Cloud9 vs. Team Dignitas - Finals - Heroes of the Storm World Championship

Cloud9 and Team Dignitas face off in the Finals of the Heroes of the Storm World Championship.
Follow the teams and their progress as they traverse the road to BlizzCon: www.heroesofth...
Cloud9:
Derek "DunkTrain" Arabian
John Paul "KingCaffeine" Lopez
Kun "iDream" Fang
Keiwan "k1pro" Itakura
Fan "Fan" Yang
Team Dignitas:
James "Bakery" Baker
Lawrence "Atheroangel" Harper
Joshua "Snitch" Bennett
Adrian "adrd" Wojcik
Matic "Zarmony" Mikec
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[@ghostchants]

Watching these old games makes me so sad the completely asinine decision to stop all esports support was the call.

[@RainbowSkyM]

17:15 First Draft 25:07 First Game 53:20 Second Draft 1:00:39 Second Game 1:32:40 Third Draft 1:43:15 Third Game Congratz to C9 for a flawless 5-0 victory with huge win momentum from the semi-final all the way to the Grand Final!

[@SleepyRickyC92]

+RainbowSkyM thanks!

[@ferranhomet5915]

+RainbowSkyM thx

[@silvis5749]

+RainbowSkyM u are a god! a GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@deefx57]

+RainbowSkyM thx! saved my life!

[@GOONGGWP]

+RainbowSkyM Not all heroes wear capes.

[@uzogsi]

Press F to pay respect for HGC So sad how this ended...

[@matejvician1241]

F

[@kengakira24]

what happened ?

[@heishiii]

F

[@TaskForce-ql3bx]

Keng Akira i think the game basically died

[@aboithatsaboi182]

@@TaskForce-ql3bx No people are still playing it. It just didn't make enough money from tournaments because Blizzard was stupid about it.

[@razatiger22]

got so happy when i saw his parents do that interview. love it when parents support there kids in whatever they do in life.

[@Wellshem]

They support when their son is pay but when he isn't pay... "Videogame make you stupid" Kappa Ps: sorry for my bad english, im not english.

[@leoleo1035]

+Wellshem Don't use that excuse. It's the worst one.

[@Mrtrollfaceization]

+Razatiger Ault Their*

[@Randellro111]

+Razatiger Ault Which interview? at what time btw?

[@hanzohattori9576]

Well i hope not WHATEVER in life.

[@rpmotorwerks]

2023, it's not too late Blizzaerd

[@onlyguitar1001]

'the future for heroes e sports is incredibly bright' 3 years later game is canned D:

[@Peremptor]

It's a fun game to play and watch. Shame.

[@sEaNoYeAh]

Still alive, and tournaments have returned though not to HGC's level. HGC forever, HotS forever

[@rajat8699]

Hots forever

[@albertoorsomariaiorio2823]

- Nobody: - 2020 youtube recommendations: woosh woosh u sad now.

[@maggiejones8567]

Heroes of the storm is super awesome

[@kataonly9233]

The crowd is amazing , the players are amazing , the game is amazing ! GG WP everyone ! Love Esports

[@mexforever8904]

I'm amazed at how good Grubby and Cooby are commentating this, please never ever replace them.

[@caelestigladii]

I was like: "WTF!? IT'S GRUBBY!!"

[@mexforever8904]

Z Lol yea i heard his voice during the match because i skipped the beginning and all that, and i was like wait a minute right here, this isn't... it is! So then i watched the whole thing just to see if he was going to be awkward or not lol, but he did really good.

