ClouD leaves Templars of Twilight

Carlo 'ClouD' Giannacco is leaving the Templars of Twilight. This news was published by the Templars earlier today. The relatively fresh ToT recruit had been troubled by his performance at the World Cyber Games this year.

ClouD failed to pierce through the group stages on day two of the WCG. He was beaten by both bronze medalist Strelok and, somewhat surprisingly, the Lithuanian player Arew, thus only managing to hit third place in his pool despite pre-competition predictions. The Italian player cites this loss as his main reason for retirement from the German team.

In his statement to the Templars, he made it clear that "since I still really love the game I decided to quit the team and to not browse Starcraft sites, forums and watch vods, so I will just spend my time playing some fun games or to participate in tournaments."

The team cited him as a key player, noting his activity and stability as having been great assets. "It is a very big blow for ToT to see him quitting the team," Mondragon wrote as his lead-in to the announcement, "And I hope we can recover from that."