Unfortunately, most of the C9 spam is referring to a play that wasn't actually a C9. People spam C9 when one single player is still alive on their team and dies before they can tap the point. Or when someone gets booped away from the point.
People really gloss over that fact. Teams forgetting the objectives has happend long before C9 did it but them doing it three times really stood out and cemented the name
HourlySum It doesn’t even have to exclusively be when you’re winning the fight. If you and the enemy team are on even grounds and it’s a winnable situation but you’re team actually FORGETS (emphasis on forgetting, not getting forced away) about the objective, that’s a C9
Without that its not their fault bullshit, cus it fucking is, the object of overwatch was never to kill but to get the point, and yea, therefore kill but when you forget the point within that rush its well deserved and (at least for the moment and as a pro player) definately stupid.
It wasn't just that moment at apex, Cloud 9 continued to repeat similar situations at other tournaments, few occuring multiple times in one, to the point that they became recognized for 'C9-ing' and sparked that term in the community.
I'm pretty sure the term C9 was actually born from that match alone. But it wasn't just that 1 round they C9-ed. They pulled off the C9 twice on LiJiang and once of Volskaya, 3 in total in that 1 match VS Afreeca. Seriously, how does a team manage to pull of 3 C9s in 1 match. I don't think even Spitfire has reached that realm yet.
Oh yeah, that's what I meant. I wasn't sure if it was multiple tournaments or one. All I recalled was at one point they C9-ed way too many times. C9-ing once is reasonable, but multiple times just means there's something terribly wrong.
Ranx Alter it wasnt tho the one this video showed was worse. The volkaya had a dva bomb and all shields were down so they either had to sacrifice a player or lose. While the video shows them actually winning the fight but losing the map
I hate when in my low diamond game we win a team fight on a map like temple and hanamura and then we boop an enemy of the point as they are about to get on a people say c9 it pisses me off
I once won a comp match for my team 4-3 on eichenwalde because the enemy team decided to spawn trap my team, so I switched off support to Sombra and capped point. Our wrecking ball made a nice rollout and joined me LMAO
The way I’ve always described C9s is when a team has the capability to comfortably be on the objective at a crucial time and they concede something by not being there.
Yes. Some people misuse it whenever someone gets pushed off the point by an ult or something and then loses, but that's not a C9. A C9 is like when someone is capping your point and your whole team is up, but busy on the front lines, and meanwhile tracer is on the point. Was funniest on assault maps.
Well, it actually is though and it's called a Geodesic. Considering the regulations of maps and how they are portrayed on a flat surface, that is technically the correct way to show a plane route since it is the fastest path from A to B.
Still pisses me off when people spam c9 when a team is forced off an objective or can't get to the objective due to enemy ults being used or CC cause that ain't a c9, as they purposefully don't try to get off or on the objective, as they don't forget about the objective, they simply can't, cause they aren't forgetting about it at all. People just want the excuse to spam c9 in chat cause they think it's cool and understand what is it when they really don't, a proper c9 is a rare occurrence, and when it happens, everyone knows it has happened and should be savoured, not fucking wanting it happen every other fricken game.
Like the one with Spitfire versus Gladiators shown in this vid is a true c9 as the player holding the point got off to put pressure on respawns whereas the one with Gladiators versus Outlaws isn't really one because they were forced off by the D.va bomb
Tanner Victorino Yeah to be honest I agree with on that point, the Outlaws and Gladiators clip is halfway to C9 IMO, some players are actively getting off the objective chase down kills, and the dva bomb is forcing others off(I didn't notice the dva bomb first time XD), so yeah not a true c9 but part way there. Thanks for the thoughtful reply :)
that's because its not a C9, its CC. Aka, what some people would call a "forced C9". Similar to getting caught in a Grav and unable to touch the point.
reminds me of an old CSGO play that involved cloud9, in the round there was 3 C9 players alive and 1 enemy left. right before the enemy died he planted the bomb and threw a fire on it, now it takes the bomb 40 seconds to blow up and 7 seconds for the fire to go away, and instead of waiting for the fire to go away all 3 of the C9 players jumped on the bomb and died from the fire losing them the round all because they couldn't wait 7 seconds
I just wish people would stop shouting it when they y'know, successfully defend the point the way they're intended to. 'We outnumber you and forced your surviving players into defeat or death situations, thus preventing them from capping the point. Lol C9!'
Whenever I play with a team, sometimes they’ll incorrectly refer to somethings as C9, usually whenever we win a team fight in point and the enemy team can’t reach it in time. I remember as Lucio I booped the enemy team off the point far into overtime and that caused us to win the round and then win the match later, but my team referred to it as C9.
