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GunSec
Profile Joined February 2010
1095 Posts
January 13 2011 15:15 GMT
#21
The cheater terran!!
weiliem
Profile Joined January 2008
2073 Posts
January 13 2011 15:16 GMT
#22
On January 13 2011 23:47 MisteR wrote:
mdb, what about July? I remember iloveoov and July having some sort of a rivalry, or did that come later?

yeah, i rmbr july came up to 3-0 oov when oov was unstoppable. TvZ always have good rivalries..
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noD
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
2230 Posts
January 13 2011 15:22 GMT
#23
Yes he is, followed by nada, at least it´s what they say on books liquipedia readings overall....
oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-13 15:23:29
January 13 2011 15:22 GMT
#24
flash's dominance is also accomplished at a higher absolute skill level. although arguably it is oov who brought sc into the era of macro and econ centered strategies. savior's role in that revolution cannot be ignored either
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Aldehyde
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Sweden939 Posts
January 13 2011 15:24 GMT
#25
Is there some place to see all of Flash's games this year? I am not that into BW even though I want to be. For some reason I really like seeing Flash play, though.
oBlade
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States6256 Posts
January 13 2011 15:29 GMT
#26
On January 14 2011 00:06 endy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2011 23:49 integral wrote:
Sounds like someone didn't see flash play the entire year before he joined TL.


Well even his current PL run is still incredible (23-2 or something very close ^_^ ).

The only mistake Flash made is to let EffOrt catch up on him and win the Korean Air OSL Season 1 while he was up 2-0. Oov would never had let this happen.

I don't follow. The line between who won and who could have won in every finals is very thin, and the sample is so small that it's basically useless. iloveoov could have lost to Boxer in the 5th set, he could have lost to YellOw on U-Boat and been reverse swept 3-2. It's extremely impressive to 3-0 a bunch of opponents in finals, but it's not necessary for the dominance. There are so many different numbers that point to Flash. He has as many finals wins as oov, so it should be a point for him that he's made it to 2 more finals than oov. Not a point against him that basically the spiritual heir to GGPlay suddenly crash landed in Seoul in a UFO, beat him in a finals, and retired.
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BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19367 Posts
January 13 2011 15:40 GMT
#27
I agree Flash alst year made him the most dominant in a year. But I think savior had a very dominant year too. And how come Oov isnt listed in Ro16 appearances.
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Ryo
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
8787 Posts
January 13 2011 15:40 GMT
#28
Well the thing is that even after his retirement Oov is still influencing the way BW is played.
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StylishVODs
Profile Joined December 2005
Sweden5331 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-13 15:48:28
January 13 2011 15:47 GMT
#29
On January 14 2011 00:40 BisuDagger wrote:
I agree Flash alst year made him the most dominant in a year. But I think savior had a very dominant year too. And how come Oov isnt listed in Ro16 appearances.

He is.

That he won alot of Starleagues without high Ro16 appearances only shows how dominant he was, but also that his dominance was short lived.
According to Reach, he is the fastest learner he has ever seen. He start bw only like 2/3 years ago. Infact, his bw history knowledge is so limited, he didn't even know what the map Guillotine was.
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
January 13 2011 15:55 GMT
#30
On January 14 2011 00:29 oBlade wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 14 2011 00:06 endy wrote:
On January 13 2011 23:49 integral wrote:
Sounds like someone didn't see flash play the entire year before he joined TL.


Well even his current PL run is still incredible (23-2 or something very close ^_^ ).

The only mistake Flash made is to let EffOrt catch up on him and win the Korean Air OSL Season 1 while he was up 2-0. Oov would never had let this happen.

I don't follow. The line between who won and who could have won in every finals is very thin, and the sample is so small that it's basically useless. iloveoov could have lost to Boxer in the 5th set, he could have lost to YellOw on U-Boat and been reverse swept 3-2. It's extremely impressive to 3-0 a bunch of opponents in finals, but it's not necessary for the dominance. There are so many different numbers that point to Flash. He has as many finals wins as oov, so it should be a point for him that he's made it to 2 more finals than oov. Not a point against him that basically the spiritual heir to GGPlay suddenly crash landed in Seoul in a UFO, beat him in a finals, and retired.


