• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 18:10
CEST 00:10
KST 07:10
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Power Rank - Esports World Cup 202547RSL Season 1 - Final Week9[ASL19] Finals Recap: Standing Tall15HomeStory Cup 27 - Info & Preview18Classic wins Code S Season 2 (2025)16
Community News
BSL Team Wars - Bonyth, Dewalt, Hawk & Sziky teams4Weekly Cups (July 14-20): Final Check-up0Esports World Cup 2025 - Brackets Revealed19Weekly Cups (July 7-13): Classic continues to roll8Team TLMC #5 - Submission re-extension4
StarCraft 2
General
Power Rank - Esports World Cup 2025 Jim claims he and Firefly were involved in match-fixing RSL Revival patreon money discussion thread RSL Season 1 - Final Week The GOAT ranking of GOAT rankings
Tourneys
Esports World Cup 2025 Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament Sea Duckling Open (Global, Bronze-Diamond) FEL Cracov 2025 (July 27) - $8000 live event RSL: Revival, a new crowdfunded tournament series
Strategy
How did i lose this ZvP, whats the proper response
Custom Maps
External Content
Mutation #239 Bad Weather Mutation # 483 Kill Bot Wars Mutation # 482 Wheel of Misfortune Mutation # 481 Fear and Lava
Brood War
General
Ginuda's JaeDong Interview Series BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ ASL20 Preliminary Maps BSL Team Wars - Bonyth, Dewalt, Hawk & Sziky teams BW General Discussion
Tourneys
CSL Xiamen International Invitational [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [CSLPRO] It's CSLAN Season! - Last Chance [BSL 2v2] ProLeague Season 3 - Friday 21:00 CET
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers I am doing this better than progamers do.
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread [MMORPG] Tree of Savior (Successor of Ragnarok) Path of Exile CCLP - Command & Conquer League Project
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread The Games Industry And ATVI Stop Killing Games - European Citizens Initiative
Fan Clubs
SKT1 Classic Fan Club! Maru Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
[\m/] Heavy Metal Thread Anime Discussion Thread Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece Korean Music Discussion
Sports
2024 - 2025 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 NBA General Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Installation of Windows 10 suck at "just a moment" Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Ping To Win? Pings And Their…
TrAiDoS
momentary artworks from des…
tankgirl
from making sc maps to makin…
Husyelt
StarCraft improvement
iopq
Socialism Anyone?
GreenHorizons
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 540 users

Cloud9 Discussion - Page 54

Forum Index > Dota 2 Player & Team Discussion
Post a Reply
Prev 1 52 53 54 55 56 74 Next
goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44119 Posts
July 26 2015 09:06 GMT
#1061
On July 26 2015 12:46 Elyvilon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 25 2015 05:19 goody153 wrote:


this could mean two things

either alohadance is mocking EE for being confident about this International just because they won against them on scrims OR
alohadance is mocking EE for making that statement of being confident this international while losing horrible against empire on scrims

if it's the latter that could mean that c9 isn't invincible against Empire anymore (if the scrims really mean much) .. hopefully it's the former

actually even if it's the former it would probably mean shit cause cause scrims may mean nothing too(remember the weird scrim relationship between DK and EG 2014 when however is owning on scrims will actually lose on the official matches)

my read is the former fwiw

even if it's the latter i don't think it matters much cause it's scrims

and wouldn't it be ironically funny and disappointing if c9 gets eliminated not by the usual ones vg/ig/secret/eg but rather the teams that could almost could not even win a match against them (VP/Empire) and they eliminate c9 when it matters the most lol
this is a quote
goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44119 Posts
July 26 2015 18:29 GMT
#1062
this is a quote
Sabu113
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States11047 Posts
July 27 2015 19:33 GMT
#1063
Game 1 vs lgd is why they won't win ti. Should grtvppd
Biomine is a drunken chick who is on industrial strength amphetamines and would just grab your dick and jerk it as hard and violently as she could while screaming 'OMG FUCK ME', because she saw it in a Sasha Grey video ...-Wombat_Ni
FuzzyJAM
Profile Joined July 2010
Scotland9300 Posts
July 28 2015 15:08 GMT
#1064
C9 is still going to win. Groups favour consistency, which has never been a strong point. Doesn't really matter.

