[ASL8] Ro16 Group C

hoping stork and snow

On July 28 2019 21:56 Wonk wrote:
Glad that sk's spot isn't wasted regardless. Hope he advances so we get all the 3rd place players back for a shot

Rush, larva, best, Sacsri/horang2 would all make good additions to the ro8

On July 28 2019 22:02 TaardadAiel wrote:

Would be a bit strange for the competition in his own group to have a shot at his place.

On July 29 2019 02:10 N.geNuity wrote:


the hell, what is this, a game for ants

learned today that rain is some psychopath

On July 29 2019 13:46 TornadoSteve wrote:
It was in game 2, and they showed the replay after the commercial break.

The attack was "failed" because Rain was busy with that scarab when he saw bunch of probes coming back to the main.

On July 29 2019 01:33 outscar wrote:
I fucking love those scarab RNGs, imagine how dull and one sided games would be if one scarab destroyed all mineral line.

On July 29 2019 16:02 Turbovolver wrote:

It's not RNG, scarabs simply fail if they take too long before they blow up. This is why pros will grab all their probes and run them away, despite the fact that it groups them up and creates those moments that look like they're all going to blow up. So long as the scarab takes too long to reach them, it will dud. There's still some "randomness" in whether the scarab gets stuck on buildings, etc, but that as well could be theoretically played around by someone with a good understanding for how they tend to move. Probably matters a lot which probe is targetted too, because I imagine a scarab can get stuck on the "back" probe while trying to reach a "middle" probe in the train.

Artosis seems to have finally picked up on this after years of casting haha, he mentioned it in the casting for these games, whereas previously it's always been "oh my god oh my god will it will it... oh no, dud scarab!".

On July 30 2019 02:16 kidcrash wrote:
Did you guys notice either artosis or tasteless saying that the next group is "soulkey's last televised pro match"? I knew he was going to the military but people were saying he could delay until end of asl. Is this information confirmed? How will they replace his spot if he advances?

On July 29 2019 22:20 outscar wrote:


True, Artosis isn't losing his shit as before. I remember my ears exploded by Tastosis on ASL1 finals when Shuttle was wrecking Sharp's main and natural.

Also, BeSt is unlickiest player with glitches working against him. On ASL7 ro16 decider match vs. Mind, terran planted mines to his main, BeSt got obs but his goons glitched and triggered mines, he lost almost all probes thus got eliminated. This all series he was unlucky with his 2 gate center proxy because Rain glitched out contained goon perfectly. Then on his first game vs. SnOw his probes got stuck behind assimilator, what was that, 7-8 probes that were dancing?