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[ASL5] Ro8 Flash vs Snow - Page 27

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Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
May 01 2018 12:42 GMT
#521
On May 01 2018 21:41 Essbee wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2018 21:40 rackdude wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:38 Essbee wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:37 leublix wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:31 Mnijykmirl wrote:
doesn't it just seem like a great terran player just lost due to maps more than anything else? snow played very well but it felt like I just watched the true grandmaster get taken down because of an unfair fight

Flash lost on the most standard map and won on the most P favored one.


lol yeah third world is such a balanced map /s


Yeah, it's definitely not. 44% PvT in sponmatches? It's too T favored to be in a proper map pool... good thing Snow overcame imbalance!


with preparation there's no way this map is balanced, arbiters and carriers are way too effective, as proven in this bo5.

The massive sample size of literally 2 games definitely overwhelms all the sponsored PvTs played on the map :o
"Technically the dictionary has zero authority on the meaning or words" - Rodya
_Animus_
Profile Joined February 2011
Bulgaria1064 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-05-01 12:43:57
May 01 2018 12:43 GMT
#522
Im curious to see what the map order is gonna be in the next matchup ro4
Luv ya BroodWar!
Turbovolver
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia2394 Posts
May 01 2018 12:43 GMT
#523
On May 01 2018 21:41 Essbee wrote:
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On May 01 2018 21:40 Turbovolver wrote:
Hahahaha this was the stat I was hoping for. Their tears are so delicious.


No tears, I was actually cheering for snow, but nice try

Oh, there's plenty of tears to enjoy in here regardless of how many are yours, friend.
The original Bogus fan.
Peeano
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Netherlands5187 Posts
May 01 2018 12:43 GMT
#524
That was almost as GREAT as the Jangbi vs Fantasy final. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. And now it's time to unsub this thread.
FBH #1!
Essbee
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada2371 Posts
May 01 2018 12:44 GMT
#525
On May 01 2018 21:42 Ej_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2018 21:41 Essbee wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:40 rackdude wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:38 Essbee wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:37 leublix wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:31 Mnijykmirl wrote:
doesn't it just seem like a great terran player just lost due to maps more than anything else? snow played very well but it felt like I just watched the true grandmaster get taken down because of an unfair fight

Flash lost on the most standard map and won on the most P favored one.


lol yeah third world is such a balanced map /s


Yeah, it's definitely not. 44% PvT in sponmatches? It's too T favored to be in a proper map pool... good thing Snow overcame imbalance!


with preparation there's no way this map is balanced, arbiters and carriers are way too effective, as proven in this bo5.

The massive sample size of literally 2 games definitely overwhelms all the sponsored PvTs played on the map :o


meh, it kind of does, i am not one for stats, I think it was clear third world was a protoss map for this bo5 and snow's playstyle, but okay, I guess flash just sucks?
[[Starlight]]
Profile Joined December 2013
United States1578 Posts
May 01 2018 12:44 GMT
#526
I need an IV drip.
User was warned for being hilarious
StylishVODs
Profile Joined December 2005
Sweden5331 Posts
May 01 2018 12:45 GMT
#527
Imo Flash threw the game on gladiator. He was even suply with 3-2 vs 1-0 but let continuous single reavers shut him down due to zero defense. If he had taken that this would have been 3-1.

Third world is just too rough. It's basically a map that is really good for carriers except that terran can't move its units around. I dont really see any non-cheesy way to win that map straight up. Even Flash, god of TvP, had to rely on sneaky hidden exp in both games on third world.
According to Reach, he is the fastest learner he has ever seen. He start bw only like 2/3 years ago. Infact, his bw history knowledge is so limited, he didn't even know what the map Guillotine was.
Essbee
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada2371 Posts
May 01 2018 12:46 GMT
#528
On May 01 2018 21:45 StylishVODs wrote:
Imo Flash threw the game on gladiator. He was even suply with 3-2 vs 1-0 but let continuous single reavers shut him down due to zero defense. If he had taken that this would have been 3-1.

Third world is just too rough. It's basically a map that is really good for carriers except that terran can't move its units around. I dont really see any non-cheesy way to win that map straight up. Even Flash, god of TvP, had to rely on sneaky hidden exp in both games on third world.


apparently it's a terran favored map lol, guess the stats says it all!
Turbovolver
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia2394 Posts
May 01 2018 12:46 GMT
#529
Snow started out with a masterstroke that caused Flash to lose all of his tanks and have a significantly delayed natural expansion. His desperation hidden base was discovered before it earned him too much of an advantage. He was thrown off his game from the beginning and it cannot be too much of a surprise he eventually lost, regardless of what did him in. When you say "how could the mighty Flash lose on this map if it's not imba", this is why. He was lucky he clawed his way back into it at all.
The original Bogus fan.
Snorkels
Profile Joined May 2011
United States1015 Posts
May 01 2018 12:46 GMT
#530
gg

Snow on the final recall: "that was me going all-in. I was not thinking about what was next."
YPang
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States4024 Posts
May 01 2018 12:47 GMT
#531
On May 01 2018 21:46 Snorkels wrote:
gg

Snow on the final recall: "that was me going all-in. I was not thinking about what was next."