Keep up the belief!
Did you ever say Yes to a single joy?
spudde123
Profile Joined February 2012
4814 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-07-28 15:19:46
July 28 2015 15:18 GMT
#1065
A bit surprisingly to me their draft seemed very shaky yesterday. As far as I recall with bone7 drafting most of the time their draft has been at least alright for the early game, they've had some play issues later on that caused them to lose to Secret at MDL or iG at ESL. But yesterday the last 3 games they put themselves in a very difficult position from the lanes alone. Granted the 2nd LGD game it was made even worse by the dewarding disaster, and the 1st game against NaVi at least 2 of their lanes were alright while bone7 had a very difficult lane with his Puck. But then the 2nd game Sonneiko's ES had completely free reign over the map when c9 was dual laning.

Also as a strange detail their actions before the horn blows were a bit questionable the entire day. Against LGD game 2 they first didn't see where they placed the ward despite putting down an obs of their own, and then they conceded both bounties (or maybe one was denied). Against NaVi game 1 started by NaVi leading 3-1 in kills before the horn and NaVi getting both bounties, and game 2 NaVi also got 1st blood when a fissure isolated n0tail and they again got both bounties.
Piledriver
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1697 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-07-28 23:22:12
July 28 2015 23:20 GMT
#1066
Ranking players in inverse order of performance -

5) n0tail has been playing extremely poorly and is clearly the worst player right now on c9. His impact has been minimal apart from the one game on wisp, and he consistently gets caught out of position during the first 2-3 minutes. I struggle to think back of a single non-wisp game this TI where he has had any kind of big play. He has been feeding first blood in really really really dumb ways, and I hope that for his sake,he improves his game play.

4) Bone7 has been lackluster. He often gets off to good starts, thanks to putting himself in comfortable lanes (and sacrificing envy), but come midgame, he manages to feed away his starts instead of converting them into good space for his own team.

3) Fata showed how good he is, when he's put on one of his signature heroes (BM and DK). Unfortunately though, on meta heroes (Nevermore, Lesh, Lina, QoP) his impact is not up to par compared to the top mids this TI, something that does not bode well for the future sucess of this team. I think its upto Bone7 to draft in such a way that they are able to utilize Fata's tried and tested heroes more effectively.

2) Envy has been left hanging out to dry more than once during the laning stage, forcing him to catch up and find farm in extremely dangerous ways, which he has actually been doing really well. Of course, the lack of synergy late game is clearly evident, where you'll often see Envy farming with 4 teammates behind him, yet still get killed with no saves/return kills coming from his team. Often, they react very late, and end up feeding a few more kills due to their indecisiveness. The old C9 lived and died by Envy. Even in losing fights, they would coordinate extremely well and often times edge ahead in fights that they had no business winning, through sheer coordination. The new C9 - not so much.

1) Misery has been a standout performer in my eyes. What a player. Even in losing games, he makes big plays, especially in defensive situations, often carrying the team on his back. I almost feel bad for him.


I predict an 8th place finish, although I would gladly take anything higher.
Envy fan since NTH.
spudde123
Profile Joined February 2012
4814 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-07-29 00:05:58
July 29 2015 00:00 GMT
#1067
The way the other games have gone in group A, specifically the number of ties teams in the bottom part have played, is pretty perfect for c9. Despite them losing two series already they are 4th in the group and I don't think their last 3 series are the toughest possible. I haven't watched coL play yet properly but MVP is one of the weakest in the group and iG hasn't been that convincing either. So a spot in the upper bracket seems quite possible for c9 imo.

If that happens then it remains to be seen who they get to face there. But I agree that currently they haven't looked good enough to go really deep. Some of their drafts seem very shaky early game wise (a bit surprising even given what bone7 has drafted in the last 2 LANs), and also they've given away some really silly early kills to make it even worse.

