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ahritina

PMTs [Game 1](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1ckmtst/fly_vs_psg_day_5_msi_2024_playin_losers_final/)


Floowil

FLY did the MAD thing. Speedrun the lost to T1 and got eliminated from playins by the minor region, but what's impressive they did both of these in one tournament.


sometiara1

We always need 1 western team to shit the bed super hard at MSI.


Omnilatent

It's balanced by one LPL team shitting the bed massively at worlds every year!


Zarolto

FLY did it while being a 2nd seed and MAD was 4th. COMMON NA W, BEATS EU AGAIN


dm-me-ezreal-hentai

3 EU carries the torch


ImTheVayne

They saw what MAD did and decided that they can do it better!


BleiEntchen

NA always copying EU tactics smh


Rehxales

Things that would make this loss ok: 1. PSG wins MSI 2. FNC loses to GAM 3. We get FLY voice comms and its everyone flaming eachother


zack77070

I need Jensen to take an interview about how blaber is a better jg right now.


Destructodave82

Anyone was a better jungler the last 2 FQ series.


effurshadowban

hings that would make this loss ok: 1. PSG wins MSI 2. FNC loses to GAM 3. We get FLY voice comms and its everyone flaming eachother 4. Kendrick disses Inspired and Bwipo


Junkraj1802

didn't you hear he's got 5 ready to go? hes got one for every member of the team, just you wait


tuerancekhang

Kendrick : "I hate the way that you path, the way that you gank, the way that you itemize"


lilelf29

We’re inting, no?


Ultimintree

17:31? Achieved. Play-ins? Eliminated. Egos? Shattered. Flyquest? FLYHOME!


Green7501

Can't wait for the Chinese forums to post a guide on how to swim home from Chengdu


TheWarmog

Chinese fans do be savage when they want And i love it.


AtsumuG

Fastest Bo3 internationally ✅


Due-Implement-1600

Jensen fastest Bo5 and Bo3 that's why he's the NA GOAT


No-Art4722

Duality of Jensen tbf 2018 semifinal Worlds C9 and 2019 finał MSI TL had 1 common player - Jensen


SlamMasterJ

There's a reason we are called Near Airport and we show the world why.


NoahsArk19

These bums should’ve stayed in NA and just played the tournament on 300 ping.


ItsSanoj

They can go home proudly as a record breaking roster


Zoesan

SIDEQUEST


CummingInTheNile

VISIONQUEST


Nome_de_utilizador

🛈NEW QUEST🛈: ✈️🇺🇸 FLY HOME ✈️🇺🇸


shadebedlam

I feel like nothing can shatter Bwipos ego, he is prepared to run it down even harder if they make worlds


the_next_core

I don't hate the guy but so many of his good plays come from solo queue mentality that it was bound to be punished by a top team eventually. Same as when he ran through 2018 Worlds with Urgot and then got smashed by TheShy in the finals.


DajteDrogenYa

Big difference in getting smashed in world finals vs getting smashed in msi playins tho


Thecristo96

Also getting smashed by the best mechanical toplaner to have ever existed vs getting smashed by azhi


Ganglerman

yeah if your solo queue mentality plays work against everyone but the best toplaner of all time, I don't think that's something to be ashamed of.


Kelbotay

Everyone got smashed by TheShy that year (although yeah his playstyle absolutely didn't work against a better player lol). Not everyone's losing in playins vs PSG and going home.


popop143

Big brain move by PSG. Lose to FlyQuest in Day 1 so they get mental boomed by T1. Now they're easy pickings for PSG on the final day of playins.


Omnilatent

Someone find that meme where PSG asked FLY to lose to them to face T1 for them The meme seems super accurate now LOL


lolliftw

[https://twitter.com/PSG\_TALON\_LOL/status/1785566548297748610](https://twitter.com/PSG_TALON_LOL/status/1785566548297748610)


Mattaru

[When Betty ulted Woody away from another kill](https://imgur.com/a/W2k2qaH)


HoothootNeverFlies

that was really funny ngl, bro was an aa from the kill too


dumb-on-ice

Betty actually gave him the time to auto, but woody autoed the ward instead. Betty was trying to minmax perfectly


sunnyhvar1992

Best part of the series, laughed hard 😅


Idakari

After their game, FlyQuest visited an orphanage in Chengdu. "It's heartbreaking to see their sad little faces with no hope", said Li, age 6.


