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lone_hydra
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada1460 Posts
May 29 2010 16:04 GMT
#2861
People who say finals are awesome are pretty much Flash fanboys trying to hype his win.
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adamisuber
Profile Joined January 2010
Canada35 Posts
May 29 2010 16:07 GMT
#2862
On May 30 2010 00:10 Scaramanga wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.

lol? is this a joke?


Jesus I hope so. That was the most biased game "review" I've read in awhile.
If it flash's build "bordered on cheesy" why did Flash use the same build against Jaedong and win game 2? I don't even know how you can believe what you're writing. Effort cheesed his way to victory, jaedong should have changed his play

PIDERMAN
Insight
Profile Joined December 2009
19 Posts
May 29 2010 16:13 GMT
#2863
On May 29 2010 22:17 Shikyo wrote:
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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:
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.


the game was over when he failed to kill the bunker first time around, you dont come back after failing to bust nat vs 14 cc, specially when you don't do any damage at all and even more so against flash

he knew that only shot has has is ending the game in second weave and he was well aware that the chance of success is like 5% tops
eNtitY~
Profile Joined January 2007
United States1293 Posts
May 29 2010 16:14 GMT
#2864
On May 30 2010 01:04 lone_hydra wrote:
People who say finals are awesome are pretty much Flash fanboys trying to hype his win.


People who say they weren't are Jaedong fanboys trying to discourage others from watching it
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dukethegold
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada5645 Posts
May 29 2010 16:18 GMT
#2865
Well, I am glad that I didn't stay up for this.
Deathfate
Profile Joined November 2008
Spain555 Posts
May 29 2010 16:21 GMT
#2866
+ Show Spoiler +
As a jaedong fan this was painful to watch, game 1 was ok, i think game 2 was totally in flash favor since he went valkirie and MnM vs only muta but was super risky, if jaedong had opened lurkers it would have been the oposite. Game 3 was a fail, i dont know if it were the maps or what but jaedong underperformed compared to the last final. Hope he gets his infuriate feelings and make a super come back in the next one if it ever exists. GG flash
Feel the power of the zerg swarm.
Insight
Profile Joined December 2009
19 Posts
May 29 2010 16:21 GMT
#2867
On May 29 2010 23:26 12yearsofsc wrote:
Well the facts until now.

Flash promotes the cheesy eco terran builds (14cc or rax FE) and shows terran players how this builds can be safe than risky.

Result: A large number of terrans follow this build this season and we have a lot of them qualifying. (They don't get to the finals because you need +skill also).

Games until now show that Flash's build can be beaten only by exception by protoss and zerg. In other words 90% of the time if you fail to harass against terran you lose because of their ability to be stronger on same bases.

If the maps continue to provide a safe 2nd terran expansion at the very start (going fast pool or double proxy barracks being the only counter and that also risky) then we are talking about a new terran era.

Between same skill zerg, terran, protoss and with the same luck terran will prevail.

Effort played much more skillfully than Flash in the finals only to get a close 3-2. If the skill was race reversed we should see an easy 3-0.

Losing in the first assault terrans can bunker down and get a 2nd or even 3rd chance in the game. The other 2 races are so fragile that losing in the first assault results to instant loss.

I won't expand to specific details about races but really i would like to see some 2 clear entrance bases or large openings on natural expansion


for well being of human race I hope you don't reproduce
shalafi
Profile Joined July 2008
394 Posts
May 29 2010 16:25 GMT
#2868
On May 30 2010 01:14 eNtitY~ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2010 01:04 lone_hydra wrote:
People who say finals are awesome are pretty much Flash fanboys trying to hype his win.


People who say they weren't are Jaedong fanboys trying to discourage others from watching it


Ugh no, the series were bad. I also said that the last MSL were JD 3-1 Flash were bad.
Exteray
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1094 Posts
May 29 2010 16:26 GMT
#2869
good decision to go to sleep at 2-0
Nal_rAwr
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2611 Posts
May 29 2010 16:31 GMT
#2870
If its Jaedong vs Flash, its going to have lots of games.
If its a Bo5, then its Jaedong

Thats what the poll results said

1. 3-2 JD
2. 3-2 Flash
3. 3-1 JD
4. 3-1 Flash
5. 3-0 JD
6. 3-0 Flash
This was the results of the poll before the games were over

lol how the least-voted result was the actual results
Nony is Bonjwa
reincremate
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
China2216 Posts
May 29 2010 16:32 GMT
#2871
The series was decent as games 1 and 3 all contained tense moments and plenty of action. Not the best MSL, but better than the lame finals that was Nate, what with the lack of a power outage, a lame game 1 loss to muta harass, a failed guardian game/turtle with sunken game and a failed early game desperation attack game.
DreaM)XeRO
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Korea (South)4667 Posts
May 29 2010 16:32 GMT
#2872
wow.... 3 14 cc's...
wow
cw)minsean(ru
dogabutila
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1438 Posts
May 29 2010 16:36 GMT
#2873
Boring finals. Looks like JD didn't get any sleep. Nothing special from either player.