But that said there's still time to figure things out a bit. Hard to see them beat Secret later on, but for example their series against LGD hardly gave me the impression that they couldn't beat LGD if they met again.
Piledriver
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1697 Posts
July 29 2015 00:56 GMT
#1068
I think its mainly the fact that this new C9 is more consistently mediocre than the previous incarnation. The previous one had higher highs, and lower lows, but you could never count them out vs ANY team (unless they were in the finals of a tournament of course). They were capable of beating VG, EG and even Secret in the odd game.

The new C9 beats up lesser rated opponents more consistently, but almost never wins vs teams that are favored vs them.

Also watching Aui_2000 play today in EG vs VG made me really salty after seeing n0tail's feeding. Was he really kicked for this?
Envy fan since NTH.
Lancehead
Profile Joined March 2009
Canada123 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-07-29 01:48:30
July 29 2015 01:46 GMT
#1069
On July 29 2015 09:56 Piledriver wrote:
I think its mainly the fact that this new C9 is more consistently mediocre than the previous incarnation. The previous one had higher highs, and lower lows, but you could never count them out vs ANY team (unless they were in the finals of a tournament of course). They were capable of beating VG, EG and even Secret in the odd game.

The new C9 beats up lesser rated opponents more consistently, but almost never wins vs teams that are favored vs them.

Also watching Aui_2000 play today in EG vs VG made me really salty after seeing n0tail's feeding. Was he really kicked for this?


I pretty much agree with your assessment. Envy and Misery have been solid throughout, while Fata underperformed on day 1 but played pretty well today. Bone7 has been making too many mechanical errors at crucial moments, missing his hookshots and RPs. N0tail just hasn't looked the same since he was booted off Secret. He's had his moments here and there, but in general his play has been pretty unimpressive.

I've always thought kicking Aui was a huge mistake. Still kinda salty about it after all this time
Sabu113
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States11047 Posts
July 29 2015 01:51 GMT
#1070
I thought Envy switched out Aui just because he thought the previous incarnation had peaked. Wanted some new blood to challenge the complacency of multiple silvers.

Misery has been playing out of his mind.
Biomine is a drunken chick who is on industrial strength amphetamines and would just grab your dick and jerk it as hard and violently as she could while screaming 'OMG FUCK ME', because she saw it in a Sasha Grey video ...-Wombat_Ni
Z-BosoN
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Brazil2590 Posts
July 29 2015 01:57 GMT
#1071
Aui in the place of n0tail would have been godlike
It's sad to see C9 with this perfomance, hope they somehow find their wavelength
writer22816
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States5775 Posts
July 29 2015 03:52 GMT
#1072
Back in the hotel, Jacky "EternaLEnVy" Mao leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes as he blasted anime music through his headphones, devastated after the 0-2 loss to Secret. In his mind's eye he could still feel the frustration as his antimage was caught in bone-chan's stolen RP and gunned down by Arteezy's gyrocopter again and again. He could still see Clement "Puppey" Ivanov's smirk as if it were challenging both his ability as a dota player and his taste in great anime. He knew that there were even more tougher battles further ahead.

Suddenly he heard a voice in his ear. "Ganbatte ne, EE-kun!" He opened his eyes in amazement, and lo and behold, there was Aisaka Taiga winking at him while dressed in a winter coat and smiling at him. He had inadvertently opened Toradora! yet again. Suddenly the orchestral score of "Lost my pieces" started playing. He could feel the trembling in his body, the tears rolling down his eyes and, for the fleeting of moments, even a slight stirring in his groin. He quickly opened up other animes and before long, the voices of Kana Hanazawa and Ayana Taketatsu were also flowing through his ears.