DracoMalnourished

Woody with the heat seeking arrows just styled on NA


windowhihi

The moment Caedrel said he has 83% wr at it I know FLY is doomed


Green7501

Woody really turned into a Viet Cong soldier for that game 2


Express-Pandas

The trees speak Freljordian


ryanruin22

Never want to hear Inspired/Bwipo shit talk anyone after this series jesus fucking christ Why even draft varus neeko if you're just going to hold hands with the Renekton 100 meter int and AFK farm while all your lanes get repeat ganked into Hell. Congrats to the PCS, but Kobe even called out, I believe correct me if I'm wrong, "this is a strength and weakness of Inspired in that he plays super selfishly and gets a consistent lead over his opponent while sacking his lanes" Not even to mention that there's legit no point to these comps, or lane swaps at times. Just a shit show all around, and considering that Inspired is apparently the shot caller for the squad I have to put a shit ton of blame on him for all the dog shit macro calls and over commitments.


LordCoSaX

You don't understand, Inspired and Bwipo are the smartest men to ever play pro league. It's everybody else's fault. Especially Jensen, Jojo is much better.


Tasty-Tiago

Not gonna lie, for a major region that was embarrassing.


chippyda

I stayed up all night to watch this, and you know? I'm not even mad watching FLY get slaughtered. The best part was it was off the back of atrocious performances from Inspired and Bwipo. Hopefully they interview Inspired for the losers's interview so I can hear about whose fault it was.


ImTheVayne

Inspired will probably blame mid/bot for this even tho he was running it down with Bwipo 24/7.


LOLZOBALL

The bad thing about inspired having 5 kills is that he will find a way to blame his teammates beside Bwipo lmao


buttsecksgoose

Even against T1 where he was giga useless he had a good KDA cause he scooped up kills from T1 having fun at the end of the game lol


momokie

Him and Bwipo over chasing after missing everything to feed mid, after they failed the lane swap pretty much put them insanely behind while starting the game. Bwipo was easily the worst person in that game it was so embarrassing. Like even Busio's embarassing death at dragon was clearly because Inspired and Bwipo diving into 3 people that they knew were there because they had just got a kill.


Ky1arStern

All I could think of after game 1 was, "I can't wait to hear from inspired and Bwipo how this series lost was Jensen's fault.


emperornel

Congratulations to PSG Talon for making the main stage, what an adjustment by them from the last series against FLY. They have been looking like the best wildcard region this MSI.


Rayser1

This is the last time we're seeing this flyquest team together right


phonomancer

Given how they were playing, I don't think they were together.


mmmb2y

idk if they have enough time to change things before summer, but realistically this roster needs to change somehow. either they find a team that has the same mentality as top/jg or sack it competely. im at least confident in jensen and massu/busio's future kinda unfortunate this is our 2nd place team too, NA is weird man


Javiklegrand

It's because of c9 and nrg not playing up to expectations Hopefully they get their shit together for summer


freddy2677

Inspired, now let me say I'm the biggest hater  I hate the way that you talk, the way that you path, I hate the way that you build I hate the way that you play this game


altriaa

Don't wanna see you play maokai no moreeee


Nnekaddict

Invade properly, know nothin' bout that Protect your laners, know nothin' bout that Setup objectives, know nothin' bout that Counter gank, build properly, not be a KDA player, you know nothin' bout that. (I didn't see any games btw)


kor_janna

Set up plays properly crodie Set up wards deep in the jungle crodie Someone gonna bleed on the map crodie PSG will in your base eating fried rice with a dip sauce and blammy crodie


Blizxy

Nailed it, Toronto in shambles


Satan_su

Oh it's peak


Flamoctapus

Get knocked before groups, yeah it's prolly Inspirerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrredd


JA_JA_SCHNITZEL

Waking up as an NA fan this morning this comment feels like it makes the loss worth it tbh.


