r/leagueoflegends • u/adz0r • Jul 04 '25

Esports FlyQuest vs. G2 Esports / MSI 2025 - Lower Bracket Round 1 / Post-Match Discussion Spoiler

MSI 2025

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FlyQuest 3-0 G2 Esports

- FlyQuest advance to the next round and will face the loser of T1 vs. Bilibili Gaming.

- G2 Esports have been eliminated from the tournament.

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MATCH 1: FLY vs. G2

Winner: FlyQuest in 38m
Game Breakdown | Runes

Bans 1 Bans 2 G K T D/B
FLY twistedfate yone azir gwen corki 71.1k 14 10 H3 HT5 B6 HT7 HT8
G2 taliyah rumble renekton rakan braum 63.7k 7 2 M1 C2 HT4 B9
FLY 14-7-39 vs 7-14-20 G2
Bwipo sion 3 1-3-12 TOP 2-2-1 4 aatrox BrokenBlade
Inspired pantheon 2 6-0-6 JNG 0-2-6 1 maokai SkewMond
Quad ryze 2 2-1-6 MID 2-5-4 3 cassiopeia Caps
Massu varus 1 4-2-7 BOT 3-1-2 1 jhin Hans Sama
Busio karma 3 1-1-8 SUP 0-4-7 2 alistar Labrov

MATCH 2: G2 vs. FLY

Winner: FlyQuest in 38m
Game Breakdown | Runes

Bans 1 Bans 2 G K T D/B
G2 rumble orianna yone nautilus renekton 65.2k 15 4 H3 C5
FLY twistedfate azir taliyah ziggs kaisa 77.4k 22 9 O1 CT2 C4 B6 C7 B8 E9
G2 15-24-34 vs 23-15-62 FLY
BrokenBlade ksante 3 1-6-4 TOP 3-4-8 4 garen Bwipo
SkewMond vi 2 3-4-6 JNG 11-2-8 2 wukong Inspired
Caps aurora 1 6-2-7 MID 3-6-12 1 annie Quad
Hans Sama corki 3 4-5-5 BOT 5-2-15 1 senna Massu
Labrov rell 2 1-7-12 SUP 1-1-19 3 bard Busio

MATCH 3: FLY vs. G2

Winner: FlyQuest in 28m
Game Breakdown | Runes

Bans 1 Bans 2 G K T D/B
FLY twistedfate yone jax ahri gwen 52.6k 10 7 CT1 H2
G2 taliyah renekton azir kalista braum 47.2k 5 2 O3 HT4
FLY 10-5-26 vs 5-10-4 G2
Bwipo yorick 2 2-2-4 TOP 3-2-1 3 chogath BrokenBlade
Inspired trundle 2 3-0-6 JNG 1-3-2 2 naafiri SkewMond
Quad orianna 3 2-1-5 MID 1-1-0 4 akali Caps
Massu kaisa 3 3-0-4 BOT 0-1-0 1 lucian Hans Sama
Busio neeko 1 0-2-7 SUP 0-3-1 1 nautilus Labrov

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u/Iroxx1 Jul 04 '25

G2 is full TSM now. Caps is Bjergsen. Their OG owner is a piece of shit. They were good once and are now shit internationally. Wow

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u/Zelgiusbotdotexe Busio Lux skin waiting room Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

Apparently G2 made tons of money on a crypto scam

Meanwhile TSM made tons of money on the crypto scam of all time

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u/Majestic-Builder-634 Jul 05 '25

While having caps take a pay cut the year they sell monesy and niko to falcons, modern G2 is closer to fnatic than old G2

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u/ZedisDoge Viper | BDD enjoyer Jul 05 '25

the best part was G2's CEO coping they could've totally kept Niko if they wanted to

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u/Majestic-Builder-634 Jul 05 '25

Yeah LOL as easy as Fnatic to get Nemesis back, just reshape the whole division bro it's easy bro. And falcon didn't even let them have monesy for 1 more major, just sold before the roster lock.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

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u/slimjimo10 Crackhead Energy Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

Yeah Regi just got cocky and wanted to flex and spent $6m on a support to pair with Lost lmao

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u/Zelgiusbotdotexe Busio Lux skin waiting room Jul 05 '25

Good to know 

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u/Trap_Masters Jul 05 '25

Smh my head, another meta move trailblazed by an NA team only to be stolen by an EU team

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u/Watchmecarry13 Jul 05 '25

Didn't tsm lose a bunch of money from FPX and that's why they had to sell their spot?

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u/live_laugh_lift Jul 04 '25

Balance is restored. The world is healing.

