Zirene has been obsessed with how much FlyQuest is exceeding expectations. But, that is just more shoddy analysis by Zirene. Three of the old C9 roster, and Altec have worked extensively together. Moon has LCS experience. To say that FlyQuest is an expected 9th or 10th place is obviously dumb. But, my question is, what did Phreak predict FlyQuest to do? Did he outsmart his idiot coworkers yet again?
I can see ranking them 9th or 10th if they didn't have Hai. But the fact he stayed on people should have gave the guy more credit than that. He basically came back and took a c9 team headed that were headed to relegations, to worlds instead in a span of like 3 weeks. The guy has proven to make any team a winner. So, with all the discombobulated teams full of mechanics and nothing else this season, it shouldnt have been a surprise that he is able to manufacture wins out of thin air by leadership alone; esp. with 2 players who are going to listen to him that he has played with his entire career. And honestly, his entire career is defined by that leadership talent alone.
Not to mention, if people haven't noticed, their mechanics really aren't that poor. Even when Hai "retired" hes still a top challenger player. Same with the others. Its not like these guys were out in their garage working on old cars at 45 years old when someone came and told them they needed them back lol. They are 20 year old dudes still spamming solo Q just burnt out of competitive. But now they have the fire again, and they are playing pretty damn well individually.
But yea. I mean if they had some other mid like I thought they were going to have before the split started, 9th or 10th sounded about right. As soon as people heard that Hai stayed on, he should have gotten way more credit than that.
Yeah, it's kinda too early to make the call on flyquest. While they did start 3-0, they were hardly challenged (facing what looks to be a 7th place CLG team, an NV team that was starting a shockingly improved Ich, and a TL team who could be the biggest disappointment of 2017). Them vs IMT will be the true test of how good they are, as a clean 2-0 could put them in 4th while a loss could make them more of a 6-7th team.
Oh, and just because moon has lcs experience doesn't necessarily make him good or anything. Froggen has years of lcs experience, yet because of what his champion pool/skillset is like you could almost consider him a liability on anything other than a challenger team.
Considering that a lot of pre-split predictions had Flyquest pitched as this washed up assortment of players with an expectation of 9/10th place, they're doing quite good shutting up critics so far and styling while doing it. Flyquest's case is exactly why they are called predictions; there's no being dumb about what you thought prior to the start of the split, especially if it fell in line with a good majority of others, fans and analysts alike. And even though they have an above average early start, there's still the rest of the split in which they could crack under the pressure over like Summer Split Envy.
I thought they'd be 6th personally, was a little shocked to see them at 9th or 10th.
I personally predicted FlyQuest to go 7-11 for 7th place but I must admit they look good so far but it's a long split and anything can happen.
