Cloud9 Wins Second Consecutive Vainglory Championship at Summer 2017 NA & EU Unified Competition in Los Angeles
September 11 2017 - 7:56PM
Business Wire
North America’s Cloud9 defeats Immortals to
earn a spot in the Vainglory World Championships, coming to
Singapore from December 14-17
Super Evil Megacorp, creators of Vainglory, the world’s leading
mobile esport, crowned Cloud9 the winners of the Vainglory Summer
2017 NA & EU Unified Championship. Following a weekend of
intense competition between the 12 best Vainglory teams from North
America and Europe, Cloud9 defeated Immortals to take home the
crown in one of the closest matchups of the weekend. The
Championship was held in front of a sold out crowd at the Globe
Theater in Los Angeles, where Cloud9 came out on top amongst the 11
other teams including Europe’s Mouseesports, G2 Esports, Dynasty,
Team Qlash, Fnatic and SK Gaming, and North America’s Team Solomid,
Immortals, Hammers, Nova Esports and Tempo Storm. Cloud9 will
advance to the Vainglory World Championships later this year in
Singapore on December 14-17 and will face fierce competition from
the other teams across the world that have qualified, which are
Korea’s ROX Armada and ACE Gaming, China’s Hunters, and Singapore’s
home team Impunity.
The NA & EU Vainglory Summer Season Championship kicked off
on Friday, as regional rivals went head to head in order to advance
to Saturday’s intercontinental matches before culminating for
Sunday’s semi and grand finals. Throughout the three days of
competition Cloud9’s Gabe Villarin, Gabriel Villamariona and Joseph
Samano’s aggressive style of play was too powerful, leading them
straight to the championship.
Cloud9 will ride this tournament momentum into the Vainglory
World Championship in Singapore from December 14-17. Teams from
across the world will join them in the place where it all
began!
To keep up with the action or catch any games you missed from
the weekend follow Vainglory Esports on YouTube, Twitter and
Facebook. Also keep an eye on Vainglory’s Twitch.TV for regularly
scheduled streams. To find out more about the Vainglory World
Championship check out the Vainglory Esports page.
Vainglory can be downloaded for free from the Amazon Appstore,
the App Store and Google Play.
About Super Evil Megacorp
Super Evil Megacorp is a team of masters-at-their-craft game
developers. The company’s flagship title, Vainglory, is the world’s
leading mobile esport with leagues in North America, Europe, Japan,
China, Korea and Southeast Asia. Vainglory had a monumental first
year in esports in 2016, generating record competition viewership
and welcoming some of the largest esports franchises into the
Vainglory lineup including TSM, Cloud9, Fnatic, Echo Fox, Misfits,
Immortals, Rox Armada, NRG, Rogue, G2 Esports, SK Gaming, Team
Secret, mousesports and DetonatioN Gaming. Super Evil Megacorp is
currently 80 people strong and is hiring. The company has raised
$63M in funding from backers including General Catalyst, Index
Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, Korea Investment Partners,
CrossCut Ventures, Initial Capital, The Raine Group, ZhenFund, Yuri
Milner, and Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital. Super Evil Megacorp is
based in San Mateo, CA. For more information, visit
http://www.superevilmegacorp.com/ and
http://www.vainglorygame.com/.
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