{"id":3410,"date":"2024-09-07T23:01:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T23:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/cloud9-qualified-for-thunderpick-championship"},"modified":"2024-09-07T23:01:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T23:01:26","slug":"cloud9-qualified-for-thunderpick-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/cloud9-qualified-for-thunderpick-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud9 Qualified For Thunderpick Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cloud9 <\/strong>has secured a spot in the <strong>Thunderpick World Championship 2024<\/strong> by defeating <strong>Zero Tenacity<\/strong> in the final of the second European closed qualifier. The intense match ended with a <strong>2-1 scoreline<\/strong> in favor of <strong>Cloud9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The victory comes after a challenging beginning for the mostly Russian team, as they struggled to find their form after assembling following the summer hiatus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cloud9 <\/strong>had a rough start, finishing last at the <strong>BLAST Fall Groups<\/strong> and the <strong>Showdown<\/strong>. However, they&#8217;ve recently made a strong comeback by qualifying for the<strong> Perfect World Shanghai Major Europe<\/strong> RMR. They secured their spot by achieving impressive wins against <strong>Johnny Speeds<\/strong>, <strong>Passion UA<\/strong>, and <strong>9 Pandas <\/strong>in the closed qualifier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cloud9 <\/strong>has secured their spot as the sixth team to qualify for the upcoming 16-team online event. This event will ultimately lead to a four-team LAN final with a prize pool of <strong>$750,000<\/strong>, to be held at a location that has yet to be disclosed.<\/p>\n<h2>Thunderpick World Championship Teams<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Cloud9<\/li>\n<li>Imperial<\/li>\n<li>BESTIA<\/li>\n<li>BLEED<\/li>\n<li>Legacy<\/li>\n<li>M80<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The remaining ten spots for the event will be determined through direct invites.<\/p>\n<h2>Thunderpick Announcement<\/h2>\n<div class=\"_1VPbNXp6UZ1K-ChQg-UhsA==\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Keep up with our coverage for more insights on the latest esports news and updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud9 has secured a spot in the Thunderpick World Championship 2024 by defeating Zero Tenacity in the final of the second European closed qualifier. The intense match ended with a 2-1 scoreline in favor of Cloud9. The victory comes after a challenging beginning for the mostly Russian team, as they struggled to find their form<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-3410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}