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Biff The Understudy
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France7947 Posts
May 29 2010 13:07 GMT
#2821
On May 29 2010 21:19 Kyo Yuy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 20 2010 22:02 Kyo Yuy wrote:
I'm wondering how people will react if Flash loses to Effort and then beats Jaedong 3-0.

Least likely scenario, but what if it happens?

There will be riots everywhere... >_>

AHAHAHAHAHA

Me and my big mouth.

(I wrote this in the Hana Daetoo MSL Semifinal B winner interview thread. I seriously did not expect it to happen. Looks like I jinxed myself)

You should play lottery now. Right now.
The fellow who is out to burn things up is the counterpart of the fool who thinks he can save the world. The world needs neither to be burned up nor to be saved. The world is, we are. Transients, if we buck it; here to stay if we accept it. ~H.Miller
Kyo Yuy
Profile Joined January 2009
United States1286 Posts
May 29 2010 13:07 GMT
#2822
On May 29 2010 22:04 7mk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2010 21:56 Kyo Yuy wrote:
On May 29 2010 21:41 7mk wrote:
really, Shikyo, you give up hope because of three games in one BO5?
after he destroyed everyone on the way to the finals, winning 9/10 games?

That's how Shikyo is, it's best not to try to convince him to change his mind.

I know a lot of people are hard on Jaedong about this, but I think Flash just made Jaedong look bad because Flash clearly had mind games planned for this series.

On May 29 2010 21:46 7mk wrote:
choking on one day doesnt make jaedong an idiot


I wouldn't really call it choking, Flash did practice with the OSL winner really hard and as Jaedong said, losing like that only makes him stronger (It's the same with Jaedong too, don't you think?).


well JD still made some bad mistakes, but I dont wanna take anything away from flash, today he was gonna win this either way.

Jaedong is the most mentally strong player in the Starcraft proscene. I've thought this ever since I saw him play and I still think it to this day. That's why I don't think Jaedong ever choked in the series. Especially since Jaedong is known for his series play - Jaedong is an ummovable brick wall as far as mental fortitude is concerned, if he lost it was because of bad decision making and not because of any emotional issues.

And that is why Jaedong will only come back stronger. He'll be like Nada and keep going until his age makes it too hard for him to keep up.

...But I must say, I hope Flash wins the OSL next season and gets his well deserved Golden Mouse :<
#1 KawaiiRice fan :D
LuigiNMario
Profile Joined April 2010
United States456 Posts
May 29 2010 13:09 GMT
#2823
TO EVERYONE THAT SAID FLASH COULDN'T BEAT JD IN A BO5, WHAT NOW!
When there's Flash there's a way.
12yearsofsc
Profile Joined May 2010
Greece30 Posts
May 29 2010 13:14 GMT
#2824
Well i think it was the most disappointing finals ever.

NOT because it was one sided.

NOT because my fav lost (most ppl judge the greatness by whether their favorite player wins or loses)

BECAUSE this final could be the best of all time, with 2 huge-skill players, no one with a clear advantage (50-50% poll). Also BW needed this final to be epic to counter the appearance of SC2 and the rigged games.

There is a chance that we meet such a hyped final again in more than 1 season, and by that time BW is going to lose its current popularity.
butchji
Profile Joined September 2009
Germany1531 Posts
May 29 2010 13:15 GMT
#2825
On May 29 2010 22:14 12yearsofsc wrote:
Well i think it was the most disappointing finals ever.

NOT because it was one sided.

NOT because my fav lost (most ppl judge the greatness by whether their favorite player wins or loses)

BECAUSE this final could be the best of all time, with 2 huge-skill players, no one with a clear advantage (50-50% poll). Also BW needed this final to be epic to counter the appearance of SC2 and the rigged games.

There is a chance that we meet such a hyped final again in more than 1 season, and by that time BW is going to lose its current popularity.


Most disappointing was obviously the power outage last finals.
Zhul
Profile Joined February 2010
Czech Republic430 Posts
May 29 2010 13:16 GMT
#2826
YEeeeeez
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-29 13:23:29
May 29 2010 13:17 GMT
#2827
On May 29 2010 21 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              29 2010 21      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              29 2010 21      end_of_the_skype_highlighting:57 Zed.iii wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2010 21:42 Shikyo wrote:
On May 29 2010 21:37 darktreb wrote:
On May 29 2010 21:33 Shikyo wrote:
However, that's not all. He then sees 2 sieged tanks behind a terran wall and keeps trying to Hydra break instead of containing and double expanding and massing drones.


I don't get why people think Zerg can "contain" Terran that already has Siege researched with Hydralisks. Seriously? He didn't even have Lair and was nowhere near Lurkers.

