Happy first of April, kiddies. Joke ends around noon, so I guess I'll add this note. The sources are actual articles relating to the KT Workshop -- I just changed what Flash said to accompany the joke. Hope you guys enjoyed it.
The announcement came during KT's reflection workshop, where players and coaches gathered around and talked about peformances of their respective players.
Yellow and HOT-Forever led the discussion regarding KT's Zerg line. Yellow specifically commented that while the players have a strong foundation, they lack in variety of strategies and in adjusting to situations. That is, the players often fail to adjust to the opposing players when they come into the game with unique strategies.
Flash echoed this sentiment. He talked about how he had analyzed how Barracks and Suny had played, and mentioned how their playstyle is not much different from how Flash plays, but what the latter players lack is the ability to make critical game decisions.
Reach talked about the Protoss line, and how they are going to fill the void left by Violet. While Stats has recorded 20 kills during this Winner's League, they talked about how this will not be enough when the best of seven format returns. They discussed how Tempest, and even Reach will need to step up and contribute to the game. During this discussion, Flash took the podium, asked for the microphone from Reach and made an announcement.
He talked about how he has not developed as a player during this season, saying that "I have not grown as a player since last year". He then apologized to his teammates about his wrist and how it has held him back in important games, and made the announcement.
"Considering all of this, I will be switching to Protoss starting this Winner's League finals", he said. He talked about a previous interview where he had entertained the possibility of switching races, since he had felt as if he had learned everything there was to know about playing Terran. He also talked about how he needed a "less APM intensive race" in order to accelerate the healing of his wrist, as his current Terran play puts too much strain on his wrists for it to properly heal.
Maps were also a contributing factor, he said. "The maps favor Protoss", Flash noted, saying that a competitive player should try his best to maximize his chances of winning based on the map pool.
KT Rolster officially reported the changes to KeSPA yesterday. Flash's new Protoss play could be seen as early as this Winner's League finals, if it gets to the last set for KT.
This is fantastic, great to see flash switch to protoss, now we'll see him break records with protoss aswell as terran, hopefully one day we'll see him play zerg and keep top elo for all races in all matchups one day.
If you guys didn't know Koreans don't celebrate April Fools Day. The articles are legit. I know its a weird timing but its true. I'll translate what some of the netizens said. Also why the articles were written not actually on April 1st... Translation to some of the netizen comments + Show Spoiler +
On April 01 2011 00:18 Ilikestarcraft wrote: If you guys didn't know Koreans don't celebrate April Fools Day. The articles are legit. I know its a weird timing but its true. I'll translate what some of the netizens said. Also why the articles were written not actually on April 1st... Translation to some of the netizen comments + Show Spoiler +
I fell for this until I checked out the source links.
On April 01 2011 00:18 Ilikestarcraft wrote: If you guys didn't know Koreans don't celebrate April Fools Day. The articles are legit. I know its a weird timing but its true. I'll translate what some of the netizens said. Also why the articles were written not actually on April 1st... Translation to some of the netizen comments + Show Spoiler +
Hope I confused you
The articles ARE legit, but it doesn't mention anything about the race switch, just Flash's reflection on his own perfomance.
I think Flash should qualify as a different player than Flash, thus allowing each of them to play once per proleague match, much like Hwaseung's MoustacheZerg and PirateZerg.
Yellow announces : "I switched to terran 1 year ago. Thats why I didnt win anything. Now it is time to repay boxer.. I will Dmax all my marines and snipe his CC. That nap is playing SC2 anyway, he deserves it"
Edit: Or my gullibility. Milkis, Milki*E*s... Drink of Milkis on profile. This made me questionable whereas this article did not Was anticipating it last night!
On April 01 2011 00:24 QuothTheRaven wrote: I think Flash should qualify as a different player than Flash, thus allowing each of them to play once per proleague match, much like Hwaseung's MoustacheZerg and PirateZerg.
Oh god, Flash brings up a feeling of vague confusion.
- Flash achieved everything he could dream of with Terran. - Flash loves to macro and Probes are mining faster than SCVs. - Flash started his career as a cheesy player, might want to go back to it. - Bisu and Jaedong aren't too good vs T so it's time to give them a chance. - Protoss progamers get the biggest fanbase and hype + Show Spoiler +
(but if Flash really wants it, he needs to pick new nickname; preferably 'Bisu' or 'Reach').
And if above reasons are not enough:
- Flash obviously wants to make some Dark Templars and get the power of imba in his hands.
Unfortunately I checked the General Forum first and got redirected here in the April Fool's thread. I think I would have TOTALLY fallen for it. Great OP
This actually makes sense. They took the terminator chip from Flash's head, reprogrammed it to protoss, then implanted it into Stats. Those all-kills we saw were some sort of beta-testing in disguise.
Great April fool's joke! So is this a translation of a DES joke or Milkis pretending to be translating a legitimate article? I think the latter would be far grander, but I fear it's the former.
Either way Flash really hurts my brain. Please stop doing that.
That is a good April fools joke! Why would a player switch from the most imbalanced race to protoss? You are giving up siege tanks for DRAGOON AI. Good joke.
On April 01 2011 02:37 LightningStrike wrote: They already updated Flash to protoss in tlpd -_-. So it would be Flash =( i think they took over the top man =(
On April 01 2011 02:37 LightningStrike wrote: They already updated Flash to protoss in tlpd -_-. So it would be Flash =( i think they took over the top man =(
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO my bonjwa has forsaken the terran race T_T !!!!!!
I'm just going to assume its an April Fools joke. If this is true though, im 100% sure that we will see an increase of foreign Protoss players on iCCup.
