/ck/ History

2011 4chan Summer Cup

 /ck/ are one the original sixteen teams, which means they played in the first 4chan cup. This cup used the double bracket system, and several players of the /ck/ squad were created at the last moment based only in food and not in the culture of the board itself. During their first match ever, they faced /soc/ and won 1-0. They proceeded to face /tv/ in the next round which turned into a 7-goal thriller, 5 for /ck/ and 2 for /tv/. With momentum on their side, /ck/ advanced to the semifinals to face /fit/ and won 1-0. This sent /ck/ to the Winners' Final. There, they faced /sp/ in a fierce match which /ck/ won at the end in penalties, 6 to 7. At the Finals, /ck/ faced /a/, the winner of the Losers' bracket final. Surprisingly, /a/ won both the First Final and the Grand Final 1-0 and 3-0 respectively, making /ck/ the runner-up of this cup. This cup was the birth of the talismanic gold striker Nachos, who took the golden boot. As a result, some see him as the original GOAT of the cup.

Sadly, all detailed results for this cup are now lost beyond what could be dug through /a/'s archived threads.

2012 4chan Winter Cup

This was the /ck/ logo used from this cup until Winter 2013.

After /ck/'s performance in the first cup, people were expecting big results from the team in this cup, maybe to take the cup home this time. In their first match they faced /o/ defeating them 4-0 with a Nachos hat trick, this brought a lot of people a hope to see if the Original GOAT could win it all this time, sadly /ck/ run in the Winners' Bracket was cut short this time in the semifinals, after defeating /g/ 1-0, /sp/ destroyed the ro/ck/stars 4-0 sending them to the Losers' Bracket. There they faced /tg/ in the fourth round, a 2-2 draw with goals from Tika Masala and Forcaccia took this match to a Penalty kick shootout, which /ck/ won 4-2 and advanced to the fifth round to face /fit/, a 3-2 victory secured their place in the Losers' Bracket Final, but that would end up being their last match as they faced /sp/ again and lost 4-0 again, giving /ck/ a 3rd place.

With the birth of a new cup, /ck/ had the chance to play 2 more friendlies in preparation for the 2012 Summer Cup. Here, they faced /fit/ getting a 3-3 draw. /ck/ faced /b/ in a later match, and much the surprise of viewers, /b/ won the match 3-1. This game saw a lot of spaghetti coming from /ck/, specially from their goalkeeper as he gave a /b/ striker a free goal after a bad throw.

2012 4chan Summer Cup

In the friendlies left for testing before the cup started, /ck/ faced /3/, the Spring runner-up, only to lose 1-0 with a goal from Maya. The team's poor form continued in friendlies against /n/ and /tg/. The fact that /ck/ didn't show as much power as they did in the last 2 cups had viewers wondering if /ck/ would face relegation to the babby cup due the new relegation system in major cups.

While many viewers were happily spamming "REAL HUMAN BEAN," /ck/ had a bitter end to their Summer Cup run.

This Summer cup was the first top-tier cup to use a Group Stage-Knockout system, as well as giving relegations to the teams with the worst performances. In the first group stage match, /ck/ went up against /jp/. Some predicted this to be an easy win for /ck/ due to the return of Doogie to /jp/, but the final result was a 3-3 draw that came from a back and forth match.

Nachos was noticeably failing to live up to expectations in the match against /jp/, but made up for it with a classy performance against /co/. His hat trick gave /ck/ an important win, and it seemed like /ck/ was safely through to the next stage. After /jp/'s 2-0 defeat against /co/, /ck/ seemed even safer, they just needed to win, or draw, and they could even lose by 1 goal to get through to the next round. However, /tv/ caused one of the biggest upsets in that cup, as they dominated /ck/ in a 4-1 win. This happened due to /tv/ finding a manager in the middle of the cup, while /ck/ was stuck with the PES AI leading the way for them. Due to this, /ck/ eliminated in the group stage, and barely avoided relegation. It was the end of a golden era.

After their failure in the last cup, /ck/ had the chance to play 3 friendlies during the Autumn season to try to recover. With wins against /r9k/ and /gif/, /ck/ was starting a winning streak. Unfortunately, a 3-1 loss to /fit/ brought the team back down to Earth.

