Shopify Rebellion
To be able to confront C9, Shopify Rebellion must first pass the Dignitas Female in the final of the loss. Although the results in all three maps are very close, Shopify Rebellion won the final victory. They started by choosing Bind, where Shopify won with a score of 13-6. Entering the next game, SR began to lose focus and Dignitas took the lead most of the time. But after that, SR suddenly regained his spirit and made the match enter an extra time.
Although SR has tried hard, Dignitas still successfully ended the game with the victory 14-12. The final competition map is Split, where the Melissa player “Theia” Mundorff of Dignitas decided to abandon the “cabinet” Chamber to Cyler. SR follows the plan they have set up earlier, and their tactics show the effect when winning 13-10 on the Split map.
Cloud9 White level
Entering the final, everyone knew that SR had a “difficult” task in the immediate future: Preventing the dominance of the defending C9 champion in the game Chang in North America. In the past, SR has won 1 game against C9, so this seems not an impossible task. However, when confronted with C9 this time, SR could not withstand pressure. C9 easily wipes the SR to enhance the 4th Changers game championship from the date of establishment.
At the press conference after the match, coach Rob 'Rowbiz' Kennedy of SR said that the team was unable to play with his entire ability. The pressure to confront and win against C9 was too heavy with the players. ” “The second place is also temporary,” coach Rowbiz shared. “But for us, this is not a failure.”
Cloud9 White always has a strong atmosphere. With the often playing agents like Omen and Brimstone after the meta changes, Katja “Katsumi” PFAHNL even more friendly, helping the team to tend to play the same. This is very suitable for C9, because Captain Melanie “Mel” Capone and header Jasmine “Jazzyk1ns” Manankill are extremely excellent gunmen. Even Annie support “Annie Dro” Roberts shows the ability to target excellent in the last match. All positions in the squad shot very well in the final, but this is only the beginning of the C9 White.
Plans of Cloud9 White
The next big goal of the team is to do well in the upcoming VCT Challengers qualifying, where they will face the 1st and 2nd Valorant teams. According to the shared by head coach Ryou “Moonchopper” Nishiyama, C9 currently only considers Changers game as auxiliary target. Their vision is aiming at larger tournaments, even the VCT Challengers championship.
Both Moonchopper and Mel appreciate the importance of playing in the expansion as much as possible. This is like the first brick for the success of the team. They can easily climb to the peak thanks to having a lot of knowledge to handle every game that the “lower door” teams bring.
“I want the whole team to participate in the expansion and crushed by the North American giants. Then we can improve more,” said coach Moonchopper. Mel also agreed with this: “To make progress rather than play as many awards expand as possible, and always maintain your stable squad.”
After the end of the match, Mel was optimistic about the future of the team. “I think there will be more teams participating in the expansion tournament. I feel very happy about it after playing in the Changers game this time,” Mel said.
With the participation of first names like Dart Monkeys in official tournaments, more and more progress and improvement will be recorded in the common ground. If those teams can understand the advice of C9, and leading teams like Dignitas and Shopify continue to improve their skills, the North American Changers game tournament will surely be raised to a new level.
