Game 1 on Third World:
The long awaited series begins with Flash in the bottom left and Snow in the top right. Both players opt for expand first builds, but Flash curiously enough has made his expansion on the opposite side. All the while expanding, Flash's blocking SCV at the ramp is tickled by Snow's scouting probe.

Flash attempts a scout of Snow's main by sending an SCV through the metal fence, only to be repelled by dragoons. Snow's probe soon makes a full scout of Flash's natural at the north of his main. Snow's probe then kills not only the SCV tickled earlier from blocking the ramp, but also the retreating SCV repelled by the dragoons!

Flash, unshaken, treads onwards with a fast marine siege tank push and a dropship. Snow ferries two dragoons to the opposite side that annoy Flash's expansion.


Flash quickly drops two siege tanks onto the ledge of Snow's natural, and hurries to ferry the marines. Just as the marines unload, Snow unloads a reaver right next to the helpless siege tanks. Scattered to the wind, even the dropship does not live to tell the tale.

Flash painstakingly kills the immortals dragoons at his expansion, even forced to pull his SCVs at some point. Flash slowly makes his way to his natural, each step of the way under the watchful gaze of Snow's reaver.


Flash finally establishes his third, but his transferring SCVs find a way to make things worse. A reaver scarab pokes its head in...


and lands. Of the 12 SCVs, only one survives. Setback after setback, Snow's two stargate carriers and third expansion look all the more grim for Flash. Deciding to not sit back, Flash poses a small ground attack to Snow's isolated third. Snow, pressed to attack, marches his army to Flash's front door. Amassing an impressive fleet and supporting ground army, Snow makes his last attack of the game, ending in Flash's timely demise.

Game 2 on Sparkle:
Snow leading the series spawns in the bottom left while Flash is at the top left. Snow, looking to make strides on his game goes for the unexpected one base DT drops. In the meantime, the all too unknowing Flash merrily goes CC first into starports.

The shuttle, now loaded with two DTs, ominously moves to the top left, Snow clairvoyant of Flash's spawning position. The crux of whether or not Snow surely wins not just the game, but the series, is made here as Snow unloads the DTs. Flash has taken the proper precautions, armed with comsat stations, but a lack of a ground army. He hurriedly makes a vulture from his factory as Snow splits his DTs among the two bases.

The engineering bay completes, the building SCV miraculously avoiding the DTs every move. Snow, truly committed to the attack, sends in yet another two DTs just as the DT in the main is killed.

A turret in Flash's main saves the day as the DTs pick off SCVs near the edge of detection. Flash gradually builds up enough scans to kill the remaining DTs, but not without losing mining time and several more SCVs.

Amidst the chaos, Snow's expansion is now only starting and the two players' economies appear relatively even. Unfortunately for Snow, he has no stargates to contest the air, limited to just high templar tech.

Flash, somewhat flustered, absentmindedly loses two wraiths, hovering a second too long right above a group of Dragoons. Flash expands to a third while Snow's strategy of mass shuttles grows apparent with every second, and a warping-in third robotics facility.

Upon scanning, Flash sends his wraiths in, trading two wraiths for two shuttles. In a game of cat and mouse, Snow is poking in from every angle trying to land his ground units. He finally does so at the 9 o'clock, landing four dragoons.

Flash quickly transitions to a full mech army, factories aplenty, while Snow looks to expand at the bottom right base. Sent to the 9 o'clock is an expanding shuttle, but it gets shot down, along with the four dragoons shortly after by Flash's wraiths.


Snow makes his own move, maneuvering his shuttles along the right side of the map to Flash's 12 o'clock third. Flash, a few seconds too late to save all of the SCVs, sends in defending dropships.


Snow, taking advantage of the disorder, sends a single shuttle with a reaver in tow into Flash's completely exposed natural.


Despite the impressive SCV kills, Snow was unable to make a swift getaway with his shuttles, tethered by the wraiths. In all, an expensive army of DTs, dragoons, reavers, and several shuttles died while Flash's army is left largely intact. The supply favoring Flash in his army count, Flash is in a promising position to counter.


Flash drops the bottom right, an attack left unscathed by Snow's meager defensive drop. The bottom right finished, Snow drops once more at Flash's 12 o'clock. Despite both players reduced to their main bases, Flash is ahead. Shown in the leading supply, Flash has retained a few more dropships worth of units and an oppressive air force.

