As Marvel Rivals booms, a former Overwatch pro is begging players to "let me move on" from the C9 meme

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No matter what competitive game is popular at the moment, nobody wants to get on the damn point. The former Overwatch pro who accidentally coined the term "C9" for particularly dumb objective abandonments is begging Marvel Rivals players to let it go.

C9 is short for Cloud9, an esports brand that operates teams in a variety of games. In 2019, Cloud9 played an infamous pro Overwatch match in which the entire team left the objective behind to win a fight with their opponents in overtime - leaving the point undefended and losing the match. They proceed to do this multiple times, and ever since then, abandoning a winnable objective to go unnecessarily shoot people has been known as pulling a C9 in Overwatch circles.

Lucas 'Mendo' Håkansson was one of Cloud9's Overwatch players at the time, and the success of Marvel Rivals means a whole new community is learning about all this. "MARVEL RIVALS BOOMING IN POPULARITY MEANS A TON OF NEW PLAYERS ARE LEARNING WHAT A "C9" [IS] AND THAT I CREATED IT," Mendo says on Twitter (via Polygon). "LET ME MOVE ON PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.