I've only been playing OW for 3 weeks, but now knowing what a C9 is, I realize that I C9'd for my team within the first week of playing. Escorting payload, playing Widow, El Dorado, no one saw me but one guy on our team, the entire enemy team was preoccupied with my teammates and I won the match for my team. That is clearly my best and favorite play ever.
I think my favorite thing to do is during a team fight, and this would be either really early or late game, sneak onto the point during a team fight while everyone else is focused on killing each other and try and cap it, or even move the payload depending on how freakin oblivious people are. I’ve capped the point on Blizzard World by myself without anyone realizing before a few times before as small high mobility characters. Tracer, Widow, and Sombra all work really well for this. Everyone is focused on he choke point and so many people forget how to get around in that it makes this really easy. Also I’ve moved the payload on Watch Point Gibraltar all the way to the first checkpoint at times as Widow because if you aren’t shooting people kinda forget about you. I’ll take a few pics, they’ll hit the choke and then I swoop around to the other side and I’m forgotten as I push the payload. I mean your aren’t gonna get POTG that way obviously but I’ve done it a lot and people just forget you exist until they get the message about the CP.
The meaning is definitely shifting to just if anyone is alive at all without contesting point. Whether they're in a grav or being booped off, it leads to the whole team typing 'C9' regardless.
It’s nice to know that your teammates just 100% forgetting about the point to chase the enemy team to some other part of the map is universal amongst the overwatch ranks
So glad this has an actual name, because one of my favorite overwatch memories was watching my entire team get wiped while I solo escorted a payload as winston. The enemy team only noticed me after it was too late.
Saved you some time. A term used in the game Overwatch describing the situation when a team leaves the point/payload in overtime, resulting in the other team winning by default.
dude TH-cam is getting scary. Just recently startet to watch OWL and i quickly understood that C9 is a term for back-capping, but wodered why its called C9. And now 2 days later that suggestion lol nice vid btw ^^
It actually started earlier than OWL, when Cloud 9 C9'd in CS:GO, winning the fight on the point but forgetting to defuse the bomb. All the players were so busy running around getting weapons that nobody defused and they lost the match. (This happened in a playoff game, iirc)
Um no thats completely wrong when he says the meaning changed. C9 always referred to teams losing because they weren't on the point. C9 has done this multiple times in worse situations where they would have capped for map points but were all to busy taking fights.....
FrostDeezAKA what? Then it has changed. Because people use it literally every game end. Even if the other team didn't abandon their winning objective despite winning a team fight.
Um no thats completely wrong when he says the meaning changed. C9 always referred to teams losing because they don't know how molotovs work. C9 has done this multiple times in worse situations where they would have capped for map points but were all to busy taking fights.....
This happened to me yesterday. We had a tracer in our team. She rewinded, but completely ignored the point afterwards during overtime. I was playing Zarya, but I was dead, so I was death spectating the Tracer.
Same thing happened in DOTA 2, C9 team were on the verge of winning but the enemy did a surprise rush push to C9's throne. What ended up happening was none of the C9 players had TPs and had to walk all the way back to their base while looking at it getting destroyed, finally losing the game.
I encountered this recently. I was playing a close, but winning match in Coliseo as Mercy, when towards end of the clock running out the enemy were pushing the robot, but they had to get ahead of us to win. So, we got into a last team fight to stop them, and despite me dying during that fight, we actually won the team fight. However, when I came out of spawn, I witnessed my entire team running after some retreating enemies, but meanwhile they had left a ninja Zarya freely pushing the robot. I kept spamming ''fall back'' and ''regroup'', but none on my team made it in time to help me contest, so the Zarya went on to win them the game. At the end of the match the enemy team were laughing and spamming C9 on the chat, and now I know why.
FYI, the original "C9" moment was a Dota 2 professional game where cloud nine was the first high tear team in a professional tournament to get "back doored" on a platform such as twitch. so basically it just means to get back capped now for overwatch... it became a meme due to the dota 2 community and twitch...
An easy fix would be to put up a big ALERT or WARNING on the screen (HUD) that you're leaving the objective every time there's an overtime or something. That's definitely noob and pro friendly. ;)
I've been C9-ing for a minute then. Had a Mayhem match where we were getting creamed, but the enemy forgot what game mode they were playing. Ended up carring the objective in the final stretch by myself, and it was priceless when the other team realized what I had done
I literally played a match earlier on Havana where I solo capped the first point and the enemy team didn’t even notice, I played sym and this was with a bunch of level 10-20’s for anyone wondering
You guys forgot to mention. That same match, or as far as I remember, the 3rd round was on Garden ( Lijiang ), and Cloud9 had the game, but the same thing happened, where they won the fight, Overtime kicked in, and nobody touched point. The term came into use not because of one, but two instances during the same match. Happy meme-ing kids.