As the minutes went by, and as he watched his anime waifus that he so loved and respected greatly as his idols, Jacky could feel his confidence returning to him again. While his team sat at 4th place in the group by the narrowest of margins, he reasoned that perhaps the strongest of opponents had already been faced. He and his team had weathered the storm of LGD and Secret and could now look forward to hopefully easier games against iG and MVP, after which they stood a good chance of advancing. A small grin began to form on his face, a grin that morphed into a smile and then finally a psychotic smirk as his eyes turned red:

8/4/12 never forget, never forgive.
Loanshark
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
China3094 Posts
July 29 2015 04:44 GMT
#1073
EE-SAMA TAKE MY POWER
No dough, no go. And no mercy.
goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44119 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-07-29 05:37:50
July 29 2015 05:37 GMT
#1074
On July 29 2015 12:52 writer22816 wrote:
Back in the hotel, Jacky "EternaLEnVy" Mao leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes as he blasted anime music through his headphones, devastated after the 0-2 loss to Secret. In his mind's eye he could still feel the frustration as his antimage was caught in bone-chan's stolen RP and gunned down by Arteezy's gyrocopter again and again. He could still see Clement "Puppey" Ivanov's smirk as if it were challenging both his ability as a dota player and his taste in great anime. He knew that there were even more tougher battles further ahead.


ROFL
this is a quote
writer22816
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States5775 Posts
July 29 2015 05:49 GMT
#1075
On July 29 2015 14:37 goody153 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 29 2015 12:52 writer22816 wrote:
Back in the hotel, Jacky "EternaLEnVy" Mao leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes as he blasted anime music through his headphones, devastated after the 0-2 loss to Secret. In his mind's eye he could still feel the frustration as his antimage was caught in bone-chan's stolen RP and gunned down by Arteezy's gyrocopter again and again. He could still see Clement "Puppey" Ivanov's smirk as if it were challenging both his ability as a dota player and his taste in great anime. He knew that there were even more tougher battles further ahead.


ROFL


Sorry but I do not see what is so funny when someone prefers deep and profound anime like Toradora! and Ore no imouto ga konna ni kawaii wake ga nai over cheap romcoms like Cowboy Bebop and Legend of Galactic Heroes. Perhaps you should consider laughing at yourself if you are not able to appreciate the incredibly good anime taste of our lord and savior EE-sama.
8/4/12 never forget, never forgive.
uthgard
Profile Joined January 2015
2098 Posts
July 29 2015 10:59 GMT
#1076
lol, well It's not like we know for sure if Envy really prefer those two over the other two

his anime taste is very 'shounen' though that's for sure

anyway from what I saw these past 2 days the most obvious things for me is that their draft have been pretty shaky ( reminded me of EE's draft) and FATA have been underpeforming.
Liebig
Profile Joined August 2010
France738 Posts
July 29 2015 11:17 GMT
#1077
The evil mind puppey actually sent bigdaddy n0tail to C9 to undermine them.
spudde123
Profile Joined February 2012
4814 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-07-29 11:43:00
July 29 2015 11:42 GMT
#1078
I think Fata not looking good in some games is also related to their draft difficulties in some of their losses. While people like to meme about Fata carrying the team, often it's not at all him alone who guarantees the good starts which allow him to then do really well, but the supports help him a lot. In some of his Lina games he was just left too alone and he got run over, and the hero is not exactly at her best when she gets behind early. Veno game against Secret there were quite a few situations where Fata was close to killing someone but they just barely tp'd away, which could have made his impact much bigger. But other than that I don't know if there was much he could do there.

The one game where I distinctly remember Fata doing some uncharacteristic errors was g1 against NaVi with his Viper, though c9 won in the end. As far as I recall there were at least a few times where he just threw his life away with some strange blink or positioning. But against Fnatic he did well.
goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44119 Posts
July 29 2015 13:20 GMT
#1079
On July 29 2015 14:49 writer22816 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 29 2015 14:37 goody153 wrote:
On July 29 2015 12:52 writer22816 wrote:
Back in the hotel, Jacky "EternaLEnVy" Mao leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes as he blasted anime music through his headphones, devastated after the 0-2 loss to Secret. In his mind's eye he could still feel the frustration as his antimage was caught in bone-chan's stolen RP and gunned down by Arteezy's gyrocopter again and again. He could still see Clement "Puppey" Ivanov's smirk as if it were challenging both his ability as a dota player and his taste in great anime. He knew that there were even more tougher battles further ahead.