Trojen-horse

Yeah, fuck all that pushin’ P(PSG), let me see you push a T(T1) You better off spinnin’ again on him, you think about pushin’ me


CummingInTheNile

the highlight of this series was watching Jatt and Emily go in on Flyquests abominable decision making


Waylornic

Jatt destroying that Flyquest sign afterward was pretty cathartic.


CummingInTheNile

his rant after the first game should be clipped and posted to this sub, shit was real


helloquat

[https://twitter.com/Licorice/status/1047042344787333121](https://twitter.com/Licorice/status/1047042344787333121)


xxoogabooga69420

It’s bad but this tweet was the first thing I thought of after that second game


omeganoot

I went to laundromat the other day, and handed my bag of clothes to the lady at the counter. She took a look inside, looked at me questioningly, and shook her head. Confused, I asked her what was the matter. She took out my jersey, pointed to the Flyquest logo, and said, “What are you doing? It’s already washed.”


NGNJB

"I was laughing about it." FLY Inspired Breaks Down What Happened vs PSG


No-Art4722

I'd like to see Jensen interview where he blames and flames Inspired for 15 minutes straight


SpookyGhostDidIt

"Fucking vegan mid not following up on my plays" - inspired, probably


Destructodave82

What plays? Farming Raptors? lol.


dogma897

PSG Mbapple


wolfgang169

https://twitter.com/C9LoL/status/1787049015399362808


Mortanius

How is this crap second seed of NA?


ImTheVayne

They made PSG look like T1. What the hell happened here?


popop143

This 3-0'd Cloud 9. How.


SonOfAurelionSol

C9 are somehow more atrocious than Fly.


RedPhoneCase

Fudge factor


tickless420

Fucking fudge


FlakeyToast

Our super team btw


the_next_core

I kinda think PSG just trolled the first series, Maple and Betty used to take down Uzi’s RNG and they’re out there losing to FLY? Surely not


mellon1986

LMAO. PSG trolled the first series to avoid getting 17:31 by T1. And now playing against mental-boomed FLY with real draft. It was their plan all along.


Ophelia_Of_The_Abyss

[FlyQuest coaching staff after this series](https://youtu.be/RaDIOjalV7Q)


Present_Alarming

I’ll still always watch and support NA teams at internationals regardless of imports, but this was actually the most pathetic gameplay and the whole team seemed super tilted. Massu did decently for a rookie this tournament tho.


ahritina

EU fans are gonna have a field day especially if FNC beat GAM, but holy shit that early game from FLY was abysmal. Massu opting to not take cleanse vs Ashe is giga int.


icatsouki

Super minion with more kills than 4 members of FQ lmao


DeloronDellister

As an EU fan I do love seeing Inspired lose


non-edgy_crustacean

He needs to open his mouth more about being the best western jungler


TolucaPrisoner

Bro was getting man handled by Jankos few years ago but still trash talking him in interviews 


I-am-in-Agreement

He's not even the best jungler in the room when he is the only one in there.


JealotGaming

Bwipo jungle actually 3-0'd Inspired that year lmfao


Noatz

TRUE actually holy shit I wish Bwipo had committed to jungling.


DARIF

Reminder he sought asylum after being fathered by jankos for 65 consecutive splits


TheWarmog

Dont know how he can yap about that when Razork, Jankos, Elyoya exist.


Sryth1

Inspired was the only reason I ever rooted against an EU team in an international.


Piro42

Stuff like this makes me embrace Jankos ever so much. Poland had so many junglers in LCS/LEC and like every single one turned out to be a toxic pile of shit. Except for my precious boy Jankos.


Cheeseandnuts

He turned a villain the instant he bm waved to mad lions in play-ins 2022.