If your under the impression that a non endemic piece of relatively rare terminology dislcudes a person from playing Overwatch, you my freind are the one that should leave Overwatch
My extensive vernacular has little effect upon my criticism, I merely wish to discourage the sort of toxic behavior you seam to display in your rather elitist comment, if you feel condescended by my rather superior grammar I think your getting the point of why your behavior is untenable.
Justin Seckel you seem so focused on impressing a stranger with your " extensive vernacular" you made some mistakes in your sentence. Like "seam" and the typical "your" mistake.... Sorry bud I'm not impressed
Could someone explain to me why I see "Z9" being used as well as "C9"? Great video btw! I already knew the meaning but wanted to support someone who gave an accurate and concise explanation!
So this term can be used, when one team might overextend and gets away from the objective, for the defending team to get an upper hand or for the attacking team to get a cheeky backcap.
I won a game once as a baby D'va walking in the payload while both teams were all around me fighting. I didn't even fire because I was too afraid somebody would notice me if I did.
Me and my pals just refer to it as the fuck-up that the defenders pull when the attackers back-cap, which is when they cap the objective behind the enemy teams back because they were focused on pushing us back instead of defending the point.
The first time I heard the term was when I pulled off a C9 win. My team was attacking on Numbani and I was playing D.Va. we almost pushed the payliad all the way but the defenders managed to wipe us out. They then proceeded to abandon the payload and set up a bunker in the tunnel just past the midway checkpoint. There was a lot of fierce fighting in the tunnel but I thought I spotted movement on the balcony above. Using my rocket boost I went up there to take out a potential sniper but found the room empty. Seeing an opportunity, I exited onto a balcony on the opposite side and used my rocket boost again to reach the completely unguarded payload. Only the enemy Mercy noticed me and tried to stop me but she was too far away to contest. After that, the chat filled up with confused messages and I quickly learned what C9 means. :)
@@mel9641 By the definition in this video and in other places I've checked, my story sounds pretty close if not dead on. The enemy team was so fixated on the battle in the tunnel that they remained completely oblivious to me pushing the payload. ( ' - ' )
I see a C9 as when your team is guaranteed not to lose the round by just staying on the objective, but you leave it anyway and lose when, for example, pushing a payload during overtime with no enemies around and you move away from it so that overtime ticks down to zero, resulting in a loss for your team. A C9 has to entirely be your own team's fault, not the enemy team's achievement. It doesn't count as a C9 if an enemy caps the objective and you're either a; forced off it or b; getting back-capped by an enemy Sombra, etc.
at 3:15 you made a mistake...it goes to overtime if a team is on the point if Payload: a team is on the payload when less than 3.00 seconds exactly is on the clock when they leave Control: When a team leaves the point after 95% and you made the mercy leave at 2 seconds which means that it should be overtime
C9 is when you would have won the fight but fail(forget) to capture or contest the objective. This can happen both on attack and defense, the term C9 originates from an OT attack payload push, where the whole team got off the payload in order to eliminate the enemy team. It is NOT a C9 if the fight is lost anyway, like being 3v6 on 2CP at pro level it won't make a difference whether you manage to touch the point before OT as Tracer, because the enemy isn't going to lose a 6v3 or let you contest until your teammates come back.
What i always classify it as is when a team has a winning advantage(Pushing the cart to the end) but then proceeds to get off the objective because of greed
I'm sitting at low gold right now. Most comp plays here are full of DPS who want to get all the killz. Like I'm not good or anything, can't even aim at all, that's why I'm stuck in gold and I only play a healer but I know the objective is the main thing that my team should be pushing for and it always amazed me how my teammates who were way better than me at aiming and racking up kills almost always forget about the objective. Maybe it's the pressure? Played comp last night and we were at 80% vs enemy's 99% (it was enemy's at that point) and it was overtime, my DPS had been eliminated and me being the dipshit aim god that I am but not wanting to lose, forced myself in to keep overtime going, I was kinda surprised at my ability to stay alive but in the end, got myself killed fighting three enemies in the control point, but bless my Junkrat who just spawned and released riptire fast enough to kill all those three DPS who were ganging up on me. AND YOU KNOW WHAT MY SOMBRA DID? She arrived at the scene (no one was there) and went invincible and ran straight near the enemy's spawn room probably because she was trying to be smart and ambush the enemy, I was screaming for her to go back but she didn't have a mic on I guess, so I was left dumbfounded watching her while waiting to respawn. We had won the first round and could have won the second one. We lost the third round and I was raving off mic at that incredibly stupid move (I don't trash talk people on mic, also people on gold don't use mic lol). Like I'm not good at aiming but at least I have a brain.
i am never gonna use this term but im glad i now know where it comes from, i had my hunches on what it was... but i rather get the details correct than asking some random player.
