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Misc Notes
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This game was very controversial on discussion forums, and many people disagreed with how FlaSh played out and what certain pros said. So I just decided to dump this entire game into 1 single video and just squeezed in as much coverage as I could within time limits.
If you think you know better than pros, sure. But if you are gonna tell me I'm cherry picking, watch this video first. There are more people saying same lines that I couldn't put in here, including mind/action groups ect. Pros saying game was over when ling ran in was universally called on as you could see here, and only split was based on migrating to natural earlier or not, which was still gonna be way behind even after that.
Most of Terran pros called over at ling runby, while a lot of non-terran mains called for transfer to natural.
Some other Pros opinions
- Action: (https://vod.sooplive.com/player/196684193?change_second=8774)
You can't count Soma going Lair yet it doesn't matter (Lair never started). There's only 4-5 Drones on minerals. If FlaSh had defended the main successfully, he was in lead. But if he gave up his main, he can't win though.
The issue was FlaSh not being able to defend before 2nd ling runby. You 100% cannot win if you give up main though, because having worker lead doesn't matter anymore at that point. He needed to defend 3 lings cleaner, but at same time, had Zerg ranby with 6 lings instead at start, zerg was in good position so... But FlaSh dealing with initial runby was poor and shouldn't have let it happen in first place.
2 CC doesn't matter since it's not 4Pool, and 8 worker lead doesn't matter if Zerg sees natural defense and just drones up
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From Soma: (cannot include this as this is from independent YT channel, not soop)
https://youtu.be/T8lDnGk3UJw?si=6k4d8Rb_KG5J41nl&t=1743
Q: Are you ahead even if defended?
A: As soon as I disrupted mining in main, I won. Since I can continuously disrupt mining
Q: Ah, there wasn't enough workers mining. FlaSh didn't have enough. If those \[2nd group of lings\] didn't get runby, it was fine, no? Oh but even if he transfers to natural, it's over since it's only 7 mineral patches.
A: Yea, natural only has 7 mineral patches
Video after this will be Soma's review that answers following:
1. Things to know before Final Game
2. Should he have transferred to natural ?
3. Who's ahead if he transferred?
4. At what point was Final game won?
5. Why was game lost?
6. Why was Rax cancelled?