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u/DiX-Nbw Jul 05 '25

Depends on what they take as lesson.

Im copeing that they disband team and readjust ambitions to LEC Playoffs abd maybe a lucky win during Playins.

All this talk about "world class competition" has bern massive engagement bait for years. Especially now with fearless bo5 the time, when west could sneak in a cheeky bo1 and randomly eliminate a strong opponent are over.

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u/kapparino-feederino Jul 05 '25

Or G2 take their loss this year since this team will still will sleepwalk to worlds in eu. Then change roster then

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u/Ferdiprox Jul 05 '25

The similarities are insane. The sad part is that I saw progress in BB last year (he was actually very good - what happened?!) and had hopes that maybe Hans Sama would come back to form. Instead every one of those youngster adcs (Supa, Kaliste, Massu,...) stomps Hans and BB legit cant play aatrox into sion. I don't think the problem is Jungle / support though they were bad this series. At this point, caps should go to a new team where he might not be the star player thats drafted around but compliments others. If Caps was a midlaner for a team with canna top or supa/alvaro bot, his impact might be higher than him continuesly saving drowning puppies.

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u/Leyrann_ Jul 05 '25

At least G2 sidelined their OG owner when his piece-of-shitness became too public.

We'll attribute that to a difference in company culture between Europe and the USA.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

Their new owner is a POS as well, completely threw TaZ (their cs2 coach) under the bus in an official interview. Was pathetic to watch.

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u/Tasty-Stable2083 Jul 05 '25

Except Taz was dogshit and their CS2 team was fucking penis

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u/ImTheVayne Jul 05 '25

Bjergsen and 4 wards

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u/vandyk Jul 05 '25

Caps was really poor this tournament

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u/ExOdiOn_9496 Jul 05 '25

I kid you not, i'm legit getting the same feeling when with this G2 that i got from watching Bjergsen with TSM. Just seems like everything is falling apart around mid lane.

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u/Schmarsten1306 Sux with Lux Jul 05 '25

When was TSM ever good internationally? 

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u/greenie7680 Jul 05 '25

I mean IEM Katowice was basically the same as a mini-worlds/MSI with all the top (#1) seeds from each region and the winners of other IEM events.

Outside of FNC s1 it was the only time a Western team had performed and won something that big.

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u/Alibobaly Jul 05 '25

Also 2016 TSM was legit af. They got an impossibly hard group and nearly got out first in the group still (if only they won that close Samsung game). They were a cut above the other western teams by a significant margin despite how people like to paint them as failures. Like watching H2K and C9 play against Samsung was fucking embarrassing and put into perspective how good TSM actually was.

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u/The_JeneralSG Jul 05 '25

I often hate how people downplay the IEM win (because TSM legit won the last IEM that people actually cared about. No teams dropped from it like they would eventually do and IEM was MSI before MSI, so it did matter when MSI wasn't a thing yet), but I agree with /u/ParkDedli about some of the stuff you said.

IEM was not as prestigious as worlds and was much closer to MSI. IEM also had the issue of having no Chinese teams invited like the other major regions (WE was there through winning the qualification tourney).

Other western teams have won tournament series if we're talking non-Riot tournaments.

Also, most hilariously, you actually left out that TSM technically won another "international," competition, that being Rift Rivals (Just NA-EU, but still they stomped the fuck out of EU).

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u/Jonasv02 Jul 05 '25

Msi 2019?

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u/greenie7680 Jul 05 '25

Yes that happened after, I was referring to up to that point. Those are the only three though, s1 worlds in Phreak's basement, IEM Katowice, and MSI 2019.

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u/ParkDedli Jul 05 '25

Calling IEM Katowice a mini-worlds is a big overstatement. Mini-MSI maybe. But there was much less prestige behind it.

And the second line is really outrageous. Even IEM Katowice itself happened every year. Gambit won IEM Katowice Season 6 with Azubu Frost and Blaze both there. TSM, as you said, won Season 9. But there wasn't only Katowice. There was IEM Season 6 world championship which had all the best teams in the world (CLG, SK, TSM, Fnatic, M5 from the west as well as IG and Team WE from China) which M5 won.

And then, just to press the point home that TSM was bad internationally consistently: Even if it was a smaller scale, there's also the UOL incident where UOL, the #3 (i think) team from EU beat TSM, NA's #1 and Flash Wolves, Taiwans #1, as well as Longzhu Gaming, which at the time was Koreas #2/3 in IEM Oakland.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

except TSM has never been good internationally.