No one carried anyone.
Are all these posts by TSM crybabies or something? Four enter, two come out. That's it. Nothing else to see here. Same in the other 3 groups. To compare 2nd place records...there was only 1 team with 4 wins. Misfits had 3 just like C9. NOw you can argue that C9 got lucky that there wasn't another 3-win team in the end, like in Group D, but that's a result of the group as a whole ending up with 5,3,2,2 wins. SKT was only 1/4 of that equation.
In general, there are only 12 wins to be had. Chances are, the Group winners will go 5-1 (with a nice 6-0 by Longzhu). That means the other 3 teams are fighting over 7 wins in the hope for 4, but prob 3 to advance (with a possible playoff). There's not a whole lot of lee way. If you get 2nd, you earned it struggling for those few wins.