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Cloud 9's 2nd summer split place finish explained

xayahs bich·11/7/2014, 12:19:25 AM·2 votes·993 views

With the summer split being the ticket to worlds and TSM and C9 already having their tickets punched it was only a matter #1 or #2 seeding. After seeing EU end up with Fnatic taking second place Cloud 9 immediately knew they would want to go up vs they cross Atlantic rivals in the 2015 BotA. Riot had probably already fixed the groups so that the #1 NA team would be in the only non Korean group and that the #2 seed would be in with the third Korean and the worst seed in the entire tournament in general. With all this in mind both TSM and C9 knew they both had the skill to be the best best C9 really wanted to face Fnatic when the Battle of the Atlantic came around so they put on a good show and took the #3 seed so they would get to play against better competition and gain more experience

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GameofThrawns11/7/2014, 2:27:05 AM3 votes

Not sure if troll or salty C9 fan.

In truth, I'd say C9 is still better than TSM, even though I 'm more of a TSM fan. But C9 is going to make mistakes, they're going to stumble, and they're going to sometimes lose even when they try their best. Objectively better teams will still drop games and series to worse teams, and sometimes that series is what determines seeding spots for Worlds. Because they are human, not gods.