[@alexanderpolo5342]

Pls being back hots in esports this is very entertaining and maintain it better too not just the other blizz games but also hots too😁

[@SevWildfang]

team dignitas thinks they're playing quick match

[@MrGyoki]

+Mr Elbows I bet you know better. Shush

[@SevWildfang]

MydłoFa I *know* I'm playing quick match

[@acidosis1985]

+Mr Elbows Hahha nice come back aahha

[@dshaenthusiast]

+Mr Elbows awesome lol

[@neveryflinglas6348]

LOL Dig spank NA now

[@Protaneum]

Pretty great play by C9. I don't play this game at high level but it seems like they did a great job of knowing when they could get a snipe on the core off. 3/3

[@MineCraftDogy]

When people we're like "Suck it Europe" i was like "I'm from Europe... and I'm supporting cloud 9! WHY DO I NEED TO SUCK IT!?! ; _ ;"

[@amalin3644]

+IQ encodoc just like the NA>EU so both sides trolls just as much.

[@OwGash]

+IQ encodoc Thats funny , cause during league when NA won 1 more game they considered emself gods.

[@MrLevi789]

+MineCraftDogy haha

[@sithpancakes1441]

+MineCraftDogy U don't need to suck it. :D :D :D :D :D

[@Bzk--]

+MineCraftDogy People will never learn to use " ' " properly.

[@B1gandTasty]

Was this recorded in a tin can?

[@mexforever8904]

Bane will hunt you down, Batman will protect you.

[@foggz5]

No it was recorded under water

[@Drakona1313]

They need an audio engineer who wouldn't let this garbage exist. It's sad that somebody was paid for this. If they use the excuse that it's the encoding or compression, then get a new engineer.

[@SableDrakon]

@@Drakona1313 having watched this live in 2015, it's KZbin or the audio compression. It sounded just fine live.

[@makedredd299]

Activision started cutting back on resources back in 2015.

[@GiseruPage]

35:40 " ahhhhhh!" and the flying snowball ! omg what a great play !!

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

Happy to see that at least Koreans haven't taken over the entire esports scene of this game yet. Watching the LoL World Championships was rather discouraging since the only question was whether the best Korean team would drop even one game to the second-best Korean team before they predictably won (they did).

[@WorshipInTruth]

+ArcaneAzmadi Well the Korean teams on Heroes of the Storm are really good. If they chose to dominate HOTS then they would, it is almost too easy for them though. It is a joy to see westerners or any non-Korean defeat them in these sorts of games. This is simply because the top gamers in S.Korea are given the opportunity to practice 12 hours a day. They don't have to work or have any life outside of the game.

[@acidosis1985]

+ArcaneAzmadi It is more like, when will they want to do it. When do they want to dominate this game. The answer? SOON. We have to enjoy this while we can mate =(

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

+WorshipInTruth Well, that's true of sponsored professional LoL LCS teams as well, even in NA and EU. Riot was, I believe, the first western organisation to sponsor full time _professional_ gaming teams that could dedicate their lives fully to their game, the same way the Koreans do. Blizzard don't appear to be at that stage yet. Sadly, having full-time pro-LoL players hasn't made a difference to the status quo- the Koreans win almost everything every time and usually make it look easy.

[@WorshipInTruth]

ArcaneAzmadi "Riot was, I believe, the first western organisation to sponsor full time professional gaming teams that could dedicate their lives fully to their game, the same way the Koreans do."...... I am going to call bullshit, I would find it hard to believe that this was not the case with StarCraft.

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

+WorshipInTruth OK, so who were the first western gamers to be directly sponsored by Blizzard to dedicate their lives to playing Starcraft full-time then?

[@xshortguy]

Grubby is a fantastic announcer.

[@NobleCaveman]

+James Pedid I didn't realize that was Grubby! :D I remember him from WC3 days

[@marcusmeins1839]

1:45 - 2:11 FanHOTS XD!

[@naumanjaved5927]

One of the casters sounds like a European kermit.

[@partii3876]

lol ikr

[@ishroom321]

+Nauman Javed Rude, idk he sounds like anyone else to me tbh.

[@iCyberDev]

+Nauman Javed damn..i cannot unhear that now.

