C9 Appreciation

Macalla·Oct 22, 2017·41 votes·1,952 views

Kudos to C9, I am very proud of you! Your teamwork, picks, playing your heart out...hold your heads up high and take pride.

I picked you to win but I mostly wanted you to take it five games and really show your strengths.

23 Comments

Aatrox Mid 1v5Oct 22, 20174 votes

sneaky is a boosted lesbian

StonePlatypusOct 22, 20173 votes

The only thing I appreciate about my favorite team, is that they CHOOSE to lose every single important game. Such as this worlds match, their MSI performance, and their throwing of the second half of the summer split. With faulty logic that is so inane that you have to question if they were paid by the Chinese to throw. You don't make -60 IQ choices as a pro player and expect to win. I feel that a fully randomly picked blind team would have been better than their shit draft. I would literally kill myself to restore SOME level of thinking for C9 in their game 5 if it would have made even a little bit of difference.

What do I appreciate about C9? No matter how much I support them, they can always outplay themselves, ALWAYS make the stupid choices, ALWAYS play Silver 3 solo Q type of games.

Their loss is EMBARRASSING as their fan. I feel like I should apologize to my brother for thinking they could even have a chance of winning. They never, EVER learn. I'm sick of putting my faith in a team that makes it their job to stop thinking.

HonestJohnTheConOct 22, 20172 votes

I don't know why you put faith in them either. If you're that mad about the loss, then go support the Koreans or the Chinese that win every game.

...for real though. You make this sound like it the loss was more heartbreaking for you than it was for them.

MacallaOct 22, 20171 votes

I think you missed my true feelings, what I was saying was they did what I wanted most from them to be innovative and fight hard and they did not let me down. I am proud of them in this worlds as I am of Misfits.

It feels like a whole new world of pro play is coming out and the whole Worlds has been damn exciting and fun. And next year we have a whole different game with the change in runes and masteries they will have to adapt to and NALCS a new adjustment to changes in teams concepts, already 4 established teams out.

Quite a shake up all around!

My pick didn't matter so much, I had to support NA in my picks regardless!

Velzard of KozOct 22, 20174 votes

I think you missed my true feelings, what I was saying was they did what I wanted most from them to be innovative and fight hard and they did not let me down. I am proud of them in this worlds as I am of Misfits.

Ya'll seriously need to use non-chronological view on non-GD Boards because every third thread has OP not knowing whom someone responds to, lol.

MazariamontiOct 22, 20172 votes

Their MSI performance? Do you have multiple favorite teams?

GT StandardOct 22, 20172 votes

Except they left up Galio to WE They played well but they should not forget that.

Jensen NEEDS to learn how to play a more supportive role, that last game of all things should be a wake up call to that

xJLx MCHammerOct 22, 20171 votes

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Except they left up Galio to WE They played well but they should not forget that.

Jensen NEEDS to learn how to play a more supportive role, that last game of all things should be a wake up call to that

All depends whether or not Riot wants to keep all this focus in bot lane. This ardent censor just make it 100% about bot lane

ChompyWulfOct 22, 20171 votes

This is also why some champs like Corki or Lucian were used for mid. But Jensen is a slave to the most typical mage picks.

EbololOct 22, 20172 votes

They may have not made it to semis, but came quite close. They had a good chance considering they were given the easiest of the 4 teams, and gave it a great effort. Sure is nice to see an NA team have some international success and bailout NA whenever TSM puts the reigon to shame every worlds. smh

JRobin31Oct 22, 20171 votes

Good run C9! All we ask is you play best! Sad you didn't make it to semis, but best team NA this year!

AiliekpaiOct 22, 20171 votes

Western teams did better than I expected and made their quarters very close despite being big underdogs in all of them. Respect.

GeminiRuneOct 22, 20171 votes

It's the legacies that were on the line with this series that doesn't make me disappointed really. Both teams had something to really fight for and for it to have gone to a game 5 something I can't complain for, even if the ever infamous game of Protect The Kog'Maw has developed several new permutations.

Liquid Poro Oct 22, 20171 votes

They tried. We lost the hope.

KrackProphetOct 22, 20171 votes

Hopefully C9 is feeling utter shame at that draft in game 5 right now. How do you appreciate a team that throws game 5 at worlds? You dont. You ridicule them and make sure they know they fucked up hard and let down everyone that wanted them to win. No appreciation when they made an amateur mistake at a pro tourney.

MazariamontiOct 22, 20171 votes

I feel like most of it was on reapered, but the Orianna pick that Jensen obviously asked for was highly questionable to me, basically after the first items come in he has no kill pressure on Gallio without significant helip, and that's guaranteed. If you're going to let the Gallio mid through you better have a better answer to it than an Orianna, which I know he's amazing on, but it's just numbers for a lot of this stuff.

ChompyWulfOct 22, 20171 votes

Has Jensen ever played an AD mid? I didn't follow them closely, but can't remember if he used a Corki or Lucian mid at all in Summer. Even Syndra or another mage like Cass makes more sense for damage to throw down.

MazariamontiOct 22, 20171 votes

He's played Corki a decent amount and has played Lucian before.

MazariamontiOct 22, 20171 votes

I appreciate them for not being complete fuck ups, but it ends there. I love them, but the Game five draft was inexcusable and it was obvious before the game even started. I haven't been this pissed at C9 since I can't even remember when, and I've seen every one of their games since season 3 on. They played their hearts out, but letting the Gallio - Janna through, fucking inexcusable.

People are acting like this was somehow a huge improvement over past quarters performances, but it isn't. They lost in game 3 to fnatic. They went 1-3 against Samsung Blue, they got swept by Samsung Galaxy, and they went 2-3 against WE. Weighing competition they've basically had the same level of success/failure as they always have had. They should have beaten fnatic, they didn't, and they should have beaten WE. They should have lost horribly to both Samsung's and they did. WE is not a comparable team to SSB or last year's SSG, not in the least, and the only way I would be able to say they improved was if they managed to close out the series, they didn't.

sky blowerOct 22, 20171 votes

C9 made an impressive series in this world. I don't understand why people flame so much on the draft in game 5. Yes, they made a big mistake but they performed really well throughout the entire 5 games. You can't make 1 mistake overshadow all the effort they put in this game. C9 put up a great fight against WE despite WE having superior teamfighting and macro plays. I am proud of them. Let's go C9!

Dr PoroOct 22, 20174 votes

I just don't understand why you would suddenly let Galio through? That champ had an 80% winrate in Worlds and 85% winrate in the hands of WE. Why would they suddenly forget to ban that champ or let alone even pick it since WE was stupid enough not to first pick him. Most of these standard meta games are decided by draft. They drafted well in the previous games (or rather: WE drafted poorly). It's just a thing that western teams tend to do too often. "Oh this OP champ that wins games on their own... Let's let them take it, we can play around it." No you can't.

DaNinadOct 22, 20171 votes

rip LZ

SDhrekOct 22, 20171 votes

They really played great in the first three games, but for some reason, they where just not cloud 9 in the last two.

It was not just the drafts, but there overall play was just off, I have never been one to believe that a team would take money or its scripted, but the way they played in those last games? The Drafts?

That was not cloud 9.