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HISTORY OF SHROUD

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HISTORY  OF SHROUD

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Michael Grzesiek (born June 2, 1994), professionally known as shroud, is a Canadian Twitch streamer and former professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) player.[1][2][3][4][5] He is known for playing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and more recently Call of Duty Black Ops 4: Blackout.[4]

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Career[edit]

Grzesiek started his CS:GO career with several ESEA teams, particularly Exertus and Manajuma. He was soon acquired by CompLexity Gaming as a stand-in, and signed with Cloud9 in August 2014 when CompLexity was acquired by Cloud9. He helped lead Cloud9 to 2nd place in ESL One Cologne 2017, and a first place finish at ESL pro league season 4 in 2016.[6] On August 16, 2017, he announced that he would be stepping down from the Cloud9 team, but that he and n0thing would remain as substitutes on the 'bench'.[7] On April 18, 2018, Grzesiek left Cloud9 and professional CS:GO entirely.[8] He occasionally plays CS:GO with Old Guys Club. He also participated in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds "Twitch Rivals" tournament, with his duo team placing second and winning a $5,450 prize.[9] He continues to stream full-time on Twitch.

Games played[edit]

ListGame[10]
1Black Ops 4
2Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
3PUBG
4Fortnite Battle Royale
5World of Warcraft
6Escape from Tarkov
7Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege
8Assasin's Creed Odyssey
9Grand Theft Auto V
10Marvel's Spider-Man

Shroud has over 3 million subscribers on his YouTube channel.[11]
As of December 2018 Shroud is ranked 3rd on Twitch with over 5 million followers.[12]

Achievements[edit]

DatePlacementTierTournamentTeamResultPrize
2017-07-092ndPremierESL One: Cologne 20170 : 3$40,000
2017-06-253rd - 4thPremierEsports Championship Series Season 3 – Finals0 : 2$65,000
2017-06-111stMinorAmericas Minor Championship – Kraków 20172 : 1$30,000
2016-10-301stPremierESL Pro League Season 4 – Finals2 : 1$200,000
2016-09-182ndPremierDreamHack Open Bucharest 20160 : 2$20,000
2016-07-215 - 8thPremierELEAGUE Season 11 : 2$50,000
2016-06-255 - 6thPremierEsports Championship Series Season 1 – Finals0 : 2$65,000
2015-11-151stPremieriBUYPOWER Cup2 : 1$65,000
2015-07-052ndPremierESL ESEA Pro League Season 1 – Finals1 : 3$60,000
2015-06-221stPremierESL ESEA Pro League Season 1 – North America19/3Grp. S.$18,000

References[edit]

^. "Shroud reveals LAN exploit involving crowd noise"
 Dot Esports. 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  1. ^ Bishop, Sam. "Cloud9's Shroud says players can exploit crowd noise at LANs - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive". Game reactor UK. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  2. ^ "JasonR: 'The CS:GO pro scene is a big bubble'". Dot Esports. 2017-06-20. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  3. ^ Jump up to:a b "The Thorin Treatment: Shroud will still try". Dot Esports. 2017-05-29. Retrieved 2017-06-23.
  4. ^ Vitale, Anthony. "Cloud9 Decimate Expectations in London". RealSport. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  5. ^ "shroud". Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  6. ^ "RUSH and tarik join Cloud9; n0thing and shroud benched". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
  7. ^ "Shroud officially retires from competitive CS:GO, leaves Cloud9". Dot Esports. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  8. ^ "'PUBG' August Twitch Rivals Results - Who Won the Duos Tournament?". Newsweek. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  9. ^ "shroud - Played Games". TwitchTracker. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  10. ^ "Shroud". Retrieved 2018-09-28 – via YouTube.
  11. ^ "shroud's Twitch Stats Summary Profile". Social Blade.

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