Top LCS seeds Team Liquid and FlyQuest were almost inseparable in today’s Summer Championship upper bracket final, with the undefeated league leaders hanging on by the barest of margins in a series that featured multiple pentakills and a first-ever “League Cycle” in the LCS.
In what may be a preview of the split final, the two LCS squads went toe-to-toe in a match for the ages, with Liquid ultimately walking away winners 3-2 over a resolute FlyQuest outfit. With the win, Liquid remains on track to complete an undefeated League of Legends split while FlyQuest licks their wounds and awaits their next opponent in the lower bracket final.
The series was split at 1-1 before we finally got our first pentakill of the LCS summer split thanks to Liquid’s APA in a fight stretching from the mid-lane to the bot tier-two tower. With UmTi paving the path on Maokai, APA rolled in on the Corki and delivered a killing blow to FlyQuest’s chances of making the comeback in the game.
Do-or-die in game four for FlyQuest, and up stepped APA’s mid-lane opponent in Quad who put on an absolute clinic, recording a 17-kill Zeri performance with a pentakill of his own. As Liquid built up pressure in mid, FlyQuest struck, and Quad cleaned up shop; in the process, he recorded a “League Cycle”—where a player scores a solo, double, triple, quadra, and pentakill all in the same game. This is the first time a league cycle has been completed in the LCS.
Alas, Quad’s efforts in game four weren’t enough to convert into a series win for FlyQuest. Series MVP CoreJJ was instrumental on his Rell in a hard-fought 32-minute bonanza. APA didn’t mince words in the post-match interview, spending a little time to grill FlyQuest but also revealing the team had missed a few reads this week. “To be honest our meta read this week was kind of bad so the fact we won this series gives me so much confidence going into finals,” APA said following the match.
Tomorrow’s LCS match decides who will join FlyQuest and Liquid at Worlds, with Cloud9 taking on 100 Thieves at 3pm. The winner heads to championship weekend for Worlds seeding, where FlyQuest will have a chance to exact revenge—or Team Liquid will complete the undefeated season they’ve dreamed of concluding.
