After 2 Years of Vacuum, Cloud9's Dota 2 Division Comes Back This Year

Counter Strike Division: Global Offensive Cloud9 when they won the 2018 Boston Major League Competition

GridGames.ID – The Dota 2 Cloud9 Division officially announced that it will return to competition after a hiatus of approximately 2 years on Friday (31/1).

The last time Cloud9 participated in a Dota 2 competition was in the 2017 The International show.

On August 23, 2017, Jack Etienne as CEO of Cloud9 announced that their Dota 2 division had been laid off.

Bad performances during The International 2017, caused the CEO and Pro Player of Dota 2 to decide to disband his team.

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Cloud9 itself is an esports organization from the United States that was founded in 2013.

Prior to being known as Cloud9, the organization was known as Cloud9 G2A.

Besides Dota 2, Cloud9 also has several other esports divisions that have competed in various world esports competitions.

Starting from the League of Legends division, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Heartstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Overwatch, and Smite.

Even though they have never tasted the title as a champion in an international competition, at least Cloud9 has been runner up in several leading competitions.

Such as World Cyber Arena 2014, The Summit 2, and World Electronic Sports Game 2016 which was the last time they entered the top 3 in a competition.