1.9 is skills
1.8 is noobs and hackers
Pretty much everyone trashtalking 1.8's arguements are complete garbage and based on personal experience when they only tried 1.8 for 5 seconds & most of them deny the fact that 1.8 pvp is far more popular. Now think of some proper arguements of why 1.9 is superior or stop saying it is, like JaiStrixZ said 1.8 and 1.9 are different and can't be compared