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Unfortunately, most of the C9 spam is referring to a play that wasn't actually a C9. People spam C9 when one single player is still alive on their team and dies before they can tap the point. Or when someone gets booped away from the point.
Actually Cloud9 C9'd 3 times in that match. The fact that it happened so many times is what really got the meme going
Nathan Frantz thanks, I wanted to know the exact origin
Loool
@fish damn, it do be like that
People really gloss over that fact. Teams forgetting the objectives has happend long before C9 did it but them doing it three times really stood out and cemented the name
C9 is when the enemy loses because they forgot about the point
HourlySum short and sweet
If you are winning the fight and forget the objective. Just not touching it is not enough
HourlySum It doesn’t even have to exclusively be when you’re winning the fight. If you and the enemy team are on even grounds and it’s a winnable situation but you’re team actually FORGETS (emphasis on forgetting, not getting forced away) about the objective, that’s a C9
HourlySum thank u holy shit somebody didn’t need to make a whole video about it just tell us
Without that its not their fault bullshit, cus it fucking is, the object of overwatch was never to kill but to get the point, and yea, therefore kill but when you forget the point within that rush its well deserved and (at least for the moment and as a pro player) definately stupid.
It wasn't just that moment at apex, Cloud 9 continued to repeat similar situations at other tournaments, few occuring multiple times in one, to the point that they became recognized for 'C9-ing' and sparked that term in the community.
I'm pretty sure the term C9 was actually born from that match alone. But it wasn't just that 1 round they C9-ed. They pulled off the C9 twice on LiJiang and once of Volskaya, 3 in total in that 1 match VS Afreeca.
Seriously, how does a team manage to pull of 3 C9s in 1 match. I don't think even Spitfire has reached that realm yet.
Oh yeah, that's what I meant. I wasn't sure if it was multiple tournaments or one. All I recalled was at one point they C9-ed way too many times. C9-ing once is reasonable, but multiple times just means there's something terribly wrong.
This should have been mentioned. Honestly without them "C9ing" as many times as they did it wouldn't have become this huge of a meme
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The real C9 was on volskaya industries
Nah it was at the McDonald's.
That one was actually so bad
And Numbani
Ranx Alter it wasnt tho the one this video showed was worse. The volkaya had a dva bomb and all shields were down so they either had to sacrifice a player or lose. While the video shows them actually winning the fight but losing the map
No no no... The real c9 was on watchpoint when Cloud 9's Winston jumped off of the payload right before 1st capture point to chase a widow
“IT’S NOT A C9 PLAT CHAT”
"Wood chat "
The truth is only plat chat cares about the meaning.
When people who say plat chat aren't even plat XD
Sorry for being only diamond
I hate when in my low diamond game we win a team fight on a map like temple and hanamura and then we boop an enemy of the point as they are about to get on a people say c9 it pisses me off
I know what C9 means but the Thumbnail Looks so good i have to watch the Video
same
Clean vector art is my weakness
lol me
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Yeah same
The real C9 is when a whole team chases an enemy widowmaker to their spawn and a sombra backcaps. [True QP story lol]
_The real C9 is the friends they made along the way_
Kzip247 I saw worst things
I've seen worse. I've seen in OWL, a Lucio backcapping point b Rialto while the enemy team chases the rest of the team to their spawn.
I once won a comp match for my team 4-3 on eichenwalde because the enemy team decided to spawn trap my team, so I switched off support to Sombra and capped point. Our wrecking ball made a nice rollout and joined me LMAO
@@persephone2868 THAT is how you carry a game! Lol
The way I’ve always described C9s is when a team has the capability to comfortably be on the objective at a crucial time and they concede something by not being there.
Yes. Some people misuse it whenever someone gets pushed off the point by an ult or something and then loses, but that's not a C9. A C9 is like when someone is capping your point and your whole team is up, but busy on the front lines, and meanwhile tracer is on the point. Was funniest on assault maps.
1:53 that's a very logical path for the plane to take.
Well, it actually is though and it's called a Geodesic.
Considering the regulations of maps and how they are portrayed on a flat surface, that is technically the correct way to show a plane route since it is the fastest path from A to B.
