![]() ![]() It is, I imagine, a very different feel than Team Liquid’s Alienware facility. I’ve been to the house several times, and always someone will remember me and greet me whether it’s Jack looking up from a laptop on the couch or a team manager wrestling the boys together. And leaving C9, at least, probably did feel like leaving a family behind.Ĭ9’s brand has long been interwoven with being a “meme team” - they joke around and have fun and seem like they’re all friends. Before the season began, I remember asking Jensen if he’d seen any of the C9 guys since returning from Denmark, and he was very bashful about not having done it yet - it kind of felt like a bit of shame or guilt was involved, which I think many of us can relate to with old lovers or family members or sometimes even coworkers. The two joke about how they were recently asked in interviews whether they missed each other or not (they both answered yes). At least to me, the first day of the Spring Split feels a lot like coming back from summer vacation - it is odd that you wouldn’t hang out with your old friend just because you’re on different teams now. This is a bit of a strange thing considering all 10 LCS teams live within a few miles of each other and operate under similar practice schedules, and the two of them seemed rather close on C9. “This is actually our first time ,” says Sneaky. ![]() They were fresh off a historic run to the Worlds Semifinals stage, a first for North America in seven years, and even though it seemed like a bright future was ahead of the roster, Jensen suddenly left. The duo lived together in the Cloud9 house from the summer of 2015 until the end of last year, when Jensen left C9 for Team Liquid in one of the most surprising and monumental moves of the offseason (maybe ever). Next to us sits a couple on their first date - a more optimistic juxtaposition to Sneaky and Jensen who are more akin to a couple coming off a fresh breakup. It is very difficult to go there without running into someone you know. It’s an area full of good food and hangout spots that attract a lot of League of Legends people - pros, personalities, and Rioters alike. The former teammates laugh as we seat ourselves at Seoul Tofu, a restaurant in Santa Monica’s Sawtelle neighborhood. ![]()
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