Former Cloud9 Player Shroud Announces Return to Competitive CS:GO

Michael "shroud" Grzesiek rose to prominence as a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) player for the North American esports organization Cloud9. The talented player saw a good eal of success with Cloud9 in his professional CS:GO career, but stepped back from competing officially in 2017 and quickly became one of the most popular streamers on Twitch, as tens of thousands of viewers regularly tune in to watch shroud dominate in Player Unknowns Battlegrounds (PUBG) and other battle royale titles. 

In April of 2018, shroud's contract with Cloud9 ended and the player officially retired from professional CS:GO, as he stated his work as a full time content creator was going extremely well, and he had decided to continue pursuing it as his profession. However, during one of his recent streams shroud revealed that he would be making a return to the competitive CS:GO in the form of playing in the next season of ESEA Open. 

The news of shroud making a retrun to playing and streaming competitive CS:GO matches was extremely well received by fans, as the clip of his announcement quickly rose to the top of the CS:GO subreddit, despite the streamer playing Fortnite Battle Royale. 

Since many of his fans and CS:GO fans in general look to be extremely excited to see the former Cloud9 player make a return to competing in the first person shooter where he made a name for himself, the return stream of shroud will likely draw in a massive amount of viewers to the ESEA league's matches that he will be playing in. With shroud being good friends with a multitude of current and former professional players, there will no doubt be a good deal of star filled teams that he will be competing with for fans to enjoy watching. 

(cover photo courtesy of ECS)