We're like the only region that doesn't try and bring our up own talent pool, we rely on failed or watched up stars from other regions and it's frustrating. So yea, glad NA is failing with all it's importtee's.
Like if there wasn't a requirement to have NA players on your team.. I honestly believe some of NA teams would be all foreign players.
NA sucked when Korea was on top of the mountin
Korea falls off the mountain
Time for NA to be extra garbage
Nah fam its because NA parents and the calture of NA doesn't support gaming in general they think only little kids should be playing.
every year NA first team sucked, but coul always rely on c9 to reach or go beyond expectation they always ended up in really shitt group to be in yet still somehow reach a level that is quite incredible
C9 is average top 8 in the world (once below, once above(top 4)) {their story at worlds below the big line} they were the only reason NA was called a "major region"
but now... they played so badly vs G2 that im considerring giving up on NA entirely its not that "G2 made C9 make mistakes" its just that C9 played like degenerate. the mistakes they did was at the lvl that a bad team in a minor region would make
only one way to explain what they did first match of rift rivals... https://youtu.be/1Y3FzVQi-R8?t=34
2013 (cant find much about it tho) C9 lose 2-1 fnc in quarterfinals top 8 teams in world
2014 in group with alliance, kaboom and najin white shield (korean team for those who dont know) C9 make it out of group second place (lost tiebreaker) lost quarterfinals vs samsung blue 3-1 top 8 best team in world
2015 in group with FNC, ahq and invictus gaming C9 lose tiebreaker and doesnt make it (3rd place) not in quarter but beat chinese third place (dont forget china>NA)
2016 in group with SKT, flash wolves and i-may (chinese team) win tiebreaker and makes it to quarterfinals right behind skt C9 lose to samsung galaxy 3-0 top 8 in world
2017 C9 in play-in first place C9 in groups with SKT, edward gaming and ahq beat edg and ahq in 3 way tie to go second place in quarter lose quarterfinals 3-2 vs WE who is the only team that took a game off SSG (who beat skt 3-0 that year) they in top 8 again
2018 C9 10th place in summer split makes it all the way to finals beat rivals tsm 3-0 to go to worlds barely makes it out of play-in in group with vitality,GenG(defending world champs) and RNG(expected best team in world) korean didnt turn out good surprisingly enaugh C9 lose tie-breaker vs RNG and goes to quarter 2d place C9 beat afreeca freecs 3-0 "first time NA in quarterfinals in 7 years" my ass tsm made it to quarter in season 1, when there was no korean team... IN THE LOSER'S BRACKET (basically where you go when you lose a best of 5 (now you are just out)) C9 did biggest chievement NA ever did, you cant compare this to what tsm reached
C9 lose to fnc 3-0 C9 in top 4 at worlds.
