Oh, FlyQuest… it seems that even you are sick of watching you play.

If you’ve missed the news coming from middling tier two teams masquerading as tier one teams this week, then you won’t have seen that dexter has been benched by FlyQuest.

This move may be necessary, as FlyQuest has been in torrid form recently, winning just three series and nine maps all year.

It may seem harsh that dexter is the one that has been cut, given that he led the team to their greatest achievement at ESL Challenger Atlanta 2024 and that Liazz is, well, a bit crap, but looking at the changes that have happened since that Challenger win, this is a move we can get behind.

Sure, there might not be any IGLs better in Australia than dexter, but would a good IGL really sacrifice the performances of his star rifler by taking some of his spots from him? That’s exactly why INS has been struggling this year, and when he’s gone from a 1.13 on LAN in 2024 to a 0.93 on LAN this year, you have to question whether those spot changes were worth it.

In case you’re wondering who will take the IGL duties, we’re happy to tell you it will be INS. We know that might seem contradictory to our previous point about his performances, but star IGLs are becoming more frequent, and this won’t be his first stint as the team's leader.

Besides, keeping the IGL duties on one of the four remaining players means that they’ll be able to go and secure a firepower upgrade from another region as they did with regali, right guys? Right?

Yeah, wrong.

Instead, they’ve signed former TALON player nettik, who, in his defense, has been farming ratings domestically for quite a few years now.

So, while this move could work out for them, we still have our doubts. Players from Oceania aren’t exactly known for translating domestic form to international competition.

We do hope it does work, though. FlyQuest have been stinking up events for far too long, but Australian teams actually tend to be quite fun in the rare stints that they’re actually worth watching. And this team also has INS, who is very fun and gets the tl;dr stamp of approval.

At the very least, dexter is gone, and so are his excuses and poor attempts at comebacks. So that’s a win.

Forgive us if we don’t seem to be excited about this, because we’re not. But it is really hard to be excited about Australian CS.

And hey, at least we don’t have to see them play until IEM Melbourne at the end of next month - better get practicing, lads! We would truly hate to see you go out in dead-last (again).