Cloud 9
Wins: 4/0 Kills: 60 Deaths: 19 Assists: 145 Towers: 37/5 Dragons: 9/1 Baron: 3/0 Rift Herald: 2/1 Inhibitors: 6/0
Wow, completely destroyed those two teams over 4 games (Although nice job from DW to make the fourth game competitive).
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Indeed, will be interesting on who C9 will face in the best of series, as well as "if" they do move on from Play-in, if this C9 improves, cause their strategies of camping Jensen; TSM style is getting old and if that's the only C9 strat, I don't see them going far once group starts.
It's not trash talk. Trash talk is personal. Being confident and being vocal about that confidence is different. It's competition, this kind of thing is commonplace in any competition. It doesn't make you less classy or anything like that. Being confident and being vocal about your confidence are crucial in any kind of competition. You don't want to just beat your opponent, you want to get in their head and make them think they can't win if it's possible. The only complaints I've seen about it are giving me the impression they are just beta's who feel uncomfortable watching/hearing that kind of thing because those types of people aren't used to being a winner at whatever it is they do for fun or professionally.
Yeah that last game vs direwolves was really great. Both Direwolves exposing weaknesses in c9 and c9 showing they can come back from a huge early deficit. I don't know if that makes you fear c9 more or less. Direwolves could have sealed their advantage in that first fateful teamfight - if they'd j4 ulted the 3 carries by tier 2 mid instead of flag-n-drag over wall to tower. Follow up with sej ult onto backline stuck in j4 ult and they should easily win the fight with c9 having no minion wave left and trapped between a vlad and a turret with ashe. Props to c9 for making the comeback though and doing so with two decisive fights that sealed the game.
The one thing I do wish though is that c9 showed a bit more class. I know it's more common now to tweet a bunch of trash talk at others and whatnot, but they way they disrespected the other teams in the play-in tournament is not tasteful at all. Their boss - Jack - is way more respectful and classy and they should take notes from him on how to act. This isn't their first year at worlds or in League - veteran players should have more decency and respect for their opponents - at least in public. You don't read or hear about Korean teams saying stuff like "hey Rito, just put us all as first seeds in the quarter finals of knockout stage and let the rest of the trash play to see who joins us." or something along those lines. But that's essentially how c9 behaved. Hopefully, they learn to act more professional - considering they are pro players. If they continue with such charades and making them as public as possible, I would honestly expect Riot to justly punish them with a penalty of some sorts for unsporstmanlike behavior.
Level of competition: weak. Don't get me wrong, them going 4-0 is slightly impressive. That being said, who they faced sorta isn't (as I'd argue teams like P1/TL would literally destroy them if given the chance). Wait until the actual group stages, as then we can assess them better.
I don't really see how Jensen is arrogant or a jerk.