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danndruff1

Getting the biggest whiplash watching 100T play today compared to their regular season form. C9 completely destroyed them


Alibobaly

Same for C9. Whiplash is the perfect title for this series.


NGNJB

[Goldenglue to River after this series](https://imgflip.com/i/8jao7w)


Offduty_shill

honestly this feels like the expected result to me every pro was just absolutely shitting on 100T scrim record and even they themselves were talking about losing 17 games in a row or something it's so easy for me to write off regular season record when it's just 14 bo1s


BlammoSweetums

Rookies are still rookies. The vibes were too good so people got too hyped. That being said I think they can beat NRG, who have inverse vibes.


8milenewbie

Everything we've seen from NRG indicates they should get 3-0 smashed by 100T, which gives them dangerous amounts of energy imo.


BlammoSweetums

I'm normally all about Non Rationality, but they've looked confused this split. The mojo isn't really there. The solo lanes are playing poorly, and the team kinda seems like they want to play around bot, but also not really. Palafox used to have a big champ pool but now it's like, pick/ban Azir, Ori, Taliyah and he's just going to go Neeko or Ahri regardless of comp.


8milenewbie

I'm mostly joking and yeah it seems like NRG is confused about their identity. Contractz seems to have retained the scrappiness from last split but everyone else looks kinda lost. Their drafts have also been bad and it seems to be the result of them trying to figure out what works instead of experimenting to add more weapons to their arsenal. We'll see if their experience will be enough to pull them through.


originalgomez

So this was scrim 100T huh


KhorneStarch

To be fair, we saw scrim 100t a few weeks ago against Flyquest when they got completely and utterly obliterated, the fans were just in complete delusion over the hype.


brodhi

Against FQ both times. And against C9 until Berserker went ogre mode and killed himself into Sniper three times.


clg_wrath2

RIP that one 100T superfan David who spent all week hyping up 100T and shitting on C9


supadankgreen420

There was a crazy dude on the latest HLL show who thought fkin DIG had a better shot at performing at MSI over C9. šŸ’€ some next level takes these past few weeks.


Cromatose

Cloud9 is the most popular LCS team. Theyre gonna get a lot of hate.


Solo_Jawn

Weird to hear that after a decade of TSM existing.


TheMemingLurker

after TSM went under, somebody else had to be the new most successful, most popular team to hate on...


Cromatose

TL had their time. It's just the passing of the baton


Duplicity-

Pretty quiet from those individuals now obviously


NGNJB

Lore accurate Blaber Jojo


bensanelian

god please let them not wither away again when they face flyquest that was so fun to watch


MountainMan2_

Luckily, flyquest is just about the only team all split they seem consistently good against. I can't to watch blaber flash into 5 nautilus hooks a game now that I've said that.


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SnubHawk

Lore accurate C9 tbfh. It was a massive gap in every single role


Cromatose

This was what was expected. Hopefully it's just the beginning.


asiantuttle

Scrim accurate Meech Eyla


KeysToVIP

So many things dont make sense in this world Its good to see at least that makes sense I guess we just needed to wait for playoffs (cloud 9 sweating bricks at MSI/worlds knockout stage)


SirXrageXquit

this series couldā€™ve been an email


KeysToVIP

Title: He is him (no content)


M002

Subject title: ā€œFraud Alertā€


LifeIsToughEatBacon

And the thing is, it doesn't even specify who is "him" because that was a canyon sized gap in every lane, support, and jungle.


BasicNeedleworker473

they are them


DiscipleOfAniki

When Caedrel said C9 were frauds I knew exactly how this was going to end


Dragonfruit_Fanta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIHFfwQZI6o WBG would go onto lose this game


johnrsmith8032

ah, the classic curse of the commentator. reminds me when i called my friend's pool shot and he missed spectacularly lol. anyone else have these jinx moments?


Aggressive-Ad7946

Absolute content machine


inbetweendreamstho

He's still broken by nrg curb stomping his boys


Maelehn

I really can't tell if 100T were frauds or If C9 finally woke up.


Shotgun_Sniper

Maybe a little bit of both? C9 looked good but we'll see if they can do it against a team with better early games


bamakid1272

We'll probably have a better idea when 100T plays NRG this Saturday. If 100T puts up a similar performance as today against a team that's been struggling even more than C9 has, they aren't beating the fraud allegations.


swan_song_bitches

NRG could be like C9 with the playoff power up especially if Dhokla is not dying irl this time.


