The 'C9 Appreciation' .... ummhmm.

Lego1as·10/24/2017, 5:46:47 AM·4 votes·910 views

Everybody is appreciating C9 for achieving the equivalency to the modern day 'participation trophy' that a 10 year old soccer play receives at the end of the season when his team doesn't make it to playoffs.

I believe in tough love and positive reinforcement.

EU teams outperform NA teams and their regions are worse compared to the NA region. We should hold C9 to a higher standard like we do to TSM, then we will be able to, at a minimum, compete at a higher level and get to finals at least.

Let's not settle for 4th place, when WE CAN win first place.

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xJLx MCHammer10/24/2017, 2:46:15 PM8 votes

See this topic is made to have people be jerks

Western culture just doesn’t view gaming as much as the eastern Asian culture does.

When you see USA win Olympic gold medal in swimming and Nigeria takes 4th place, you have to give gem some credit even if they didn’t win. Nigeria has no programs to propel young athletes in swimming. There are no funds, charities, or organizations to do that.

I’m not saying what C9 achieved was great. Rather, I think they did great compared to their regional teams. Both TSM and IMT got knocked out, under performed, and made NA look even less competitive.

This is why MSF and C9 despite losing Can walk out feeling good. They did the best for their respective regions despite everyone saying they would do bad. Did you listen to the casters all making predictions about 3-0 for both teams? Remember how everyone said they would not get out of groups?

HOT BEEF 10/24/2017, 5:52:00 AM1 votes

i don't think most ppl understand why teams like TSM are dominating NA and do bad at worlds it is because they are really bad at adjusting to patches especially before worlds. They even admit to this in one of their interviews they said that they know they are bad at adapting to patches and always lose the first couple of weeks while teams like C9 and other EU teams are much quicker to adapt to the patches.

If you give TSM at least a couple of months to adapt to the patches i guarantee they will make it far into the group stages but that prob won't happen

Ale non è male10/24/2017, 7:37:37 AM1 votes

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EU teams outperform NA teams and their regions are worse compared to the NA region. We should hold C9 to a higher standard like we do to TSM, then we will be able to, at a minimum, compete at a higher level and get to finals at least.

Let's not settle for 4th place, when WE CAN win first place.

NA can't win first place. Not even by a crazy outside chance like CN or EU possibly could, they just can't

That's why people are mad towards TSM and kind towards C9. NA should have to fight and settle for the 2nd place first. then from there looking up to 1st place. C9 does what they can with the talent they have to keep NA fighting (they are probably the worst team for the second year in a row among the ones that male quarterfinals); TSM does not. TSM is stuck in a dimension where they think they can be easily top 4 team in the world talent wise when they are not and should overperform to get there, and become stronger in the process to bring this strength to NA LCS and force other teams to improve as well

Truly Prideful10/24/2017, 3:26:53 PM1 votes

I think the thing people "appreciate" is the fact that this time around it looked like they actually put up a good fight and came close. It wasn't just another sad 3-0 where NA looked like crap and there was no hope for next year. I don't think anyone wants them to settle for 4th, they're just pleased to see them compete and look like they are close to getting there.

skyfall61910/24/2017, 10:14:58 PM1 votes

imo C9 looked like a better team then WE in draft and in game but WE knew how to abuse ardent better, take away ardent from WE and they wouldnt have got our of group imo.. instead of a C9 appreciation thread i think we need a "wtf riot ruining worlds with trash balance" thread. juggernaut world > ardent worlds. this is one of those cases where the better team didnt win.