Despite the close series, FlyQuest found itself still with only one victory in the Summer Split as it went down 2-1 to Counter Logic Gaming on Saturday in Week 3, Day 2 of the North American League of Legends Championship Series in Los Angeles.
CLG jungler Joshua "Dardoch" Hartnett commanded Game 1 on Gragas, with four of his team's five kills by 10 minutes. This immense pressure helped get top laner Darshan "Darshan" Upadhyaya's Jayce a huge early lead, which eventually snowballed to a nearly 100-CS advantage. With FlyQuest distracted by Darshan at 24 minutes, CLG was free to take Baron and push itself even further ahead. From there, CLG had no trouble maintaining its perfect objective control, ending the game in 35 minutes with three Ocean Drakes and all its towers intact.
Dardoch's Gragas was equally strong in Game 2, participating in all but one of CLG's nine pre-20-minute kills. Once again, Darshan was set up for huge success, this time on Renekton, as he even managed to nab a triple kill at 16 minutes as CLG aced FlyQuest. However, some sloppy deaths from CLG prevented it from closing out the game, and suddenly the scaling from Hai "Hai" Lam's Orianna and Jason "WildTurtle" Tran's Caitlyn came online. Now able to dominate teamfights, FlyQuest came back with a pair of Barons and ended Game 2 in 46 minutes.
Game 3 was a back-and-forth brawl from the very start, with Hai's trendy mid Lucian pick starting out 4/0/0 (kills/deaths/assists) in the first seven minutes. FLY followed up by picking up a triple kill for top laner An "Balls" Le on Rumble in the mid lane, evening out the gold. The remainder of the game featured the two high-damage teamfight compositions butting heads time and again, but it was CLG who ultimately came out on top, largely thanks to Trevor "Stixxay" Hayes on Caitlyn. The AD carry had a monster performance in the final teamfight to end the game 11/3/13 in 41 minutes.
FlyQuest will still be looking to find its first win against former sister team Cloud9 on Sunday at 6p.m. ET, while Counter Logic Gaming hopes to remain at the top of the standings with a win over Phoenix1 at 3 p.m. ET.