LoL: FlyQuest vs Team Liquid (BO3) - LCS Regular Season

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Market context

FlyQuest face Team Liquid in a best-of-three LCS regular-season series, with the market resolving on the match winner unless the game is cancelled, tied, or left unresolved beyond the settlement rules. With the crowd at **37% YES** on FlyQuest, the price is implying Team Liquid are the more likely side, which matches how programme-driven traders usually shade a BO3 when one roster has the clearer recent edge and the other is priced as the live underdog.

The historical read is mixed rather than one-sided. Across the longer head-to-head sample, Team Liquid have led overall, winning 19 of 30 matches against FlyQuest, while the map tally also favours TL 34-23.[4] But the more recent 12-month split is tighter and even tilts FlyQuest on maps, with FlyQuest taking 3 of the last 5 meetings and a 9-7 map edge in that span.[4] The latest cited league result between them in April 2026 also went to Team Liquid 2-1, which is consistent with the market sitting below 50% for FlyQuest rather than treating this as a coin flip.[15]

For a hands-on trader running alerts, the key catalysts are scheduling and lineup confirmation rather than macro narrative. The match was initially set for 9 August at 7:00PM ET, so any broadcast delay, venue change, or roster announcement matters because a no-show or long postponement can push the market to 50-50 under the resolution rules. Programmatically, this is the sort of market to monitor with event-status polling, team-sheet checks, and conditional orders keyed to official match start; a fast update on whether the series actually begins is more important than mid-day opinion, because a started-but-unfinished series has different settlement treatment from a match that never gets underway.

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Methodology

This page reviews LoL: FlyQuest vs Team Liquid (BO3) - LCS Regular Season across five venues. The live probability is the Polymarket mid-price, sourced directly from the on-chain Polygon order book; the comparison columns benchmark each venue on fee structure, KYC, settlement currency and payment rails. Every CTA routes to Polymarket Review UK, which mirrors the Polymarket order book at 0% fees.

Resolution & payout

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