Well we're talking about dominance, and for me a player is really dominating when no one else can 3-0 him. The fact that EffOrt did 3-0 him -- especially with the mental disadvantage of being down 0-2 -- is indeed a point against Flash's dominance at the period of this final.

And I do think that Flash is the most dominant player of all time, it's just that letting EffOrt coming back 3-2 after leading 2-0 is definitely showing that Flash was not that dominating at this moment.
He took basically as many losses in 1 hour as Oov took during the many months his streak lasted.
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Elefanto
Profile Joined May 2010
Switzerland3584 Posts
January 13 2011 16:00 GMT
#31
I think oov has had (still has imo) the most influence in modern terran broodwar.
When you see Fanta play, you can mostly tell oovs builds / influence.

It's like oov is the pupeteer of fantasy sometimes lol.
Combined his past with his influence now as coach, imo oov still is pretty dominant in bw, despite not playing anymore lol.
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noD
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
2230 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-13 16:09:46
January 13 2011 16:07 GMT
#32
On January 14 2011 00:24 Aldehyde wrote:
Is there some place to see all of Flash's games this year? I am not that into BW even though I want to be. For some reason I really like seeing Flash play, though.


it´s kind ez, just youtube ...
edit: for example
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=flash osl 2010&aq=f
Milkis
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
5003 Posts
January 13 2011 16:10 GMT
#33
On January 14 2011 00:55 endy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 14 2011 00:29 oBlade wrote:
On January 14 2011 00:06 endy wrote:
On January 13 2011 23:49 integral wrote:
Sounds like someone didn't see flash play the entire year before he joined TL.


Well even his current PL run is still incredible (23-2 or something very close ^_^ ).

The only mistake Flash made is to let EffOrt catch up on him and win the Korean Air OSL Season 1 while he was up 2-0. Oov would never had let this happen.

I don't follow. The line between who won and who could have won in every finals is very thin, and the sample is so small that it's basically useless. iloveoov could have lost to Boxer in the 5th set, he could have lost to YellOw on U-Boat and been reverse swept 3-2. It's extremely impressive to 3-0 a bunch of opponents in finals, but it's not necessary for the dominance. There are so many different numbers that point to Flash. He has as many finals wins as oov, so it should be a point for him that he's made it to 2 more finals than oov. Not a point against him that basically the spiritual heir to GGPlay suddenly crash landed in Seoul in a UFO, beat him in a finals, and retired.


Well we're talking about dominance, and for me a player is really dominating when no one else can 3-0 him. The fact that EffOrt did 3-0 him -- especially with the mental disadvantage of being down 0-2 -- is indeed a point against Flash's dominance at the period of this final.

And I do think that Flash is the most dominant player of all time, it's just that letting EffOrt coming back 3-2 after leading 2-0 is definitely showing that Flash was not that dominating at this moment.
He took basically as many losses in 1 hour as Oov took during the many months his streak lasted.


Effort > Flash is a non factor/exception mostly because Effort practiced pretty hardcore with Flash over that time because Flash needed to beat Jaedong. Effort had a much deeper understanding of how Flash plays than any other player and was able to out play him via that.
Invictus
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Singapore2697 Posts
January 13 2011 16:11 GMT
#34
oov is pretty much still influencing bw through fantasy, so you can't count him out right now.

i hate to admit but flash probably has the longest dominance in bw during late 2009-2010 where he just looked totally unstoppable while jaedong in 2009 would lose to random scrubs here and there even though he was pretty beastly in a BO5.

im not sure how bw will move on from now on, jaedong seems to be more and more inconsistent lately while flash is slowing regaining composure, while stork just seems to be more and more godly.