@@lucafacchinetti2522 it would be faster the other way around though.
Still pisses me off when people spam c9 when a team is forced off an objective or can't get to the objective due to enemy ults being used or CC cause that ain't a c9, as they purposefully don't try to get off or on the objective, as they don't forget about the objective, they simply can't, cause they aren't forgetting about it at all. People just want the excuse to spam c9 in chat cause they think it's cool and understand what is it when they really don't, a proper c9 is a rare occurrence, and when it happens, everyone knows it has happened and should be savoured, not fucking wanting it happen every other fricken game.
Like the one with Spitfire versus Gladiators shown in this vid is a true c9 as the player holding the point got off to put pressure on respawns whereas the one with Gladiators versus Outlaws isn't really one because they were forced off by the D.va bomb
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AB TheMainPlayerTM shit like this is why I turn off twitch chat when I watch OWL
Ik it kinda sucks ..
Tanner Victorino Yeah to be honest I agree with on that point, the Outlaws and Gladiators clip is halfway to C9 IMO, some players are actively getting off the objective chase down kills, and the dva bomb is forcing others off(I didn't notice the dva bomb first time XD), so yeah not a true c9 but part way there. Thanks for the thoughtful reply :)
When I first started overwatch, I was really confused when everyone started shouting 222 at me. I had no idea what they meant with just "222".
You discovered what it was?
Thats a the standard goats right
@@hephaestus9901 goats is 33
2/2/2 means 2 tanks, 2 damage, and 2 supports. Was the go-to template for team comps
avoiding dva bomb and losing the game its kinda weird to be called C9.
that's because its not a C9, its CC. Aka, what some people would call a "forced C9". Similar to getting caught in a Grav and unable to touch the point.
Its a C9 because they did twice.
According to twitch chat C9 is just when a team loses, regardless of what happens, its literally spammed at the end of every single round
How about that, make a video about one aKm’s blade time unit?
名古屋Nagoya one aKm blade is my bus ride to school.
FlairHD you need to start walking to school
And please make the video at least 2 akm blades long.
名古屋Nagoya ?
1 Akm Blade = 3m40s
It happened with a Dva bomb on volskaya too, indeed i thought THAT was the play in wich c9 was born lol
They C9'd several times if i remember correctly, including that instance
Julio Valenzuela they did it on Lijang control center, garden, and volskaya
It was the entire series the volskaya incident just happened to be the last map
Julio Valenzuela it happened 3 times in one series. Twice on lijiang tower and once on volskaja
Yeah
they C9'ed 3 times that match, thus the term was born
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love that little animation xD
When you try to add as many words to your essay as possible
reminds me of an old CSGO play that involved cloud9, in the round there was 3 C9 players alive and 1 enemy left. right before the enemy died he planted the bomb and threw a fire on it, now it takes the bomb 40 seconds to blow up and 7 seconds for the fire to go away, and instead of waiting for the fire to go away all 3 of the C9 players jumped on the bomb and died from the fire losing them the round all because they couldn't wait 7 seconds
Daniel church oh well😂, they won Eleague major 2018!!
by luck, faze threw, they always throw, i would say both teams throw, seems to be a thing with americans.
1g
Daniel church actually was more complicated than that.
People have been C9 to roughly mean that a team was throwing unintentionally ever since Cloud9's performance in certain games in CS:GO.
I just wish people would stop shouting it when they y'know, successfully defend the point the way they're intended to. 'We outnumber you and forced your surviving players into defeat or death situations, thus preventing them from capping the point. Lol C9!'
Whenever I play with a team, sometimes they’ll incorrectly refer to somethings as C9, usually whenever we win a team fight in point and the enemy team can’t reach it in time. I remember as Lucio I booped the enemy team off the point far into overtime and that caused us to win the round and then win the match later, but my team referred to it as C9.
Correct.
Thats not a c9 as the team still tried to contest.
I've only been playing OW for 3 weeks, but now knowing what a C9 is, I realize that I C9'd for my team within the first week of playing. Escorting payload, playing Widow, El Dorado, no one saw me but one guy on our team, the entire enemy team was preoccupied with my teammates and I won the match for my team. That is clearly my best and favorite play ever.
Twitch chat needs to see this
yeah. getting caught in a grav and being unable to touch the point does not constitute as a C9.
U can see surefour saying "Oh shit not again" and than realizing they won 😂
Someone asked if THEY had C9'ed before Bigoose said they won, and Outlaws were the ones that C9'ed.
When?
A true C9 is winning the team fight but losing the match because of stepping off the objective. People way overuse the term now :P still funny tho
the ones where someone just forgets to step on the point is what i think we should call a "mini C9".
