Cloud9 Announces Two North American Competitive Fortnite Teams
By Nicholas Barth ·
The North American esports organization of Cloud9 has announced the addition of two new competitive Fortnite Battle Royale teams to its organization.
With the announcement of the 2019 Fortnite World Cup by Epic Games at the E3 2018 Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am that will be the official circuit that will see the distribution of the massive $100,000,000 prize pool pledge by Epic Games, many esports organizations have begun to form and announce competitive Fortnite teams.
One of the latest organizations to do so was Cloud9 with the signing of an all Korean roster. However, Cloud9 is not done with creating its army of competitive Fortnite players. Cloud9 announced Sunday, June 17th that it had signed two new North American Fortnite teams to represent the organization in the professional Fortnite scene.
The two new Cloud9 Fortnite teams consist of Maurilio "Blind" Gramajo, Nicholas "zoof" Zufan, and Rex "Topboy" Holmstrom. These players are formerly of Team X. Christian "Criz" Rizk, Jared "Bandit" Jones, Clemente "Shivsy" Ibarra, and Brennan "boss" Amiott make up the former Who Are They? roster that be the members of the second Cloud9 roster.
Blind and Topboy of Team X have been in the spotlight of a major competitive event before, as the two of them competed in the NInja Vegas '18 event hosted by streamer Tyler "Ninja" Belvins. Blind was a standout at the event, as he was the only player to secure multiple victory royales at the competitive event. Blind, Topboy and zoof will be joined by a fourth player who will be chosen through tryouts for the team.
Criz, Bandit, Shivsy and boss have also seen solid success in the competitive scene of the battle royale title, as the former Who Are They? roster were crowned the Season 3 Champions of the StepOneBR Scrim League with 31 wins to rank them first out of 320 teams. Shivsy also holds the title of being the #1 ranked player in Nevada.
"I can’t tell you how excited I am to be building out these rosters for Fortnite and I think we’ve got an incredible head start by bringing both of these teams on board. I know they’re going to establish Cloud9 right off the bat," said Cloud9 CEO and Founder Jack Etienne.
With the decision to sign three individual competitive teams, it is clear that Cloud9 is looking to stake its claim as one of the very best organizations in the world of Fortnite esports.
(cover photo courtesy of Cloud9)