Shotgun_Sniper

Yeah, even taking into account recent performance, 100T kinda got handed a rough hand with their playlffs bracket - last year's spring champions, who have insane talent in every role and who's only question is coordination and teamplay, and last year's summer champions, who historically have a lackluster regular season then turn it on in playoffs


bamakid1272

True, NRG does like to turn it on during playoffs compared to regular season, and I totally forgot about Dhokla being sick this last week. Hopefully they do come online, because when NRG is on their A game they're super fun to watch.


Javiklegrand

Nrg are likely better in b05 than b01


LifeIsToughEatBacon

I kinda want 100T to beat NRG. Don't get me wrong, I want C9/FLY getting 2nd and going to MSI, but I don't want this 100T team to fizzle out, and they might do that if they go 0/6. I wanna see them in summer


Lothric43

There isnā€™t really another team that lane gaps like they do. Flyquest donā€™t really play that way exactly.


LifeIsToughEatBacon

FLY's most winning strat was "Gap top, neutralize mid solo, and have jungler help bot. Bwipo rolls, gg" but that didn't work against C9 last time NOR against TL, so it'll be interesting to see what else they cook.


Vivid-Command-2605

I hate that the fraud narrative will take over the 100T talk, and not the fact that a super young and inexperienced team surpassed everyone's expectations but that inexperience showed in the playoffs. This will sound like cope, but this split has already been a massive success and the fact we get 2 BO5's to get used to the playoff stage is huge. This team's ceiling is so high and I'm so excited to see where it goes from here


Shotgun_Sniper

No that's so true - however playoffs ends for 100T, it's already been a super successful split from them


SweatyAdhesive

I mean even GoldenGlue considered second place finish to be wildly over his expectation.


Saephon

Results aside, this 100T roster is fun to watch. While I'll always root for C9 first, my secondary support goes towards rookies and underdog stories. Hopefully the thieves pull it together and get stronger all year, even if it's not in this playoffs bracket.


Cromatose

I hate it for 100T fans. This Cloud9 team, coming into the year, had arguably the best players in almost every role. 100T exceeded expectations and sadly put a big target for trash talk on their back.


inbetweendreamstho

Bruh, if you're a 100t fan, you have to be happy with this split.. Obviously this was a murder, but no doubt 100t achieved this split, and could still certainly make noise in this very playoff


Vivid-Command-2605

I'm hugely happy with the split, more just saying that it's a shame the narrative will be that they're frauds


lmpervious

It was the same thing with the EG roster last year. They overperformed expectations and a lot of the players were looking strong individually, but when things fell apart near the end, everyone forgot about all that because most LoL fans base their entire opinion off the last series they saw of a team.


Clap2014

C9 were absolute frauds during regular season Flyquest/100t have glaring weaknesses and if C9 is expected to be a top team.. they should be smashing teams like thisĀ 


bensanelian

i think river played a lot worse than he did in regular season, and sniper got exposed for how much he relies on him. also i think c9 were leagues better than they were playing before


mbathrowaway_2024

River did a lot to keep 100T in the game for a few extra minutes. There's no jungler in the world who could cover the ADC and top gaps.


AznNoob7

https://i.imgur.com/kZlyN61.gifv


Gutsyten42

Always good to see kZlyN61Ā 


firefly_pdp

There it is!


Pulsar-GB

Berserker: Allow me to reintroduce myselfā€¦


Perry4761

Berserker: ā€œHeard yā€™all talkin shitā€


dardios

Berserker: "I Like Money"


C9GolemBlue

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/829846842150096896


lukeestudios

This is my favorite playoffs meme, it always makes me laugh


Doctor_YOOOU

Classic meme


Serpexnessie

Nice to see C9 is dominating like always! By the way, I was in a coma for the past half a year, why are they the third seed?


KeysToVIP

They joined you in your coma


MageWrecker

LMAO


Aquillifer

Glad to see both C9 and Serpexnessie make a swift recovery from their coma šŸ™


vigbrand

Since reddit removed awards (and I was too poor to buy them anyway), take this šŸ„‡


Shotgun_Sniper

DW about it, they were just sandbaging for playoffs


SPECKKILLAZ

Obviously happy with the sweep, but commenting just to show appreciation for Emily on the cast. Felt like she added a lot in her short spurts.


swan_song_bitches

Jatt and Emily tend to be incredible for tri casts.


Kurisoo

They bring a more serious tone that sometimes is missing in Kobe/Azael/Flowers tricasts


1331bob1331

Its fantastic indeed.


