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InDaHouse
Profile Joined May 2008
Sweden956 Posts
May 14 2010 11:19 GMT
#841
Why did Kal move out before his third was completely up and running? Doesn't make sense since EffOrt had big ass army.
Kal:s option here is to defend the third and utlitize it before moving out.

Reavers and temps at chokes rapes hydras a-moving in and Kal had 3 reavers at his third.

The longer the game goes the more ineffective mass-hydras become when Protoss upgrades kicks in and when you have some serious splash damage with many reavers and temps.

Kal was just too damn impatient.
Stork protoss legend
Jackal03
Profile Joined October 2009
Brazil7469 Posts
May 14 2010 11:20 GMT
#842
i think flash has less chance of winning against a Z then against a P

no P is playing really good this days and flash's TvP has been absolute rape, he even passed JD in his vP elo peak
BW is back
tree.hugger
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
May 14 2010 11:20 GMT
#843
On May 14 2010 20:13 QibingZero wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 14 2010 20:10 anch wrote:
Effort will just be a warm up for Calm/JD for Flash
but he is gonna be handicapped not to show too much BO


True - at least if Jaedong wins (and he will). People will say that Flash can just practice TvZ now and it'll be easier, but honestly this will make the MSL vs Jaedong a lot more difficult on him than if he could just bust out whatever he wanted TvP-wise on Kal.

Show nested quote +
On May 14 2010 20:12 7mk wrote:
On May 14 2010 20:10 QibingZero wrote:
What all you CJ fans should be hoping for is Iris to get back deep in a Starleague so he shows these kids what a real series looks like - win or lose.

I mean I know this is your 'vindication' for overhyping Effort a couple years ago and all, but any outside observer can see that it's just Effort playing consistently mediocre while his opponents forget what they were doing there in the first place.


Yeah that makes so much fucking sense, all players just play way way worse than they usually do if they face effort.

Or maybe you dont know what youre talking about and dont realise all the freakin things he does so freakin well.

This is just like when people said
"Oh JD played well yeah, but he only won like this because Kal choked and played terrible yadda yadda"

People look terrible when you play amazing


Yeah, I'm sorry but I don't remember anyone saying that. And if you can't see that Kal played a lot worse in this series than he did vs Jaedong, I don't know what to tell you.


Honestly bro, I'm deeply sympathetic to your point of view. You know in your heart of hearts that EffOrt is bad, and yet most of the time a progamer plays him, they just totally forget how to play the game. That's gotta be frustrating.

I mean, which other player logs 420 average apm with insane multi-task, stellar game-sense, and huge macro, while facing opponents who inexplicably lose the ability to compete? It makes no sense, I tell ya, it makes no sense.
ModeratorEffOrt, Snow, GuMiho, and Team Liquid
o[twist]
Profile Joined May 2008
United States4903 Posts
May 14 2010 11:20 GMT
#844
ugh cj fans come on. these were some solid 6hatch breaks but nobody watching this thought kal played well
FireGuyX
Profile Joined February 2009
United States1712 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-14 11:23:58
May 14 2010 11:20 GMT
#845
On May 14 2010 20:19 7mk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 14 2010 20:13 QibingZero wrote:
On May 14 2010 20:10 anch wrote:
Effort will just be a warm up for Calm/JD for Flash
but he is gonna be handicapped not to show too much BO


True - at least if Jaedong wins (and he will). People will say that Flash can just practice TvZ now and it'll be easier, but honestly this will make the MSL vs Jaedong a lot more difficult on him than if he could just bust out whatever he wanted TvP-wise on Kal.

On May 14 2010 20:12 7mk wrote:
On May 14 2010 20:10 QibingZero wrote:
What all you CJ fans should be hoping for is Iris to get back deep in a Starleague so he shows these kids what a real series looks like - win or lose.

I mean I know this is your 'vindication' for overhyping Effort a couple years ago and all, but any outside observer can see that it's just Effort playing consistently mediocre while his opponents forget what they were doing there in the first place.


Yeah that makes so much fucking sense, all players just play way way worse than they usually do if they face effort.

Or maybe you dont know what youre talking about and dont realise all the freakin things he does so freakin well.

This is just like when people said
"Oh JD played well yeah, but he only won like this because Kal choked and played terrible yadda yadda"

People look terrible when you play amazing


Yeah, I'm sorry but I don't remember anyone saying that. And if you can't see that Kal played a lot worse in this series than he did vs Jaedong, I don't know what to tell you.


Well what can I tell you when I make a point and you just say "sorry I dont remember anyone saying that"
Lots of people did so what do you wanna tell me?

