Cheering Cloud9 from Korea

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As a third party who is part of the crowd that thinks Cloud9 has been choking for a few years now and is due a roster change, I am, however, not part of the crowd that is hate watching for them to implode or something.

I genuinely wish they break the curse and make it to MSI.

In Korea, the casters and the community used to call Cloud9 something roughly "beef bone / ox bone soup" because regardless of how the year went, they will show up to worlds and have the best performance from NA (it takes a long time to cook beef bone soup and while it's a simple recipe, the broth is deeply savory - as in reliably savory - where the metaphor comes in I guess). If you want to find the reference, it's from the worlds where Licorice stole the baron with the Sneaky Zeyzal roster I think.

It was a running thing that people kept saying like "in the end it's just C9 from NA".

Good luck.

Posted Jun 12, 2026, 12:51 PM UTC

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