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chongu
Malaysia2600 Posts
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mtcn77
Turkey729 Posts
On September 09 2025 09:53 Stopthevirtualaddict wrote: How so? He literally was ahead in every game he played. With quite a margin. First game straight build order win with overlord even scouting efforts hidden base. Somehow didnt see it, eventhough we see in the life casting his screen switching to that overlord, creep visibile and suddenly send exactly at that point, on the height of the hatch his overlord to the right side back home or whatever. Even than 2nd game vs effort again literally quite ahead. Sees everything with overlord has build advantage decides to do a mass ling flood on a map with a tiny choke. Than gifts mutas randomly. Vs barracks barracks does nothing and goes for valk push, the thing that literally vs popular 6-5 seasons ago. I honestly thought barracks was a moron for playing literally the easiest game for SK, the anti terran late game god. But SK didnt even show up… Even efforts game was strange, strange sunken placements … I dont know what is going this season, but i find more than strange, the games we are having, like this isnt normal anymore… You have to understand he took the graceful fall. Notice, the worst thing that could happen right now is a Bo7 final game decider on Roaring Currents like in ASL 15. I think he didn't want his reputation tarnished. High level Starcraft is mostly mental fortitude and looks like Soulkey is afraid of losing in finals more than losing in brackets. He didn't want a rollercoaster of emotions on stage. | ||
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CHEONSOYUN
606 Posts
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Lazyer
United States388 Posts
i fucked my LB but at least my heart is winning rn | ||
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polgas
Canada1786 Posts
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BisuDagger
Bisutopia19369 Posts
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Miragee
8688 Posts
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Stopthevirtualaddict
49 Posts
On September 09 2025 10:46 mtcn77 wrote: You have to understand he took the graceful fall. Notice, the worst thing that could happen right now is a Bo7 final game decider on Roaring Currents like in ASL 15. I think he didn't want his reputation tarnished. High level Starcraft is mostly mental fortitude and looks like Soulkey is afraid of losing in finals more than losing in brackets. He didn't want a rollercoaster of emotions on stage. Well, his reputation is tarnished right now… 4 in row champion cant even build sunken in time, Loses every game, in a group he created… Cant micro Mutas vs Scouarge. Fell a sleep in the games. You could even claim he was matchfixing, but even a matchfixer wouldnt throw as hard as this. Which means this was his condition. If he wouldnt want to tarnish himself, he should have not participated in this Asl. Which is crazy to say… I guess the wisedom is everthing goes away. | ||
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Simplistik
2146 Posts
On September 09 2025 21:49 Miragee wrote: How the fuck did Soulkey not see Effort's expansion in game 1? He even pulled back the overlord right when the observer showed that the creep was visible to him.... I can only assume he pulled back the overlord without seeing the creep. I personally think that's understandable. What is harder to justify is how long it took him to realise that there must be an expansion somewhere. He misread the game state rather badly. | ||
Peeano
Netherlands5684 Posts
On September 10 2025 12:25 Simplistik wrote: I can only assume he pulled back the overlord without seeing the creep. I personally think that's understandable. What is harder to justify is how long it took him to realise that there must be an expansion somewhere. He misread the game state rather badly. This 100% I always feel it's funny when a pro needs to confirm it by scouting it and then even reacting like they got tricked. A hidden 4th can easily go unnoticed and make you lose the game, a 3rd likewise to a lesser degree, but a 2nd - especially in the case of ZvZ - you shouldn't be suprised by even if it's hidden. | ||
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Sabu113
United States11089 Posts
We all know this is the legend of the Fall. Snow/Mini go do the thing. | ||
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mtcn77
Turkey729 Posts
On September 11 2025 05:21 Sabu113 wrote: We all know this is the legend of the Fall. Seriously, whomever started it I'm a cult follower from now on. | ||
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TMNT
3247 Posts
On September 09 2025 21:49 Miragee wrote: How the fuck did Soulkey not see Effort's expansion in game 1? He even pulled back the overlord right when the observer showed that the creep was visible to him.... This is the case where spamming apm at the beginning of the game actually hurts you, I believe. Go watch progamers' FPVOD at the beginning of a game and you can see how many box selecting and screen jumping they do. One move they often do is switch to the scouting worker/overlord for a split second and jump back to their main. You can see at that moment that Soulkey had his screen on the overlord for half a second then switched back to his nat, probably to move command the overlord back there. He probably didn't look at the left side of his screen during that moment at all to catch the creep, and the idea of scouting that base never crossed his mind, so he never went back to look at the fog of war again. Simple as that. | ||
IntoTheWow
is awesome32278 Posts
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Katkishka
United States658 Posts
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NoS-Craig
Australia3152 Posts
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prototype.
Canada4215 Posts
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goody153
44282 Posts
Barracks as #1 seed and Effort eliminating Soulkey in a 2-0 ?!?!?!?!??? Insane results. And it aint even fluke like Soulkey got super outplayed for 3 games he lost. If soulkey wasnt eliminated here I would've just assumed he would take this ASL championship again. Now things get exciting again. Snow might actually win this time around | ||
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RJBTVYOUTUBE
Netherlands1266 Posts
On September 10 2025 22:58 Peeano wrote: This 100% I always feel it's funny when a pro needs to confirm it by scouting it and then even reacting like they got tricked. A hidden 4th can easily go unnoticed and make you lose the game, a 3rd likewise to a lesser degree, but a 2nd - especially in the case of ZvZ - you shouldn't be suprised by even if it's hidden. Soulkey's vision box did switch to the overlord for a second. He should have seen it. But chances are he jumped vision box to the overlord, but was looking at the minimap, not at the screen itself. Or he wanted to hide his knowledge of that expo from Effort for reasons, and it backfired. Tough to call but odds are in favor of him having missed it. | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22484 Posts
On September 11 2025 18:15 RJBTVYOUTUBE wrote: If he knew about the expo he would have attacked it when he had Effort boxed into his base with zerglings.Soulkey's vision box did switch to the overlord for a second. He should have seen it. But chances are he jumped vision box to the overlord, but was looking at the minimap, not at the screen itself. Or he wanted to hide his knowledge of that expo from Effort for reasons, and it backfired. Tough to call but odds are in favor of him having missed it. That was the perfect moment. | ||
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