Oh, you want to know? Terran had 2-3 siege tanks but only a handful of Goliaths. Had Jaedong, after his first push failed, massed pure drones and used his ~18 Hydras to contain Flash aka staying outside his base at a flanking distance, he could have powered drones a lot more freely. Essentially the exact same thing he tried to do later in the game, just with Flash having 1/4 the army.

This is pretty much the standard thing you do as a Zerg, and a fast or even relatively soon lair isn't necessary at all vs mech. You get some Hydras early on, then double expand and mass drones, when they push you start pure hydra off about 5 hatches you have by the time, and hopefully crush them. That's the normal thing you do, it's not like it's rocket science.

Oh, and you mentioned Lurkers? Try again.

On May 29 2010 21:41 7mk wrote:
really, Shikyo, you give up hope because of three games in one BO5?
after he destroyed everyone on the way to the finals, winning 9/10 games?


What can you do about braincell destruction?


Yeah ok well you for sure knows better than Jaedong...

Ok btw did you know that the most usual play vs mech as zerg is Muta?
Bet you didn't
Oh and those tanks had 1-0 upgrade, he would just need to lift his rax and push slowly with his tanks, gg that mapcontrol is gone for jd

Apparently I do know better? I do know I was calling him an idiot numerous times while watching the series, and he ended up losing awfully in all those games.

Look if he had 3 tanks and like 6 goliaths, a 18 Hydra flank would destroy that. He only had 2 factories, it takes time.

Also, are mutas really the most popular vs mech? You mean pure muta, or muta transition? Since hydra openings are extremely common, I'd say even more common than mutas, and by falling down to contain he had a much better chance to win. I'd say that it is a lot more common to open with economic hydras and later perform a muta switch. Proof about mutas being more "usual" please.

I know tanks had a 1-0 upgrade, but that in fact affects Hydras in no way. 2 hits, 2 hits.

But yeah the +1 was really useful because of the amount of goliaths to clean the Hydras up in less hits, but that still would have been the better thing to do O_o In game 1 his build just had 0% chance of working so I'm not sure what he even was thinking, and in game 2 he played really bad. Game 1 was the worst one by far, it's the same insta-lose build he did vs Fantasy on Outsider, and the same thing happened today: insta-lose.
League of Legends EU West, Platinum III | Yousei Teikoku is the best thing that has ever happened to music.
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
May 29 2010 13:21 GMT
#2828
Fuck yeah FLASSHH
:)
12yearsofsc
Profile Joined May 2010
Greece30 Posts
May 29 2010 13:26 GMT
#2829
The power failure final wasn't so much hyped. And we saw some epic games b4 the failure. In this one player not being able to adapt to the same eco build 3 times. Like boxer vs yellow bunker rush.

And pf happened at the end of game 3 (Flash didn't know whether JD had 2 or 10 ultra coming to his base and the fact that his father overreacted, so as a programmer he should assume that the decision is right. He saw the whole thing after, so you can't assume that he was affected that much).

And don't forget, BW needed that final today to be great.
SilverSkyLark
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Philippines8437 Posts
May 29 2010 13:29 GMT
#2830
I came home and saw that the page count was low, so it ended 3-0....and fuck yeah I lb'ed it right!
Go Flash!
"If i lost an arm, I would play w3." -IntoTheWow || "Member of Hyuk Hyuk Hyuk cafe. He's the next Jaedong, baby!"
Senx
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Sweden5901 Posts
May 29 2010 13:36 GMT
#2831
+ Show Spoiler +
Damn that was quite anticlimatic...two of the best players in history of BW and it becomes this one sided, JD was just getting toyed with from the looks of it
Even though Flash is my favorite player, I wished the finals were closer than they were.
"trash micro but win - its marine" MC commentary during HSC 4
naneri
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Kyrgyzstan165 Posts
May 29 2010 13:39 GMT
#2832
Jaedong only wins MSL in seasons when Flash wins OSL, in all others if he gets to finals he loses with a 3:0 score to terrans whos' nick start with 'F', so this finals were easily predicted.
High APM is when your marine gets 3 stim packs instead of one.
Horiz0n
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Sweden364 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-29 13:42:56
May 29 2010 13:39 GMT
#2833
Flash Crits Fan-dong's for terrible terrible damage!

Sad it ended in 3 games

Reminds me a bit of ShinHan2005 OSL (July vs IloveOov) by being anticlimactic... Jaedong should pactice more against 14cc though
eNyoron
Profile Joined September 2009
United States170 Posts
May 29 2010 13:41 GMT
#2834
Jaedong played uncharacteristically poorly. He was also determined to just out power flash with mutas, even when Flash's build was designed against it.

Also, people aren't giving Effort the credit he really deserves. If you count the regame as a win for Effort (he was definitely ahead), he's 5-2 against Flash this month (and undefeated otherwise).

The proleague game was a long winded macro game with effort slowly deconstructing flash's mech build with superior tech switching, multitasking, unit control and map control.

