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The Play-In Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) 2024 matches are coming to a close. Today, the last two series in the Long Sogpeg Stage of the inaugural international tournament will be played.
One of the closing matches will feature FlyQuest and PSG Talon. The teams will compete with each other for a place in the Bracket Stage from Quartet A and it will be a rematch of the first round of MSI 2024.
We are trying to find out how this match will end and who will earn the right to play in the main stage of Mid-Season Invitational 2024.
Let's go.
FlyQuest Form
Let's open the match analysis with FlyQuest's form. There is no favourite in this match, so we take the result of the previous meeting of the teams at MSI 2024 as a measure of strength.
FlyQuest have been on the professional scene since 2017. Back then, they hung around somewhere in the middle, ranking from top 7 to top 7.
The following years were also unsuccessful: in 2018 the peak was TOP-6 at LCS Summer 2018, then TOP-4 at LCS Spring already in 2019. The turning point was the 2020 season, when FlyQuest made it to the Worlds 2020 after twice making Top 2 at home. However, it wasn't too bad to take special heights there, though: TOP-12 for a FlyQuest ranked team can be considered a success.
In the season 2021 and 2022 the team played "standard" for themselves. The average was top-6.
At LCS Spring 2023, the team finished second in the group stage, losing to Cloud9. The team won the group stage with a score of 14-4.
- FlyQuest lineup: Bwipo, Inspired, Jensen, Massu, Busio.
The team lost to the leaders of the standings Cloud9, Evil Geniuses, Team Liquid and TSM. However, having played each of the teams twice, FlyQuest took one match each.
The team had no net defeats in the group stage. The team did not participate in any third-party events.
In the first match of the play-offs FlyQuest played with 100 Thieves. The opponent, who nominally could compete with FQ, was unable to take even a map: the match ended with a 3-0 defeat in favour of FlyQuest. After a successful Long Sogpeg, FlyQuest made it to the Top 3 before losing to Golden Guardians 2-3 in the finals match, thus being left out of Worlds 2023.
In 2024, FlyQuest made it to the LCS Top 2 and eventually made it to MSI 2024. Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) 2024 started off with a very surprising 2-1 win over PSG Talon. In the Bracket Stage match, FlyQuest expectedly Ledge or T1 with a score of 0-2.
The most popular FlyQuest champions
The top FlyQuest champions are KSante (9 matches, 66% wins), Sion (4 matches, 50% wins), Jax (2 games, 100% wins) and Renekton (2 matches, 100% wins).
The forest picks are Maokai (5 matches, 80% wins), Sejuani (4 games, 25% wins), Vi (4 matches, 100% wins), and Amumu (3 matches, 100% wins).
The centre line has the most variety. Sylas (4 matches, 75% wins), Azir (2 matches, 100% wins), Akali (2 matches, 50% wins), Annie (2 matches, 100% wins), Ahri (2 matches, 100% wins).
Zeri (4 games, 75% wins), Aphelios (3 matches, 33% wins), Lucian (2 games, 50% wins), Caitly (2 matches, 100% wins), Kaisa (2 matches, 100% wins) take the ADC position.
Lulu (3 games, 33% wins), Rakan (2 games, 100% wins), Soraka (1 game, 100% wins), Nami (1 game, 0 wins) appeared on the roster.
PSG Talon uniforms
We continue our match analysis with PSG Talon's form. In this match the odds for their victory are at around 1.9.
PSG Talon qualified for the Worlds 2023 by Taiwanese quota quite easily. Roughly speaking, they simply had no competition in their region.
During the year, PSG Talon won the PCS home tournament twice. They won at PCS Spring 2023 and PCS Summer 2023.
- PSG Talon roster: Azhi, Junjin, Maple, Betty, Woody.
In addition to regional successes, PSG Talon has been consistently recognised at the international level. And they have been doing so since their appearance on the competition scene, i.e. 2020.
At the Worlds series championships the results are as follows: TOP-12 at the 2020 Worlds, TOP-11 at the 2021 Worlds. Skipped the Worlds last year, finishing in the Top 3 on the home stage for the first time. Still appeared at MSIs, where the best result was a top-3 at MSI 2021. Incidentally, they also travelled to MSI this year, but couldn't jump above the top 9.
Worlds 2023 PSG Talon started with a confident victory over Rainbow7. The Mexicans were able to last less than an hour on two maps.
They continued it with a win over LOUD. PSG Talon easily shut down the Brazilians with a score of 2-0, becoming the only team not to lose a single map at the Play-In.
In the match for the next round PSG Talon played against BDS and after leading 2-0, they lost 2-3, thus falling out of favour at Worlds 2023.
In the 2024 season, PSG Talon first finished top-2 in the PCS Spring Regular Season and then triumphed in the play-offs, shutting out HAWKS 3-0 in the grand finals.
At the 2024 PSG Talon Long Mid-Season Invitational, PSG Talon Long Sogpeg started off with a very unexpected loss against FlyQuest. Having already found themselves in the bottom set, they were expected to beat Estral Esports with a score of 2-0.
The most popular champions of PSG Talon
The most popular and successful champion on the top line remains Gragas (3 matches, 100% wins), and also Kennen (3 matches, 66% wins).
Wukong (6 games, 33% wins) and Sejuani (4 matches, 100% wins) play in the forest.
The centre line is played with Ahri (4 matches, 0% wins), Tristana (3 matches, 100% wins) and Syndra (3 matches, 100% wins).
The ADC position is most often occupied by Lucian (4 matches. 50% wins), Aphelios (4 matches, 75% wins).
Nami (3 games, 66% wins), Thresh (3 matches, 100% wins) are often paired with shooters.
History of head-to-head meetings PSG Talon - FlyQuest
The teams played each other at this Mid-Season Invitational 2024. FlyQuest won with a score of 2-1.
Predicted result of the match PSG Talon - FlyQuest at MSI 2024
As far as I am concerned, there will be no repeat of the result of the last match between Talon and FlyQuest. I am almost completely sure in the victory of PSG Talon and I will bet on it.
Bottom line: PSG Talon wins.
