I guess this includes pre franchising cause C9 hasn't made it post franchising

good luck grinders

Sad to hear he won't be casting for VCT pacific going forward :(

hola

C9 :3 (copium)

They have the potential to make a LAN (cope) but the competition seems tough

Masters Rejkavik was probably Nuturn, nobody thought they would be 3rd

Honestly this is such a cool concept and should be done more (can even do team or duos sims)

unstable

Why does he love wolves so much?

Yea honestly their production team is so good, they actually provide replays of people getting the kills (ie. new perspectives) instead of just showing a replay of what we just in slow motion

Why don't they make champs become a 16 team swiss stage (first to 3 win/loss) instead of these groups of 4

I think he's rated, I think people weren't worried about his fragging power more his ability to igl the team

Why does every team have a rep except RRQ

This was such a cool way of doing the showmatch with the silhouettes drafting

the lack of understanding of how relationship building is insane

I love a fellow delusional C9 fan

I think to introduce it, can just start with blind pick with 1 blind ban each per team (ie. both teams COULD ban the same agent)

Guess the +vanity -vanity train for Cloud9 ends here

Pro teams should learn economy management more. There have been too many times I see a team starting the round with 1 player at 7k and another at like 1k credits

Surely you link clips to these :)

I like Sliggy a lot, but he does need to have some energy sometimes when clutches happen

This is what I meant, like they "earned" it instead of just invited

C9 going international for the first time since franchising :)

C9 -> Houston Rockets (Had some good deep playoff runs but recently is just building young core missing palyoffs)

Imagine going +31 just to get dropped. Hope Krystal finds a good team

Wait you said guaranteed tier 1 for 2 years minimum. Isn't it only 1 year and they have to maintain their spot to stay in the league

The league NALCS finals back in like 2015 was held in Scotiabank. So probably there again

Do you think that one or two signings are getting paid the 400k/year?
Granted there are additional staff like editors etc but what Riot get out of it is not worth the investment

Damn

Start with a 16 team swiss stage but 1st seed starts at 1-0 and 4th seed starts at 0-1
More incentive to be 1st seed. But 4th seed can still play at minimum 2 games

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What a grind

Since EDG and FPX are the top 2 in points and one of the two are guaranteed to go to Champs (Given that the lowest they can possibly place together is 3rd and 4th). If one qualifies as a 3rd place seed, the other one will qualify based off of points.

They need a way to incentivize teams to always keep trying. If we didn't include Stage 1 games into champs performance then teams would just give up after losing 2 games in Stage 1. Obviously would be better if we had LCQ but having it based overall performance in the year is a good thing

Agreed, they're trying to build to actually be able to win a LAN instead of just attending every single one and bombing out

If were going legacy here Hamilton >> Verstappen (give him a few more years to catch up with his recent dominance)

how did leaf get snaked? I just thought C9 was doing a paycut for everyone at the time

C9, the best regular season team and biggest chokers in playoffs

Also oxygen cause Mitch (Ex C9)

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Like the NRG team, just came crawling back

wait do they actually? thats crazy that Madrid gave basically nothing then

But it would be map differential, so a 2-0 would make the differential same as Heretics

While this is fair, would you really want a team that goes 1-4 (20% WR) to make playoffs? Doesn't seem fair for a team on the otherside who likely goes 3-3 (50% WR) in this case to miss playoffs.

To be fair, they probably didn't see Yay/Vanity lineup working for a championship (honestly might've worked) so financially why pay so much to someone if they're going to be mid when you can pay another guy (some T2 player) a lot less to achieve slightly worse results.

Still they shouldn't have paid Yay that much to begin with if they were going to falter so soon

I know Pacific has a 2 win minimum for a team to qualify for playoffs, does Americas have the same rule?

They really opened the floodgates

I mean ACEND won 2021 Champions and they have a quite small presence

I get that you want to give the 1st seed the advantage, but like why not make the 2/3rd matches a double elimination to qualify into the other 2 spots. This might cause the same issue where the 2nd and 3rd place team from the same side of the bracket might just be better. Double elimination is where its at

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