Saturday’s Summer Championship upper bracket final between two top LCS seeds, Team Liquid and FlyQuest, was a tight affair as both sides were almost inseparable. However, since a winner must emerge, it was the undefeated league leaders that utilized the smallest of margins to come out tops.
Team Liquid emerged winners with a 3-2 win as they did a first-ever “League Cycle” in the LCS with a series that had multiple pentakills. With the victory, Team Liquid is on its way to finishing undefeated in the League of Legends split.
Flyquest, on the other hand, will have to wait and see who their next opponents will be in the lower bracket final.
The first pentakill of the LCS summer split came when the series was split at 1-1 as Liquid’s APA did a stretch from the mid-lane to the bot tier-two tower. UmTi paved the way on Maokai, as APA moved to the Corki and annihilated every atom of FlyQuest’s chances of coming back in the game.
By that, game four became Do-or-die for FlyQuest, but APA’s mid-lane opponent Quad stepped with a 17-kill Zeri performance with a pentakill of his own. Liquid piled up pressure in mid, but although FlyQuest struck, Quad went on mopping things up shop, and he became the first player to record pentakill with a solo, double, triple, and a quadra in the same game in the LCS.
At the end of the Quad, could only get a series win for FlyQuest in game four, and at the end of the game, APA went trolling FlyQuest.
“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 after the match.
Monday’s LCS match will determine the team that will join FlyQuest and Liquid at Worlds, as Cloud9 plays 100 Thieves at 3 p.m.
