No one would have guessed going into Week 5 that the best game of the week – maybe even of the split – would be between FlyQuest and OpTic Gaming. It was a huge back and forth with FlyQuest pushing into OpTic’s base, then OpTic pushing back, and the final nail in the coffin as OpTic was Aced just as they were seconds away from destroying FlyQuest’s Nexus.

The entire OpTic team was understandably crushed to see victory slip from their hands at the Nexus of their enemies, but it was a tragic end for a frustrating game for the team. PowerofEvil and Akaadian in particular seemed to feel the loss. At 15 minutes, PoE and Akaadian were leading their team in kills with 100% Kill Participation each. If anyone on the team was pulling their weight, it was these two. In fact, PoE died only a single time in the entire game – at the enemy’s Nexus – and this was with utilizing an unconventional build, as PoE opted into a Mercurial Scimitar on Syndra just to counter AnDa’s Skarner.

But while Akaadian and PoE tried to carry the game, the rest of their team was losing it. Arrow chose Draven for the second game in a row – and he even announced last week that he loved the pick. It was entirely possible FlyQuest knew this going into the match, as they quickly picked up Caitlyn to counter a Draven pick, and when Arrow opted into it anyway, it spelled complete disaster for the bot lane. Meanwhile, Flame was murdering Zig in the toplane, and we mean that literally and figuratively. Flame was up 100 CS on his opponent by the end of the game, and with PoE and Akaadian sandwiched between two losing lanes, little could be done.

However, this was the craziest moment of the match. It wasn’t OpTic jumping AnDa time and again from bushes – although it was hilarious – and it wasn’t PoE’s crazy Syndra plays or chasing FlyQuest down after they had been pounding on OpTic’s Nexus turrets. No, it was when OpTic pushed towards the Nexus, fighting it until the very last man (and a little more since Sion was dead), but FlyQuest survived and pushed in for the win.

Although credit has to be given to Fly – who did the most damage in the game by over 20k damage – this was a match about control and macro play, and FlyQuest played it marvelously. Even as OpTic hunted for kills and pushed to more than twice as many kills than FlyQuest, FlyQuest was still winning. It was turrets, it was CS, and it was control. It was the kind of plays the team has been making ever since getting their full roster, and the magic that the team has exhibited has been as exciting as it has been surprising. All we can hope for is that this means more games this close are coming in the future.