I think my favorite thing to do is during a team fight, and this would be either really early or late game, sneak onto the point during a team fight while everyone else is focused on killing each other and try and cap it, or even move the payload depending on how freakin oblivious people are. I’ve capped the point on Blizzard World by myself without anyone realizing before a few times before as small high mobility characters. Tracer, Widow, and Sombra all work really well for this. Everyone is focused on he choke point and so many people forget how to get around in that it makes this really easy. Also I’ve moved the payload on Watch Point Gibraltar all the way to the first checkpoint at times as Widow because if you aren’t shooting people kinda forget about you. I’ll take a few pics, they’ll hit the choke and then I swoop around to the other side and I’m forgotten as I push the payload. I mean your aren’t gonna get POTG that way obviously but I’ve done it a lot and people just forget you exist until they get the message about the CP.
Thank you, sir, you are the true MVP of YT.
The meaning is definitely shifting to just if anyone is alive at all without contesting point. Whether they're in a grav or being booped off, it leads to the whole team typing 'C9' regardless.
It’s nice to know that your teammates just 100% forgetting about the point to chase the enemy team to some other part of the map is universal amongst the overwatch ranks
The C-9 is a light machine gun, gas-actuated air cooled belt fed or fired from a magazine that fire from a open bolt position.
We don't know what the thumbnail is, because no one is ever on it
3:50 This is why Gladiators are my favorite team
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Gravy fuckin reeeee
REEEEEEEEEEE get off my Stream!
TH-cam is a normie page
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Hahaha I bet you use 4chan you normie ahaha
3:11 That animation is super cute!
Definition of c9: closing the fridge when looking for a snacc, overlooking the snacc u wanted.
The unison "Ayyyee" that the Gladiators do is my favorite team moment in the OWL
Using LOL instead of LUL smh
Lul is Dutch for dick/cock
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So glad this has an actual name, because one of my favorite overwatch memories was watching my entire team get wiped while I solo escorted a payload as winston. The enemy team only noticed me after it was too late.
Do one For "NA" Gravs
Schapplox "NA" goes for all ults
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'NA' ult is just a bad ult.
Schapplox NA goes with all ults and some abilities
Saved you some time.
A term used in the game Overwatch describing the situation when a team leaves the point/payload in overtime, resulting in the other team winning by default.
I have this video on my recomendations twice in a row wtf
Ardelius :0 lmfao
dude TH-cam is getting scary. Just recently startet to watch OWL and i quickly understood that C9 is a term for back-capping, but wodered why its called C9.
And now 2 days later that suggestion lol
nice vid btw ^^
Shame that twitch chat spams c9 every time a team loses an objective
It actually started earlier than OWL, when Cloud 9 C9'd in CS:GO, winning the fight on the point but forgetting to defuse the bomb. All the players were so busy running around getting weapons that nobody defused and they lost the match. (This happened in a playoff game, iirc)
Yea this is the correct answer
Um no thats completely wrong when he says the meaning changed. C9 always referred to teams losing because they weren't on the point. C9 has done this multiple times in worse situations where they would have capped for map points but were all to busy taking fights.....
FrostDeezAKA what? Then it has changed. Because people use it literally every game end. Even if the other team didn't abandon their winning objective despite winning a team fight.
Um no thats completely wrong when he says the meaning changed. C9 always referred to teams losing because they don't know how molotovs work. C9 has done this multiple times in worse situations where they would have capped for map points but were all to busy taking fights.....
This happened to me yesterday. We had a tracer in our team. She rewinded, but completely ignored the point afterwards during overtime. I was playing Zarya, but I was dead, so I was death spectating the Tracer.
Now explain what a Z9 is
I already knew what C9 meant, but enjoyed the presentation and was impressed you got an interview with an OWL coach, so have a "like".
1:55
was I the only one saying
FLY FREAKIN LEFT!!!
C9: when a team fails to capture the objective from the enemy team due to needlessly over extending
Thought it was the Volskaya C9 at the origin, but wtf they did it more than once
Three times vs AFB if I remember. Twice on Lijang and once on Volkskaya.
