Skip to content

Cloud 9 Makes History By Being The First NA Team To Beat A Korean Team In The Quaterfinals in Worlds

CC 1138··4 votes·3,508 views

Cloud 9 Is the first NA to ever beat a Korean team during the worlds quaterfinals. Yes NA teams have beaten Korean teams during the group stage, but an NA team has never knocked out a Korean team in the quaterfinals until now. The links below are all worlds matches and you can see for yourself that NA has never beaten a Korean team in the quaterfinals. https://lol.gamepedia.com/Season_1_World_Championship S1 https://lol.gamepedia.com/Season_2_World_Championship S2 https://lol.gamepedia.com/Season_3_World_Championship S3 https://lol.gamepedia.com/2014_Season_World_Championship S4 https://lol.gamepedia.com/2015_Season_World_Championship S5 https://lol.gamepedia.com/2016_Season_World_Championship S6 https://lol.gamepedia.com/2017_Season_World_Championship S7

(I mean no hate/BM when I say this. I am just happy that Cloud 9 has finally done it. Please don't misunderstand what I mean)

8 Comments

Míellá1 votes

Well. Its not like that Korean team was a good one. They already had problems in quali games.

CC 11385 votes

[{quoted}](name=Legend Alpha ,realm=NA,application-id=9hBQwnEU,discussion-id=qL8Ux6Et,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2018-10-21T11:51:04.984+0000)

Well. Its not like that Korean team was a good one. They already had problems in quali games.

Regardless, they still are the first NA team to beat a Korean team in the quaterfinals.

EPIKON1 votes

Only Afreeca fans support their team and there aren't too many of them.

LCK fans don't consider Afreeca part of them due to its organization and its coach's handling of especially the Aiming situation this year.

Just about everyone hopes Kiin leaves the joke of a team.

But congrats C9, Afreeca deserved group stage exit but I'll take the sweep in the quarter-finals.

BlazePHX1 votes

Sure

Kuwabaramulberry1 votes

Isn't this only like....the second time a western team has even taken a SINGLE GAME off a Korean team in a bo5 outside of play-ins? Not series. Games. The west has been bending over that hard for that long

ViciousSummoner1 votes

You mean more like, "Riot makes history by balancing the game solely in favor towards regions with inferior skills."

CC 11381 votes

{quoted}

You mean more like, "Riot makes history by balancing the game solely in favor towards regions with inferior skills."

So you're saying that Because Riot had bias toward C9 they were able to 3-0 Afreeca? And that Afreeca lost their lead that they had from early game to mid game in both games 1 and 2 solely because Riot favored regions with inferior skills? Is it also that even though Afreeca overall did more damage to champions in game 2 and Kiin did almost 4x the damage licorice did in that same game, Riot favors inferior regions? In addition this this Sneaky played lucian all three games and licorice played aatrox for 2/3 games. Are you telling me that Afreeca, if they are automatically the superior team because of what region they are from, couldn't counter play sneaky's play style? There is so much more to why C9 won over afreeca rather than "Riot...balancing the game solely in favor towards regions with inferior skills.". I haven't even talked about what happened in game im literally going off just the match history data. At least be able to prove that Riot is biased toward regions with inferior skills: match history links Game 1 https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/TRLH4/1002490696?gameHash=84a2430a356b3334&tab=stats Game 2 https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/TRLH4/1002490693?gameHash=886619ea2c50b779&tab=stats Game 3 https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/TRLH4/1002490678?gameHash=50d558f49f2d4e1f&tab=stats

ViciousSummoner1 votes

Because NA and EU totally closed that 10 year skill gap in less than 5 months time on their own. Good meme bruh.

When NA and EU repeatedly struggled against no name wildcards for years on end and now all of a sudden they're "popping off." Yeah, totally not because of the erratic balancing. They just "got gud" and made up for that huge skill gap.

Apples:Oranges trying to say that 2k18 was a "show of skill." Everything beforehand was pure skill. Korea showed why they were #1. They held their place for over 5 years. Hell it took Korea 5 years to beat Korea. Yet, here we are with you people thinking NA and EU closed a 10 year gap overnight because of Rito? Please lmfao.

Turrets down in 3s. Total skill! Everyone dies in 2s. SKILL!!!! Yeah, give me a break this shit was a shit show and everyone knows it.

More from Esports