2013 4chan Winter Cup Friendlies - TunaMerchant era

After a long time, /ck/ finally got a new manager. It was TunaMerchant !!+U8b1gCk0rk and he had the objective to bring /ck/ back to their former glory. TunaMerchant wanted to set a friendly for /ck/, but the fact that he took control of the team so close to the beginning of the Winter Cup friendlies gave him just a few teams to pick for a friendly. After setting a match with /b/, he made a rookie mistake. Even after his PesEDITOR export was in the wiki along with his formation, his roster on the wiki was not updated. Back then, this was obligatory, so due to that, /ck/ played with some players out of position. This gave them a considerable disadvantage that /b/ exploited as they took the lead early. Fortunately for /ck/, this ended up being a back and forth game, with /b/ taking the lead three times and /ck/ drawing the score every time, leading to a 3-3 draw in the end. It was a lackluster debut for the new manager, but the worst was about to come.

2013 4chan Winter Cup - Relegation

For this cup, /ck/ was drawn in a group with /d/, /v/ and /hm/. Initially, it looked that /ck/ had a high chance of making it to the next round, but they faced a terrible 3-0 defeat against /v/ on their first game. After that game, it all kept getting worse for the once mighty /ck/, as they suffered a 4-1 loss against /d/ with /ck/’s new GK, Paula Deen, putting on an awful performance.

Following /d/'s loss to /v/, /ck/ now needed to win by a margin of 6 goals against /hm/ to avoid relegation. Due to that, TunaMerchant decided to play an offensive style from the beginning of the match, but this plan backfired, to put it midly. By the end of the first half, /hm/ was winning 3-1. After this, in a moment of complete faggotry and lack of sportsmanship, >Tuna decided to throw the match after realizing that /ck/ needed to get 8 goals in 45 minutes to avoid relegation. What happened in the next 45 minutes was perhaps the worst performance of /ck/ in their history as >Tuna deployed the controversial “CK” formation. /hm/ did whatever they wanted for the second half, and the final result was a scandalous 7-2 loss for /ck/, not only giving them their worst defeat ever, but also getting them to finish last in Winter Cup rankings.

People in the thread, the Twitch chat, and IRC were asking for TunaMerchant’s head. His meltdown not only doomed /ck/, but brought /d/ to relegation as well because they needed /ck/ to win the match to make it through. A couple of hours later, TunaMerchant wrote a 2-post apology to everybody for his childish behavior and lack of sportsmanship towards /d/ and /hm/, accepting any consequences his actions could bring to him and asking for a second chance. Presumably due to no one from /ck/ wanting to become a new manager, TunaMerchant got his second chance in the next season.

2013 4chan Spring Babby Cup Friendlies

After his tremendous blunder in winter, TunaMerchant needed to boost the morale of the few /ck/ fans that kept following the cup after that terrible day, for those friendlies he chose to do a small vidya tour, facing /vg/, another team that had a terrible performance in the last cup and suffered relegation and /v/, looking for revenge for the 3-0 defeat in winter. No one had a huge expectation on /ck/ as many predicted that they were going to face a couple of defeats, surprisingly the results were completely unexpected, as /ck/ won 4-1 against /vg/ with a Pink Himalayan Salt hat trick and defeated /v/ 3-0, the same amount of goals the /v/irgins scored against /ck/ in the last cup, people were surprised with those results and a small light of hope appeared for the fans as it looked they were recovering from their fall.

2013 4chan Spring Babby Cup, Redemption

For this cup /ck/ was drawn with /f/, /sci/ and /lit/, facing /f/ in their first match, due to >Twitch, TunaMerchant was unable to watch the match, but yet he managed to give Gracen tactics before the match, this seemed to be effective at the beginning of the match as /ck/ took a 2-0 lead with Pink Himalayan Salt and Nachos scoring a goal each, but before the end of the first half /ck/ fell victim of the Most Dangerous Lead, as /f/ with a DA HOOD free kick and a Nipaa header put the match 2-2, but in the last 15 minutes of the match Nachos stole the ball from the last /f/ defender and scored the goal that sealed the match, giving /ck/ their first victory in a cup after almost 6 months. Then they faced /sci/ a team known for their strong goalkeeping and their star striker Bill Nye, sadly /ck/ couldn’t make it through the wall of Thorium as he did 7 saves while Sad Crab couldn’t handle the only 2 shots from the /sci/ strikers, one of them becoming a goal and the other hitting the post. This gave /ck/ perhaps one of the most painful defeats as they completely dominated the match but a strong goalkeeper on /sci/’s side kept them a clean sheet, this put Sad Crab’s position as the starter GK in question as his constant mistakes brought /ck/ to an undeserved defeat.

