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Summertime Sadness: FlyQuest’s Slow Start
Publish Date: June 26, 2023
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In Raleigh, NC, there was a hush in the crowd. Around 28 minutes into Game 5, Golden Guardians found themselves far in the lead. They were just minutes – seconds – away from qualifying for the Mid Season Invitational and participating in the grand finals of the LCS Spring Playoffs.
To say it was a FlyQuest-favored crowd would be an understatement. As one of the few lone Golden Guardians fans in attendance and potentially one of the only fans in attendance wearing the team’s merchandise, it truly felt as if I was in enemy territory. It was widely expected that a Cloud9-FlyQuest final would take place. These games were practice for just that moment.
Unless you watched the final stages of the season.
FlyQuest were the clear second-best team in North America for the regular season but were finding themselves on shaky ground. Changes to the support position disrupted the flow of the bottom lane and they were struggling to regain form. Fingers were pointed specifically in the direction of Lee “VicLa” Dae-kwang – who had clearly been underperforming. But the team as a whole looked lost.
And fans could only watch in horror as Golden Guardians looked to finish the game. All that was needed was one more engage from Kim “River” Dong-woo. Polite claps would fill the arena but the reality was setting in that FlyQuest was eliminated. Faces of shock and displeasure could be found with every turn of the head. And on the stage, only grief and disbelief.
Discussing the downfall of a team is not an enjoyable experience. Yet it is the reality check that is often needed. Since that day, FlyQuest have not won a game of competitive
League of Legends . Despite making another roster decision and adding acclaimed support Philippe “Vulcan” Laflamme, the team has been dysfunctional, depleted and simply disappointing.
It has been a disaster class all around. There hasn’t been a true point of positivity with the team, with every beam of sunlight quickly being covered by a dark cloud. Moments where they had leads going into the mid-to-late game – such as their games against Dignitas and Golden Guardians – quickly disappeared behind questionable team-fighting.