One of my favorite quotes of all time is “did they just not touch the point? I guess not”
I just thought they were playing battleship or something lol
Lmao
Same thing happened in DOTA 2, C9 team were on the verge of winning but the enemy did a surprise rush push to C9's throne. What ended up happening was none of the C9 players had TPs and had to walk all the way back to their base while looking at it getting destroyed, finally losing the game.
im confused about JOMEGALULKE. ples mak vid abuot this
Its Gamiac Please* Make* a video* about*
MuumiLimu normies
I encountered this recently. I was playing a close, but winning match in Coliseo as Mercy, when towards end of the clock running out the enemy were pushing the robot, but they had to get ahead of us to win. So, we got into a last team fight to stop them, and despite me dying during that fight, we actually won the team fight. However, when I came out of spawn, I witnessed my entire team running after some retreating enemies, but meanwhile they had left a ninja Zarya freely pushing the robot. I kept spamming ''fall back'' and ''regroup'', but none on my team made it in time to help me contest, so the Zarya went on to win them the game. At the end of the match the enemy team were laughing and spamming C9 on the chat, and now I know why.
the more relevant question is, when will bad players stop saying c9 every game and how can we make this happen faster?
Mute chat; enjoy life
It'll never end.
I’m proud to say I watched the first time C9 happened live
I thought it was on volskaya 4-3 and cloud9 had numbers, but a self destruct got them off the point
They C9-ed twice on LiJiang, once on Volskaya. 3 total C9 vs Afreeca in the same series.
What was left out of the story is how it happened multiple times in the same match and immortalizing C9 into a meme.
Normie's guide in Twitch lingo OMEGALUL
FYI, the original "C9" moment was a Dota 2 professional game where cloud nine was the first high tear team in a professional tournament to get "back doored" on a platform such as twitch. so basically it just means to get back capped now for overwatch... it became a meme due to the dota 2 community and twitch...
Trihard 7
hfzelman yeaa but I want akshon esports to explain the xQc memes
CmonBruh
5:15 listen to the absolute joy of that "C9"
Plat chat LUL
An easy fix would be to put up a big ALERT or WARNING on the screen (HUD) that you're leaving the objective every time there's an overtime or something. That's definitely noob and pro friendly. ;)
Is this Kandyrew commentating?
Damn, it does sounds like him!
I've been C9-ing for a minute then. Had a Mayhem match where we were getting creamed, but the enemy forgot what game mode they were playing. Ended up carring the objective in the final stretch by myself, and it was priceless when the other team realized what I had done
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The “Have Mercy” guy at 5:00 made me giggle a bit.
pogchamp?
C4:Who are you
C9:You,but stronger
C9 Lul
I literally played a match earlier on Havana where I solo capped the first point and the enemy team didn’t even notice, I played sym and this was with a bunch of level 10-20’s for anyone wondering
1:11 thank me later . Also play at 1.25x speed
Aaron Bowley agreed the man was stretching it
Pedro Soares not really. Most of the video was actually needed to properly explain what it means, since so many people miss-use it.
Pedro Soares This should have been a useful 2 minute video or a 10 minute money milking one, no use for 5 minutes of nonsense.
I love this series even though I know all the terms. It's funny to see their real origins, though. Keep it up
Are people really asking this? Lmao
Intenxsify yes people who have no idea what a c9 is and just spam it after games wether it be on ladder or pro play
Zenopos III also there are streamers like AimbotCalvin who said to just say c9 after a win just to tilt the other team and rub it in.
You guys forgot to mention. That same match, or as far as I remember, the 3rd round was on Garden ( Lijiang ), and Cloud9 had the game, but the same thing happened, where they won the fight, Overtime kicked in, and nobody touched point. The term came into use not because of one, but two instances during the same match. Happy meme-ing kids.
If you dont know what c9 means, stop playing OW
Most people use it wrongly anyway
If your under the impression that a non endemic piece of relatively rare terminology dislcudes a person from playing Overwatch, you my freind are the one that should leave Overwatch
Justin Seckel use smaller words. I have a small brain. We all know you don't use that in non formal speech.. You are not fooling anyone
My extensive vernacular has little effect upon my criticism, I merely wish to discourage the sort of toxic behavior you seam to display in your rather elitist comment, if you feel condescended by my rather superior grammar I think your getting the point of why your behavior is untenable.
Justin Seckel you seem so focused on impressing a stranger with your " extensive vernacular" you made some mistakes in your sentence. Like "seam" and the typical "your" mistake.... Sorry bud I'm not impressed
Could someone explain to me why I see "Z9" being used as well as "C9"?
Great video btw! I already knew the meaning but wanted to support someone who gave an accurate and concise explanation!
Z9 is just a funny way to say C9
unsub, disliked for mispelling LUL.
henryrule1 Grow up 9 year old
Most of overwatch league chat needs to watch this video
Thanks for teaching us the terms.
So this term can be used, when one team might overextend and gets away from the objective, for the defending team to get an upper hand or for the attacking team to get a cheeky backcap.
