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The Ninth, the appCLOUD9 MEMBERSHIP OS

The daily home for the fandom, mobile-first. The job of the product is to give a fan a reason to open it on a dead Tuesday, not only on match day. Every surface feeds one loop: watch, predict, belong, climb. The member card is the live status object at the center of it.

Information architecture

01Onboarding · tier pick 02Home · daily-return loop 03Live co-watch · social + AI 04Predict · free-to-play 05Community · feed, rooms, clips 06Card · status, points, quests, Access

Research-informed additions. Predict (free-to-play points, never money) is the proven repeat-engagement driver and it feeds the climb instead of a casino. Community is the native version of where esports fandom already lives: watch-party rooms and clip sharing, with tier roles beside names. Both were thin in the first plan and are now first-class surfaces.

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The Ninth
CLOUD NINE, YEAR ROUND

Choose where you start

Open
Watch, follow, basic alerts
FREE
Member
Co-watch, the card, drops
$7.99
Insider
Votes, exclusive drops, events
CLIMB
Inner Nine
Earned, not sold
IX
Join the Ninth
01 · OnboardingTier pick. The summit is visibly locked: earned, not sold.
All archetypes
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Evening, Pratik
Member · II
LIVE · LCS
Cloud9 2 · 1 Team Liquid
Game 4 · 14:32
Watch with the Ninth
Your climbMember → Insider
2 of 3 quests this month+140 pts to go
Predict · free
Who takes Game 4?
Cloud9
Team Liquid
Drop
Altitude tee
Members first · Fri
Community
840 in watch room
Join the room →
Home
Watch
Predict
Community
Card
02 · HomeThe daily-return loop. Live, predict, climb, drop, community in one glance.
The Casual
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LIVE C9 2 : 1 TL
1.2k
watching together
Ninth commentary
C9-biased, calm, on
Live poll · 9s
Next objective?
Baron 61%
Dragon 39%
IX
Moment · auto-clipped
Kaelis flips the fight
Clip →
Home
Watch
Predict
Community
Card
03 · Live co-watchWatch together, plus the AI moment-alert clipper and a C9-biased commentary toggle.
The AI slice
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Predict
1,240 pts

Free to play. Points only, never money. Picks feed your climb.

Game 4 winner
Cloud9 vs Team Liquid
+50
Cloud9
Team Liquid
First Baron+30
C9 pickedlocks in 2:00
Series MVP+80
Tap to pick a player
Leaderboard
You are #312
of 9,400 members
Top 5% climbs faster to Insider
Home
Watch
Predict
Community
Card
04 · PredictFree-to-play picks in points, not money. The anti-casino engagement engine.
The Casual + Lifer
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Community
Member · II
Watch room · live
LCS night, Game 4
840 members inJoin →
@skylarInsider
clipped Kaelis's flank. Worth 12s of your life.
@nine_livesInner Nine
Meet-and-greet slots drop tomorrow. See you there.
@deftcarryMember
Predictions league, Ninth vs the LoL sub?
Home
Watch
Predict
Community
Card
05 · CommunityWatch rooms, clip sharing, tier roles beside names. The Discord behavior, native.
The Lifer + Fit
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THE NINTH II Member @pratik 02 / 09
Climb to Insider66%
1,240 ptsRank #312
Quests this month
Watch 3 matches live2 / 3
Make 5 predictions5 / 5
Attend a member event0 / 1
Access · drops, meet-ups, votes
Home
Watch
Predict
Community
Card
06 · Card / StatusThe live member card, the climb, points wallet, quests, and Access to drops and votes.
The Lifer
Phase 2 · account / settings / system

The rest of the app

The six hero screens carry the story. A shippable product needs the account, settings, and system screens too. Four of these are strategy, not hygiene. Personalization feeds the clipper's relevance. Easy cancel and calm notifications are the brand applied to the screens most apps make hostile. And the AI transparency screen turns the trust positioning into a visible feature.

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Pick what you follow. Moment alerts and your home feed follow these.

Titles
League of LegendsValorant
Players
KaelisOrinDraethZellsisAPA
Rivals to track
Team LiquidFlyQuestSentinels
Continue
PersonalizationOnboarding step. Feeds the clipper's "your player" relevance and the home feed.
Strategy, not hygiene
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@pratik
Member · II
Member since 2026
128
Watched
34
Clips
#312
Rank
Recent clips
Member profileThe public identity others see in Community. Card, stats, clips.
The Lifer + Fit
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Change photo
@pratik
Pratik M
Here since the Kaelis era.
Cloud9
Kaelis
Edit profileHandle, avatar, and the team and player picks that personalize the feed.
Hygiene
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Account
Membership & billing
Member · renews Jul 5
Notifications
Connected accounts
Riot, Twitch, Discord
Language & region
Privacy & data
How moment alerts work
Help & support
Log out
SettingsThe hub. Note "How moment alerts work" sits in plain sight, not buried.
Hygiene
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Current
Member · II
$7.99
renews Jul 5
Billing period
MonthlyAnnual · save 27%
Payment method
Visa •••• 4242
Upgrade to Insider
More access, votes, events
Pause membership
Keep your card and tier
Cancel membership
Cancel anytime. Keep access until Jul 5.

No dark patterns. Leaving is one tap, and you keep what you paid for.

Manage membershipPlan, billing, and an honest, one-tap cancel.
Strategy, not hygiene
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Moment alerts
Auto-clips of your players
AllBig plays onlyOff
Match start
Drops
Community replies
Climb & quests
Weekly digest
Quiet hours
10:00 PM to 8:00 AM

Calm by default. We only buzz when it matters.

Notification preferencesBig-plays-only and quiet hours. The calm brand applied to push.
Strategy, not hygiene
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A moment fires when three live signals agree, then it auto-clips. A human on the team reviews before it goes out.

01
Game events
Kill feed, objectives, aces
02
Crowd audio
Broadcast and caster spikes
03
Chat velocity
Sudden surges in the stream
Your data

Used: public match data, your team and player picks, your in-app activity. Never used: your messages, and we never sell it.

Personalize my alerts
Let me edit captions
How moment alerts workTrust as a feature: the mechanism and the data, in plain sight.
Strategy, not hygiene
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IX
Moment clipped
Kaelis flips it · tap to view
now
You climbed
66% to Insider
1h
Drop is live
Altitude tee, members first
3h
@skylar replied
to your clip
5h
Prediction hit
First Baron, C9
+50
ActivityThe inbox for clips, climb, drops, replies, and prediction results.
The Casual
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IX AUTO-CLIP 0:12
Kaelis flips the fight

Caption: "We don't talk about TL's jungle." · edit

kill feedaudio spikechat +320%
Share to Community
Save
+40 climb pts
Clip detailThe AI output: editable caption, the signals that fired it, share, and points.
The AI slice

The daily-return loop

Match day: Home surfaces the live game, one-tap co-watch, a free prediction, and the watch room. Dead Tuesday: the same shell swaps to your player's auto-clipped highlights, an open prediction market on the next match, a community clip worth watching, and a quest that nudges your climb. The card is always one tap away, always showing the next rung. Nothing here asks the fan to spend to feel status. The climb is earned, which is the whole brand.

The Ninth is a speculative concept anchored to Cloud9 for portfolio purposes. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Cloud9. Rosters and matchups shown are illustrative. The AI moment-alert behavior reflects real 2026 auto-highlight methods (event-signal, audio, and chat-spike detection), framed as near-term. No figure or outcome here describes Pratik Mehta's own results.