[SWL] SK Telecom T1 vs KT Rolster - Page 79

On March 17 2011 09:02 Djabanete wrote:
Fantasy was a good person to send out first. His odds against Flash are not good, but his odds against the rest of KT are decent (he decisively won his last encounter with Stats); SKT sent him in a such a way as to give him a chance to rack up kills without encountering Flash until after he'd won 2 or 3 games. (And if Flash came out sooner, then so much the better for SKT --- they have good protosses who were presumably prepared to try to snipe him.)

Bisu was probably sent to eliminate Stats and pave the way for a Flash snipe. SKT coaching probably figured that Stats is consistent enough to not be worth wasting weaker players on; Bisu has good odds against Stats and slim odds against Flash, while Best has poor odds against Stats and equally slim odds against Flash. It makes sense to send a superior player against a consistent player (yes, I still think Bisu is overall superior to Stats, for now; I'd bet on Bisu in a rematch), ensuring as many chances as possible against Flash. I'm assuming that Coach Park had a lot of confidence in Bisu, and Bisu's late GG timing reflected that he was really being depended on to win the match. Bisu is a great player and has done great in WL so it wasn't unreasonable.

After Bisu was gone, SKT just had to send people that would have a shot at beating Flash. Sun is a promising rookie and Best was their last hope. All of SKT's line-up choices were defensible --- the problem was really quite simple, that SKT's 4 best players all lost. It happens.