Whereas streaming a watch get together of yesterday’s Worlds quarterfinals between JD Gaming and Rogue, League of Legends professionals Doublelift and Bjergsen briefly seemed again on one among their most notorious moments as teammates collectively. In the course of the stream, Doublelift introduced up the “nine-man sleep,” a play TSM pulled off at Worlds 2020 through which their jungler Spica landed an ideal setup on their opponents, Gen.G, however the entirety of TSM did not capitalize.
“I had to return throughout a number of occasions this Worlds to observe the nine-man sleep,” Doublelift instructed Bjergsen on stream. “It bought referenced a bunch of occasions so I had to return and watch simply how dangerous it truly was, and yeah, it was fairly dogshit man.”
Within the play, TSM jungler Spica flashed into the whole lot of Gen.G, hitting the entire crew with Lillia’s Blooming Blows (Q) and rapidly following up with Lilting Lullaby (R). The whole Gen.G lineup was put to sleep by the Lillia final, however nobody on TSM adopted up, regardless of having a clear-cut alternative to take action.
The inaction by all of TSM (besides Spica) through the play brought about the sequence to earn the notorious “nine-man sleep” nickname, as Spica’s teammates could as properly have additionally been affected by Lillia’s crowd management.
“I used to be hitting mid minions and I used to be afraid of Ori ulting me however she was actually asleep,” Doublelift stated of the play.
The previous TSM ADC additionally talked about how the crew was “pussied out and had the defeatist mindset.”
At that time within the match, TSM had already misplaced four consecutive games within the group stage and have been mathematically eradicated from the occasion. At that second within the recreation, TSM have been solely going through a gold deficit of two,000 and certain might have turned the sport of their favor had they not been gun-shy.
Of their dialogue, Doublelift blamed himself for the crew’s failure to comply with up. “If I didn’t let myself need to flash out—if I might simply flash in and I had ulti, like if I didn’t do something silly—if I simply went AFK at the beginning of the combat, it’s over,” Doublelift stated.
Bjergsen coyly agreed with him. “I don’t need to say it’s your fault, however…” the veteran mid laner instructed his former teammate earlier than trailing off. Doublelift was fast, although, playfully calling out Bjergsen for nonetheless having his Flash up whereas the entire enemy crew was asleep and able to be caught off guard.
In whole, TSM misplaced all six of their group stage video games at Worlds that yr, changing into the first major region top seed to go winless on the occasion in its historical past. TSM’s poor efficiency at Worlds 2020 has been popping up steadily throughout this yr’s World Championship since all three North American groups completed with information of 1-5.
