According to the latest information obtained by a well-known Russian CS2 esports insider, Cloud9 remains without two more players.
Changes in Cloud9 are no longer just a topic of rumors since Denis "electroNic" Sharipov was sold to the Virtus.pro team. The only question is whether and who else is leaving the team, and the Russian CS2 expert Aleksey "OverDrive" Biryukov, who leaked many big CIS transfers, reports that Abay "HObbit" Khassenov and Ilya "Perfecto" Zalutskiy are also leaving the team.
Cloud9, which currently ranks eighth in the HLTV ranking of the best CS2 teams in the world, is not satisfied with the results achieved in the past period, and for now we can only guess what their plans are and what will happen to the remaining two team members, if these rumors turn out to be true.
C9 had bad performances at IEM Katowice 2024 and the spring BLAST, and their good performance in the Major qualifiers was crowned by a top 8 placement at the PGL Copenhagen Major, where they were defeated 2-0 by Vitality in the quarterfinals.
In some matches, C9 continued to struggle against teams that were able to take advantage of the fact that the team does not play with a classic sniper, and the target of the organization was Ilya "m0nesy" Osipov, the star of G2 Esports, for whom C9 is unofficially ready to pay the full amount compensation.
Perfecto arrived in C9 as a big reinforcement from NaVi along with electroNic, while H0bbit spent a total of six years in C9/Gambit, winning with the team their only Major so far.
If this change really happens, only captain Kirill "Boombl4" Mikhaylov and Sergey "Ax1le" Rykhtorov will remain as active players in C9.