Snow, desperate to expand, drops units at the 6 o'clock. Flash, eyeing to clean up Snow's units at the 12 o'clock, instead turns around to attack Snow for the game deciding move. His wraiths pick off undefended HT in the main, and also prevent Snow from sending his shuttles in. Flash's units, now at the heart of Snow's production, land the killing blow. Snow, in a futile attempt drops with the units he has left, but the effort is all but wasted.

Game 3 on Gladiator
The series now even, Flash spawns in the bottom left and Snow is at the top right. Both players open standard; Flash going 1 Factory Expand and Snow opening 1 Gate Cyber Core Expand. Flash maneuvers his units for an early push, but is hampered by the cross positions. Snow in the opposite corner with reaver in tow is caught off guard, spotting the push only with the moving out shuttle. Before Snow can take advantage of the high ground terrain, Flash has already made his way to Snow's natural.


Snow's reaver is reduced to the red and several dragoons and a handful of probes are lost in the battle. Flash continues the pressure with speed vultures entering the fray. Both players in the tense skirmish eventually disengage, Flash escaping with two of the four siege tanks and Snow left with bruised dragoons. Altogether, Flash's push has put him at an advantage, occupying Snow's reaver from harassing his mineral line, and probes losing mining time.

Snow, crawling to Flash's natural tries to return the favor with a paltry two dragoons and two reavers. After the brief skirmish, Snow does a reaver drop at the edge of Flash's natural that gets little done.

More appetizers of the battlefield occur, first with vulture harass at Snow's mineral only third, and then a vulture drop at his main. While harassing, Flash has been building up a terrifying tank count while expanding to his own third. Snow in the meantime expands to a fourth and has arbiter tech.

Flash finally pushes and is now maxed, precariously moving on the thin ice of Snow's half of the map. Snow, not planning on playing pure defense has already maneuvered an arbiter to Flash's natural. The awkward terrain besets Flash's push, while with one press of a button, Flash is sent into full retreat.


The recall sends Flash's vultures scurrying back home. In Flash's haste, his siege tanks were left abandoned, soon overrun by zealots and dragoons. Snow even recalled on top of the retreating tanks, cutting off another hefty portion of Flash's tank numbers. Snow, having bought time for himself and tactically outplaying Flash, is now flush with resources while Flash is just barely maxed.

Snow wages battle at the 9 o'clock, threatening Flash's fourth. Despite the two stasises, Flash's defense holds strong, laying waste to Snow's army. In the wake of his victory, Flash rushes to besiege Snow's mineral only. A few timely reinforcements however save Snow, just barely pushing back Flash's push. Despite the trade, Snow's evident lack of a fifth base puts him at even bases with Flash.

However, the state of affairs quickly changes with Snow dropping a reaver at Flash's completely undefended fourth.


Volley after volley, Flash's SCVs are blown apart, and with one satisfying final scarab, the rest of the SCVs die.

Flash is in dire straits, forced to make a move with every second leaving him further behind. Using his competing army, his most powerful card, Flash pushes into Snow.


Snow, already a step ahead has already planned a counter recall, landing in Flash's main.

On the other side of the map, some of Flash's siege tanks were left behind and unsieged, prompting Snow to swoop in. Unfortunately, the attack turns to disaster as the arbiters full of energy don't cast a single spell with Snow's supply plummeting. At the same time, another reaver comes to Flash's fourth, once again undefended. History repeating itself, nearly all of the SCVs die.

Staying on four bases for so long and Snow nearly doubling Flash's supply of fifty, the tensions grow high for Snow to take action. Snow ramps up for a decisive attack, gathering his remaining forces and arbiters to stasis Flash's entrenched position at the 10 o'clock. Snow trades his army, cutting down a significant portion of Flash's tank numbers before retreating. With another group of reinforcements, Snow goes in for seconds, making use of the still present stasises before retreating once more.


Both players at a standstill, Snow breaks the short-lived silence with a recall at Flash's fourth. Flash's fourth now gone, his only option left is to attack. Unfortunately, with little over a control group of ragtag units, defeat follows swiftly.

