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.
After a dominating second half of the split, Cloud9 Academy climbed through the 2020 League of LCS Academy League Spring Playoffs and beat out Evil Geniuses Academy in a clean 3-0 sweep to take the title. Read more on their victory here:
Cloud9 Academy Support David "Diamond" Bérubé spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie about defeating TSM Academy, facing EG Academy in the 2020 LCS Academy League Spring Finals, and the incredible growth rate of C9A Jungler Rami "Inori" Charagh.
In securing its 9th straight victory of the split, C9 Academy moved to 11-4 and qualified for the 2020 LCS Academy League Spring Playoffs.
Following Flávio "Jukes" Fernandes' debut in the LCS earlier this summer, the Cloud9 Top Laner joined Inven Global's Lara Lunardi for an interview — fully in Portuguese — about the differences between Brazil and the United States, playing for C9 Academy, and his professional League of Legends career up until this point.
Top Laner Ziqing "Kumo" Zhao and Support David "Diamond" Bérubé will be making their respective LCS debuts, and Bot Laner Yuri "Keith" Jew will start in the LCS for the first time since the 2018 NA LCS Summer Split.
