• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 11:56
CET 17:56
KST 01:56
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
[ASL22] Finals Preview: Sweet Victory!12[ASL22] Ro4 Preview: Mirror Mirror6[ASL22] Ro8 Preview: Within Reach5[ASL22] Ro8 Preview: In A Tizzy11[ASL22] Ro16 Preview: Holy Diver5
Community News
Weekly Cups (Oct 26 - Nov 1): MaxPax, herO, Solar win0Weekly Cups (October 19-25): Clem triples first in 5.0.175Evil Geniuses - shutting down23ISSL (IntoTheTV x SOOP SC2 League): Premier7Weekly Cups (October 12-18): 5.0.17 era begins1
StarCraft 2
General
Liquibets sc2 season 30 Evil Geniuses - shutting down Weekly Cups (Oct 26 - Nov 1): MaxPax, herO, Solar win No more SC2 streamers on team liquid? How do you feel about the mass reverts in the 5.0.17 PTR?
Tourneys
WardiTV Mondays ISSL (IntoTheTV x SOOP SC2 League): Premier Stellar Fest TWO the Moon (Dec 16-20) Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament RSL goes to London! 2026 Offline Finals Nov 21-22
Strategy
[H] ZvP Mid-Late Game: Stalkers Collossi HT
Custom Maps
[D] the control group Simple Questions/Answers [G] How to playtest arcade maps [A] Nemrods 1/4 players
External Content
Mutation # 550 Graveyard Shift The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 549 Endless Sparkles Mutation # 548 Shining Bright
Brood War
General
The End Of An Era Rollback Netcode in Brood War How SKT1 S-Tiers Felt To Be Swept By Flash BW General Discussion Top Players of October 2026 (EBPD Rankings)
Tourneys
2v2v2v2 Tournament Stage 1: Community Poll [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [$1250] International ShieldBattery League New Worlds Star League
Strategy
50,000-Word Terran Builds Memo 2026-10-22 Cliff Jump Revisited (1 in a 1000 strategy) Simple Questions, Simple Answers
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Deus Ex 3!? Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Armies of Exigo - YesYes?
Dota 2
Dota 2 Champions League Season 3 Begins April 25!
League of Legends
[TL LoL EUW IHs] Teemo shall perish
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Canadian Politics Mega-thread The Chess Thread
Fan Clubs
Fan Club Resource Thread Reynor Fan Club The Flash Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece
Sports
Football (Soccer) Thread TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 MLB/Baseball 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
Recent Gifted Posts
Blogs
Why I built Repalyzer (1.1.…
BlueStar
Innovate or Game Over?
TrAiDoS
ShieldBattery on Mac
Kraekkling
[ASL22] Ro4 Day1 Ticket Giv…
bITt.mAN
Can Bots Beat Pros?? Starcr…
namkraft
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 10958 users

Flash Number

Blogs > motbob
Post a Reply
1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 Next All
motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-30 02:49:27
June 30 2012 01:18 GMT
#1
Paul Erdős was a prolific writer of academic papers, and he collaborated with over 500 fellow mathematicians over the course of his life. Eventually, the concept of the "Erdős number" arose.

Paul Erdős has an Erdős number of zero.
Anyone who collaborated with Erdős has an Erdős number of 1.
Anyone who collaborated with someone who collaborated with Erdős has an Erdős number of 2.

And so on.

We can transfer this concept to the world of Starcraft by thinking about the people who have beaten Flash.

(T)Flash has a Flash number of zero.
(Z)Jaedong has a Flash number of 1. (link)
(P)iNcontroL has a Flash number of 2 (he beat Jaedong in a practice match at one point if I recall correctly)
Superiorwolf has a Flash number of 3.

What is your Flash number?

**
ModeratorGood content always wins.
Renner
Profile Joined June 2011
United States15 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-30 17:13:40
June 30 2012 01:22 GMT
#2
My Flash number is 3 as a result of the pounding inflicted on me by (P)iNcontroL.
Edit: Upon further examination of the rules it appears my Flash number is 4 because I've beaten a friend of mine who beat iNcontroL.
Day[9] doesn't lose. Whenever he GGs, Manfred was at the controls
Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
June 30 2012 01:27 GMT
#3
On June 30 2012 10:22 Renner wrote:
My Flash number is 3 as a result of the pounding inflicted on me by (P)iNcontroL.