In their last group match /ck/ faced /lit/, a team that was already in the next round and therefore, in the Summer Cup, but differently of what many people might have thought, he decided not only not to rest his best players, but to come in full force, this proved right as in the 55’ header from Deep&Edgy gave /lit/ a 1-0 lead and putting /ck/ out of the knockout rounds as they needed at least to draw to make it through, after this TunaMerchant decided to go completely offensive, pushing their star players forward, it was all or nothing, at that rate there were people in the Twitch chat asking for Tuna’s retirement as he was failing to bring back /ck/ after they gave him a second chance, but then at the minute 85, with a pass from Perfect Coffee on the left Nachos scored the equalizer, this clutch finish gave /ck/ what they needed to make it through the next round and come back to the Summer cup.

Having partially amended his previous mistake, TunaMerchant’s next objective was simple, take the babby cup, they faced /cgl/ in the RO16, a team that cut /m/’s hopes to come back to the Summer cup in their last match, so of course they were favorites to win this, with a solid midfield and defensive play, massive amounts of spaghetti coming out from Photoshop and the /cgl/ forwards being unable to get a single shot on target, /ck/ took this match 2-0, giving them not only their first victory in a knockout round since the 2012 Winter Cup but also their best result so far since the group stages–knockout system was created. After that they went against /x/, losing the match 3-1 due to /ck/ defenders giving a lot of fouls very close to the goal, this gave Pyramid Head a couple of Free kick goals and a header goal to seal the deal, a lone goal from Pink Himalayan Salt was the only thing /ck/ could get from this match, also too add some laughs to the viewers, silver player Iron Chef was subbed out due flexible subs and >Pro Active AI, this gave them an 8th place and of course the chance to play in the 2013 Summer Cup.

2013 4chan Summer Cup Friendlies

For these friendlies /x/ and /hr/ were picked to face /ck/, the first one, named by the managers the “Mexibowl” put both Mexican managers against each other, a match heavily affected by circlejerk of course, but considering the fact that /ck/ had no chance to go up or down in the pots, TunaMerchant decided to set this match just for fun, the result was a 3-1 defeat, a very stale match where the biggest highlight was DrBorisG singing Moliendo Café acapella due /x/’s spookiness breaking all the links to the goalhorn. In the next match against /hr/, /ck/ faced a terrible 4-1 defeat, being dominated the entire match.

After the friendlies, TunaMerchant accepted that he rushed his formations in 5 minutes, as he had no time to make any preparations at all due to real life issues and a very unstable schedule that was constantly changing, because of that he announced his retirement after the next cup was finished.

2013 4chan Summer Cup, End of TunaMerchant's era

Though /ck/ got great wins over /sci/ and /pol/, the good times came to a screeching halt with 3-0 and 4-0 losses to /co/ and /trv/ respectively.

In this cup /ck/ was drawn in Group H, with /pol/, the 3rd place in Winter 2013, /sci/, a team that they faced in Spring as well and /co/, again the fear of the fans of both /ck/ and /co/ about the possibility of having to face in a death match was at hand. In their first match /ck/ faced /pol/ in a match that everybody thought /pol/ would easily win, as more than 300 /pol/ fans arrived laughing and looking down upon the /ck/ fans that showed up, for their surprise /ck/ took control of the midfield since the beginning of the match, with a solid defense and a new starting goalkeeper, Cast-Iron Skillet, as Sad Crab was benched due his lackluster performance last cup, and then at 60’ with a through ball pass from Pink Himalayan Salt, Nachos scored the first goal, giving /ck/ the lead, even after /pol/ tried to go forward, the heavy midfield control from the /ck/ team controlled mostly of the attacks, on the dying seconds of the match /ck/ repeated the formula to obtain another goal with a Pink Himalayan Salt-Nachos combination to seal the match and give /ck/ their first victory of the cup, and for the surprise of many Cast-Iron Skillet’s clean sheet Anthem played at the end of the match.

