Hyun played like I would have, starve terran down. Especially good move was to push which failed (lurkers died) because that made flash think that he has change to push but didn't know about 4th gas.

Rest of game Hyun was just waiting flash to gg and not risking to attacking his base. Spectator wise it looks bad but it works.

NarutO

Germany18839 Posts

December 14 2009 10:22 GMT

#523

On December 14 2009 19:20 Tianx wrote:
Hyun played safe and didn't throw it away, sealing the lategame victory. His decisionmaking that game really shouldn't be underestimated.

Is it really safe to go into lategame against a player who has better mechanics and superior multitasking? If you can end it early? I guess not T_T

Perguvious

United States1783 Posts

December 14 2009 10:23 GMT

#524

On December 14 2009 19:22 ejac wrote:

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That game revolved around the fact that Hyun took a ninja expansion. Hardly what I would call safe play.

he used his mutalisks to trap flash in long enough for him to establish that base, that's why he spammed the mutalisks transitioning into mid game

MrHoon

10183 Posts

December 14 2009 10:23 GMT

#525

On December 14 2009 19:22 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
If Flash has bad turret positioning against ZerO or Jaedong I will be quite upset

If this is the new flash we all know (and hope)

Flash won't make this mistake again

This is a good lesson for flash against JD and Zero

Especially how well Hyun played... It felt like I was watching JD play earlygame

Harem

United States11393 Posts

December 14 2009 10:23 GMT

#526

On December 14 2009 19:20 Tianx wrote:
Hyun played safe and didn't throw it away, sealing the lategame victory. His decisionmaking that game really shouldn't be underestimated.

Safe would be conserving all those lurks and waiting for defiler tech.

Jyvblamo

Canada13788 Posts

December 14 2009 10:23 GMT

#527

On December 14 2009 19:22 G.s)NarutO wrote:

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Is it really safe to go into lategame against a player who has better mechanics and superior multitasking? If you can end it early? I guess not T_T

Going into the late game with a significant economic advantage is safe.

DoctorHelvetica

United States15034 Posts

December 14 2009 10:23 GMT

#528

On December 14 2009 19:22 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:

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you're totally misreading the game. with that many hatcheries and a significant lead over a player of flash's calibur that is EXACTLY how you play it out. you multitask your ass off to get all your larva turned into units and you just grind out the win. match point is not the sort of map you seem to think it is, if you think about these things at all

i know HyuN made the right decision and played it safe but watching how well flash compared to his army compared to HyuN made him look pretty unimpressive

I still give him credit for the win, Flash made clear mistakes in the early game and lost in a fair match.

MountainDewJunkie

United States10348 Posts

December 14 2009 10:23 GMT

#529

On December 14 2009 19:21 MrHoon wrote:
It's been a while since I saw so many KT fans not rage after flash lost

yay <3

I think people respect Hyun more than most non-JD zergs, at least, they should. Can you imagine the general outrage if it were Juni, Odin, or Hyuk that ended Flash's streak? That'd just be funny.