Lets hope for a protoss domination ^_^
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daxile
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada829 Posts
January 13 2011 16:20 GMT
#35
I think the only thing that seperates oov from FlasH is their aura of dominance. FlasH seemed to have dominated in situations where no one else would've. Oov was just a crazy good player but there were very little contenders at his time in comparison to FlasH's reign. I could be wrong, I wasn't really familiar to oOv's time but I think FlasH's dominance just seems way more awe-inspiring than Oov's
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Holgerius
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden16951 Posts
January 13 2011 16:21 GMT
#36
On January 14 2011 00:55 endy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 14 2011 00:29 oBlade wrote:
On January 14 2011 00:06 endy wrote:
On January 13 2011 23:49 integral wrote:
Sounds like someone didn't see flash play the entire year before he joined TL.


Well even his current PL run is still incredible (23-2 or something very close ^_^ ).

The only mistake Flash made is to let EffOrt catch up on him and win the Korean Air OSL Season 1 while he was up 2-0. Oov would never had let this happen.

I don't follow. The line between who won and who could have won in every finals is very thin, and the sample is so small that it's basically useless. iloveoov could have lost to Boxer in the 5th set, he could have lost to YellOw on U-Boat and been reverse swept 3-2. It's extremely impressive to 3-0 a bunch of opponents in finals, but it's not necessary for the dominance. There are so many different numbers that point to Flash. He has as many finals wins as oov, so it should be a point for him that he's made it to 2 more finals than oov. Not a point against him that basically the spiritual heir to GGPlay suddenly crash landed in Seoul in a UFO, beat him in a finals, and retired.


Well we're talking about dominance, and for me a player is really dominating when no one else can 3-0 him. The fact that EffOrt did 3-0 him -- especially with the mental disadvantage of being down 0-2 -- is indeed a point against Flash's dominance at the period of this final.

And I do think that Flash is the most dominant player of all time, it's just that letting EffOrt coming back 3-2 after leading 2-0 is definitely showing that Flash was not that dominating at this moment.
He took basically as many losses in 1 hour as Oov took during the many months his streak lasted.

Oov also lost a Bo5 vs a certain Zerg at the height of his dominance.
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oBlade
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States6256 Posts
January 13 2011 16:24 GMT
#37
It's true that he had as many losses in that day as oov had over four months, but it may be apples and oranges. Flash had his own great streak at the beginning of 2010 and you can count it a number of different ways but basically up until shortly before the Effort finals, he had gone 48-7 in about four months. He has had multiple terrifying streaks in PL and in specific matchups. He has perhaps more losses numerically than iloveoov, but he's dual leaguing all the time and the competition in an individual league is less forgiving than PL.

oov has lost three games in a row also, on multiple occasions. It doesn't invalidate his streak, nor does the Effort finals smear Flash's streaks.

We've talked about his streak before in other threads and it was pointed out that other people (I think chiefly GoRush, and I think by me) had comparable periods, but perhaps against worse competition.
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endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
January 13 2011 16:41 GMT
#38
Hmm guys, I do believe that Flash is the most dominant player ever. It's just that someone above me started to compare Flash and Oov -- which is totally normal since OP doesn't seem to know much about Flash. What I meant by using the results of the Korean Air S1 finals, is that the period where Flash dominated the most was actually the post KAS1 period, where he won the three next starleagues in a row, as well as the PL playoffs. He indeed never dropped more than 3 games in a row ever since.

Ok, I just checked TLPD after writing the first paragraph and I admit he went 48-7 (~87% winrate) during the two months preceding the KAS1 finals. Damn you Flash you gosu bastard :> Or I'd rather say damn you EffOrt you gosu alien leaving earth after your OSL victory :|

Thanks for reminding me how good Flash was (is) keke
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Essbee
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada2371 Posts
January 13 2011 16:44 GMT
#39
Flash's 2010 is just amazing. Yet Bisu almost took POTY from Flash on fomos awards... .

It's funny how someone can vote for someone else than flash haha. We are talking here about the most dominant year ever by a player.
revy
Profile Joined September 2009
United States1524 Posts
January 13 2011 16:54 GMT
#40
I don't think you can really compare Flash's dominance and Oov's dominance, the time periods are just too different. I think you can safely say that the two of them were the most dominant ever but I feel any attempts at statistical or anecdotal comparison between the two will fall flat.
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