i dont understand why c9 can go toe to toe with rng, beat a korean team make it to semifinal... yet can never get first place in NA
like seriously, c9 is the only reason why NA is still somewhat a "major" region. without c9 NA has the international lvl of a wildcard team.
so why cant they win in NA?!?!?!?!?
Team Liquid? Doublelift!
Because NA plays very different than the rest of the world, including strats like "don't gank a losing lane"
C9 is well adapted to other servers but not in NA.
Maybe C9 always tends to use different types of team comps even when they know it's bad in NA but still uses new strategies, knowing they will be one of the three NA teams for Worlds in which after 2 splits in NA they use what they learned against better teams.
In the past, it was because of a lacking cohesion and aggressive playmaking. Jensen would regularly win his lane but often would be very slow to apply pressure around the map. Impact was famously inconsistent. They had enough change in who was jungling it messed with teamwork overall.
