EPTFlaSh's comments on his Random games - Page 2
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rtomic
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goody153
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thedeadhaji
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26221 Posts
On October 13 2020 07:49 unit wrote: While that would be awesome, I worry that if he wins an ASL with random he will just retire. He's done everything up to this point and now this is the ultimate challenge, if he wins this challenge what's left for him? Win it playing Zerg exclusively? Playing random he’s got the initial information advantage, a 1/3 chance of rolling GOAT Terran and a 1/3 chance rolling his Toss which is pretty damn good especially with the initial random advantage. Does leave him an ungodly amount of prep to do for all the various scenarios he can potentially get. If he’s a real God he’d play his weakest race straight up and we’ll see how good he is then! Joking aside it’s pretty crazy what he’s doing, possibly unparalleled in eSports that I can think of anyway. Taking a step back and something I feel has been not mentioned enough in assessing Flash playing random and how impressive it is, is matchups while playing one race. Even amongst the best of the best in BW a lot of players have weak matchups, sometimes to a comic degree. Which I think frames the difficulty of Flash’s quest and the progress made thus far in an even greater light. | ||
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JoinTheRain
Bulgaria409 Posts
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Ketroc
Canada74 Posts
I think he meant macro. ie, Free had to focus on solely producing units and fighting, while Flash was able to tech up during that time. | ||
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bos)Kulik
5 Posts
win as random or as Zerg / protoss? | ||
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Qikz
United Kingdom12024 Posts
On October 15 2020 14:44 bos)Kulik wrote: what is more impressive? win as random or as Zerg / protoss? Given how many zergs keep getting deep into the ASL I'd say winning as zerg doesn't seem to be a big deal anymore. Winning as protoss seems to be the hardest these days. | ||
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nojok
France15845 Posts
On October 13 2020 19:40 WombaT wrote: Joking aside it’s pretty crazy what he’s doing, possibly unparalleled in eSports that I can think of anyway. Maybe Fatality, an FPS player who achieved great results in many different games, which is kinda like playing different races in BW. The competition was not as fierce back then though. | ||
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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
hahaha shots fired. prepare for the onslaught of Flash fans :D On October 15 2020 17:57 nojok wrote: Maybe Fatality, an FPS player who achieved great results in many different games, which is kinda like playing different races in BW. The competition was not as fierce back then though. There are people like Justin Wong from the fighting game community too, who has had success with multiple games. | ||
Firebolt145
Lalalaland34498 Posts
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Shady Sands
United States4021 Posts
On October 15 2020 18:36 JieXian wrote: hahaha shots fired. prepare for the onslaught of Flash fans :D pew pew pew On October 15 2020 18:36 JieXian wrote: There are people like Justin Wong from the fighting game community too, who has had success with multiple games. reminds of me of Gareth Bale, switching positions and still doing well | ||
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caffeine_free
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26221 Posts
I guess Wendell/Fatality existed in a different era of eSports (not temporally, but in terms of maturation in the West), but yeah he’s a legendary figure. Not so familiar with fighting games, but will investigate further. I guess what makes Flash so impressive to me is that BW is so figured out and the level is so high and even then most of his peers can’t master their race to an equivalent level across 3 matchups, indeed many have an outright clear weak matchup. | ||
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SlayerS_BunkiE
Canada1713 Posts
On October 15 2020 16:56 Qikz wrote: Given how many zergs keep getting deep into the ASL I'd say winning as zerg doesn't seem to be a big deal anymore. Winning as protoss seems to be the hardest these days. He probably means for Flash. Obviously random is easier as he can still roll T. He’d have to prepare for more MUs, but the same is true for his opponent. Random games also tend to be less straightforward, giving the inferior player (Flash) a better chance. | ||
BisuDagger
Bisutopia19299 Posts
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Anc13nt
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KobraKay
Portugal4231 Posts
On October 13 2020 18:20 rtomic wrote: Are there any infos on the military service for flash? He is getting to the age that he can't postpone it further. Or is he somehow excepted? He has medical exemption. Search for the gigantic scar on his arm from surgery he had 10 or so years ago due to his injuries. | ||
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TelecoM
United States10686 Posts
On October 15 2020 23:27 BisuDagger wrote: I worry that if Flash main-ed as Protoss, he'd win everything and make all other Protoss players feel stupid for struggling as hard as they do. I wonder if this is what Terran's feel like right now? Or he creates new innovations we all will use for the future to come, which I think is more probable. | ||
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kogeT
Poland2041 Posts
On October 15 2020 23:27 BisuDagger wrote: I worry that if Flash main-ed as Protoss, he'd win everything and make all other Protoss players feel stupid for struggling as hard as they do. I wonder if this is what Terran's feel like right now? It is opposite. Everyone thinks terran is easy and OP because Flash makes it look easy, while in reality we are losing all the time and complain about terran being to hard. ;-) | ||
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