[@XmatineeX]

+Nauman Javed HHAHAHAHAH YES

[@shinx2873]

Its a heavy dutch accent , we call it ''Steen kool engels''

[@dorianvey6675]

Watching the last Garden of Terror match in 2021 like "Wait, what are those 100 plants they are collecting?! And why is there only one terror?!?! WAIT, IT'S A VEHICLE!?!?" lol

[@GothicHand]

This game looks so HD when they play it...hmmm...

[@seth5847]

+GothicHand I know the feeling :C

[@bobisbadmand4365]

+GothicHand ultra settings on the game lol

[@Bloodhawk713]

+GothicHand 60 FPS has a tendency of doing that, yeah.

[@riskingeuphoria]

+GothicHand was sure the servers run at 15 fps, or do they run it more intensely?

[@andreagonzalez7161]

then you get my laptop graphics settings low low low low low runs good though 😂

[@Kaiser499TV]

This audio is terrible.

[@andrepedersen5924]

+Kaiser499 I think the sound is from the inflated tubes the audience uses to applaud the players :)

[@Brickscrap]

+André Haugaard Pedersen nah, it's just horrible phasing, whoever was in charge of the audio on the video made a mistake.

[@kingmandius1]

+Kaiser499 BlizzCon stole their voices and made them robots

[@Shotblur]

+André Haugaard Pedersen If you pay attention during the trailers, the same problem is there, too.

[@kidthebilly7766]

+Kaiser499 Ikr i thought it was just my headset I was like "WTF happened"

[@kingdarude7-880]

Those picks by c9 are incredible with their comps. Need to try some of those out with my team on my channel.

[@elderbob4852]

why are c9 playing vs ai? (sorry)

[@rwbatze]

+Elder Bob lol

[@sithpancakes1441]

+Elder Bob I can feel the burn from here,

[@austi4155]

Lol first game was literally just an AI match XD

[@Temmoie]

+Elder Bob At least these AIs are ADEPT!!!!1 Oh... wait...

[@elderbob4852]

***** rip.

[@spitboy224]

it gets me so mad how they did this game so good and gave up on it

[@fozzarz]

this audio tho :(

[@whocarez9195]

cloud 9 has way to many tactics, its awesome

[@twilightknight1672]

This is why I like Cloud9. They are willing to pick these lesser played heroes that send the crowd into a frenzy and then they can get it to work in game.

[@rayg3116]

Great victory for Cloud9. Fan is my HotS guru. Very inspirational. I'm dusting off Murky and making 2k16 a year to be annoying.

[@8xster8]

what's wrong with the audio quality?

[@dannywu7]

+Xiao Yu I think it's the Irish accent :P

+Xiao Yu Yeah, I was wondering the same. All sounds during the first four minutes (all I've seen so far) sounds like they are transmitted through a cardboard tube...

[@Thebiglloydtree]

NASL Sound Guy

[@ChaosTheBattleLLamma]

+Xiao Yu Seems like all Blizzcon Vids are like this. Same issues with HearthStone

[@XJDesigns1]

+Xiao Yu First thing I thought when the intro played.

[@paolozanini8498]

wow awesome! this fix my issue completely! thank you very much

[@GiannoTheCaptain]

thats why i love this game so much..the domination you can achieve in each map and the snowballing potential is majestic!! and them 15 min games :') wp blizz, wp!

[@michaeldeman8349]

Cloud played very well as a team. Dignitas really needs to work on that. When Cloud9 was destroying Dignitas's base, Sonya was just taking a camp. I mean WTF? And everytime Jaina was targeted she ran away from her teammates, getting herself killed. I'm actually quiet surprised by how bad Dignitas played they game.

[@Sinclairelim]

+Michael de Man Totally. I think the problem is that dignatas member's were too hot headed, they did suicide a few times needesly, on moves that even I as a casual player would only expect of a newb.

[@JustNeedaQuickList]

+Sinclairelim Take any one of them 1v1 if they do things you would only expect of a newb...