I think the OP is saying that you need to BEAT that person to get your FlaSh number. If you didn't beat iNcontroL, it doesn't give you the number.

Unless I'm just not understand this correctly.
The room is ripe with the stench of bitches!
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-30 01:30:40
June 30 2012 01:28 GMT
#4
At most a 3. maybe a 2.

edit: after seeing the rules better my Flash number is definitely a 3.
Megaliskuu
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5123 Posts
June 30 2012 01:31 GMT
#5
3, beat incontrol on ladder once lolz
|BW>Everything|Add me on star2 KR server TheMuTaL.675 for practice games :)|NEX clan| https://www.dotabuff.com/players/183104694
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
June 30 2012 01:33 GMT
#6
I beat incontrol in a clanmatch in broodwar so my flash number is 3! whoah that's fucking insane!!! does it count that he offraced and i don't think he was that serious about it since i was a c rank newbie? was a bo3 though ^_^ essentially this means anyone who ever beat incontrol has a flash number of 3 though, which should be quite a lot.
101toss
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
3232 Posts
June 30 2012 01:33 GMT
#7
Probably a 4, beat someone who claimed to beat incontrol

funny how every example has incontrol
Math doesn't kill champions and neither do wards
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
June 30 2012 01:36 GMT
#8
this is now thread about everyone who has beaten incontrol
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
June 30 2012 01:37 GMT
#9
On June 30 2012 10:33 101toss wrote:
Probably a 4, beat someone who claimed to beat incontrol

funny how every example has incontrol

Mine doesn't!
Peeano
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Netherlands5996 Posts
June 30 2012 01:38 GMT
#10
Featured? I'm lost.
Since when and why would JD ever practice with (P)iNcontroL?
FBH #1!
Salivanth
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia1071 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-30 01:40:36
June 30 2012 01:39 GMT
#11
What if you beat the person in SC2? What about Chess? Foot race? Pie-eating contest?

In each of those respectively, my Flash number is 93, 87, 72, and 1.
<@Wikt> so you are one of those nega-fans <@Wikt> that hates the company that makes a game and everything they stand for <@Wikt> but still plays the game <@Wikt> (like roughly 30% of blizzard's player base, maybe much more...)
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
June 30 2012 01:41 GMT
#12
On June 30 2012 10:38 s.Q.uelched wrote:
Featured? I'm lost.
Since when and why would JD ever practice with (P)iNcontroL?


Jaedong didn't start bw as an S class progamer.
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
June 30 2012 01:44 GMT
#13
On June 30 2012 10:39 Salivanth wrote:
What if you beat the person in SC2? What about Chess? Foot race? Pie-eating contest?

In each of those respectively, my Flash number is 93, 87, 72, and 1.

there's no way you beat flash in a pie eating contest
7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
June 30 2012 01:45 GMT
#14
either 3 or 4 i would guess, without involving incontrol
beep boop
Hinanawi
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2250 Posts
June 30 2012 01:54 GMT
#15
I imagine mine would be either infinite or nonexistant. I never did get above D+ on iccup, so I doubt I ever beat anybody who ever beat anybody who ever beat anybody (...) who beat Flash.
Favorite progamers (in order): Flash, Stork, Violet, Sea. ||| Get better soon, Violet!
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
June 30 2012 01:56 GMT
#16
I can't say with 100% certainty, but I'm quite sure it's a 3.
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
17082 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-30 01:58:38
June 30 2012 01:57 GMT
#17
On June 30 2012 10:56 Grobyc wrote:
I can't say with 100% certainty, but I'm quite sure it's a 3.


You've beaten incontrol?

I imagine mine would be either infinite or nonexistant. I never did get above D+ on iccup, so I doubt I ever beat anybody who ever beat anybody who ever beat anybody (...) who beat Flash.


