FlyQuest falls short against GamerLegion
FlyQuest were unable to end their first day at the IEM Cologne Major 2026 Stage 1 by going flawless as the Australian team went down to GamerLegion in their 1-0 bracket game. FlyQuest looked like they were going to pull off a big upset but GamerLegion dug deep and managed to pick up a narrow win which now puts FlyQuest in the 1-1 bracket while GamerLegion sit pretty in the 2-0 bracket.
A nettik double openers helped FlyQuest pick up the opening pistol on Inferno with a B execute and a couple of early B executes saw them keep it clean against the eco and force. After four in a row from FlyQuest, Snax denied Vexite and story a 2v4 with the Polish veteran getting his team on the board in the fifth round with a crucial clutch. Strong A site holds from REZ and Tauson meant that GamerLegion tied up the score at 5-5 in no time and a quad kill from Snax in Banana saw GamerLegion take the lead on Inferno. A clean end to the half form FlyQuest saw them stop GamerLegion's five round win streak and end up with a 6-6 score line.
Source: ESL
Snax with an intuitive 1v2 handed GamerLegion the second pistol and they went 9-6 up before the guns came out on both sides. Multi-kills from INS saw FlyQuest bring it back to a one-round game with back-to-back rounds and jks denied PR a 1v2 on a pistol buy round from GamerLegion to tie up the score at 9-9. An A site shut down and a late B retake saw FlyQuest come close to map point first but back-to-back B hits helped GamerLegion stay alive to tie up the score again. An A split saw GamerLegion pick up match point first and a well-time B hit saw GamerLegion wrap up Inferno at 13-11 to pick up their second win in Cologne.
GamerLegionFlyQuest| GamerLegion |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner |
22 - 14 | +8 | 99.0 | 70.8% | 1.61 |
 Sebastian 'Tauson' Tauson Lindelof |
17 - 12 | +5 | 72.5 | 87.5% | 1.24 |
 Milan 'hypex' Polowiec |
11 - 13 | -2 | 49.8 | 70.8% | 0.85 |
| Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski |
9 - 15 | -6 | 46.7 | 70.8% | 0.79 |
 Oldřich 'PR' Nový |
10 - 16 | -6 | 46.0 | 66.7% | 0.67 |
| FlyQuest |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Corey 'nettik' Browne |
20 - 13 | +7 | 86.8 | 87.5% | 1.61 |
 Justin 'jks' Savage |
12 - 11 | +1 | 68.1 | 75.0% | 1.12 |
| Declan 'Vexite' Portelli |
15 - 16 | -1 | 72.8 | 70.8% | 0.89 |
| Joshua 'INS' Potter |
13 - 18 | -5 | 58.4 | 66.7% | 0.79 |
 João 'story' Vieira |
8 - 12 | -4 | 35.8 | 75.0% | 0.59 |
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