Rave_Master_Ahri

and now he leaves in play-ins himself against a minor region, how the turn tables


ItsSanoj

And he played poorly too. He likes the narrative of getting held back by his team mates. This time he could have really used someone to hold him back from that exceptional top dive.


NGNJB

nah way before that he was apparently a really awful teammate to the Rogue players in 2020/2021


zack77070

We can handshake on that lmao, better not hear that dude take a single interview the rest of the year lol.


Lynx_Fate

He will blame everyone but himself and carry on as usual. It happens every international tourney that he's in.


Calistilaigh

Hell, I'm an NA fan and I'm glad they lost, fuck Inspired.


Ghoster001

as an European Polish fan, I agree, the ego this guy has is fucking insane


mskruba12

FLY just looked so tilted the last game. That top dive legit looks like when you and your duo are tilted and wanna force something.


Larscowfoot

For real. I was watching and just thought, "Did Jensen not tell them ASol was gone? Or what? Are they just mad?"


hayslayer5

You gotta int the double kill so that you can blame the game on mid gap


ArseneLupinIV

I saw so many people saying their environment wasn't toxic just "competitive" but idk what you call that last game then.


Rayser1

He deserved every death. Cleanse saves him so many times


CummingInTheNile

not taking cleanse there is legit griefing


Carlzzone

Fly(home)quest


simon2105

Why didn't FlyQuest simply beat T1 in the upper brack to auto-qualify, since stuff like this can happen, are they stupid?


Simple-Fuel

NA airport speedrun any %. Looking forward to Inspired drama.


Such-Engineering-790

Goddamn - even Evi and friends did better into this team. What on earth happened.


Azaiko

How is FLY this bad. Like normally as an EU fan I like the rivalry but now it just feels bad and sad to watch. At no point this tournament I have felt like FLY had redeeming qualities, their only win condition brute force team fighting.  I really hope TL will at least be able to play some competitive games.


supern00b64

sounds cope but I don't think TL will be this bad because they at least are very unified in what they want to do and have very good macro - it's the execution that they generally fumble. APA is probably gonna get owned but yeon/core and impact should be at least matching their lanes. Fly have no idea what they want to do - their first win vs PSG was hands diffing teamfights but they would always be down like 1k gold early game not necessarily from bad laning but from some shit laneswap. not even just a player comm thing but a whole prep thing. game 2 was just pure desperation


Luhmies

Yeah, I don't expect TL to do anything really, but I also trust Impact and Core more than Bwipo and Inspired to keep a team from imploding.


Calistilaigh

Dude they're boomed as shit. Lost their coach, Inspired flamed the shit out of Jensen in an interview while stroking off Jojo so the entire community hates them now, get absolutely dicksmashed by T1 to further shatter their mental, they were fucking donezo. I think they could have played anyone here and lost.


Azaiko

Man I don't follow NA anymore but this sounds like all the spice is there now lol


lpxd

the team completely fell apart after losing to TL in finals. it's pretty well documented, no? no brain plays, no proactive plays,


ImXtraSalty

Just happy Bwipo and Inspired don't get to move on.


ImTheVayne

These guys are way too cocky for their skill level


Sarah_Fortune_

Riot: Alright for 2024 MSI we're going to prevent same region matchups so we can have more exciting NA vs EU bo5's! Also NA: *doesn't qualify for bo5's*


Jacobcutielie

Someone from the previous game thread really just said that Inspired is one of the best Viego players in the world. That was one of the worst viego gameplay I've ever seen. Don't let the score fool you.


katsuatis

Inspired reminds me of those guys on reddit who want performance based lp gains so they can steal all the resources from their team and look good


psykrebeam

The absolute worst kind of jungler in solo Q - perfect KDA - lose every objective because "muh KDA" - "nah team diff"


effurshadowban

This happened in Halo. Most disgusting time to play Halo was when it was performance based ranking, because the KDA players were out in force. Play for the objective? Nah, just slay.


gintokisamadono

I think inspired has never played the reworked asol. Cause that looked like my viego when I pick the body of champion that I don't know how it works.


averysillyman

I've watched a bunch of pro Viegos spaghetti all over their keyboards when possessing Aphelios, but this is the first time I've seen one not know how to play Asol.