It appears that the meaning of the term has evolved after being adopted by Twitch chat with open arms
I love the reaction to Gladiators thinking they pulled a C9. “Wait what? Oh, we won ayyyy!”
I won a game once as a baby D'va walking in the payload while both teams were all around me fighting. I didn't even fire because I was too afraid somebody would notice me if I did.
LA Gladiators' reaction was just too funny....
Me and my pals just refer to it as the fuck-up that the defenders pull when the attackers back-cap, which is when they cap the objective behind the enemy teams back because they were focused on pushing us back instead of defending the point.
Such a good channel thanks man.
I just started playing over watch a week ago and now I know what c9 means, ty
Thank you so much i just didin't now wat C9 was but now i now exectly wat it is thxxxxx!! (Great content btw)
The first time I heard the term was when I pulled off a C9 win.
My team was attacking on Numbani and I was playing D.Va. we almost pushed the payliad all the way but the defenders managed to wipe us out. They then proceeded to abandon the payload and set up a bunker in the tunnel just past the midway checkpoint. There was a lot of fierce fighting in the tunnel but I thought I spotted movement on the balcony above. Using my rocket boost I went up there to take out a potential sniper but found the room empty. Seeing an opportunity, I exited onto a balcony on the opposite side and used my rocket boost again to reach the completely unguarded payload. Only the enemy Mercy noticed me and tried to stop me but she was too far away to contest. After that, the chat filled up with confused messages and I quickly learned what C9 means. :)
Lord Trinen thats a back cap, not a c9 just sayin
@@mel9641 By the definition in this video and in other places I've checked, my story sounds pretty close if not dead on. The enemy team was so fixated on the battle in the tunnel that they remained completely oblivious to me pushing the payload. ( ' - ' )
I see a C9 as when your team is guaranteed not to lose the round by just staying on the objective, but you leave it anyway and lose when, for example, pushing a payload during overtime with no enemies around and you move away from it so that overtime ticks down to zero, resulting in a loss for your team.
A C9 has to entirely be your own team's fault, not the enemy team's achievement. It doesn't count as a C9 if an enemy caps the objective and you're either a; forced off it or b; getting back-capped by an enemy Sombra, etc.
at 3:15 you made a mistake...it goes to overtime if a team is on the point if
Payload: a team is on the payload when less than 3.00 seconds exactly is on the clock when they leave
Control: When a team leaves the point after 95%
and you made the mercy leave at 2 seconds which means that it should be overtime
Thank god someone made a 5 minute video to answer a question that should be a one sentence answer instead.
This might be a bit old, but can you do one of these, explaining what is "peeking"?
C9 is when you would have won the fight but fail(forget) to capture or contest the objective. This can happen both on attack and defense, the term C9 originates from an OT attack payload push, where the whole team got off the payload in order to eliminate the enemy team.
It is NOT a C9 if the fight is lost anyway, like being 3v6 on 2CP at pro level it won't make a difference whether you manage to touch the point before OT as Tracer, because the enemy isn't going to lose a 6v3 or let you contest until your teammates come back.
What i always classify it as is when a team has a winning advantage(Pushing the cart to the end) but then proceeds to get off the objective because of greed
I'm sitting at low gold right now. Most comp plays here are full of DPS who want to get all the killz. Like I'm not good or anything, can't even aim at all, that's why I'm stuck in gold and I only play a healer but I know the objective is the main thing that my team should be pushing for and it always amazed me how my teammates who were way better than me at aiming and racking up kills almost always forget about the objective. Maybe it's the pressure?
Played comp last night and we were at 80% vs enemy's 99% (it was enemy's at that point) and it was overtime, my DPS had been eliminated and me being the dipshit aim god that I am but not wanting to lose, forced myself in to keep overtime going, I was kinda surprised at my ability to stay alive but in the end, got myself killed fighting three enemies in the control point, but bless my Junkrat who just spawned and released riptire fast enough to kill all those three DPS who were ganging up on me. AND YOU KNOW WHAT MY SOMBRA DID? She arrived at the scene (no one was there) and went invincible and ran straight near the enemy's spawn room probably because she was trying to be smart and ambush the enemy, I was screaming for her to go back but she didn't have a mic on I guess, so I was left dumbfounded watching her while waiting to respawn. We had won the first round and could have won the second one. We lost the third round and I was raving off mic at that incredibly stupid move (I don't trash talk people on mic, also people on gold don't use mic lol). Like I'm not good at aiming but at least I have a brain.
i am never gonna use this term but im glad i now know where it comes from, i had my hunches on what it was... but i rather get the details correct than asking some random player.