Game 4 on Transistor:
Snow is only one game away from winning against Flash on the protoss favored Transistor. The cards couldn't be more in favor of Snow against a visibly jolted Flash. The game begins with Flash spawning in the bottom right while Snow spawns in the 9 o'clock. Snow opens nexus first against Flash's 1 Rax FE.

Snow is first to move, sending two zealots that Flash defends, pulling several SCVs. Snow follows up with reaver drops while Flash makes a starport. Snow, in a cheeky move, sends an empty shuttle to the unflinching Flash's mineral line before retreating.

Snow, now with a reaver in the shuttle, begins the loathed dragoon elevator. Flash in response pushes with several marines and three siege tanks. Flash, prepared for the base race, pulls his SCVs from the natural.

In the exchange, Flash's defensive wraith bites the dust, forcing Flash to make another wraith.


Snow, realizing he can't push into Flash anymore, brings his reaver back home only to lose it to siege tank fire. The dragoons too few in number are left to a similar fate with Snow conceding. In a highly anticlimactic, short game, Flash evens the series 2-2.

Game 5 on Third World:
The final game begins. Snow spawns in the bottom left and Flash spawns in the top right. Snow makes a gateway at home, sneakily moving his first zealot around Flash's first SCV. To further deceive Flash, a second zealot was made to block his ramp. Flash's first marine dying, he makes a vulture, delaying his siege tank.

Snow, looking to close the game early has made a second gateway and blocks Flash's every attempt to scout his natural. Snow frequently pokes in and out of Flash's natural with his dragoons. In a clever deception, Snow hides his dragoons, only showing their numbers incrementing one at a time to appear like a one gate.


Once Flash has moved his siege tanks down, Snow springs into action, sending his units in for the decisive blow. Two siege tanks and marines fall quickly as Flash is forced up to his main base, surviving on a single siege tank. Snow, capitalizing on Flash's low siege tank count, swoops in every time Flash has a lone siege tank on the low ground.

Snow's position looks continually more threatening. Flash, feeling too far behind, gambles on a hidden base at the top left. Snow, after delaying and harassing Flash's natural, opts for reaver drops while quickly teching to arbiters.


Snow attempts a major ground army and two shuttle attacks with a reaver and DTs in tow. Despite the attack's ambition, Flash's reinforcing tanks hold strong, deflecting yet another fearsome attack. Flash's hidden expansion in the top left meanwhile is scouted by a DT, the routing SCVs bombarded by a reaver. Snow takes the bottom right base, his would-be third blocked by an engineering bay.


Snow with the building momentum prepares his next attack, complete with another two shuttles and an arbiter with stasis. He stasises three siege tanks on the front before moving in with dropped zealots distracting tank fire. The reaver targets clumped siege tanks as Snow's dragoons methodically focus fire siege tanks.

The attack's ambition is met by lukewarm success as the trade falls in Flash's favor. Flash, on the rebound, promptly makes and defends the third from a lackluster force.

The game evened up, Snow then turns to the more standard Carrier production. Flash, not wasting a second starts to push into Snow's half of the map down to the close bottom right base.


Snow takes the opportunity to do a backstabbing recall while Flash's army is outside of his base. Flash retreats a few of his units and splits off the rest to attack Snow's bottom right base. Snow's carriers arrive in the nick of time that coupled with zealots and dragoons prolong the life of the expansion. In a back and forth fight, Snow's bottom right base is felled shortly before being rebuilt, and then killed again.

Vulture harass rages on at Snow's fourth at the center left as Flash gears for another attack.


Snow, however, has other plans, doing a combined carrier and recall attack at Flash's main. Flash, for maybe the last time, pulls all of his units back to defend the recall. Flash, unable to break into his main base that has become Snow's new haven, opts to ferry units to pressure Snow's opposite side bases.

Flash's efforts however pale in comparison to the utter devastation that is his main base. His supply dwindling, his army reduced to scrap, and not a single shred of hope left, Flash can only look on.

A classic matchup, battle has been waged between these two races across several galaxies since time immemorial. Undoubtedly many more battles will be waged in the future. But today, in this battle, Terran has been defeated, and Protoss has triumphed! Handing Flash his first Bo5 series loss against Protoss in 11 years is Snow, your last Ro4 contestant!