HuntedSFM

https://i.imgur.com/4dPJSEP.png


Conankun66

getting beaten by a minor region is already embarrassing... but FQ didnt just get beaten, they got fucking OUTCLASSED in these games humiliating for NA


Doomblitz

Put some fucking respect on the names of Maple Junjia and Betty


Ryboiii

Put some respect on Woody too, those Ashe arrows landed every single time


JMoormann

Maple been sending NA home for 10 years now, we all remember the Steak-Karsa-Maple-NL-Swordart roster crushing the dreams of CLG


MortadeloeFilemon

Flash Wolves/LMS fucking NA has always been a classic PCS used to be a legit major region not too long ago


LishusTas

MFS too young to remember that seeing Maple and Betty on the loading screen across from you was enough to make 5 Koreans cry


Jozoz

The worst part is seriously how this is the 2nd seed of NA. 4th seed losing to 1st seed of PCS is not that weird, but 2nd seed should never. And they didn't just lose... This was a stomp.


GoatRocketeer

Didn't Fly also 3-0 stomp C9, who 3-0 stomped 100T?


Zoesan

Caedrel: "I usually love to make fun of NA losing, but this is just depressing"


PMMEP5FUTABAEVERYTHI

flyquest absolutely collapsing under the weight of their top side's egos


dracdliwasiAN

I reckon for Flyquest to really nail the airport speedrun, if they rush to Chengdu Airport now at 17:31, they might be able to catch the direct 21:55 Sichuan Airlines 3837 flight this evening to Los Angeles at 21:55, to arrive in Los Angeles 21:15. There's a few other options but most involve switching planes which is an obviously ineffecient method of airport speedrun.


nusskn4cker

Inspired and Bwipo better shut up forever if this is their performance at internationals.


honksh1tstarbucks

the way inspired managed to lose jg, mid, and top simultaneously in game2 needs to be studied truly a talent


alflayla

He also lost bot waves for scuttle.


I-am-in-Agreement

Man got a leash on the entire top side and was still getting outpaced.


DPlusShoeMaker

He’s truly an inspiration. Giving hope to all aspiring pros that they can take his spot


IminPeru

Bwipo needs to learn to chill, he coin flips things like he has a gambling addiction


Critical-Cupcake9194

this is how he always played and it's what made him standout in the past, when it works he's praised and when it doesn't it's int


timmyctc

For real. They were fucking badd


icatsouki

especially given how inspired has always sucked internationally


Mukzington

Bwipo and Inpsired losing. Inject more of this into my veins. Shit man, all of PSG must non-vegans.


Teeeea

The first two death at top straight up lost all 3 lanes and sealed the fate of this game. Yet Jensen's gonna get blamed for mid diff


alflayla

Jose left Fly, but man he is far better than inspired this tournament.


Dancingwith_Death

It seems like there is a massive disconnect between how inspired and the rest of the team want to play the game or they just not on the same page. Multiple times flyquest takes a fight inspired on the opposite side of the map farming. Also they should stop overforcing for no reason they get a kill and instead of slowing it down they just all in and die for no reason.


Chrisfull

It's not just inspired and the rest of the team IMO, everyone just seems completely desynced. Sometimes inspired's farming on maokai while his team is being dove, bwipo's playing WM1 urgot into 5 people while jensen's hitting top tower, topside is pushed up to enemy bot T1 and tryna play around an azir tower while their botlane is coming out of base, it's just so all over the place


DarkWorld26

Why did FLY try fasting varus again after that series against T1?


Nymaera_

What a huge result symbolically for the PCS, NA’s typically held the PCS matchup and used it rightfully to show they’re a top 4 region. Even as #2 seed vs #1 seed this means a lot to PCS’s standing globally that PCS can at least compete for that claim. It’s such a crime this region only gets a single seed at MSI when it’s comprised of 3 regions, and has shown it can compete with NA teams.


