Team Liquid vs FlyQuest: IEM Cologne CS2 betting odds, tips

Luke Warr Published July 24, 2025

One of Team Liquid’s former stars took revenge upon the team in IEM Cologne and its next match against FlyQuest could see it happen again.

Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski posted one of his best matches of 2025 to push FaZe Clan to a convincing win over Team Liquid. This drops Team Liquid into an elimination match against FlyQuest, the new home of another one of its Justin “jks” Savage. Will the Australian squad be able to pull off this upset win, though?

Team Liquid vs FlyQuest match overview

• Tournament: IEM Cologne
• Stage: Play-in Stage
• Game: Counter-Strike 2
• Format: Best-of-three

Betting tip: FlyQuest has been struggling throughout 2025 even against manageable competition, and jks won’t be enough of a difference-maker to fix that. At least not quickly.

My Team Liquid vs FlyQuest pick: Team Liquid wins ()

Team Liquid vs FlyQuest in-depth team, match analysis

Team Liquid and FlyQuest have shaken out to be two of the biggest disappointments in Counter-Strike 2 this year, whether it’s CS2 betting or CS2 esports in general.

Both teams have a decidedly losing record, despite being based in some of Counter-Strike’s weaker regions. Neither team has won a tournament, or even made a grand finals. In fact, making it out of a tournament’s group stage has been the pinnacle of success for these teams in any interregional tournament.

Team Liquid tried to address this by dropping jks in favor of Kamil “siuhy” Szkaradek, filling a longstanding leadership void. After failing to clear the first group stage in the BLAST Austin Major, FlyQuest dropped Australian Counter-Strike stalwart Jay “Liazz” Tregillgas to pick up jks.

So far, Team Liquid hasn’t looked much better with siuhy with the team going winless in the major and stumbling since then. It remains to be seen whether FlyQuest is better off with jks but even if it is, it’s still unlikely that they’ll be able to bridge the gap.

Rosters and roles

Map pool

• Team Liquid hasn’t been particularly good on any map this year. It was close to even across most of them, but had a decidedly losing record on Dust 2, Nuke, and Mirage. They only map Liquid has a winning record on is Anubis, which is no longer in the active duty rotation.
• FlyQuest is roughly even across most of the competitive map pool, except for having an ugly 5-9 record on Ancient and going 1-6 so far this year on Nuke.
• Neither Liquid nor FlyQuest has had a true permaban this year, but both have actively avoided playing on Train.

Key stats

Stats include all matches played by both teams in 2025, except for pistol rounds which includes only matches against top-50-ranked teams per HLTV.

Team Liquid vs FlyQuest head-to-head record

Since the release of Counter-Strike 2, Team Liquid and FlyQuest have played twice. Both matches were in 2024, with Liquid winning both matches via a 2-1 score.

Team Liquid and FlyQuest recent match history

Team Liquid bombed out of the BLAST Austin Major and returned to action by failing to qualify for the ESL Pro League Season 22. It beat Pain Gaming to start in IEM Cologne, but fell to FaZe to land here.

• FaZe Clan: 2-1 loss
• Pain Gaming: 2-0 win
• Sashi Esport: 2-1 loss
• MOUZ: 2-1 loss
• The MongolZ: 1-0 loss

FlyQuest went 2-3 in the BLAST Austin Major’s first group stage and lost to Furia in Cologne. It extended its lifespan by beating B8.

• B8: 2-1 win
• Furia: 2-1 loss
• Tyloo: 2-1 loss
• Nemiga Gaming: 2-0 loss
• Heroic: 2-1 loss

Team Liquid vs FlyQuest betting odds snapshot

Lines pulled from at 2:10 pm MT on July 24, 2025.

Team Liquid vs FlyQuest betting picks and predictions

Team Liquid’s looking a lot better on the than it is on the server, but that doesn’t really matter that much from a betting perspective. FlyQuest’s chances are dim here, even against a Team Liquid that is visibly struggling.

Best picks

• Team Liquid wins 2-1 @ 3.21 – Team Liquid should be able to get the win here, but Liquid’s shaky across a few maps and Anubis is out of the rotation. There’s a good chance that FlyQuest can get one map here.
• jks over 15.5 kills on map 1/2 @ 2.31 – The early outlook on jks in FlyQuest is that he’s going to be able to put up lots of kills en route to a loss. It’s looking like he can put up these kinds of numbers, even in a loss.
• Twistzz under 10.5 kills on map 1/2 @ 7.01 – This is a relatively high-risk line but there’s a lot of value on it. Since Liquid added Siuhy, Twistzz has gotten 10 or fewer kills in 10 out of Liquid’s 38 maps. Many of those have come recently and a number of them have come in Team Liquid wins.

Team Liquid vs FlyQuest Prediction

Our pick: Team Liquid as the match winner at 2-1 at odds at GG.BET