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Cloud9 Tempest is a North American Challenger team, which was first formed in January 2014, with Cloud9 acquiring the roster of The Walking Zed to form a sister team. It later disbanded, and was then reformed in January 2015.
History
2015 Season
After about ten days of open tryouts involving over thirty players, Cloud9 formed a new Challenger team in January 2015 with a roster including Solo, Hard, Yusui, LOD, and Stixxay in January 2015. Under the name C9 Charlies Angels, they placed fifth in the ranked 5's ladder leading up to the NACS Spring 2015 qualifier. Following Stixxay's move to CLG.Black, Fade joined the team, replacing Stixxay as starting support. The team defeated Roar and then Team Confound to qualify for the season. However, prior to the start of the season, it was revealed that the team had used a ringer in their matches against Team Confound. As a result, Cloud9 Tempest were disqualified from participating in the NACS, and Team Confound took their place.[1]
After the disqualification, Fade left the team; however, the other four members remained with the organization, and at the end of March all five members of the roster who had initially been banned from competitive play were re-approved for competitive play starting on May 11.[2]
Now unbanned, Cloud9 Tempest participated in the NACS Summer Qualifier, with nearly the same roster as they had competed with in the spring qualifier, except that LOD moved to AD carry, and Sheep joined. After their first two rounds, Yusui was temporarily banned for four weeks for purchasing botted accounts, and Jintae was used as a substitute for the finals against CLG Black, which the team won, successfully qualifying for the Summer Season.
Prior to Yusui's reinstatement, kt Smurf played in the first week of the season, and from then on the team used their full roster of Solo, Hard, Yusui, LOD, and Sheep. The team finished with a 5-5 record and in fourth place. In the playoffs, they also finished fourth, after losses to Renegades and Team Imagine. They missed out on the Summer Promotion Tournament but retained an automatic seed into the NACS Spring 2016 Season.
After the conclusion of their 2015 season run, Cloud9 announced open tryouts for a new Challenger team, which would be built around Meteos.[3] However, after Meteos left, Cloud9 dropped the team and sold their NACS spot for Spring 2016 to Ember.
Timeline
- 2015
- 2014
- January 10, Cloud9 Tempest is reformed. Solo, Hard, Yusui, LOD, and Stixxay join.[4]
- January, Stixxay leaves.
- January, Fade joins.
- February 18 (approx.), Fade leaves.
- April 14, Sheep joins.[5]
- May 21, Bubbadub joins as coach.[6]
- June 10 (approx.), Jintae joins.
- June 13, Yusui is suspended from all Riot-affiliated competition for a period of four weeks. [7]
- July 18, Bubbadub is moved to Cloud9. Charlie joins as head coach.
- August 12, Yusui retires.[8]
- October (approx.), Roster disbands. Solo, Hard, LOD, Sheep, and Charlie leave.[9]
- January 20, Cloud9 acquires the roster of The Walking Zed to form Cloud9 Tempest. Yazuki, Kez, Bischu, Altec, and Gleebglarbu join. [10]
- April 28, Bischu retires.[11]
- May 4, Roster disbands. Yazuki, Kez, Altec, and Gleebglarbu leave.
