Quest Esports Dominated the Tiebreakers Against Team Liquid
The tiebreakers series between Quest Esports against Team Liquid was one of the anticipated series for the WEU DPC Summer Tour. Although Team Liquid destroyed every team in Western Europe Division during the Winter and Spring Tour, they started to show cracks in the Summer Tour, losing to Tundra, Entity. The team, however, had already qualified for The International 2023.
They also lost to Quest Esports twice, once in the DPC playoffs and once in the tiebreakers. However, despite their loss, Team Liquid will still be going to the Bali Major. Quest played marvellously in the tiebreakers series against Team Liquid, thinking a step ahead of them. Here’s a quick recap of the action that went down.
Game 1
Quest Esports went with a Medusa safelane carry draft in game 1. They backed their Medusa with a Queen Of Pain mid, and an offlane Mars backed the support duo of Mirana and Shadow Demon.
To counter the Medusa, Team Liquid opted for a safelane carry, Slark, and a midlane Pangolier. Despite getting counter picked, Quest Esports carefully dissected Liquid’s game plan during the laning stage. The support duo from them frequently roamed mid to enable their midlane QOP.
Moreover, Mars dominated the lane against Slark. There was nothing Team Liquid could have done to avoid the catastrophic failure during the laning stage, as Quest Esports perfectly executed their plans step by step. After the end of the laning stage, Team Liquid tried to get back into the game by attempting to play behind their offlane, Nyx Assasin. However, Quest Esports was fast with the response. As their Medusa joined the fights, Team Liquid knew the match was over, and at 34 minutes, they tapped out from game 1.
Game 2
Team Liquid tried to play a fast-paced game in game 2. Liquid countered the Timbersaw offlane from Quest Esports with a Monkey King safelane backed by Puck as their midlane and a Viper. As the laning stage ended, Quest focused on their item timing while Team Liquid continued their momentum by picking off Quest heroes across the map.
As Quest hits their item timing, they force fights one after another, slowly diminishing the lead Team Liquid once had. Quest took the Aegis when they had the lead. Although Team Liquid tried to hold the onslaught coming from Quest, they had nothing in their arsenal. Eventually, at 41 minutes, Quest closed out game 2, taking the series and third place in the WEU Summer Tour.