Even before this series people were like
"yeah kals gonna crush him, he only chokes vs Jaedong"


Kal's pvz looks sloppy compared to other protoss such as Movie, Stork, Jangbi, and even Flying. His pvz is still pretty good mainly because Kal is a really good protoss, but it's his weakest mu. Can you imagine Kal's pvz micro/macro as good as Movie's. That's hard to imagine.
Flash, ForGG, and Movie fan.
Trezeguet
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States2656 Posts
May 14 2010 11:21 GMT
#846
On May 14 2010 20:13 losso wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 14 2010 20:04 J1.au wrote:
On May 14 2010 20:04 Jackal03 wrote:
now i just hope, just hope, that effort brings his S class ZvT to the finals

How can he bring something he doesn't have?


[image loading]

Sure, he's struggled a little more recently, but it seems that people forget why he was such a big name. He was so good a that point that some people were talking that he might be the best zerg.
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
May 14 2010 11:21 GMT
#847
On May 14 2010 20 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              14 2010 20      end_of_the_skype_highlighting:20 Jackal03 wrote:
i think flash has less chance of winning against a Z then against a P

no P is playing really good this days and flash's TvP has been absolute rape, he even passed JD in his vP elo peak

Well dunno, JD hasn't played a P in like half a year.
League of Legends EU West, Platinum III | Yousei Teikoku is the best thing that has ever happened to music.
Malinor
Profile Joined November 2008
Germany4758 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-14 11:23:06
May 14 2010 11:21 GMT
#848
One year ago EffOrt was believed to be the next zerg overmind, and now everyone is like he is the worst zerg ever.
I don't know if he can really threaten Flash, but as some already mentioned, he has shown S-Class ZvT before and with enough confidence (which he should have by now) he may be able to show it again.

Kal would have choked in the finals anyway (breaks my heart to see him lose important games all the time).

I'm very satisfied with this matchup for the finals.
"Withstand. Suffer. Live as you must now live. There will, one day, be answer to this." ||| "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come."
Wonders
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Australia753 Posts
May 14 2010 11:23 GMT
#849
On May 14 2010 20:12 MrHoon wrote:
Im going to back SuperArc here

before Effort's slump, his ZvT was 21:3, this is fucking unheard of

Even Jaedong/Savior/GoRush/Chojja/July wasn't able achieve such feat.

You know which Zerg had a similar record to Effort in ZvT?

Mother Fucking (Z)YellOw

Silver jokes aside, Effort's ZvT is the real deal

and I for one am happy that effort finally made it to the finals. TBH with you he was the one CJ player who deserved it the most


Thank you!
MrHoon *
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
10183 Posts
May 14 2010 11:24 GMT
#850
I'm appalled how badly the whole STX team seems to choke (aside from calm and july)

It's like they're the king of Semifinals and Playoffs

I know this is ironic coming from a KT fan but goddamn guys

goddamn.
dats racist
emoniax
Profile Joined January 2010
Philippines81 Posts
May 14 2010 11:24 GMT
#851
"I DONT EAT ALIENS, BUT I RAPE THEM" - Flash
Go Flash!!! TERRAN TERRAN TERRAN!!! did I just say TERRAN?!
moopie
Profile Joined July 2009
12605 Posts
May 14 2010 11:24 GMT
#852
On May 14 2010 20:21 Malinor wrote:
One year ago EffOrt was believed to be the next zerg overmind, and now everyone is like he is the worst zerg ever.


Yes, and a year ago bisu was a monster, and now everyone is like he is the worst protoss ever.

your point?
I'm going to sleep, let me get some of that carpet.
teamsolid
Profile Joined October 2007
Canada3668 Posts
May 14 2010 11:24 GMT
#853
You know Protoss are slumping HARD when Kal is considered the current best P. He was always pretty good but never dominant back when the 6 dragons were raping everyone.
538
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Hungary3932 Posts
May 14 2010 11:25 GMT
#854
fun fact: Kal is 4-23 (14%) against Zero, Effort and Jaedong combined.
BW fighting!
HnR)hT
Profile Joined October 2002
United States3468 Posts
May 14 2010 11:25 GMT
#855
Effort haters need to shut the fuck up. About imbalance, about tiebreakers, about the final, about everything. His demolishing of Kal in a bo5 was not in the least surprising to anyone not blinded by sheer hate and wishful thinking. It's as if his play through most of 2009, which shows that he has been slumping badly in the past few months but is now apparently recovering, has been forgotten. He certainly deserves to be here, and Kespa wouldn't give him a regame against Shine unless there was a legitimate hardware issue.
7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-14 11:26:43
May 14 2010 11:25 GMT
#856
On May 14 2010 20:25 538 wrote:
fun fact: Kal is 4-23 (14%) against Zero, Effort and Jaedong combined.