Player Roster
Former
| R | C | ID | Name | Role | Next Team | Joined | Left |
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Solo | Colin Earnest | Top Laner |  Cloud9 Challenger |
2015-01-10 | 2015-10-?? | |
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Hard | Anthony Barkhovtsev | Jungler |  Echo Fox |
2015-01-10 | 2015-10-?? | |
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LOD | Benjamin deMunck | Bot Laner |  Top Dog Gaming |
2015-01-10 | 2015-10-?? | |
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Sheep | Jamie Gallagher | Support |  Tempo Storm |
2015-04-14 | 2015-10-?? | |
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Westrice | Jonathan Nguyen | Sub/Top |  Ember |
2015-02-?? | 2015-10-?? | |
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Jintae | Justin Dinh | Sub/Mid | 2015-06-10 | 2015-10-?? | ||
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Balls | An Le | Sub/Top | Cloud9 |
??? | ??? | |
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Incarnati0n | Nicolaj Jensen | Sub/Mid | Cloud9 |
??? | ??? | |
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Sneaky | Zachary Scuderi | Sub/Bot | Cloud9 |
??? | ??? | |
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Bubbadub | Royce Newcomb | Sub/Sup | Cloud9 |
??? | ??? | |
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Yusui | David Bloomquist | Mid Laner |  Retired |
2015-01-10 | 2015-08-12 | |
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kt Smurf | Sujal Adhikari | Sub/Mid | Top Dog Gaming |
2015-06-?? | 2015-07-?? | |
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Fade | Ritchie Ngo | Support |  Misfits NA |
2015-01-?? | 2015-02-18 | |
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Stixxay | Trevor Hayes | Support |  CLG Black |
2015-01-10 | 2015-01-?? | |
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Yazuki | Gabriel Ng | Top Laner | 2014-01-20 | 2014-05-04 | ||
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Kez | Kevin Jeon | Jungler |  compLexity Gaming |
2014-01-20 | 2014-05-04 | |
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Altec | Johnny Ru | Bot Laner |  Evil Geniuses |
2014-01-20 | 2014-05-04 | |
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Gleebglarbu | Nicolas Haddad | Support |  Team SoloMid |
2014-01-20 | 2014-05-04 | |
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Bischu | Aaron Kim | Mid Laner |  affNity |
2014-01-20 | 2014-04-28 |
Organization
Current
| C | ID | Name | Position |
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Jack | Jack Etienne | Owner |
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Kaniggit | Danan Flander | General Manager |
Former
| C | ID | Name | Position | Next Team |
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Charlie | Charlie Lipsie | Head Coach |  NRG Esports
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Bubbadub | Royce Newcomb | Head Coach | Cloud9
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Timkiro | Tim Cho | Head Analyst | Cloud9
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AGeNt | Ferris Ganzman | Analyst |
Tournament Results
- This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
Cloud9 Tempest Tournament Results - Show Prize as (Local • USD • Euros) Date Pl Prize Event Last Result Roster 2015-08-12 4 $ 3,000 
NACS 2015 Summer Playoffs
Solo,
Hard,
Yusui,
LOD,
Sheep2015-07-22 4 NACS 2015 Summer5 - 5
RR
Solo,
Hard,
ktsmurf,
Yusui,
LOD,
Sheep2015-06-16 Q NACS 2015 Summer Qualifier
Solo,
Hard,
Yusui,
Jintae,
LOD,
Sheep2015-06-15 2 $ 450 
League One NA Cup - Week 10
Solo,
Hard,
Yusui,
LOD,
Sheep2015-06-08 1 $ 800 League One NA Cup - Week 9
Solo,
Hard,
Yusui,
LOD,
Sheep2015-06-01 1 $ 800 League One NA Cup - Week 8
Solo,
Hard,
Yusui,
LOD,
Sheep2015-05-25 1 $ 800 League One NA Cup - Week 7
Solo,
Hard,
Yusui,
LOD,
Sheep2015-05-18 1 $ 800 League One NA Cup - Week 6
Solo,
Hard,
Yusui,
LOD,
Sheep2015-05-15 3 $ 1,687.5 
AlphaDraft Challenger League
Solo,
Hard,
Yusui,
LOD,
Sheep2015-05-11 1 $ 600 League One NA Cup - Week 4
Solo,
Hard,
Yusui,
LOD,
SheepTotal Prize: USD 8,938
Videos
Interviews
External Links
References
- ↑ Competitive Ruling: Cloud9 Tempest lolesports.com
- ↑ 2015 Mid-Year Long-Term Suspension Reviews lolesports.com
- ↑ Cloud9 to Hold Open Tryouts for Challenger Roster cloud9.gg
- ↑ Cloud9 G2A Joins League of Legends NA Challenger Series cloud9.gg
- ↑ Cloud9 Tempest Acquires Sheep cloud9.gg
- ↑ Bubbadub joins Cloud9 Tempest as head coach dailydot.com
- ↑ COMPETITIVE RULING: C9T YUSUI lolesports.com
- ↑ Yusui's Tweet twitlonger.com
- ↑ Charlie Lipsie's Ask.fm answer ask.fm
- ↑ 'The Walking Zed' joins the Cloud 9 HyperX family cloud9.gg
- ↑ Bischu's Facebook Post facebook.com
