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On April 27 2026 20:13 FlaShFTW wrote:Show nested quote +On April 27 2026 20:11 Zografa wrote:
man, soma trashed hero so hard or maybe the right way to say this is hero trashed himself Hero could’ve just not woken up today and forfeited, and it would’ve been better than whatever this was. 12h to an outside base in direct scouting path for soma is maybe the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen tbh.
It's not direct scouting path though:
I guess the idea is to trick Soma into thinking he goes 1 base and that location for a hidden Hatch is least expected and to be fair Soma didn't realize it at the beginning. He lost the game because Soma hid his lings so well, not because of that Hatch. If the Hatch was close, he might mitigate the early damage, but would still lose.
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On April 27 2026 20:55 Maks wrote:
Hero can’t play ZvZ or ZvT at a high level. ZvP isn’t enough to win StarLeague.
ASL4 begs to differ
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That's a rather long time ago now...
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On April 27 2026 21:02 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:Show nested quote +On April 27 2026 20:55 Maks wrote:
Hero can’t play ZvZ or ZvT at a high level. ZvP isn’t enough to win StarLeague. ASL4 begs to differ
It’s more about the randomness of ZvZ. Right now, his ZvZ win rate is below 50% (30–31). That’s not champion material. His vsT is at 50%, but his ZvP is ~64.5% - way better than the other two matchups.
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On April 27 2026 21:22 Maks wrote:Show nested quote +On April 27 2026 21:02 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:On April 27 2026 20:55 Maks wrote:
Hero can’t play ZvZ or ZvT at a high level. ZvP isn’t enough to win StarLeague. ASL4 begs to differ It’s more about the randomness of ZvZ. Right now, his ZvZ win rate is below 50% (30–31). That’s not champion material. His vsT is at 50%, but his ZvP is ~64.5% - way better than the other two matchups.
ok but this is not what you said in your original post. All you said is that he can't play ZvZ at a high level.
you also said that ZvP is not enough to win ASL. Check ASL20 playoffs bracket
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The poor host and commentators tried to pad this out to 2 hours but couldn't. Even with the 20-minute pre-show and the 15-minute breaks between games, this was still under 90 minutes.
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As would be virtually any other ZvZ ending 3:0. Hero even fantasy gged to make it longer  And we had one longer game. Hive is a pipe dream without a patch. Even 3:2 wouldn't be very long. What was the viewership like? Normally, ZvZ is skipped by many.
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On April 27 2026 20:08 FlaShFTW wrote:
Might legitimately the worst ZvZ performance in a BoX that I’ve ever seen in brood war. I mean this was horrible from hero.
My thoughts exactly after I watched the vod. Have I ever seen a worse Bo5? xD
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On April 27 2026 16:09 a-game wrote:
ZvZ or 💤? lol
The second one
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well at least it wasn't bo7
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On April 27 2026 22:05 M2 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 27 2026 20:08 FlaShFTW wrote:
Might legitimately the worst ZvZ performance in a BoX that I’ve ever seen in brood war. I mean this was horrible from hero. My thoughts exactly after I watched the vod. Have I ever seen a worse Bo5? xD
Mini vs Best many seasons ago was a contender.
Funny that Soma and Mini are quite similar in style (dangerous BoX players, mind game, ruthless, cheesy) while Best and Hero also resemble each other (macro god).
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On April 27 2026 22:54 seRapH wrote:
well at least it wasn't bo7 Why? You didn't have another 20 minutes of time to watch? (and 10 of those would be commercials)
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Unfortunately for Hero you can't hydra bust in ZvZ...
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Hi im new here, i play Zerg and i hate ZvZ, but i notice something in those games, i think that soma won all games with one key advantage, the gas before pool. He made that in all 3 games its something thats very unusual. That gave him an edge of 15-20 secs of the Spire creation, wich forced hero in all 3 games to make Spores and gave soma the map control and early muta advantage, also the zergling micro was very sharp from soma. Hero went the standard gas after pool all games. Also i think that somas biuld order consufed Hero on those games. I dont think her played bad just that he was average. What do you think?
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Don't worry guys, Hero has Soma right where he wants him.
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I don't know more about ZvZ than any other casual observer, but to me it sure looked like Hero lost games 1 and 2 because of poor execution, not build orders.
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we're about to enter somas bonjwa phase
the one thing which stopped him before his military service was his own nerves
one could feel his aura after he lost the first game to Ssaks BBS during groups and went 4pool in the next game.
since last season, soma finally transformed into a complete player with a proper approach towards boX series
he's gonna crush Flash in the finals on the most Terran favoured map pool of all time. kinda reminds me of he-who-must-not-be-named during his prime when maps were equally fucked up for zergs but he still persisted by pure will
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Well...this didnt go as expected. Only watched the first 2 games but terrible play indeed. Poor liquibets.
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On April 27 2026 20:09 BLinD-RawR wrote:Poll: Recommend Soma vs hero Game 3?No (21) 75% Yes (7) 25% 28 total votes Your vote: Recommend Soma vs hero Game 3? (Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
No if you have time option for me? :-(
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