I'm going to guess 5 or at most 6. The thing about the way the Flash number is being defined is that if you've beaten someone even just once, that counts as a connection.
Moderator
n.DieJokes
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States3443 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-30 02:01:35
June 30 2012 01:58 GMT
#18
Did Incontrol really beat Jaedong once? I know zvz is volatile but that's a pretty impressive accomplishment, everyone knows mondi once beat sea, why haven't I heard this?
p.s. anyone who's beaten desrow has a FlaSh number of two not that its nearly as impressive
MyLove + Your Love= Supa Love
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21248 Posts
June 30 2012 02:13 GMT
#19
This has turned into "what's your incontrol number" lulz
TranslatorBaa!
P7GAB
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada486 Posts
June 30 2012 02:23 GMT
#20
this thread lol... it goes from broodwar bonjwa's to incontrol (im not saying incontrol is bad, just not on the same level as jd or flash) way to quickly
1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
3D!Clan Event
01:30
Autumn Series | Group C
Nicoract vs GgMaChine
3DClanTV 73
Liquipedia
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
Serral 1905
BRAT_OK 48
MindelVK 18
StarCraft: Brood War
Calm 4295
Shuttle 867
Horang2 546
Stork 261
Rush 160
Mind 93
Zeus 59
Pusan 42
Yoon 35
Rock 22
[ Show more ]
scan(afreeca) 18
Bishop 15
soO 15
JYJ 14
ajuk12(nOOB) 12
Hm[arnc] 12
yabsab 12
910 11
Sacsri 10
Noble 9
Dota 2
qojqva3270
syndereN458
BananaSlamJamma129
420jenkins106
LuMiX0
Heroes of the Storm
Trikslyr74
Other Games
singsing3047
Liquid`RaSZi1475
hiko898
Beastyqt595
ceh9525
Mlord419
mouzStarbuck303
XaKoH 296
Liquid`VortiX182
TKL 116
ArmadaUGS109
PiGStarcraft54
FrodaN36
KnowMe11
ROOTIllusion7
Organizations
Counter-Strike
PGL283
StarCraft: Brood War
lovetv 7
[ Show 15 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• StrangeGG 15
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• Laughngamez YouTube
• Migwel
StarCraft: Brood War
• FirePhoenix15
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Dota 2
• WagamamaTV614
League of Legends
• Nemesis1227
• TFBlade750
Other Games
• Shiphtur586
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
6h 4m
The PondCast
17h 4m
KCM Race Survival
17h 4m
OSC
21h 4m
IntoTheTV X SOOP
2 days
Reynor vs Solar
ByuN vs SHIN
Clem vs MaxPax
herO vs Rogue
IPSL
3 days
WorsT vs nOmaD
Dewalt vs andersOn
AI Arena Tournament
3 days
IntoTheTV X SOOP
3 days
IPSL
4 days
Azhi_Dahaki vs ggnore13
Double vs WIZARD
Replay Cast
4 days
[ Show More ]
Replay Cast
5 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
5 days
WardiTV Invitational
5 days
YoungYakov vs Lambo
SHIN vs TBD
Percival vs Shameless
Solar vs TBD
PiGosaur Cup
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-11-03
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
HCC Season 3

Ongoing

Acropolis #5
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 4
International ShieldBattery League
BSL Season 23
IPSL Winter 2026-27
Calamity Cup Div. A Season 8
IEM Beijing 2026
PGL Masters Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 5
1win Private Club #2
Thunderpick World Champ. '26
ESL Pro League Season 24
Stake Ranked Episode 4
1win Private Club #1
Logitech G Play Connect 2026
SL StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #3
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026

Upcoming

1xBet Invitational
SC4ALL II: Brood War
BSL 23: Non-Korean Championship
HSC XXX
Stellar Fest 2: Lunar Cup
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
RSL Offline Finals
Underdog Cup 2026 Div 2-3
PGL Bucharest 2027
BLAST Bounty Winter 2027
eXTREMESLAND 2026
PGL Major Singapore 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 6
BLAST Rivals Fall 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.