[ASL6] Grand Finals - Flash vs EffOrt - Page 45

On October 29 2018 03:51 reincremate wrote:
This was easily the best ASL finals we've witnessed so far, by a long shot. Shine's bag of tricks couldn't withstand Flash, nor could Hero's straightforward, solid ZvT, but man did Effort deliver beyond expectations. I doubt many predicted this finals would be this good. It's also worth nothing that this is the first ASL finals that wasn't a 3-1 or 3-0.

Interesting how Flash went 6-0 in TvP and 3-4 in TvZ this ASL (not including wildcard matches), ez-mode rolling both Mini and Shuttle while looking vulnerable against Jaedong and Effort. Way too small of a sample size to jump to hasty conclusions (would be better to look at sponmatch stats), but it's nonetheless really cool to see that at least on the big stage, zergs were able to exploit Flash's early-mid game vulnerabilites in TvZ with smart, ballsy play, which I think silences the idea that Flash's TvZ is broken and unbeatable due to 1-1-1 or some other tesagi shenanigans (at least when it matters most: in the finals of the currently most prestigious BW tournament). We should be grateful to both Effort and Flash for such an awesome finals. Even gods bleed.

On October 29 2018 03:51 reincremate wrote:This was easily the best ASL finals we've witnessed so far, by a long shot. Shine's bag of tricks couldn't withstand Flash, nor could Hero's straightforward, solid ZvT, but man did Effort deliver beyond expectations. I doubt many predicted this finals would be this good. It's also worth nothing that this is the first ASL finals that wasn't a 3-1 or 3-0.Interesting how Flash went 6-0 in TvP and 3-4 in TvZ this ASL (not including wildcard matches), ez-mode rolling both Mini and Shuttle while looking vulnerable against Jaedong and Effort. Way too small of a sample size to jump to hasty conclusions (would be better to look at sponmatch stats), but it's nonetheless really cool to see that at least on the big stage, zergs were able to exploit Flash's early-mid game vulnerabilites in TvZ with smart, ballsy play, which I think silences the idea that Flash's TvZ is broken and unbeatable due to 1-1-1 or some other tesagi shenanigans (at least when it matters most: in the finals of the currently most prestigious BW tournament). We should be grateful to both Effort and Flash for such an awesome finals. Even gods bleed.