The second match brought /ck/ - /sci/ a match with a special meaning to the manager, as in his opinion, the last match they faced in Spring was perhaps the most frustrating match he ever faced as a manager, so of course, TunaMerchant and /ck/ were looking for revenge, but at the beginning it looked like it would turn up to be the same as spring, as a goal from Nikola Tesla gave /sci/ and early lead, giving not only /sci/ fans hope to make it through, but /pol/ fans as well, as they needed /sci/ to win to have a chance to advance to the next round. But then at 15’ Nachos scored a goal from outside the box to draw the game and just 4 minutes after that, a purple conditioned Perfect Coffee would get his first goal in an official cup giving /ck/ the lead, this of course brought an upset to both /pol/ and /sci/ fans, as in that moment both of their teams were relegated, then at 34’ Perfect Coffee would get a brace after a triangle pass between him, Nachos and Iron Chef, at the second half there was only one team on the pitch, /ck/, as their constant attacks worn out the badly conditioned /sci/’s defense and even Stephen Hawking, one of best goalkeepers in the cup, at 54’, an error from the last /sci/ defender gave Pink Himalayan Salt the chance to shoot, scoring and giving /ck/ a 4-1 lead, and to finish the game, after a couple of one touch plays from Vertical Recipes and Pink Himalayan Salt to Nachos, he managed to score a last second goal to finish the match with a 5-1 score, not only securing /ck/ position in the next top tier cup but also giving them the biggest victory in their history in that moment.

With this both /co/ and /ck/ were already in the next round and qualified for the Winter Cup 2014, this of course brought happiness to both /co/ and /ck/ fans, as their match were of no harm at all, since there were no risk of any of those team to get relegated, for the /co//ck/ fight, TunaMerchant decided to rest both his silver players, Perfect Coffee because he had a yellow card and wanted to avoid any kind of risks and /ck/ Challenge as his stamina suffered heavily at the /sci/ match, since /co/ managers didn’t choose to rest their star players until the last minutes of the game, the final result ended up being quite obvious, a 3-0 victory for /co/, but no one was sad, even the /ck/ manager was happily speaking on IRC and the Twitch chat with the fans and viewers during the match, at the end /co/ topped the group, but /ck/ with 6 points were through as well and they were going to face /trv/ in the RO16.

For the RO16 match /ck/ faced /trv/, and while many people were expecting a tight match between two teams with seasoned managers, the result was quite different and unsatisfying for the /ck/ fans, as their manager wasn’t able to attend the match due to real life issues and left some tactics to DrBorisG, sadly those tactics didn’t work out, and since TunaMerchant was unable to live manage, the team ended up taking a terrible 4-0 blowout with several mistakes from Nachos and Perfect Coffee, letting go away easy goal chances that could have balanced the game, and Sad Crab proving why he was benched for this cup, as he only managed to stop one shot of the /trv/ attacks, while the result was sad for many and other expected /ck/ to go deeper in the cup, the fact that they finally made it to the knockout stage for the first time in a top tier cup since the Group Stage-Knockout system was installed proved that, while just a small step, /ck/ is finally coming back to their old self, a team that should not be underestimated, and a team that is slowly coming back to their golden era, this match also marked the end of TunaMerchant !!+U8b1gCk0rk time as /ck/ manager, giving his position of to AntacidCanada !!bxgf5+DXvbZ, as he stepped down to work as a tester.

2013 4chan Autumn Babby Cup Friendlies, AntacidCanada Era

Now under a new manager AntacidCanada !!bxgf5+DXvbZ, /ck/ were looking to finish their run in PES 2013 with a couple of victories over /adv/ and /o/, in their match against /adv/, both teams struggled the whole game, with Nachos scoring a goal in the first half and S/adv/irgin in the second, while this looked to be a draw, a last minute goal from Nachos gave /ck/ the victory and a nice debut to AntacidCanada. In the second game against /o/, the situation looked quite similar, with WAT Racing scoring an early goal and Pink Himalayan Salt scoring after an amazing run from their own side of the pitch, but this time it was /o/ the one who got the winning goal with a fantastic lob from LS1 Swap. These two matches marked the end of /ck/'s run in PES 2013, now PES 2014 awaits in the Winter Cup with a new engine and a new system, meaning that everything could change, so better get prepared, as anything could happen.