[@Sinclairelim]

I don't need to. Watch the video: more than once one of their members entres a teamfight while heavily outnumbered, or roams the map alone while in the late game. Those are thing even average players know not to do. And still do when they get angry and stop thinking about what they do. Which is what happened to dignatas. They were losing, they got salty and started doing dumb things. They need to work on holding their emotions back and play the game. I'm not saying i'd do a better job btw, i get salty too, and it'd get super stressed in the world tournament finals. But that's what they lacked, so i'm pointing it out.

[@JustNeedaQuickList]

Go and watch the video before this that they are in, Digitas vs NaVi, you'll end up saying the same thing about NaVi that you're saying about Digitas right now. The problem isn't that they "didn't work well as a team." (I don't think you watched the same video I did, considering in the same breath you say that you completely neglect some of the really neat plays, like the Brightwing + Muradin escape in the last match.) But rather that this is just how it can end up for a variety of reasons. Telling them they need to work on their team work, though, is ridiculous considering that in past matches before this one they did the same thing to other teams, and you would be saying the same thing about those other teams that you are telling them right now. There are MANY series, even in the worlds tournament, that teams go 0-3 in, and calling out this one specifically and saying that they "lack teamwork" is super ridiculous. How do you think they made it to the grand finals? How?

[@JustNeedaQuickList]

+Sinclairelim Even further, watch the video other than the game, I am pretty sure the casters walk you through it, but pay attention to the picks and bans by Cloud 9, look at past games to see who Dignitas are good at, and who C9 picked. They took away some of their strongest characters, and that caused a huge problem on it's own. Imagine you, as a casual player, only being able to play for the next 3 matches as (Sterotype) TLV, Murky, or Abathur.

[@CrazyNinjaMike]

Love seein/hearin Grubby still :D

[@cyberia6669]

jugue mucho este juego en un tiempo de vicio, lo recuerdo con cariño

[@fira695]

25.07 first game

[@sirkonfeta9771]

Отличная игра team dignitas молодцы момент за светку пересматривал не один раз, Cloud9 просто боги))

[@sirkonfeta9771]

+H O T S Great game, team dignitas fellows, moment by Светку revised more than once, Cloud9 just gods))

[@Giovani-R]

Congrats to NA and EU for this Blizzcon !

[@nigelreddings7202]

Grubby's casting? The Warcraft 3 player?

[@yorwie7]

My boi Fan out here really playing slug simulator lol

[@KeppyKep]

I love watching DunkTrain after a big win!

[@Shopenhauer2]

1:15:00 Good Lord! Zeratul chasing Tassadar like if it's a QM noob... everyone knows Tassadar won't die man...

[@jamesandrebaroman9079]

Why is ther broken eko when the players talk?

[@Krangbot]

SIDESTEP KING STRIKES AGAIN IN GAME 2!! FanHots MVP

[@Sinclairelim]

"Slug for life" Omg xD

[@hadriewyn]

Somewhere around 1h 52m the called King Caffeine, "Cocaine Caffeine" and it was awesome.

[@papay100]

those were the times

[@Wolvenworks]

that 3-0 wipe tho also, never seen anyone play Vikings until now O_O

[@intelhdgraphics4095]

What is the victory song after matches ? help

[@WSBT960]

Game's changed a bunch in just seven months. Jaina, Orc are rarely used in the Khaldor-backed tourneys here on KZbin. KhaldorTV is a must subscribe for HOTS fans!

