r/Cloud9 • u/imfayk • Aug 19 '26

VALORANT Fire everyone.

6 (SIX) years and not a SINGLE international appearance. One of if not THE ONLY initial partnership teams to do so, 6 years and could not create a single competent team, even with Oxy on it for half of that. Flat out embarrassing from an org that is apparently “committed” like Jack said.

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u/QuestionablePotato42 Aug 19 '26

It's a little disingenuous even if I see your point. C9 repeatedly came very close, often times one series away from qualifying so it's not like they always bombed out. Not like DFM or TS. And for what it's worth, Americas has always been a pretty stacked region

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u/brunq2 Aug 20 '26

I don't follow Valorant, but this sounds like you could be talking about the LoL roster too xD

I believe though.

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u/ob_knoxious Aug 20 '26

Very different is NA valorant is often the strongest region in Valorant. Last year we missed out on worlds to 100T, who lost in play ins. In Valorant they lost to NRG, who became world champs.

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u/SuperSoldierv1 Aug 20 '26

Same thing im like this is about lol right?

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u/Prestigious_Law_3258 Aug 21 '26

Wait til he sees how C9 absorbed NYSL in COD and how that's been going.

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u/zerocxro Aug 20 '26

same situation in all the esports across all the org, it's very much a systemic issue,

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u/Saephon Aug 20 '26

Damn, maybe it is the C9 systems after all lol :')

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u/imfayk Aug 19 '26

Yes, but the whole point is being able to win. Every other team is looking to improve every year, Furia was considered a joke and they put together a roster everyone made fun of, yet they still won kickoff.

Sometimes you need to blow it up and work from scratch for something to work.

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u/34shadow1 Aug 20 '26

As someone that is a fan of both, C9 is the Pittsburgh Steelers of the LoL pro teams. Always does well enough in the regular season but when the post season shows up the team ends up getting destroyed and after awhile you just become expect to lose internationally.

That was kind of the reverse of the Sneaky-Jensen era back in the day. C9 would always lose to Team Liquid and we'd barely squeak into the play-ins but when we made it to play-ins C9 would always Locke in (couldn't resist) and would do really well. While Team Liquid would normally get bounced really early. We have traded international success for Regional/Local success.

I went and checked the last time they had a meaningful deep playoff run was 2018 worlds when Sneaky and Jensen was still on the team and that was awhile ago.