It turned out that the bye day after the crunching defeat to Darmen was exactly the tonic that the Fleftic Quidditch team needed to return to winning ways against Taeshan. The Fleftic team took their bye day and used it as an opportunity to watch Taeshan take on the Free Republics, and both the coaching staff and the players themselves took notes of how both Taeshan and the Free Republics played, as they were the only teams that the Fleftics were still left to play. The Fleftics took notes of the strategies that the Free Republics used as they romped to a 210-70 victory over the Purple Knights. They also took notes of the Taeshan playstyle as it had been quite effective in giving the Purple Knights the lead until the Republican Seeker snagged the Snitch from practically beneath the nose of the referee, who was keeping his utmost best to not react to the presence of the Golden Snitch right underneath his nose and tip off the Seekers of both teams. Something about being an impartial sporting judge and all that.
Having gathered their notes, the Fleftics went back to their allotted training ground and began carrying out drills and tactics specifically designed to counter Taeshan's own tactics, and it was this intense and specific training that would pay off very greatly for the Fleftics. Kaley Castanas and Greg Santos got the Fleftics off to a good start with three quick goals in the space of two minutes, and while Taeshan were able to respond with two goals from Richard Owlet and Alejandro Swann, it was clear that it was Abanhfleft who held the advantage for the entirety of the game. Taeshan were able to pull themselves level and put the scores at 50-50, but after that Abanhfleft went on a five-goal streak in which the Purple Knights were simply unable to answer. The Fleftics had figured out the Taeshan tactic of spreading the play from one wing to the other if it was becoming obvious that attacking down the side or the middle was not working too well for them.
Papito Banaldo was having his fair share of the fun as well, sending Bludgers towards the Chasers and even sometimes the Seeker when he was feeling a little bit bloodthirsty. Yuri Polyakov, himself not the most combative of Seekers playing the game, also got in on the action by performing a Wronski Feint that actually and absolutely bamboozled his opposite number from Taeshan. Polyakov managed to pull up from the feint just in time, but his opposite number Ollivander Williams was not so fortunate, and while he didn't smash into the ground as many other victims of the Wronski Feint were wont to do, the tail of Williams' broom still caught on the ground and forced him to flip over and over until he was finally stopped by the roughness of the grass. A treatment of barrels upon barrels of Skele-Gro is the only option for him.
Yuri Polyakov took the time that the treatment of Ollivander Williams had given him to continue his search for the Snitch, although he was unsuccessful in pinning it down until the time that Taeshan's replacement Seeker took to the air. The morale hit that Taeshan took following the loss of Williams also afforded Abanhfleft the opportunity to go on their aforementioned five-goal streak through (mostly) Greg Santos and Kaley Castanas, and as soon as Castanas had thrown the Quaffle through the hoops for her fifth goal of the game, Polyakov saw the Snitch loitering just above the middle goalpost, and he swooped in to collect the 150 points and the victory for the side in blue, orange, and green.
