Cloud9 confronted off towards Team Liquid at the moment of their final recreation of week 4 of the LCS Spring Split, a vital recreation for each groups. A win for C9 would tie them for second with Evil Geniuses after a shaky begin to tremendous week, whereas Liquid wished to interrupt out of the center of the pack, at the moment within the backside half of the standings. After 41 minutes of motion, C9 emerged victorious, with help participant Jesper “Zven” Svenningsen exchanging heated phrases along with his opponents afterwards.
Walking over to shake Team Liquid’s palms, Zven opted to not shake palms with the bot lane, merely stating “back to academy”, firing pictures at Sean “Yeon” Sung, who had beforehand performed in Team Liquid Academy since 2020 earlier than his promotion to the principle roster.
Zven later apologized for his actions on Twitter, stating that he discovered it distasteful to trash speak mid-game, however realized how his response was additionally out of line. Yeon later replied, discovering no offense from Zven’s actions and explaining how he likes to maintain the trash speak in-game.
The first all-chat incident of the match began with C9’s mid, Dimitri “Diplex” Ponomarev, who typed “xDDDDD” after securing a bonus within the laning section. Incensed, Yeon fired again after an early recreation tower dive at bot lane and the combat for the second drake, which prolonged Liquid’s result in a 2,000 gold benefit and 4 kills to C9’s one. Yeon proceeded to name C9 “worse than our academy team” in all chat, assured along with his 1/0/3 rating on Lucian as TL prolonged their lead.
Despite the tough begin, C9 rallied again on the fourth drake, taking two kills and a subsequent Baron at 26 minutes, flipping the gold lead of their favor. C9 would go on to complete the sport with this momentum as Zven claimed his 1900th LCS profession help and a 1/2/10 rating on Rakan.
C9 returns in week 5 of the LCS because the third match on Thursday, Feb. 23, viewable on the official LCS Youtube and Twitch channels. They will face Golden Guardians, who additionally received massive in tremendous week with a 3-0 file, beginning the second spherical robin of the Spring Split.