[@Shadow.24772]

1:44:27 solid jake must have been high at the americas championship "tempo storm was up 2-0 vs cloud 9 and cloud 9 pulled the reverse sweep"? xD It was 2-0 for C9,tempo equalized and C9 won in the fifth game

[@taxesrtheft]

WE LOVE THIS GAME WHY ARE YOU IGNORING THAT

[@husky2961]

"I dont know what to say" courtesy of Olofmeister

[@mauricioroche6067]

1:35:46 the fly is watching the wolrd finals (the fly 1986)

[@javier12fox7]

RIP cloud 9

[@philiptran5187]

Here comes BlizzCon 2016, KingCaffeine, K1Pro and iDream will be returning I hope this won't be like the other Championships recently were the Asian teams dominate, so boring to see all the time

[@YourTamedLion]

sadly korea is just much much stronger. but that doesnt mean we dont get great games, epic series. eu vs na for example will still be awesome to watch. and in general how the regions stack up. the koreans will be teaching a lot tho. winning is teaching after all. Everybody wins. especially the viewers. the last final kor vs kor was amazing to watch :)

[@ABlackmore721]

To think that some people said HotS will noy be a viable e-sport game. How wrong they were.

[@MrCogwheels]

+Alexander Blackmore it's only viable because Blizzard is soaking a lot of money into advertising,check Twitch and you'll see how much it's actually played. Also 200 000$ 1st place is a joke compared to dota 2's prize pools.

[@DaCerebrus]

+MrCogwheels What does the prize have to do with the esport lol, League of legends esport is bigger than dota2 why didnt u compare it to league instead? It's viable because it's possible just like any other moba, WoW isnt that popular in twitch does that mean its '' not that much played'' ? Nah it's mainly a pve game twitch have nothing to do with it here

[@Wellshem]

+Da Cerebrus Dota 2 have the biggest prize pool. 1.000.000$ per player to win the international championship. Only 200.000$ for LoL. The most interressant esport game is Dota 2 because he is the most difficult competitive game ( excepted Starcraft but it's solo ). I love dota and HotS but LoL is a little child. LoL is the call of duty of moba/arts.

[@DaCerebrus]

Wellshem LoL is the most interesting esport Why? because more ppl watch it. Pretty simple, the hardest? Starcraft. No one cares about how much the prize pool is.

[@Wellshem]

Da Cerebrus Said that to football player and NBA basket player.

[@slyktech1860]

I like how there are multiple maps unlike DOTA2. I think another interesting difference is the lack of items.

[@NiteLite31]

Underrated game on the pro scene even if QM is still broken

[@Darjaboo]

Sometimes in life you lose, sometimes you face EU. NA > EU 3-0 EZ #1 First World Champions. Immortalized forever.

[@OwOb69]

Every "Best out of 5" match video should have the lenght of 5 matches, to avoid spoilers. Just put some screenshots from the game in the end if it ends early. Just saying...

[@Subparanon]

What's wrong with the audio? Everybody sounds like they are using a vocal morpher.

[@Tistaminis]

It's GRUBBY! WC3 Legend

[@edgayozzo]

This is not a serious match. NaVi's overconfidence agianst these Dignitas babies fked the World Championship final.

[@jordanhuff2422]

I agree navi vs C9 would have been way better

[@fox110110]

Maybe I'll switch to heroes of the storm from league of legends, NA won't let me down playing this game

[@xSmokeClan]

+fox110110 we won allstars tho! NA>EU

[@DaDeerGamer]

+Ali lmfao bronze scrub

[@darkrangertherllyn6704]

fox110110 go play league of peasants then

[@melmecan]

play real moba. Dota2

[@Archiez2]

how come pros get ban when bans aren't even in the game i mean i want bans in the game

[@Bzk--]

+Archiez what? Play hero league, there's bans..

[@Archiez2]

+Luca “Innerspace” Bazuka hmm I'll check kinda droped hots for a month mabey now they have bans

[@The_Xeos]

+Luca Bazuka (“Innerspace”) There are no bans in hero league Oo Neither in Team league actually... If you want to have bans, you have to use a web site.

[@austi4155]

+Archiez there are bans in HL and Team League now with the new patch. Player with highest MMR on each team will be given the ban power.

