On January 23 2010 19:56 d_so wrote:
look guys, konondra mentioned this earlier but the kespa rep clearly said they made their decision partly on leftover resources which in TvZ will always be in zerg's favor. to paraphrase, she said they made their decision based on units, bases and resources... but really, if flash won the fight at 7 -- which was possible -- there's no way you can say zerg is at an advatnage. flash's sci vessels at 7 were down, sure, but so were jaedong's defilers -- his last one got irradiated as soon as it came out of the nydus canal

Flash didn't have the vessel count to stop defilers. JD had defilers their with nydus to reinforce and consume. Without 6 or so vessels Flash couldn't break through. And without killing 7 he couldn't win. He did a 2 base allin, based around stopping JD taking a 4th gas. That was his entire build. He lost all his vessels and JD had defilers and ultras at 7. There was nothing Flash could do.

look i know you are the expert but you are convenient ignroing the fact that jaedong's last surviving deflier died to irradiate, as well as having no more than 4 ultras at his 7. now, he definitiely could have more etc and sent them through the nydus... but the question is whether he could have done this before flash ran through the dark swarm and attacked the base, especially since the first two swarms were close to running out.

odds are more likely that jaedong would have new defilers in time to stop the fight, new ultras to replenish the troops... but at that moment, the reality was there were no defilers, very few ultras, no lings, and flash still had a substantial mnm force, the first two swarms near the base were almost out, and flash had a sci vessel at the nydus canal waiting for any other defilers to come through.

yep, they just showed the replay.

Jaedong lost all his defilers and Flash just got a brand new set of MM reinforcements. Jeadong DID NOT have both gases up - he just built the second extractor and had low drone saturation.

From the way it looked Flash was going to kill 7. We don't know what Jaedong had at his base to push through the nydus. We DO know he had lings at 7 with sunkens and like 3 ultras with swarms running out. Flash's mineral expo WAS NOT up but he was maynarding SCVs.

This is why people need to stfu and stop making shit up. Jaedong had an advantage but was in a very tight spot. No one knows how it would have turned out but Flash was in control for sure. Likewise Flash's expansion wasn't even up.

That wasn't when the blackout happened. The game went on for another minute or so.

Gusy were claiming Jaedong had a bazillion units and Flash had an expo fully mining pumping massive MnM forces - a minute from now that wasn't happening. Both "sides" were wrong. I just wanted to clearly illustrate that it wasn't like these guys had their economies rolling ez like some posters are making it sound.

Zona

40426 Posts

January 23 2010 11:22 GMT

#3307

8rax vs 9pool?

domane

Canada1606 Posts

January 23 2010 11:22 GMT

#3308

Can't MBC show the replay until the moment of blackout? It'd be nice to have better closure, so people can properly decide for themselves.

I think I've seen first hand, the average quality difference, between veteran and new posters. More emotion and baiting.

United States3249 Posts

January 23 2010 11:22 GMT

#3309

If Jaedong wins it's not a real victory at all, sorry. I agree that only Flash can legitimately win this. Sucks for Jaedong.

sharkeyanti

United States1273 Posts

January 23 2010 11:22 GMT

#3310

I really hope Flash wins this game, this deserves a 5th set.

On_Slaught

United States12190 Posts

January 23 2010 11:22 GMT

#3311

Flash with fast rax!!

JD is 9pool!

EvilTeletubby

Baltimore, USA22259 Posts

January 23 2010 11:22 GMT

#3312

Oh god this isn't going to end well...

Archon_Wing

United States378 Posts

January 23 2010 11:22 GMT

#3313

Oh man early pool.

meeple

Canada10211 Posts

January 23 2010 11:22 GMT

#3314

9pool!!! Flash is in trouble!

saikeraku

Canada2933 Posts

January 23 2010 11:22 GMT

#3315

Early rax but JD goes overpool!

Jyvblamo

Canada13788 Posts

January 23 2010 11:22 GMT

#3316

9pool vs forward rax.
Yum yum.

Malinor

Germany4755 Posts

January 23 2010 11:22 GMT

#3317

I have no excitement left, I don't even care who wins anymore. Both would be robbed of the epicness of their win.

Well, the game started, so we'll see.

Womwomwom

5930 Posts

January 23 2010 11:22 GMT

#3318

I think Flash literally doesn't give a shit anymore.

PhilGood2DaY

Germany7424 Posts

January 23 2010 11:22 GMT

#3319

On January 23 2010 20:21 KwarK wrote:

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Every now and then on bnet, sure. But over JD in a starleague finals? No. I don't acknowledge that a Terran without the science vessel count to kill the defilers and break an expansion can win against a Zerg with map control, the full tech tree, full upgrades, 4 mining bases and 5 gases when that Zerg is also JD. Comebacks happen because a player makes mistakes. JD would need to make a fucking huge mistake (like plaguing all his ultras randomly) to lose that. He doesn't make that kind of mistake.

JD WAS NOT IN SUCH A GOOD SHAPE AS U MAKE HIM TO BE..

SERIOUSLY MAN WATCH THE GAME !?