Cybersports organization Cloud9 has decided to suspend its Counter Strike squad after the team's mediocre results for six months. This was announced by its manager Jack Etienne. Commenting on the decision, he mentioned that its main reasons were the team's financial losses due to the coronavirus pandemic and the fact that it never managed to achieve high performance. In particular, they failed to realize their initial plans and build a team in North America, and remote training was not effective enough.
According to several commentators, the situation with Cloud9 confirms that a big budget is not enough to succeed on the cybersports scene. In particular, Alexander «Enkanis» Polishchuk noted that although the players had good individual abilities, it was not enough to win major tournaments.
Cloud9 is currently ranked 25th in the world rankings, and the record result for it was the 19th position in this list. The entire roaster will now be put up for transfer. However, Cloud9 plans to return to CS: GO in the future, most likely with a North American roster.