Game 1 (that was redone): Flash did a valk build that bordered on cheesey, got scouted, and Effort handled it perfectly.

Game 3: Seeing a trend of 14ccs Effort cheeses and wins. This is his ONLY cheese win.

Game 4: Effort is wary of a cheese build since Flash is 2-1, so he sends his ovie to the middle. Reads Flash like a book. Dominates.

Game 5: Sees 14cc, transition from an econ heavy lair build into mass speedlings. Counters a cheese opening with the aggression that cheese opening is very weak to and wins the game.


So two (arguably three) of those games are Effort countering Flash's cheese build. 1 is Effort cheesing, and 1 (arguably 2) Flash style macro games where Effort still pulls out ahead. Also, a lot of people are saying that Effort wouldn't beat Flash in standard macro games (like the 3 Flash just decimated Jaedong with). Well DUH. That's Flash's specialty. It's like saying Flash couldn't beat Effort if all the games were 1base bio against 2 hatch lurker (or something like that).

Effort did not succeed where Jaedong failed because Flash was playing better in the MSL. Effort succeeded because he simply played the Bo5 better than Jaedong.
0sm9sm8sm... the beginning of the end.
Sadistx
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
May 29 2010 14:01 GMT
#2835
On May 29 2010 21:56 Bac wrote:
Poll: Most Disappointing Finals Ever?

No (87)
 
71%

Yes (36)
 
29%

123 total votes

Your vote: Most Disappointing Finals Ever?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No



You're out of your goddamn mind. Most disappointing finals was (Z)Calm vs (Z)Kwanro, it's not even a contest. Even the power outage was better than Calm vs Kwanro
Weasel-
Profile Joined June 2009
Canada1556 Posts
May 29 2010 14:01 GMT
#2836
This triple 14cc is on the same level as boxer's triple bunker rush. I think the 14cc is more fitting to flash's style though while the bunker rush is more to boxer's. But both defeated their main zerg rival in three straight games using signature builds.
BDK
Profile Joined May 2010
United States8 Posts
May 29 2010 14:04 GMT
#2837
On May 29 2010 22:41 eNyoron wrote:
Jaedong played uncharacteristically poorly. He was also determined to just out power flash with mutas, even when Flash's build was designed against it.

Also, people aren't giving Effort the credit he really deserves. If you count the regame as a win for Effort (he was definitely ahead), he's 5-2 against Flash this month (and undefeated otherwise).

The proleague game was a long winded macro game with effort slowly deconstructing flash's mech build with superior tech switching, multitasking, unit control and map control.

Game 1 (that was redone): Flash did a valk build that bordered on cheesey, got scouted, and Effort handled it perfectly.

Game 3: Seeing a trend of 14ccs Effort cheeses and wins. This is his ONLY cheese win.

Game 4: Effort is wary of a cheese build since Flash is 2-1, so he sends his ovie to the middle. Reads Flash like a book. Dominates.

Game 5: Sees 14cc, transition from an econ heavy lair build into mass speedlings. Counters a cheese opening with the aggression that cheese opening is very weak to and wins the game.


So two (arguably three) of those games are Effort countering Flash's cheese build. 1 is Effort cheesing, and 1 (arguably 2) Flash style macro games where Effort still pulls out ahead. Also, a lot of people are saying that Effort wouldn't beat Flash in standard macro games (like the 3 Flash just decimated Jaedong with). Well DUH. That's Flash's specialty. It's like saying Flash couldn't beat Effort if all the games were 1base bio against 2 hatch lurker (or something like that).

Effort did not succeed where Jaedong failed because Flash was playing better in the MSL. Effort succeeded because he simply played the Bo5 better than Jaedong.


This. I agree. I like how you analyzed what happen exactly, instead of blindly being like everyone else who only cares about the winner. The last sentences is very true.
StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
May 29 2010 14:04 GMT
#2838
On May 29 2010 23:01 Sadistx wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2010 21:56 Bac wrote:
Poll: Most Disappointing Finals Ever?

No (87)
 
71%

Yes (36)
 
29%

123 total votes

Your vote: Most Disappointing Finals Ever?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No



You're out of your goddamn mind. Most disappointing finals was (Z)Calm vs (Z)Kwanro, it's not even a contest. Even the power outage was better than Calm vs Kwanro


really how was this good? calm vs kwanro was soo much better
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
stolensheep
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom306 Posts
May 29 2010 14:06 GMT
#2839
GOOOOO FLASH! I knew you could do it! <3
twitter.com/stolensheeps
gravity
Profile Joined March 2004
Australia1988 Posts
May 29 2010 14:10 GMT
#2840
Really glad Flash won, I'm much happier than after the OSL :D. Surprised he won so smoothly too, I though it would be a struggle at best.
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