On April 01 2011 01:27 eviltomahawk wrote: Flash should switch to Zerg because Action is dropping balls and Yellow is not doing anything.
But then he'd just end up losing to Zero's Terran yet again.
Not unless he uses mass Queens. Infest Zero's CCs with a taste of his own medicine, as long as Flash doesn't 14hatch and get owned by a taste of his own bunker rush builds.
Oh. I so wanted this to be true. If I was Flash, I definately would've considered switching, seeing as how dominant he have been. Playing Protoss would be a good new challenge. Oh well.
Haha great April Fools, although I remember Flash and Jaedong offracing vs each other and Flash being astounded that Jaedong's offrace was better than his offracing and that he had previously been very proud of his offracing.
On April 01 2011 04:26 Mailing wrote: This would be 100% believable if it was SC2
No, it wouldn't.
Flash interview:
On October 01 2010 10:18 Hellspawnl wrote: "There is much talk in Europe that this may be the last final between you and Jaedong because of Starcraft 2’s strong advance. How does it feel to hear such a thing? - There are plenty of opportunities to see us in Korea and it is definitely not the last chance to see us play against each other since we will continue to play Starcraft: BW for at least five more years. After WCG it's quiet for about a month so I will try to have some vacation."
On October 01 2010 10:18 Hellspawnl wrote: "There is much talk in Europe that this may be the last final between you and Jaedong because of Starcraft 2’s strong advance. How does it feel to hear such a thing? - There are plenty of opportunities to see us in Korea and it is definitely not the last chance to see us play against each other since we will continue to play Starcraft: BW for at least five more years. After WCG it's quiet for about a month so I will try to have some vacation."
Aww its not April Fools day for me yet, and I got worried lol. I was already halfway through facebook messaging my friend when I read the comments and realized it was a joke. >< its a good one tho. The whole time I was reading it I just kept thinking, "how is this not front page important news?"
On October 01 2010 10:18 Hellspawnl wrote: "There is much talk in Europe that this may be the last final between you and Jaedong because of Starcraft 2’s strong advance. How does it feel to hear such a thing? - There are plenty of opportunities to see us in Korea and it is definitely not the last chance to see us play against each other since we will continue to play Starcraft: BW for at least five more years. After WCG it's quiet for about a month so I will try to have some vacation."
No, I mean if he had been playing SC2 for a while, and decided to switch to protoss, it would be believable because they are doing extremely well right now.
I hate how every post ive read for the last couple days has been combatted with major doubt due to the damn tradition of april fools... Knew it couldnt be true from the start, noble april fools joke though! +1
I was typing how strange this was when it hit me that there is no way it is true, That was a good one, haha especially because it is still the 31st where i am, ahaha
On April 01 2011 04:26 Mailing wrote: This would be 100% believable if it was SC2
No, it wouldn't.
Flash interview:
On October 01 2010 10:18 Hellspawnl wrote: "There is much talk in Europe that this may be the last final between you and Jaedong because of Starcraft 2’s strong advance. How does it feel to hear such a thing? - There are plenty of opportunities to see us in Korea and it is definitely not the last chance to see us play against each other since we will continue to play Starcraft: BW for at least five more years. After WCG it's quiet for about a month so I will try to have some vacation."
No, I mean if he had been playing SC2 for a while, and decided to switch to protoss, it would be believable because they are doing extremely well right now.
Yeah...that's another way to read it. Sorry for assuming you meant it the way I thought you did.
The first time i've ever watched a replay was flash offracing as protoss and man could he macro like a boss. His protoss is actually REALLY good. This would not absolutely shock me if he did switch races but then i realize its April 1 and the "switching to a less APM intensive race" quote gave it away.
At first I thought the thread was titled 'Flash to Make the Switch to SC2', and then I remembered that April Fools isn't until tomorrow. Then I clicked the thread, saw the title and instantly clued in it is technically April Fools today in Korea, before even reading the thread. Nice try though
edit: damned april 1st censor lol >.> edit2: what the hell T_T
On April 01 2011 04:34 Armathai wrote: Haha great April Fools, although I remember Flash and Jaedong offracing vs each other and Flash being astounded that Jaedong's offrace was better than his offracing and that he had previously been very proud of his offracing.
Wait, when did JD and Flash offrace vs each other? was this just during practice matches, or was there a televised match?
I hesitate to think what kind of timings Flash would work out with Protoss that people would rage about. I mean, we could get Flash solving the anti-anti-Flash anti-carrier build or something.
In response to Flash's latest development, Bisu said he will switch to Terran, because now the balance of the holy trinity has shifted, and to restore order, Bisu will switch to Terran. Bisu had originally had intentions to do this, first implied when he said "Savior's tank control is shitty." during Bnet Attack several years earlier, but Flash's switch to protoss ultimately convinced him.
I was thinking this was another Flash switching to SC2 April Fools joke because all I saw was "Flash to make the Switch..." from the left top Brood War threads navigation bar.
IT would be cool if he made it his goal to win an OSL as each race, it'd be fun, I mean what else can he do? He's already the pinnacle of Broodwar Terran.
On April 01 2011 11:26 Lightningbullet wrote: Nice April Fools joke! Almost got me there. And look at Flash's picture. LOL. Bisu, don't you dare switch to terran.
Haha. Almost every progamer turned into a baby or a pre-teen. xD
At the end of the Flash interview in the beginning of the video, he said that after he accomplishes everything and becomes the GOAT, he will switch races. For real.
LOOOOOOOLLL! You almost had me there, my heart was pounding so fast when I opened this thread. Damnit. =P (Though, it would be cool to have a second Bisu...)
if flash actually did switch to protoss in some alternate universe where the world did not make sense and then win another golden mouse, artosis would have a gd field day
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