Wow.

Wow.

Dude, I am so proud of both of the. Predicting soulkey by a slight to large by margin.... now I hope flash hasn't broken him for the ksl.

God damn crazy match.

NoS-Craig

Australia3124 Posts

May 21 2019 14:25 GMT

#46

I loved those last few games. Flash did so well last game with his wraith micro he was able to get up an easy third and starve out SK.

konadora

Singapore66358 Posts

May 21 2019 14:31 GMT

#47

damn

AttackZerg

United States7465 Posts

May 21 2019 14:32 GMT

#48

Flash did so many memorable awesome things this match..... he is the ultimate king of comebacks.

He went loco after the .... loss.

Just loco.

He made swarms look weak and ineffective... with mnm sci and tank LoL

Is bo9 a better format for titanic struggles?

I am so programmed by bo5 and bo7 that 0-3 felt... donezo and then Flash did his eye twitch killswitch engage thing .... and well you saw.

I think the way he lost and didn't leave in the FS game made Soulkey angry and counter to my read, he became impulsive and emotional.

This match highlighted the skill of a match player.
Flash found Soulkeys ideal middlegame and then never let him reach it again.

Total switch in styles. Flash mentaled his way through this. So impressed.

onlystar

United States971 Posts

May 21 2019 21:03 GMT

#49

match 8 flash vs soulkey on medusa... impossible game must watch

youtu.be best to watch from flash perspective to fully appreciate the scare resource management and complexity of the decision making

PVJ

Hungary5221 Posts

May 21 2019 22:37 GMT

#50

Game 2 would have been really interesting if Flash ends up teching to ghosts. Very good game nonetheless and it was so cool to see an infested CC as well.

Ideas

United States8148 Posts

May 23 2019 02:51 GMT

#51

Damn flash is so fucking good. Although I think SK totally blew that second medusa game by trying to base-trade instead of stalling for lurkers and fighting flash's main army. super props to him though for almost making a comeback like 3 times after that though haha. Every time I see a zerg try to doom drop vs flash (or most terrans most of the time) with mostly hydras it just always fails miserably and the zerg loses like 20-30 hydras and only kills like 2 turrets and maybe a depot and damages a couple other buildings.

Flash is just so fucking good at knowing exactly when to attack with the most minimal force possible. That game on Colosseum where he just attacks with like 5 marines and 5 gols and 2 valks holy shit. Or in the final game flash just barely manages to kill the only defiler and run past the swarm and take out that 3rd. That attack just shouldn't have fucking worked but flash is so damn good jeez.

SK played amazing those 1st 3 games (and most of the series) but then flash got into his head I think.

Is this series going to be KOTH style? Who is next? Would love to see snow, larva, rain, sharp, and last all get destroyed by flash too lol.

ggsimida

1148 Posts

May 23 2019 03:09 GMT

#52

next week is flash vs mini

kogeT

Poland2041 Posts

May 23 2019 06:45 GMT

#53

Honestly Flash vs SK felt like a stomp. First 3 games were just pure BO wins/full all in wins for SK, Flash wasn't even able to win these games (And Flash just played in SK hands).

Rest of the games were just stomps, incl. the medusa game where I believe Flash just went unorthodox for a bit of fun, he could have played more standard.

Interesting series though.

johnnydel

1 Post

May 24 2019 20:18 GMT

#54

Is it available on Xbox

M3t4PhYzX

Poland4228 Posts

May 24 2019 21:08 GMT

#55

so... what was the score of FlaSh vs Soulkey series?

nikolaus8844

111 Posts

May 27 2019 14:15 GMT

#56

Despite all the hype about SK... it's hard to me to see him up there with the all time greats. Just look closely at his face after a tough lose...... it tells the whole story. I'm pretty certain he doesn't have the substance to deal effectively with setbacks. Flash, being the 500 pound gorilla that he is, demonstrated that they are not at all the same caliber of players. Can't wait to see the same thing happen to Rain

PS: Can you imagine... the nerve.. the audacity as Klazart would say, to infest a CC and go 4-pooling immediately after that. He was basically begging to be spanked!

ortseam

996 Posts

May 27 2019 16:06 GMT

#57

Yeah it's easy to attribute SK's wins to "lucky BO wins", but when Flash wins in the same way (e.g. 8rax vs Jaedong in his prime) or counters opponents by reading them well, it's all about being smart and one step ahead of his opponent.

ii.blitzkrieg

Canada1122 Posts

May 27 2019 17:09 GMT

#58

There's probably some confirmation bias in there sure, but it also depends on who wins the series. If soulkey got some bo wins and then proceeds to lose in a very one sided fashion. It doesn't make a lot of sense to say soulkey was reading flash and anticipating his next moves when he then got smashed 6 games in a row

If it was a bo5 in ASL finals or something and soulkey won 3-0 like that it would be viewed very differently