It’s rare for players to mess up so badly that they go down in video game history and coin a term: But one team managed to do that in Overwatch in 2017. Since then, “Building a Cloud9” or C9 for short has stood for a specific, particularly stupid mistake. And it’s coming back up now. The 26-year-old Swede who was responsible at the time doesn’t think it’s that funny.
What was the problem? In 2017, Season 2 of Overwatch featured a match between AF Blue and Cloud9. Whoever won 3 matches first won the match.
Team Cloud9 clearly dominated the encounter, but still lost the match because they built a “Cloud 9” in 2 of their 3 defeats.
Although they had defeated their opponents, they had somehow forgotten to take the point that the match was actually about. This was such a stupid mistake that it became known as “building a Cloud 9”: defeating the enemy team but ignoring the real objective.
Today, shooter players shout Cloud9, Cloud9! when their own team has won the fight, but they want to be reminded that now it’s time to secure the actual objective.
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Please let it go
This is the situation nown: Overwatch no longer plays the same role as it did in 2017, but the game’s star was already falling when Fortnite got so hot. But the new hit on Steam and Twitch is the hero shooter Marvel Rivals and it works very similarly to how Overwatch used to.
That’s why former Cloud9 player Lucas “Mendo” Håkansson shouted on Twitter:
The fact that Marvel Rivals is such a hit means that a lot of new players will now learn what “building a Cloud9” means and that I invented it. PLEASE LET IT BE GOOD PLEASEEE!
In the comments he is told: “You are my code in Counter-Strike. Instead of “Don’t build Cloud 9,” I always just shout “MENDO MENDO!” because that’s faster and more precise.
Successful professional gamers have been stuck with one mistake for 8 years
Who is that? Mendo is 26 years old and a Swede. He has earned around $65,000 in prize money from Overwatch and is a streamer on Twitch. He is now one of Marvel Rivals’ top 100 players.
But that one mistake from 2017 apparently still sticks with him to this day. He can only be glad that the bug is named after Cloud9 and not him. Mendo was probably just lucky that he is not as in the spotlight and not as popular as other people.
One of the most famous streamers on Twitch, “Summit1G”, was not so lucky. He once ventured into e-sports, but died so stupidly in Counter-Strike that since then “Building a Summit” has stood for stupidly standing in the fire and dying while you were supposed to defuse the bomb: CS: GO – Popular streamer summit1g screws up in pro game – monumentally