Those inquisitive people checking out Contenders team pages this week will have been surprised when visiting Cloud 9 EU's team page. A vastly different roster composed of a mix of NA and EU players has been declared for Contenders Season One Week 2, few of which were on last week's roster.

Now at the DPS role are sinatraa and fischer, with Nevix being moved to sub. mowzassa remains at tank, but will now have ARC 6’s SPACE flexing and off-tanking alongside him. Greyy remains as flex support, but neptuNo is now the Lucio alongside him. Americans zombs and silkthread are now on the C9 bench.

The drastic changes have been made following the team's 4-0 defeat to Misfits last week. Just how long-lasting these moves are is unclear, however. Kyb, CrusaDe, and crems are not present anywhere on the roster, but that may just be because Contenders limits rosters to nine players. It is equally unclear whether the new additions are signed, trials, or simply temporary fill-ins. With changes like these being made after just one Contenders game, and news of Cloud 9 going to Korean forums to look for Overwatch League players, it is looking less and less likely that C9 will be using the Laser Kittenz roster for the Overwatch League.

Cloud 9 declined to comment when reached out to for this story.

The Cloud 9 EU roster for Week 2 is:

Mads "fischer" Jehg (DPS)
Jay "sinatraa" Won (DPS)
Indy "SPACE" Halpern (Flex)
Tiago "mowzassa" Rodrigues (Tank)
Luís "Greyy" Perestrelo (Support)
Alberto "neptuNo" González (Support)
Andreas "Nevix" Karlsson (Substitute DPS)
Ted "silkthread" Wang (Substitute DPS)
Jared "zombs" Gitlin (Substitute Flex)

And cheering them on from the executive box:

Finley "Kyb" Adisi (DPS)
Carl "crems" Aspehult (Flex)
Ryan "CrusaDe" van Wegen (Support)
Chris "spazzo" Infante (Coach)
Dillain "LegitRC" Odeneal (Analyst)
Ali "Alicus" Saba (Director)

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#1

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WOW, that's a damn scary looking lineup. Can't wait to see this in action

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Didn't Silkthread retire? Twice...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU

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well he's only a sub for them; not on the starting roster.

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The depth of these teams leading up to OWL is pretty scary. Really hoping Nevix and zombs find full-time roles elsewhere though, both of them are too talented to be subs.

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zombs PogChamp

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Alicus is getting his dream of managing all the available Overwatch players at least

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soon they'll have a full team for a round of battlefield

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"Cloud9 Googles a New Roster for Condenders S1"

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Damn, changes going down hella fast at c9. Sucks to see Nevix put on the bench though, feels like he's way too good for that. Regardless it'll be interesting to see how they'll fare in week 2.

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Almost half the roster is american PogChamp

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Alicus is gonna get all 75,000 pros on C9!!! PogChamp

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Silkthread back in the game that he can't quite like a bad relationship Kappa. He's a monster though and if they do pair him with Sinatraa I think C9 will be quite the threat. I still believe they can bounce back from the week one loss with these roster changes and do well in Contenders.

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Lost 4-0? - Then just randomly hire famous players and cross your fingers that they will miraculously form a great team.

I highly doubt this NRG-esque move will succeed.

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They needed change though, it doesn't really matter if we perceive it as a good move or not, I think doing nothing would have been worst given how weak their DPS core was made to look.

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Silk has said he's just an emergency sub. Not signed with c9

#17

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See this is the Alicus management i knew
ALL YOUR PLAYERS ARE BELONG TO US

#18

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good roster changes imho, better to get a large round of people and pick and choose who works best together. still anxious about throwing a completely new set of people into a tournament with the best teams in your region, considering there's little to no chemistry there. it'd be better for them if they had more time to pick and choose who worked best

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maybe seeing as though they already have the OWL (big league shit) spot, they are using contenders like a trialling period?

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you're probably right, it just sucks that this will likely harm their chances of winning this tournament. you never know though, could work out really well so we'll see I guess

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I guess the new additions worked out pretty well. Will have to see how they do against Gigantti, 123 and GO, but the Sinatraa/Nevix duo was an impressive sight to see.

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damn it has to be a slap in the face to go from starting roster week 1 to being snubbed for the emegency sub spot RIP KYB

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The tourney is 6 weeks long, and OWL should be much longer. Them making changes to find the most cohesive unit should not hurt anyone's feelings that bad. This a team game and as much as individual skill matters your ability to work with the rest of the team should be more important. Seems like Ali and the staff are trying to find what players work best with the rest of the squad and giving everyone a chance to do so.

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