On December 08 2010 20:13 radadaundandan wrote: I am afraid that Kal just woke the sleeping lion. Flash is gonna get so motivated this season... 4 OSL incoming!
sleeping? ))) I think Flash works even harder to be in such form, these victories that look so easy for us, cost a lot more hard work than we may imagine
On December 08 2010 20:08 Womwomwom wrote: Rather risky move to go for a base trade like that, did Flash ever know about Kal's 11 o'clock? Never seemed like it from his actions anyway.
I don't think so. It would explain why he kept his forces at Kal's natural instead of defending. If he knew that Kal had another expo, the strategy didn't make sense.
Pretty sure he knew Kal had that expo ... there's nothing he can do about that expo at that location. The strategy still makes sense when in theory you take out two bases with that push but one problem was that Flash didn't micro and kill off Kal's third the first time and had to go back and kill it later.
Yeah, but why didn't he bring back his forces to defend against the carriers? They were doing nothing patrolling the center for a long time.
Seems like once the Carriers get in you have very little chance of ever killing them. Flash never achieved the critical mass and upgrades necessary to kill interceptors quickly. Maybe he was just hoping Kal would roll back and he'd catch some Carriers?
Flash really shouldn't have gone for that first trade when it was 3 base vs 3 base. Had he just macroed up for a few production rounds he would have had it. Even so, he so rarely makes mistakes that I'm happy to have it happen in the group stages and not later.
On December 08 2010 20:17 HopLight wrote: Flash really shouldn't have gone for that first trade when it was 3 base vs 3 base. Had he just macroed up for a few production rounds he would have had it. Even so, he so rarely makes mistakes that I'm happy to have it happen in the group stages and not later.
Base trading almost never works out for Terran in TvP though. It's so much easier for Protoss to just keep making units and eventually break any contain. It was a tough situation no matter what ... not often that you see Flash successfully pull off a hidden expo (he had it basically the entire game) and still lose.
On December 08 2010 20:17 HopLight wrote: Flash really shouldn't have gone for that first trade when it was 3 base vs 3 base. Had he just macroed up for a few production rounds he would have had it. Even so, he so rarely makes mistakes that I'm happy to have it happen in the group stages and not later.
Base trading almost never works out for Terran in TvP though. It's so much easier for Protoss to just keep making units and eventually break any contain. It was a tough situation no matter what ... not often that you see Flash successfully pull off a hidden expo (he had it basically the entire game) and still lose.
It was weird to watch. I was thinking "refugee Terran ... I've never heard of that." I guess there is a reason.
On December 08 2010 20:17 HopLight wrote: Flash really shouldn't have gone for that first trade when it was 3 base vs 3 base. Had he just macroed up for a few production rounds he would have had it. Even so, he so rarely makes mistakes that I'm happy to have it happen in the group stages and not later.
Keep thinking you understand this game better than flash -.-