[@The_Xeos]

Yup, we've been waiting that for more than a year x)

[@joyanbalt3435]

caldor is the biggest legend here

[@milliardopeacecraft6555]

I think falsted was being played by Sun Tzu lol

[@angelousto9513]

focus muradin is bad idea ;)

[@marmaduketemple7570]

Did somebody finally told them that you don't button up both buttons on suit? ^^

[@robertharaldsson2881]

Oh man please can some one tell me the song in the end, I would like to game to it! (Shazam does not fint it)

did they record the audio through toilet pipe????

[@sonofriggnarok9320]

+Lukáš Zlámal Of course that's how all the rich people do it, you don't make money by spending it.

[@ishroom321]

Dignitas didn't even go for camps.... Hardly from what I've watched so far, those sometimes turn games around. They need to team up a bit more imo also.

[@Poweryak]

rip dignitas that ratio the fans tweeted.. just.. we can clearly see who the fan favourites are

[@zacharyrozhon204]

y before they start do both teamsa try to body block their 1st wave of minions? it seems like it doesnt do anything

[@efrainolivoschancafe4085]

REVIVE HEROES!!

[@contris1]

dignitas not playing as usual. they got tired?

[@jerl7320]

Cmon Blizz whats up with the horrible sound quality?

[@choysaechao5394]

Which one of these players played hots for 3 months and made it to the finals?

[@bzar3156]

any one knows where i can get the song which is played when cloud 9 was announced as the winner of the hgc ? Round about 2:14:00. Ty in regard :)

[@milo_3531]

which one is the match when cloud9 decided to stop playing against tyrael?

[@vanloc8974]

"Fear the Beard!" XD

[@vanloc8974]

+Van Loc Also, it's ironic but everything Team Dignitas claimed they could do like teamwork, coordination, strategy, turning their disadvantages to their favor... Cloud9 displayed exactly those factors in the tournament. Perhaps even better.

[@dragofang9021]

I'm going to this years World championship with my Lunara

[@buddyjesus7542]

I'm new to following esports. How would you compare the pro scene for this game to the others that have a huge pro scene. I get that this one is newer but I'd still like to know peoples answers to this question.

[@HamsoltYT]

well this game is newer so its not as big

[@Hunkeykung]

Can someone tell me something more about the person who is sitting when the draft is happening. For example that woman in the middle of the team of dignitas is she with the team? Is she from Blizzard. Why is she there?

[@ClauneckGames]

They do the draft on that iPad not on the computer. thats why you see them sitting down before the draft is done,usually on the last round of picks

[@bobo1411]

What's the song when Cloud9 won? At the very end.

[@86TrapHouse]

Where and when will this years competition be held?

[@DrGecko1]

first match, dignitas didn't almost use the medic-sonya pressure combo, they were too passive which doesn't suite their comp, scared sonya is a dead sonya.

[@godihateyoupeople7173]

yeah that Sonya was just weird

[@2nixPH]

WTF audio is this?

[@canjier8353]

love the splaps grubby LMAO :)

[@user-ow2ln3pw7d]

kING CAFFEINE IS EPICNESS ^^!!!

[@bzar3156]

How is the song called when they won last game? Anyone?

[@TGCTheGeekChannel]

Where was Dignitas' team play??

[@badgermcwaffles4834]

Just occured to me... can gazlowe sprint be unique? And be called "rocket boots"? :DDDDDDDD

[@patricksiemer2045]

Mhm in some teamfights i dont ubderstand why they dont end their focuses with a kill than it 4vs5 but than they run and dont finish them low heroes off

[@jaycewesterlo1]

I have a feeling dig are the underdogs lol, they get kills and the crowd is silent lol

[@shawnwise]

1:15:10 Kreygasm

[@BitcoinPumpItUp]

How much is grand prize?

[@icemd24]

Whats wrong with the sound?

[@MarcTheSauce]

Fix the audio next time...