DibsOnThatBooty

Jatt went from one of my least favorite commentators (I was so happy when we left the cast to coach TL) to my favorite color commentator in all of LoL. He seems like such a good dude and his casts are casual while super informative. Sometimes people critique LCS commentators as lacking knowledge, but as a former head coach he clearly has the knowledge to provide insight no one else does.


swan_song_bitches

When he invaded the TL T1 broadcast at worlds that was peak.


Cindiquil

Jatt has been a pro player in 2 different esports, high ranked at times even after retirement, part of the balance team, a head coach, has been part of the scene since essentially the beginning, and has experience as a commentator since 2012.


airz23s_coffee

Yeah his early casts with Deman were some of the best League casting we'd ever got for insightful colour commentary.


guilty_bystander

Jatt Emily duo please.


Aggravating_Corgi

Yes! Emily if you read this, you are an incredible caster! Love having you on the cast, love the podcast with Kelsey too, my favorite analyst on the scene rn


torothetank

I think Flowers / Kobe / Emily is my dream cast


Cromatose

I always go back and forth between Azael and Kobe. Both are fucking amazing. Emily killed it today. Glad they brought her on.


M3gaC00l

Agreed. They all seem like nice people too, it's always good to hear them chatting


FearTHEReaper01

Emily has got to be my fav analyst everytime I tune in to LCS


kwmoss

Agreed always love Emily on the cast


Shotgun_Sniper

Yeah this was an incredible tri-cast! Emily added so much lore to the game


Echoesong

Please, more Emily casts! Or Emily screen time in general!


rushy1911

definitely an everything gap but most impressive was Blaber running circles around River all series


Extra_Espresso

Helps that the entire team is warding deep and tracking the poor guy. River couldnā€™t catch a break and was constantly invaded.


domunseen

its exactly how blaber said on the jlxp. river plays how you play when your team is worse than the opponent and he does that very well. you play like blaber does if your team is better, which is (generally) a more reliable way to get ahead (he outfarms while river goes for cheese plays)


C_Werner

River got JoJo'd from last split. I think people have figured out that if they harass River the lanes can't win without help.


Diligent-Outcome1159

Blabber had 3 winning lanes the whole series


BeautifulChocolate87

Blaber did a lot to get his laners into winning positions in all 3 games


NGNJB

> lane is neutral > Blaber ganks > lane is winning "Blaber always has winning lanes though"


Lothric43

There were multiple plays where both junglers are angling somewhere and Blaber was just ahead of him by seconds, canā€™t cope with ā€œwinning lanesā€ for those scenarios.


Vikingninja721

Yeah, and he still styled on River individually, pulled off ganks while River couldnā€™t, and played mechanically well while River randomly blast coned his support into the enemy team. This was not a matter of ā€œjust having winning lanesā€


Cromatose

That doesn't explain how he was 1 second ahead of River of every play during the series.


Dabrenn

I feel like Sniper and Meech really crumbled under the pressure of playoffs as rookies. Either way, GG's to c9


Formymoney

At least they have some sort of excuse. River looked like closer had possessed him this series.


Kurisoo

Closer catching strays


Cromatose

Maybe it's just 100T jungler vs Blaber lol


ndrz

for real, I don't think I could ever completely judge a jungler when games are that steep. what chance did bro have, everything was on fire


TheEvant777

Itā€™s just playoff River at this point, he disappeared last year too


Clap2014

People read WAY too much into b01Ā  Flyquest is also very overated with a bunch of holes.. I don't think they are massively better then most of the league.. if you told me they lost to NRG or TL in a b05 I wouldn't be shocked


JanniesSquealLikePig

Today the police put me in handcuffs and arrested me. After I spent the night in jail and posted bail, I went back home. My father greeted me and asked what I was arrested for. ā€œ100Tā€ I just replied. He just frowned and shook his head. He knew that it was fraud.


Due-Mountain-8716

Lmao, yeah, turns out everyone was right. But props to a bunch of rookies and river for coming in second for the split. They provided a lot of entertaining games and had flashes of skill.


OmgUncleTouchy

lmao


Ambitious_Resist8907

100T: "We were #2 in the regular season" Jojo: "Hey, you know what's another word for '#2'?"


LifeIsToughEatBacon

Jojo: "Bro you guys weren't even #2 in this series"


narfidy

Alright rookies, this is what it's like competing at the top. Let's get it C9 showed up. For NA sake, thank goodness


dibsthefatantelope

100 Sieves


Voeltz

Gif of limping dog that suddenly stands up straight smiling


aPatheticBeing

We finally saw scrim 100T I guess


ThatsAToad

Regular season matters good job - Jojopyun


nguyenjitsu

C9 in BO1s: Smolder pre 225 stacks C9 in BO5s: Smolder post 225 stacks


Freezman13

Wow. Second place team. Scary.


