![]() As a result, it was a shock to many to discover that Skadoodle had decided to accept a blockbuster offer from Cloud9, including a then enormous signing fee, without Hiko following suit. They had even both played as stand-ins for the eLevate team which finished second at CEVO-P S6 LAN Finals. The two had been the best NA players of the previous year and were assumed to be a package, with Hiko carrying out the negotiations between different teams to see where they could find a home and a new start. ![]() When all of the other iBUYPOWER players had been banned for match-fixing, Skadoodle was left to wander the wilderness with Hiko, who was poised to officially join the ex-iBUYPOWER men in a new organisation early in the year prior to their banning. Skadoodle had been arguably the best North American player of the era following C9's downfall, spearheading iBUYPOWER's run to the final of the FACEIT Season 2 Finals in October of 2014. For a team which had once been in the position - back at ESL One Cologne, in August of 2014 - to potentially make the final of a major, this was the end of a disappointing downward spiral, which had culminated with Cloud9 barely even qualifying as a tier two team any more. The last straw for the former North American number ones came when they finished in last place at the ESEA S18 LAN finals, losing out to Nihilum. Two majors had come and gone with them unable to reach the play-off stage. They had been largely irrelevant on an international level for the better part of half a year, unable to even progress from the group stages of big tournaments and only having a few close games or single map upset wins, such as over Virtus.pro, to their name. Cloud9 were a joke when they released SEMPHIS and ShahZam.
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