2014 4chan Winter Friendlies

/ck/ exploded onto the PES14 scene with a friendly against /soc/ and a rivalry game /fit/. The game against /soc/ seemed grim in the beginning, with a goal from Feet in the 8th minute and a goal from Vocaroo in the 11th. /ck/'s answer came just at the end of the first half with a goal from Pink Himalayan Salt in the 43rd minute and an even cheekier goal in the 45th from Perfect Coffee. The second half closed with a 3-3 tie after a /soc/ goal from Haunter (63') and a goal from Pink Himalayan Salt in the 80th. The match was considered the most hype game that day. /ck/ was the clear favorite in their next match against /fit/, due to the /fit/ manager missing the deadline and getting the team nerfed. The first goal was a spectacular mid-air kick made by Nachos in the 45th minute. Zyzz would answer next half only for /ck/ to take the lead with another cheeky goal from Perfect Coffee in the 89th minute.

2014 4chan Winter Cup

With a new manager at the helm /ck/ charged into the 2014 winter cup and put up an effort that couldn’t be judged as anything less than valiant. They may not have made it past the Group Stages, but they put up a good fight. In their first match against /wg/ they showed their scoring power in a back and forth match that would have been a tie if Boss Nigga hadn’t defied the odds and scored a last minute goal in injury time. The game against /vr/ may not have been the most interesting to watch, but /ck/ kept their game up with a 3-1 win. Finally, /ck/ faced off with this cup’s winner, /trv/. /ck/ proved themselves to be a formidable opponent and tied up the match, something no other team could manage against /trv/. Unfortunately, this draw was not enough for /ck/ to avoid relegation.

2014 4chan Spring Babby Cup

It was time for /ck/ to pick themselves up again, and this time they were placed in a tough group: Group G of this Babby Cup put /ck/ against /tg/, /fit/, /int/, and /d/. After initially struggling to find their footing in a 1-1 draw against /d/, /ck/ recovered with style. With 3 wins in a row after the first match, /ck/ topped the group with 10 points, the most anyone could get in the new 5-team group setup for the Babby Cups.

Unfortunately, the good times once again ended with a big loss. /vg/ eliminated /ck/ in the Round of 16 with a 3-0 win where /ck/'s finishing left much to be desired.

2014 4chan Summer Cup

After easy wins in the friendlies, /ck/ had to face stiff competition in the actual Summer Cup. First, /v/ beat /ck/ 2-0 in a match where the stats and score don't tell the whole story: while /v/ was dominant, both of the goals came from >PES blunders with the AI. All was not lost just yet, as Pink Himalayan Salt scored the winning goal for /ck/ against /vg/, and with that, the group was left wide open for anyone to go through. Little did they know that Pink Himalayan Salt's goal would be the only one /ck/ would have in the cup.

In a very dull match to mercifully end the stream of matches, /ck/ lost 1-0 to /h/ in a match that literally had one shot in its entirety. Once again, /ck/ will have to pick themselves up from relegation.

2014 4chan Autumn Babby Cup

Once more, /ck/ looked to return to a major 4chan cup as soon as possible, and this time, the team accomplished this with wild ups and downs. Initially, /n/ proved to be a tougher challenge than expected, and the match was marred by Sou's poor streaming. For context, Sou was supposed to be hosting the matchday, and due to some issues not seen in previous streams of his, the match with /n/ and /ck/ went at an extremely slow speed. In the end, /ck/ and /n/ had to settle for a 1-1 draw after the second half was streamed by Gracen.

Up next was /r9k/, and though they tried to make use of Elliot Rodger's deadly shots, /ck/ was able to make a comeback to win 2-1. With little momentum, no one expected what would happen next: /ck/ blew /a/ the fuck out 6-1, making this /ck/'s biggest win ever. This goal difference would come into play later. After this incredible win, /ck/ proceeded to become the first team in the PES 2014 era of the 4chan cup to lose against /out/. Despite an embarrassing 4-1 loss, /ck/ finished second with 7 points due to the goal difference. At the round of 16, /vp/ eliminated /ck/ with a Miror B double in a 2-1 win for the /vp/oreons.