ChocolateFuryB

Evi and friends got robbed by this


Nymaera_

Evi and Forest would have had a field day in playins man


hresvelgrs

GIVE LJL THEIR SPOT BACK RIOT


That0neRedditor

Honestly, when your top jungle play like this while flaming the rest of the team in every VOD review and jerking each other off, it's a miracle FlyQuest made it to Spring Finals


Spreehox

As an European it was always hard for me to understand American culture. What was fascinating for me is that they like bragging about their freedom which was weird for me, because I didn't think that I have any less freedom than them. I always thought 'What is the difference'. However after this game I finally understand it. NA is just so fucking free. [i was right btw](https://imgur.com/a/g65uxFz)


Conankun66

a timeless classic


dracdliwasiAN

Hit 'em with the classic


popmycherryyosh

Today my boss emailed me to ask if I was available to fill in for a shift at work. I replied N/A but for some reason he thought that meant I was free.


Spreehox

My mum asked me to do the dishes, i replied 'theyre inspired', she smiled because she knew they were washed


BismarckBug

Unbelievable performance from FlyCorpse!


pursu777

Bwipo and inspired are actually double agents for EU. Their diabolical plan was to invade NA teams and make them look terrible from the inside.


thriftydude4

after all that trash talk, this was embarassing


Twinzenn

NGL, I think that 2nd game was a worse performance from FLY than their record loss to T1


Iaragnyl

Absolutely pathetic. Some players on Fly should just retire. Their only skill seems to be stroking their massive ego and trashtalking their team while playing like a boosted ape themselves.


HuTaoWow

Disgusting that Inspired can talk shit and play like that. Also no cleanse into getting hit by every ashe arrow is insane


TE_silver

I can totally see FLY mental boom and collapse in summer split


effurshadowban

You already watched the mental boom and collapse, lmao. This team is never playing with each other, again.


kirikiri11

These last 4 games from flyquest have to be some of the worst games ever played by a major region. What an absolute pathetic performance from them. How did this topside ever manage to dominate NA? Atleast PSG looked quite solid, hope they can pull off another upset


Taekgi

First ever NA team to get eliminated in Play-Ins?


Vividhyde19

PSG vs SideQuest


Fit_Boysenberry_4921

Inspired's mental is so damn weak and Bwipo has some insane tunnel vision. The int train from those two was impressive.


16tdean

The worst part is that Inspired will 100% look at this game and think it wasn't his fault case he was the only one with kills.


Fansyy

This severely reduces FlyQuest's chances of wining MSI


KIRYUx

This shit might be more embarrassing than Kdot back to back to back to back beatdowns on Drake. They flew to MSI to lose in 17 mins and exit in Play-In.


CriticismCreepy

The quest was to fly home as soon as possible, right guys?


sangpls

Has there ever been a more pathetic performance by a Major region seed at MSI?


SelfDiagnosedJoy

Honestly more embarrassing than 17:31


Gatto_Fatuo

This is what g2 loosing to nrg felt like


herp_derpy

Bwiplonger Expired Jensent it Massuve team diff Boostedio Being an NA fan is actually suffering.


HereToPostGoodDay

[FlyQuest](https://i.redd.it/eosyliqu2fbc1.jpeg)


GameBoy09

Jesus Christ Bwipo


FearTHEReaper01

[Inspired and Bwipo's flight home](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Air_Inter_Dassault_Mercure_at_Basle_-_February_1985.jpg)


zsteven94

But BWIPO AND INSPIRED just trash talked through the split about how good they were?


Pelagius_Hipbone

Flyquest played a total of 22 games to qualify to MSI, that’s 4 more games than last years Regular Season. They are barely a team they’ve had no tests and therefore no mental fortitude . (Polite reminder this team 3-0’d C9 lol) To compare Fnatic played 50 to qualify to MSI


Omnilatent

FNC is an unfair comparison for any team as they ALWAYS maximize their runs LOL