It’s rare for players to screw up so badly that they go down in video game history and coin a term: But one team achieved this in Overwatch in 2017. Since then, “to do a Cloud9” or simply C9
has represented a specific, particularly dumb mistake. And it’s resurfacing now. The 26-year-old Swede who was responsible for it back then doesn’t find it so funny.
What was the problem? In 2017, during Season 2 of Overwatch, there was a match between AF Blue and Cloud9. The first team to win 3 matches decided the outcome of the encounter.
The Cloud9 team clearly dominated the encounter, but still lost the match because they “did a Cloud 9” in 2 of their 3 defeats.
They had defeated the opponents but somehow forgot to capture the point that was actually the objective of the match. This was such a dumb mistake that it became known as “doing a Cloud 9”: defeating the opponent team but ignoring the actual objective.
Today, shooter players shout Cloud9, Cloud9!
when their team has won the fight but they want to remind everyone that they still need to secure the actual target.
Please, let it be
This is the situation now: Although Overwatch no longer plays the same role as it did in 2017, the game’s star had already faded as Fortnite surged. However, the new hit on Steam and Twitch is the hero shooter Marvel Rivals, which operates very similarly to the way Overwatch used to.
Therefore, former Cloud9 player Lucas “Mendo” Håkansson screamed on Twitter:
That Marvel Rivals being such a hit means that a lot of new players will learn what “doing a Cloud9” means and that I invented it. PLEASE, LET IT BE PLEASEEE!
In the comments, someone responds: “You are my code in Counter-Strike. Instead of saying ‘Don’t do a Cloud 9’, I always just shout ‘MENDO MENDO!’, because it’s quicker and more precise.
Successful pro gamer is haunted by one mistake for 8 years
Who is this? Mendo is 26 years old and from Sweden. He has earned about $65,000 in prize money with Overwatch and is a streamer on Twitch. He is now among the top 100 players of Marvel Rivals.
But this one mistake from 2017 apparently still haunts him. He can only be glad that the mistake is named after Cloud9 and not after him. Mendo was probably just lucky that he is not in the spotlight as much and not as well-known as other people.
One of the most famous streamers on Twitch, “Summit1G”, didn’t have that luck. He once ventured into esports but died in such a stupid way in Counter-Strike that since then “doing a Summit” stands for dying dumbly in the fire while you should actually be defusing the bomb: CS:GO – Popular streamer summit1g messes up in pro game – monumental
