Shroud’s retirement might be closer than what we thought

Mike “shroud” Grzesiek, One of North America’s famous support players, laid out his plans for retirement from Cloud9 in a Twitch stream last night.

“In my eyes, I’m actually set [to retire] for 2018,” shroud said after a fan asked when he thinks he’ll stop competing. “One more solid year and I’m probably going to be over [competing],” he said. “It’s not for sure; I’m just saying probably,” he said. His three-year career in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive seems to be almost at an end.

Shroud said he plans on full-time streaming and attending events for fun once he hangs up his jersey. He will likely be a streamer for Cloud9, like Braxton “Swag” Pierce, who is also the team’s analyst. It’s unclear who would replace him as a support player on Cloud9 once he transitions away from competition. Players from other North American teams such as OpTic Gaming and Team Liquid may want to sneak their way into the popular lineup, which hasn’t been touched since Alec “Slemmy” White was replaced with Timothy “autimatic” Ta in August of last year.