In guaranteeing a top 3 post-season finish, Cloud9 has also guaranteed one of the three seeds representing the LCS at the 2021 League of Legends World Championship alongside Team Liquid and 100 Thieves.
EG's 2021 season has come to an end, while C9 will continue its post-season in the lower bracket.
C9 eliminated GG in a 3-0 sweep, and after the win, C9 support Philippe "Vulcan" Laflamme joined Gabriella “LeTigress” Devia-Allen for a post-match broadcast interview on the LCS stage.
Golden Guardians is the second LCS team to be eliminated from the post-season following Dignitas' elimination at the hands of Immortals one day prior, and the fourth team to have its LCS season end after DIG, FlyQuest and Counter Logic Gaming, the latter pair whom failed to qualify for the post-season.
During the final week of the LCS Summer Split, Cloud9 mid laner Luka "Perkz" Perković spoke to Inven Global about the post-season picture, overcoming obstacles throughout the summer, and C9's current form.
UPDATE 8/1: As a result of the last game of the 2021 League Championship Series Summer Split, Golden Guardians has become the eighth and final team to qualify for the LCS Championship.
Cloud9 support Philippe "Vulcan" Laflamme spoke to Inven Global about his recent opponents, his perspective on his role within the team, and C9's current level in comparison to the peaks of their performance at the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational.
After Cloud9's shellacking of Team Liquid, Zven spoke to Inven Global about returning to the LCS, C9's current power level after qualifying for playoffs when compared to its form at the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational, and the team's strength relative to the other top teams in the league.
After Cloud9's win over Golden Guardians, Zven answered a question from Inven Global regarding whether he expected to be subbed back into the LCS roster after the team lost all three of its games the previous weekend.
Zven was benched in favor of Cloud9 Academy AD carry Calvin "k1ng" Truong a few days before the start of the 2021 LCS Summer Split and has been starting for C9 Academy in k1ng's place ever since, but the organization tagged the LCS official Twitter account and Zven in a tweet with a photo of the AD carry saying, "He's back."
Cloud9 made the announcement in a tweeted video, which featured CEO Jack Etienne explaining that after nearly a year and a half with the organization, K1ng would be starting in the LCS.
To say that Cloud9 performed very inconsistently at MSI 2021 would be an understatement. At the top of their game, they looked unbeatable, proven through their wins against the likes of RNG and the 20
Let's take a closer look at Vulcan's incredible performance as the standout player for Cloud9.
League of Legends Champions Korea champion and defending World Champion DWG KIA has qualified for the rumble stage as the 1st seed from the group, and a strong second round robin from League of Legends Championship Series champion Cloud9 earned the North American representative the 2nd seed from the group to move onto the rumble stage.
Alfonso "Mithy" Aguirre Rodríguez and Max Waldo will be able to coach on-site, but Reignover will only be able to help the team remotely.
Of the sixteen times amateur teams faced off against Academy teams at the 2021 LCS Spring Proving Grounds, seven of the games were won by the amateur side. In defeating C9A in the finals, No Org accounted for three of those seven wins alone.
C9's game 5 level 1 was all it needed to pull away from TL and win the series, and with it, it's second LCS championship in three splits. It was without a doubt the most pivotal moment of the series, as well as the smartest play executed by any LCS team in recent memory, so let's go in-depth on the brilliance of this play and the conditions that were met to allow it to happen in the moment C9 wanted to execute upon it.
TSM and Team Liquid have gotten the better of Cloud9 at times throughout the season, but if the level of play in previous weeks of the Mid-Season Showdown is any indication, it simply will not matter whether Team Liquid or TSM moves on to the finals: Cloud9 is going to win, regardless of its opponent.
Blaber spoke to Inven Global after Cloud9's win over Team Liquid to discuss his matchup against Santorin, how his team has grown since the finals of the 2021 LCS Lock In, and his thoughts on playing offline for the first time in over a year next week at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre.
Cloud9 has swept 100 Thieves in its first match of the 2021 League of Legends Championship Series Mid-Season Showdown. Cloud9 will face Team Liquid in the next round of the upper bracket, while 100 Thieves will be dropped down to the lower bracket for an elimination match against Dignitas.
