[OSL] EVER 2009 OSL Grand Final - Flash vs Movie - Page 131

On January 17 2010 19:09 KwarK wrote:
Strategically he raped Flash game 1 too. He used the gas steal into proxy elevator rush (see liquipedia) but Flash was too good and scouted it. He then transitioned into hardcore macro play, did a sexy twin observer to get in and see flash's fact count (this was HUGE) and stole Flash's 4th. That is also huge because Flash can always take and hold that base eventually but Movie can do the same with his. They're safe bases. Every mineral Movie mined there was a mineral Flash couldn't.
It was insanely good strategically. He then followed it up with twin forge twin stargate fast arbiter while running his army around pretending to be aggressive. And Flash bought it hook, line and sinker and was a long way behind. If you put a Protoss and Terran player of the same skill in that game at that time it'd be over. It was just Flash was so incredible at dealing with it that Movie couldn't win. Flash blocked recalls with a line of turrets and mines, Movie hallucinates beyond the mines. Flash has to mine everywhere and Movie feints at the main with hallucinations and smashes into the mineral only. Everything Movie did that game was genius. Incredible strategic play. Had it been anyone but Flash they'd have lost it several times over. It is unfortunate to Movie that despite being easily the 3rd best player in the world right now he's thrown against the 1st.

On January 17 2010 19:13 konadora wrote:

uh i think he was talking about

Anytime went 2-0

Then Boxer caught up 2-2

Then Anytime won 3-2

On January 17 2010 19:11 cz wrote:


thanks for telling us about the 2-2 part

On January 17 2010 19:02 PoP wrote:


Well, there was absolutely no reason to lose the first reaver. He dropped it behind Flash's mineral line, a good scarab went off and then his shuttle should have gathered it back right away. It didn't and that was quite damn bad to me.

And he shouldn't have lost the DT either. He saw the turret building, he could see the HPs. The shuttle was there. Not as big a deal as the reaver since (I think) scan was on its way but still, it was quite bad.

Also basically every break he attempted was quite poorly executed imo (at least compared to any S-class PvT players like Stork), especially that time when he dropped the reaver/zealots right in the middle of Flash's defensive army and THEN sent his army in. That's again pretty damn bad synchronisation-wise.

Again, nervousness probably isn't helping, but Movie's execution has been quite abysimal these games, imho. (His builds are very good though but it's another story.)

On January 17 2010 19:13 KizZBG wrote:
lol Movie still a rookie? o_O

and jeez, when were the last, good, non one sided finals?

On January 17 2010 19:06 d(O.o)a wrote:


I'm aware there are other good terrans but give me an example of one that could have held that stuff off and don't say really.

On January 17 2010 19:13 PoP wrote:


Flash has been playing like a fucking genius there's absolutely no way to deny that. And Movie is showing extremely good preparation, good builds/strategies and excellent decision-making. I agree with you on everything you wrote.

My point is only about the execution thing.