Team SoloMid are through to the last-four stage of IEM San Jose following a 2-1 victory over Cloud9 (16-11 on de_overpass, 14-16 on de_cache and 16-5 on de_dust2).

Cloud9 entered the match on the back of two domestic titles, the iBP Invitational and the RGN Pro Series Championship, and they tried to give North American fans a reason to cheer again following the elimination of CLG at the hands of G2 earlier in the day.

The opening map was de_overpass, where TSM got off to a flying start, winning five of the first six rounds of the game. A 1vs2 clutch by Jordan "⁠n0thing⁠" Gilbert, followed by a triple kill from Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham, powered Cloud9 to rally back into the game. The final stages of the half were highly contested, but in the end TSM enjoyed a narrow 8-7 lead.

TSM carried their momentum into the second half and picked up the opening three rounds to extend their lead to 11-7. Cloud9 still tried to respond, but the Danish team's economic control was absolutely crushing as they took a string of rounds to close out the game 16-11.

TSM advance to the semi-finals 

Next up was de_cache, where Cloud9 were the livelier of the two sides in the first half, picking up a 10-5 halftime lead. Fuelled by the support of the fans, the North American side piled more misery on TSM by adding three more rounds to their tally, the first of which thanks to a quad kill from Skadoodle.

Many certainly thought that Cloud9 would soon close out the game, but TSM picked themselves up and started banging in rounds after rounds to put an insane amount of pressure on the North Americans, who had to call a tactical pause. A couple of rounds later, TSM brought the scoreline to 14-13 in their favor, but then Cloud9 won three rounds straight to set the score at 16-14.

de_dust2 began with a massive blunder from Cloud9, who allowed Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz to win what seemed to be an unwinnable 1vs3 situation. After buying up, Cloud9 won three rounds straight to equalise the score at 3-3, but then TSM regained control of the game to finish the half up by five rounds. After the restart, TSM played a flawless CT side and won six rounds in a row to seal a 2-1 victory.

IEM San Jose 2015Best of 3 Cloud9Matchpage 1 2 21st November 2015 TSM 11Overpass 16 16Cache 14 5Dust2 16

TSM	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Nicolai 'device' Reedtzdevice	67 - 50	+17	-	1.29
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussendupreeh	68 - 52	+16	-	1.24
René 'cajunb' Borgcajunb	57 - 45	+12	-	1.16
Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethXyp9x	55 - 52	+3	-	0.99
Finn 'karrigan' Andersenkarrigan	44 - 53	-9	-	0.85

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamSkadoodle	60 - 55	+5	-	1.08
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiekshroud	55 - 57	-2	-	0.94
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbertn0thing	50 - 60	-10	-	0.87
Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadirfreakazoid	49 - 63	-14	-	0.80
Sean 'seang@res' Garesseang@res	38 - 58	-20	-	0.68

Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Age: 22 Team: Cloud9 Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 312 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.60 Nicolai 'device' Reedtz Age: 20 Team: TSM Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 536 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.64 Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert Age: 25 Team: Cloud9 Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 309 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.67