That's the exact mindset of all ladder protoss players
sMi.Gladstone | BW: B high| SC2: gold T_T
jtan
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden5891 Posts
May 01 2018 12:48 GMT
#532
I feel like snow deserves this ASL title now, I'll cheer for him although I still think he's the underdog vs hero.
Enter a Uh
Essbee
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada2371 Posts
May 01 2018 12:48 GMT
#533
On May 01 2018 21:48 jtan wrote:
I feel like snow deserves this ASL title now, I'll cheer for him although I still think he's the underdog vs hero.


he's 100% an underdog vs hero, not even close, we better hope he gets a pvp against rain if he wins vs mini.
Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
May 01 2018 12:49 GMT
#534
On May 01 2018 21:48 jtan wrote:
I feel like snow deserves this ASL title now, I'll cheer for him although I still think he's the underdog vs hero.

I think Snow is like 0:5 vs Zerg in ASL :D. Undefeated vs T and P tho.
"Technically the dictionary has zero authority on the meaning or words" - Rodya
AnarchisticObi1
Profile Joined June 2017
19 Posts
May 01 2018 12:49 GMT
#535
i dont think that even snow doubts the fact that Flash is the best and he is well aware of the fact, that ASL "rigged" the game against flash.
come on it is even called turn around flash put hell of the fight and the serie was awesome. lets hope that hero will win so we have pvz finals and not pvp..
[sc1f]eonzerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Belgium6740 Posts
May 01 2018 12:49 GMT
#536
God is dead.we need a hero!
StylishVODs
Profile Joined December 2005
Sweden5331 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-05-01 12:52:27
May 01 2018 12:51 GMT
#537
On May 01 2018 21:42 Ej_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2018 21:41 Essbee wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:40 rackdude wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:38 Essbee wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:37 leublix wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:31 Mnijykmirl wrote:
doesn't it just seem like a great terran player just lost due to maps more than anything else? snow played very well but it felt like I just watched the true grandmaster get taken down because of an unfair fight

Flash lost on the most standard map and won on the most P favored one.


lol yeah third world is such a balanced map /s


Yeah, it's definitely not. 44% PvT in sponmatches? It's too T favored to be in a proper map pool... good thing Snow overcame imbalance!


with preparation there's no way this map is balanced, arbiters and carriers are way too effective, as proven in this bo5.

The massive sample size of literally 2 games definitely overwhelms all the sponsored PvTs played on the map :o

Well you can theory-craft as well.

Map is good for carriers for example. So what can terran do?

1) goliaths. but this map doesnt allow goliaths to defend vs carriers without dropships.
2) dropships + goliaths. the map doesn't allow for that kind of playstyle (which for example Sparke does)
3) wraiths. map doesn't allow for wraith play vs protoss on this map due to its half standard nature.

Map is good for arbiters, mainly due to the mobility it offers, mobility that the map doesn't allow for terran without heavy dropship play and we already see that the map isn't great for heavy dropship play.

Given that these two late game strategies are viable (with carriers being the best option in my opinion). Terran seems to have to do one of two things:

1) early win.
2) some sort of cheese (floating stuff, hidden expos)

Early win is really hard due to the distance between the mains and the small choke.
Cheese, well it's an option but it's always harder on two player maps, at least for terran.

Through this reasoning you get more information about the map than you get from watching two games I think...
According to Reach, he is the fastest learner he has ever seen. He start bw only like 2/3 years ago. Infact, his bw history knowledge is so limited, he didn't even know what the map Guillotine was.
rackdude
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States882 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-05-01 12:56:32
May 01 2018 12:53 GMT
#538
On May 01 2018 21:42 Ej_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2018 21:41 Essbee wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:40 rackdude wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:38 Essbee wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:37 leublix wrote:
On May 01 2018 21:31 Mnijykmirl wrote:
doesn't it just seem like a great terran player just lost due to maps more than anything else? snow played very well but it felt like I just watched the true grandmaster get taken down because of an unfair fight

Flash lost on the most standard map and won on the most P favored one.


lol yeah third world is such a balanced map /s


Yeah, it's definitely not. 44% PvT in sponmatches? It's too T favored to be in a proper map pool... good thing Snow overcame imbalance!


with preparation there's no way this map is balanced, arbiters and carriers are way too effective, as proven in this bo5.

The massive sample size of literally 2 games definitely overwhelms all the sponsored PvTs played on the map :o


Flash just didn't play the map. I don't know how people are overlooking that. Third World is amazing for early T pushes. Using that to grab a lead and then getting a simple third to take the whole right side makes this map have a really high T winrate. Flash tried that in game 1 and lost to micro. As the series went on, he went less Flash-like and started to crawl back into his "standard" instead of playing specifically for every game. In the final game, he played it defensively which is exactly what the map is not good for. Of course, being unbreakable is Flash's MO, but it's also Snow's MO to break defenses. So Flash deliberately did not use his map advantage in order to play where he felt comfortable, and Snow utilized his style (which is well suited for the map in a way that most P are not) to take control of the game.

Flash went in thinking he had 100% on Sparkle against all of the stats, and that proved true. He went in with racial stats on his side on Third World. He went in with great stats on Gladiator. Transistor was his thorn, and he vetoed it. He lost the maps he should've won, and pulled a few victories out with finesse. But in the end, the stats were still on his side yet Snow just played a beautiful series.
Sweet.
Turbovolver
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia2394 Posts
May 01 2018 12:54 GMT
#539
Precisely. The maps rigged against Flash were the ones he won. The tiny ramp on Third World is just lovely for siege tanks.
The original Bogus fan.
YPang
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States4024 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-05-01 12:57:19
May 01 2018 12:56 GMT
#540
ASL maps, clearly all Terran favored, but only mind and flash made it through. I guess terran players are just bad and lazy, people who play protoss are just better...
sMi.Gladstone | BW: B high| SC2: gold T_T
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