// Looks like plexa got an excuse to keep Flash #1 on power rankings now.
Baller Fanclub || CheAse Fanclub || Scarlett Fanclub || LJD FIGHTING!
InTheFade
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1721 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-29 16:41:50
May 29 2010 16:39 GMT
#2874
So I just watched the VODs one-by-one so as not to spoil myself...

...

...

Ouch! LoL

Flash 14 CCed in all three games and Jaedong didn't punish him for it once.
Flash actually went valks in the second game and won... with valks, people.
Jaedong completely threw in the towel when he went up against that wall with 3/4 tanks behind it. Those last two attacks were pitiful.

This was almost as bad of a rape as the Arena MSL finals. Well done, Flash. Well done.

But seriously, have you noticed the things that always get him killed by zergs (valk builds, 14 cc, one-of-everything build, mech) all freaking worked? Jaedong wasn't all that aggressive and it played perfectly into Flash's hands, somehow that guy knew he was safe each game.

Amazing.

Flash looked so happy.

... Knowmsayin'?
TwoToneTerran
Profile Joined March 2009
United States8841 Posts
May 29 2010 16:43 GMT
#2875
On May 30 2010 01:25 shalafi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2010 01:14 eNtitY~ wrote:
On May 30 2010 01:04 lone_hydra wrote:
People who say finals are awesome are pretty much Flash fanboys trying to hype his win.


People who say they weren't are Jaedong fanboys trying to discourage others from watching it


Ugh no, the series were bad. I also said that the last MSL were JD 3-1 Flash were bad.


Hahaha holy crap did you even watch the last MSL's games? Up until the Power Outage it was fucking amazing.
Remember Violet.
shalafi
Profile Joined July 2008
394 Posts
May 29 2010 16:49 GMT
#2876
On May 30 2010 01:43 TwoToneTerran wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2010 01:25 shalafi wrote:
On May 30 2010 01:14 eNtitY~ wrote:
On May 30 2010 01:04 lone_hydra wrote:
People who say finals are awesome are pretty much Flash fanboys trying to hype his win.


People who say they weren't are Jaedong fanboys trying to discourage others from watching it


Ugh no, the series were bad. I also said that the last MSL were JD 3-1 Flash were bad.


Hahaha holy crap did you even watch the last MSL's games? Up until the Power Outage it was fucking amazing.


Of course. But what's your rating of them? I rate them bad because Flash couldn't show all his potential after the mess. And neither did JD.

I didn't say "They were amazing" just because JD won, even if I'm a JD fan.
Ace
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States16096 Posts
May 29 2010 16:51 GMT
#2877
On May 29 2010 18:40 Hot_Bid wrote:
Flash deserved his MSL

Effort deserved his OSL

Whiners, stfu.



Oh I can't wait to see Effort as #2 on the next Power Rank ^_^
Math me up, scumboi. - Acrofales
EntertainMe
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
864 Posts
May 29 2010 16:52 GMT
#2878
On May 30 2010 00:10 Scaramanga wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.

lol? is this a joke?


I really hope so...

Jaedong did not try to outpower Flash. If you really believe this... then you are also claiming every single zerg user who starts with muta build is trying to outpower terran, and therefore, "playing uncharacteristically poorly".

Jaedong tried to counter Flash's build by harrassing and by doing so, keep Flash in his base. Because Flash was going for Valk, thus lack of turrets, for a player with godly control, it was not a bad move at the given situation. By keeping Flash in his base, or at least delaying his attack. Jaedong could run his 2nd expansion and make transition into different tech alot more smooth than changing his whole army only after realizing Flash is going valk.

Also Jaedong still could've won in that game if the scourges killed the valks right away instead of circling once then attacking, making mutas take more damage than it should have. With that small mistake (can't really call it a mistake, but for the lack of term), the battle became a horrible fight.


Also Effort is getting all the credit he deserves, which shouldn't be as much as what Flash deserve for winning this MSL. Flash had to prepare for both leagues and while one of them is against his rival and arguably the best player in the world along with Flash. Also many are speculating that Flash held back playing against Effort to save some of his plan against his rival, Jaedong. But that's only speculations.

But from the tone of your writing, I can tell that you're neither Jaedong or Effort fan, you seem more like Flash-hater fan. Your view can not be more corrupted or twisted.
TheTeamLiquidTiger
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States627 Posts
May 29 2010 16:53 GMT
#2879
WOW........total domination
Flash is just........a machine...........
SlayerS_BoxeR FTW ///// Long live the Emperor
hitthat
Profile Joined January 2010
Poland2349 Posts
May 29 2010 16:56 GMT
#2880
why the hell some zergs crying "Imba" when their favorite player is beaten? Zerg and terran are quite balanced.

In other hand, this season protoss are in big trouble. Last year i thouth that was sligth T<P, now i think its rather T>>>P and Z>>>>>>>>>>P. It's said by the guy who LOVES terran and "gay" builds. I hope it's just a short trend and Protoss will recover soon.
Shameless BroodWar separatistic, elitist, fanaticaly devoted puritan fanboy.
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