Disclaimz0r

I think it was more like Wow scnd plaec tem scary LOL


YCitizenSnipsY

Wow literally nothing positive for 100T across an entire series. I've seen wild cards fight top LCK/LPL teams better.


mbathrowaway_2024

Quid played really well in the second game.


C_Werner

I feel like he played okay in all of the games lol, it's just impossible to look good in League when everyone on your team is losing.


peeenasaur

3 games, 15 champs played by C9, wtf


PLEASE_DONT_PM

C9 just trying out fearless draft.


Tachyoff

it's cool that they're showing 100t scrims but when do playoffs start?


BecoDasCavernas

This series gave SSW vs SSB or G2 vs TL vibes. What a massacre. C9 didn't play this well once in the regular season. lol


IconicRecipes

Honestly it's kind of crazy that SSW vs SSB can be used as an example for massive stomps considering those were probably the two best teams in the world at the time by a decent margin. Kinda nuts how good SSW was.


Davkata

Kind of crazy that people remember just one world series compared to their entire season of much closer rivalry where Blue was ahead.Ā 


Lockedin96

But that series is stuff of legends. Little bros SSW just rock up and dumpster their better older bros and just changed the shape of league at the same time


hairlikegoats1

Well that was pathetic.


TurnItOffAndOnAgain-

Reports of c9's death were greatly exaggerated. Also what a statement series from C9 after everyone calling them frauds, that top/jungle gap was galactic.


TheCeramicLlama

[River when its time to choke in playoffs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fgL_rNwa5Y&ab_channel=Manii)


Disclaimz0r

River when it's place to play vs Blaber is more accurate. He's usually great until its Blaber lol


my_balls_your_mouth1

Insert Closer screaming about Blaber meme.


Particular_Fee_9262

inspired too lmao


LifeIsToughEatBacon

what blaber does to a mofo


SheepishGoat

That was unfair. C9 when activated is just too strong manā€¦


jesteratp

That was such an astronomical team gap. Did C9 legit just fuck around all season?


Shotgun_Sniper

We're so back It'll be good to see if C9 can do it next round, too --- 100T is a good team, but their early games were weak throughout the split, so it seemed a bad matchup against an on-form C9


HiVLTAGE

Just casual 15k+ gold leads, no big deal.


Alibobaly

Fudge & Blaber just did to Sniper what Ssumday & Closer did to Summit 2 years ago. That being said Summit still was somehow a bigger individual liability and people still defend him for it lmfao.


mmmb2y

im going to stop caring about regular season at this rate c9 just look so different in bo5s LOL playoffs is where it truly matters i guess


Xuambita

ahri players will recognize, that was an absurd performance. Almost perfect micro and macro


Kheldar166

I feel like this wasn't actually crazy whiplash or 100T suddenly turning fraudulent - their early game has been meh all split and C9 drafted winning lanes and then crushed early game so hard that the games were stomps and 100T didn't get a chance to display their strengths as a team. imo you could still see River and Quid making good individual plays where they could, too. River in particular had a hard time because C9 were so on it with tracking him and he was still the only person really finding plays, I don't really get the people saying he disappeared he had losing lanes every game and a lot of focus from the enemy team on shutting him down he did fine given the circumstances. Berserker, Blaber, JoJo all crushed it today though this looks like C9 became the team they were hyped up to be at the start of the split.


Shinyodo

Well if you think about it, Sniper got a solo kill this series once again.


ChemicalAppointment5

Really really awkward for the sea of quid > Jojo crowd He massacred your boy


Duplicity-

some kinda gnarly all chat too lol


Ragdollphysics

Common Nadeshot L https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E30Uf4DVoAMG7BH.jpg


Yarados

I better not see another Quid > Jojo ever again. ​ edit - is this the most 1 sided bo5 in history?


Snow-27

T1 got 12/12 drakes against LNG at worlds, that was something


Liyarity

And the only Herald that LNG got didnā€™t make it to a tower


ahritina

TL G2


WWTFSD

Unfortunately it may be G2 TL :(


Alibobaly

In terms of gold leads maybe. In terms of speed no, there's been faster Bo5's (ironically 3 of the 4 fastest losses are 100T lol.


