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ASL5 Ro16 Preview Pt. 1 - Flash et al. - Page 2

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TaardadAiel
Profile Joined May 2017
Bulgaria750 Posts
April 01 2018 18:08 GMT
#21
Flash plays standard in a near perfect way, yea. But what could make him boring to watch is that he knows the weaknesses in his "standard" plays and reads the players he's playing against, so he makes those small tweaks tailored to his opponents and uses the best tool he has at his disposal - his inhumane ability to defend. He defends cheeses fairly well, he defends timing-based attacks by adjusting his timings, he damn knows how much he needs to defend a particular push or recall.

But the map pool denies that, at least from what I've seen on stream.
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RAPiDCasting
Profile Joined July 2009
Korea (South)594 Posts
April 02 2018 21:46 GMT
#22
On April 01 2018 00:57 BLinD-RawR wrote:
I think at this point, can we really just say its flash vs maps?

like do his opponents even matter anymore?


Definitely when I'm casting
The faster caster. @RAPiDCasting
Lazyer
Profile Joined August 2011
United States402 Posts
April 04 2018 03:42 GMT
#23
Immaculate analysis and predictions...
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
April 04 2018 13:50 GMT
#24
On April 01 2018 19:39 quirinus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 01 2018 04:27 BigFan wrote:
On April 01 2018 02:31 asel wrote:
Shouldn't it be et al.(ii)?
Anyways, thanks for the nice read!

good question, will look into it further! ^^


It's "et al.", it's widely used in scientific papers to refer to the authors, when there are more than two, by mentioning the name of the first author and instead of listing all the other authors, you use "et al.". It's short for "and others", where "et" means "and" (like in "et cetera" (etc.), which means "and so forth"), so it definitely doesn't have a dot after it, because it's already short.

Wiktionary agrees:
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/et_al.#English
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/et._al

Also, there's an "is" that should be changed to "his".

Thanks for the article, it was a good read!

ya, I realized it's used in scientific articles, used it myself but couldn't remember. Thanks!

On April 04 2018 12:42 Plume wrote:
Immaculate analysis and predictions...

thanks, 5/5! :D
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art_of_turtle
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
United States1210 Posts
April 04 2018 16:12 GMT
#25
10/10 PREDICTION THREAD
Flash should fear Sacsri
Chux
Profile Joined June 2009
Peru255 Posts
April 04 2018 19:58 GMT
#26
Woah guys are your from the future? Excellent previews!
MSL 2052-2053, here we go!
intrigue
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Washington, D.C9935 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-04-05 05:45:36
April 05 2018 05:44 GMT
#27
to find flash's style interesting you have to first watch all the other terrans try to copy his 'boring' style and lose, over and over and over

flash is boring in the way that a perfect speedrun is boring to a casual observer. he's really just unbelievable
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TheFoReveRwaR
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
United States10657 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-04-05 07:19:18
April 05 2018 07:11 GMT
#28
To pile on to the post above me. I do not understand people who think flash is boring. I've played this game since vanilla, all 3 races. If you could see everything that is going through his head when he plays you couldn't possibly be bored. It's simply beautiful. I know this takes a certain level of obsession(also sounds pretty arrogant ) but I think even a more casual viewer can see the level of commitment to perfection in his play. He makes mistakes of course, but Flash's mistakes are always more subtle and more difficult to see than most players mistakes. When he makes them you usually learn something substantial about the game in that particular instance.

Try to copy Flash's rax/fact/port into fast vulture for example. If you play at a somewhat decent level of play you will most likely get absolutely destroyed. It requires nearly perfect scouting, micro, and adaptation. Which is why for nearly 15 years terrans never used this build as a standard play.

Beyond that 1/1/1 is just a super fun build. Not boring at all no matter who is using it. High risk, high reward.
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