Every year, Cloud9 go into the League of Legends<\/em> World Champions as giant underdogs. More often than not, they have to survive the regional qualification gauntlet just to get there. The last two years, they’ve had to get past the new play-in stage just to make the main event.\u00a0<\/p>
But for a team that’s made a habit of qualifying by the skin of their teeth, Cloud9 sure know how to show up once things get serious. Every single year, as the top North American and European seeds crumble around them, Cloud9 just keep doing their thing, picking goofy champions and not taking anyone\u2014their opponents or themselves\u2014too seriously.<\/p>
The results speak for themselves. Cloud9 just took down defending world champions Gen.G as well as title favorites RNG on the same day to qualify for the quarterfinals stage yet again.<\/p>
But they’ve done it in a different way than any Cloud9 team has in the past.<\/p>