ROFL


Sorry but I do not see what is so funny when someone prefers deep and profound anime like Toradora! and Ore no imouto ga konna ni kawaii wake ga nai over cheap romcoms like Cowboy Bebop and Legend of Galactic Heroes. Perhaps you should consider laughing at yourself if you are not able to appreciate the incredibly good anime taste of our lord and savior EE-sama.

rofl oh i like you buddy
this is a quote
spudde123
Profile Joined February 2012
4814 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-07-29 13:37:15
July 29 2015 13:31 GMT
#1080




Interviews with Misery before the tournament and with bone7 and their coach, I assume after day 2.

From the way he talks it seems that the coach has a pretty good influence on the team. But we'll see how the rest of the group stage goes. Also it's funny when ppasarel starts talking about what he heard about the team and how he was scared to become the coach based on all the forum talk about EE etc., and what it is like in reality.

Prev 1 52 53 54 55 56 74 Next
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 11h 50m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
Hui .274
Nathanias 211
BRAT_OK 44
Nina 10
StarCraft: Brood War
Sexy 30
Bale 8
Dota 2
monkeys_forever376
Counter-Strike
Fnx 1098
Foxcn289
taco 1
Super Smash Bros
AZ_Axe110
Liquid`Ken26
Heroes of the Storm
Liquid`Hasu407
Other Games
tarik_tv10053
summit1g7468
Grubby3233
FrodaN1584
C9.Mang0221
Sick44
Maynarde14
Organizations
Other Games
BasetradeTV32
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 21 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• davetesta80
• poizon28 49
• musti20045 38
• Hupsaiya 38
• RyuSc2 3
• Kozan
• sooper7s
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
StarCraft: Brood War
• Eskiya23 19
• Azhi_Dahaki7
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
Dota 2
• masondota22708
League of Legends
• Doublelift3141
Other Games
• imaqtpie1260
• Shiphtur416
Upcoming Events
Esports World Cup
11h 50m
Reynor vs Zoun
Solar vs SHIN
Classic vs ShoWTimE
Cure vs Rogue
Esports World Cup
1d 12h
CranKy Ducklings
2 days
BSL20 Non-Korean Champi…
2 days
CSO Cup
2 days
BSL20 Non-Korean Champi…
2 days
Bonyth vs Sziky
Dewalt vs Hawk
Hawk vs QiaoGege
Sziky vs Dewalt
Mihu vs Bonyth
Zhanhun vs QiaoGege
QiaoGege vs Fengzi
FEL
3 days
BSL20 Non-Korean Champi…
3 days
BSL20 Non-Korean Champi…
3 days
Bonyth vs Zhanhun
Dewalt vs Mihu
Hawk vs Sziky
Sziky vs QiaoGege
Mihu vs Hawk
Zhanhun vs Dewalt
Fengzi vs Bonyth
Sparkling Tuna Cup
5 days
[ Show More ]
Online Event
5 days
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

CSL Xiamen Invitational
Championship of Russia 2025
Murky Cup #2

Ongoing

Copa Latinoamericana 4
Jiahua Invitational
BSL20 Non-Korean Championship
Esports World Cup 2025
CC Div. A S7
Underdog Cup #2
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 7
IEM Dallas 2025
PGL Astana 2025
Asian Champions League '25

Upcoming

CSLPRO Last Chance 2025
ASL Season 20: Qualifier #1
ASL Season 20: Qualifier #2
ASL Season 20
CSLPRO Chat StarLAN 3
BSL Season 21
RSL Revival: Season 2
Maestros of the Game
SEL Season 2 Championship
uThermal 2v2 Main Event
FEL Cracov 2025
HCC Europe
ESL Pro League S22
StarSeries Fall 2025
FISSURE Playground #2
BLAST Open Fall 2025
BLAST Open Fall Qual
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.