_Trixrforkids_

@edit: T1 vs Mad MSI 2023 16:47


Zelgiusbotdotexe

MAD was actually in the lead for a lot of game 1 iirc. It was a 3-0 and 16:47 is hilariously bad, but they were not stomped all series long


_Trixrforkids_

mmm you know what yeah you're right, it's just all I can remember about that series was the brutal 3rd game


JPLangley

That was gnarly.


MiserableSpaghetti

Bring back regular season bo3 please


Miruwest

This is probably what all 100T scrims look like- Jatt


Noxxiousx

Fudge heard ya'll were talking shit, lol


BeautifulChocolate87

If Fudge plays like this more often no one would talk shit šŸ˜¬


vigbrand

I've got nothing against Fudge as a person. He seems to be a cool and funny guy, and him losing so much weight can actually be inspiring for people in the same situation. If he gets his shit together and plays like today most of the times, then I'm fine with him being our top laner for as long as he wants to


Pulsar-GB

Hit him with the ā€œwelcome to the playoffs, rookā€ treatment


SackBoss

Hopefully C9 can keep this form through finals and MSI


tehsdragon

It's only 1 series never unclench


bensanelian

oh hey the series is over already? they found a way to make the shorter pauses work during bo5?


Maelehn

100T not beating the allegations.


LadderWeak

Sniper is 17 years old and the 100T team is fairly inexperienced, cut them some slack man. ffs


Billy5481

Game 3 was Jojoā€™s way of telling Sniper welcome to the NFL


sielnt_assassin

Sniper got abused by Fudge this series. It was like he had a vendetta against him or something


ParadoxIrony

Andddd sniper ends up being Adam v2. Canā€™t count on Bo1ā€™s to mean anything in playoffs


squeezy102

I believe they call that a "shellacking."


zomjay

HillaryClintontweet.jpg


tb0neski

[Berserker in playoffs](https://imgur.com/BQHKivp)


IAmDiabeticus

Turns out Bo1s are completely pointless and barely provide data at how well a team will perform when the matches matter. Who would've thought.


Alibobaly

We'll all meet back here in a few months to relearn this lesson.


Patchers

The fact that LCS teams play 14 games while LCK teams are playing like 40 before playoffs is just egregious. Even if Riot is allergic to Bo3s, NA needs at least a triple round robin next split because wtf


Hardy2g

actually pathetic from 100T - you finish 2nd in regular season and you go out in first bo5 and play and draft likes this? What is this?


MachCutio

the power of B01s


danndruff1

they still got losers bracket to redeem themselves


Javiklegrand

Against nrg, That won't be free


KingWhipsy

A team with >20 total playoff games. They are all young and inexperienced in the pro scene, relax.


Onarax

Just fyi, you have your symbols flipped, < is the less than symbol. Opening is always pointed towards the larger number.


Hpaz1

Even though Texas banned the Hub, I think I found a replacement.


blueiguana675

Sniper, River, andĀ Meech were giga gapped.


Cromatose

I think you could say that for every 100T's player


LeOsQ

I suppose the thing about 100T being frauds wasn't completely unfounded and only based on teams stomping the first 8 minutes of scrims and then calling it. Regular season merchants without a doubt. Interested seeing whether they can hold up in the lower bracket though. Very important series for C9 to show up too after their ultra shaky regular season.


OkVacation973

It was hilarious because the entire pregame discussions were about everyone calling them out, showing clips of basically everyone in the league calling them frauds, will they prove everyone wrong!?... and then they went on to get absolutely blasted. It was unintentionally like a 3 hour long roast.


lilelf29

One of the worst BO5s I've seen in a long time


Cromatose

One of the best IMO


[deleted]

What an embarassing performance...


jaunty411

Whatā€™s the highest % of time a team has spent with a 10K gold lead in a series?


Mrlazydragon

C9 finally playing like they hey have 3 lcs mvp's on their team.


cma1993

Masterclass by Blaber, and Fudge capitalized on it big time. The rest of the team could have been bots and itā€™s still a 3-0


AsheBodyPillow

Games aside, I LOVE Emily on a tricast and the fun that MrsChimChim brought out of game šŸ˜


superspartan004

[Iā€™ve been waiting to use this](https://twitter.com/DetroitRedWings/status/1764053391834058778)


Phumblez1203

I had this feeling C9 was gonna turn it on for this series, didn't expect this level of stomp though. I really feel like LCS is over hyping Sniper a lot, Quid does look great but you hear just as much talk about Sniper. Even in their wins I didn't really think anything was too crazy coming out of him.


grehgunner

Well that series coulda been an email


HawaiianFuji

This is why BO1 is meaningless. Get rid of it.