C9

The name comes from a Cloud9 match at a tournament where, reportedly, despite being in a position to secure, the whole team left the objective, got contested, and lost the round (accounts of the details vary). Where Backcap is an attacking-side move in which the enemy secures the objective while the defense is thin, C9 refers to self-destruction: leaving the objective with everyone even though you are in a position to secure it. It is the textbook case of winning the fight but losing the round by getting on late or stepping too far off and letting OT run out, and it symbolizes the essence of time management — who is standing on the objective at the very end. It is slang that has taken hold as a warning phrase in coaching, VOD review, and streams, and it is treated less as a tactical concept than as a proper noun for an accident.

Use it in VOD review to point out that everyone was off the objective in a moment where it could have been secured. As a warning term in discussions about whether to prioritize moving to the objective after a fight.