LOL that's pretty sick

On May 14 2010 20:20 FireGuyX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 14 2010 20:19 7mk wrote:
On May 14 2010 20:13 QibingZero wrote:
On May 14 2010 20:10 anch wrote:
Effort will just be a warm up for Calm/JD for Flash
but he is gonna be handicapped not to show too much BO


True - at least if Jaedong wins (and he will). People will say that Flash can just practice TvZ now and it'll be easier, but honestly this will make the MSL vs Jaedong a lot more difficult on him than if he could just bust out whatever he wanted TvP-wise on Kal.

On May 14 2010 20:12 7mk wrote:
On May 14 2010 20:10 QibingZero wrote:
What all you CJ fans should be hoping for is Iris to get back deep in a Starleague so he shows these kids what a real series looks like - win or lose.

I mean I know this is your 'vindication' for overhyping Effort a couple years ago and all, but any outside observer can see that it's just Effort playing consistently mediocre while his opponents forget what they were doing there in the first place.


Yeah that makes so much fucking sense, all players just play way way worse than they usually do if they face effort.

Or maybe you dont know what youre talking about and dont realise all the freakin things he does so freakin well.

This is just like when people said
"Oh JD played well yeah, but he only won like this because Kal choked and played terrible yadda yadda"

People look terrible when you play amazing


Yeah, I'm sorry but I don't remember anyone saying that. And if you can't see that Kal played a lot worse in this series than he did vs Jaedong, I don't know what to tell you.


Well what can I tell you when I make a point and you just say "sorry I dont remember anyone saying that"
Lots of people did so what do you wanna tell me?

Even before this series people were like
"yeah kals gonna crush him, he only chokes vs Jaedong"


Kal's pvz looks sloppy compared to other protoss such as Movie, Stork, Jangbi, and even Flying. His pvz is still pretty good mainly because Kal is a really good protoss, but it's his weakest mu. Can you imagine Kal's pvz micro/macro as good as Movie's. That's hard to imagine.


While I dont know about Flying I cant really disagree with this post (although Kal used to be known for his PvZ)

but that doesnt change that effort played really well. I mean game 1 and game 2 were just the most onesided rapes ever.
beep boop
tree.hugger
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
May 14 2010 11:26 GMT
#857
On May 14 2010 20:20 o[twist] wrote:
ugh cj fans come on. these were some solid 6hatch breaks but nobody watching this thought kal played well


Those ht snipes looked pretty unstoppable, and those observer strikes seemed pretty impressive to me. Kal's counter attack almost won him a game he was going to have difficulty winning, it was hardly an objectively bad move. And EffOrt grabbed a BO win in Game 1. Kal played well, I think in the semi-finals of a starleague, people usually do, but EffOrt was better.
ModeratorEffOrt, Snow, GuMiho, and Team Liquid
Tuke
Profile Joined January 2009
Finland1666 Posts
May 14 2010 11:26 GMT
#858
On May 14 2010 20:25 538 wrote:
fun fact: Kal is 4-23 (14%) against Zero, Effort and Jaedong combined.

wow that's bad score :p
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okum
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
France5779 Posts
May 14 2010 11:27 GMT
#859
On May 14 2010 20:19 InDaHouse wrote:
Why did Kal move out before his third was completely up and running? Doesn't make sense since EffOrt had big ass army.
Kal:s option here is to defend the third and utlitize it before moving out.

Reavers and temps at chokes rapes hydras a-moving in and Kal had 3 reavers at his third.

The longer the game goes the more ineffective mass-hydras become when Protoss upgrades kicks in and when you have some serious splash damage with many reavers and temps.

Kal was just too damn impatient.
This here.

And, credit where due, Effort exploited it incredibly well.
Flash fan before it was cool | Coiner of "jangbang"
snowdrift
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
France2061 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-14 11:31:51
May 14 2010 11:27 GMT
#860
On May 14 2010 20:24 moopie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 14 2010 20:21 Malinor wrote:
One year ago EffOrt was believed to be the next zerg overmind, and now everyone is like he is the worst zerg ever.


Yes, and a year ago bisu was a monster, and now everyone is like he is the worst protoss ever.

your point?


Effort was only a rookie last year, so this slump is more of a mid-career bump rather than him becoming an outdated, washed-up progamer like Bisu. Bisu already had his mid-career slump in the first part of 2008. Effort still has huge potential.

I'm just hating these finals. Effort is a potential beast if he returns to form, and normally I would've rooted for him, but he cheated his way into the Ro8 with that "ppp" when he was losing, so I'm hoping Flash curbstomps him. FOR GREAT JUSTICE

On May 14 2010 20:25 HnR)hT wrote:
Kespa wouldn't give him a regame against Shine unless there was a legitimate hardware issue.


A player's mouse is his responsibility. And pausing the game only when you've lost the muta battle to try and get a regame is pretty low.
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