The LCS Spring Finals weekend is only a day away. FlyQuest and Golden Guardians will compete in Raleigh, North Carolina on April 8 for the fitting to problem Cloud9 for the LCS Spring Cut up trophy. FlyQuest isn’t leaving something to likelihood, nonetheless, saying at the moment a giant change to its beginning roster.
FlyQuest will return to the beginning lineup that introduced them a lot success earlier within the LCS Spring Split by benching beginning assist Invoice “Eyla” Nguyen and reinstating Kim “Winsome” Dong-keon to the assist position.
The lineup change was introduced on Twitter in an replace video from FlyQuest president and chief gaming officer Chris “PapaSmithy” Smith and normal supervisor Nick Phan. It’s a shift that brings the FlyQuest roster again to the start of the Spring Cut up when Eyla was delayed from becoming a member of FlyQuest because the workforce’s supposed beginning assist due to visa issues. Whereas Eyla and FlyQuest waited for that paperwork to be sorted out, Winsome stepped into the assist position and promptly helped the workforce to an 8-1 begin to start the cut up, together with a formidable victory over C9 that cemented FlyQuest because the workforce to beat within the LCS on the time.
The workforce encountered extra bumps within the street as soon as Eyla finally rejoined the starting lineup, going 6-4 within the remaining video games of the cut up, together with a tiebreaker loss to C9 for the primary seed within the playoffs. The workforce picked up a little bit of momentum by sweeping 100 Thieves to open their playoff run, however C9 once more swatted them again right down to Earth with a 3-0 of their own to place FlyQuest within the decrease bracket.
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PapaSmithy and Phan famous how Winsome has grown whereas taking part in within the NACL with FlyQuest Challengers since Eyla stepped into the beginning roster, with Phan particularly saying Winsome “did an important job to find his voice” after stepping right down to the NACL. Phan additionally famous how Winsome has impressed FlyQuest along with his response to suggestions.
“One factor that we’ve been actually impressed by with Winsome is simply his capability to take all of the suggestions that we may probably give him and work on that within the quick subsequent scrim, solo queue recreation, assessment, no matter it’s,” Phan mentioned, praising the assist for his flexibility. “He’s been hungry and he’s been malleable, and I believe a variety of that he’s going to have the ability to convey to the desk this weekend.”
FlyQuest will want that capability to drag off the beginning roster swap on quick discover. They face a resurgent Golden Guardians that shocked many by making it this far to even earn the fitting to play C9, a workforce they haven’t been capable of get the higher of in months.
FlyQuest and LCS followers in every single place will see if the change pays off when the workforce takes on Golden Guardians on April 8 to open the 2023 LCS Spring Finals.
