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Rainalcar
Profile Joined April 2010
Croatia567 Posts
May 24 2026 17:18 GMT
#601
All of you who bluntly defend flash GG should really move away from a thought that flash cannot make such a mistake. He absolutely can and he did. This was not a hopeless situation. He needed 2 marines more and a few scvs and he clears even the speedlings and suddenly he lands his 2nd cc. Plus before, soma drone micro Vs scvs was twice as good as flash's.

All the finals flash cheesed and forced short games. He is too blame for it, not soma who had no choice but to be aggressive to stand a chance.
j.r.r.
mel_ee
Profile Blog Joined August 2003
2450 Posts
May 24 2026 17:28 GMT
#602
hmm was flash tilted on game 7??
Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly proceeds to blow swingin swords like Shinobi
Kraekkling
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
769 Posts
May 24 2026 17:31 GMT
#603
omg yessssssssssss
(*^^)(^*)
Mumei
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States270 Posts
May 24 2026 17:33 GMT
#604
Flash uploaded the games to his channel. I don't know Soma's yt channel if he has one.
Sybris
Profile Joined February 2011
36 Posts
May 24 2026 17:35 GMT
#605
Flash made the classic mistake relying on his micro when he could just play safe with a nice lead
EndingLife
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States1606 Posts
May 24 2026 17:36 GMT
#606
10 scv's from Flash vs 5 or 6 drones with expo 50% done from Soma at the end. The GG timing ain't mathing for a game 7 of the finals. Sure he might have had a 25% chance or whatever to win but should have at least played it out another minute or two...
doktordingerdonger
Profile Joined October 2025
159 Posts
Last Edited: 2026-05-24 17:40:43
May 24 2026 17:40 GMT
#607
On May 25 2026 02:33 Mumei wrote:
https://youtu.be/mDVA-1cuvZ4 Flash uploaded the games to his channel. I don't know Soma's yt channel if he has one.


That aside, the AI slop translation of the korean translator makes me lose all hope for humanity... and it was the default setting.

Nobody is quality testing shit anymore and it shows. How did this ever make it through release... All this reminds me of this

Biff The Understudy
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France8226 Posts
May 24 2026 17:41 GMT
#608
This is so painful. Really sad for Flash.
The fellow who is out to burn things up is the counterpart of the fool who thinks he can save the world. The world needs neither to be burned up nor to be saved. The world is, we are. Transients, if we buck it; here to stay if we accept it. ~H.Miller
doktordingerdonger
Profile Joined October 2025
159 Posts
May 24 2026 17:45 GMT
#609
On May 25 2026 02:36 EndingLife wrote:
10 scv's from Flash vs 5 or 6 drones with expo 50% done from Soma at the end. The GG timing ain't mathing for a game 7 of the finals. Sure he might have had a 25% chance or whatever to win but should have at least played it out another minute or two...


How is 11 supply, 4 zerglings equalling 5 or 6 drones?

Soma stopped zergling production and is droning up (2 are in the middle of the map).
Rainalcar
Profile Joined April 2010
Croatia567 Posts
May 24 2026 17:47 GMT
#610
On May 25 2026 02:18 Rainalcar wrote:
All of you who bluntly defend flash GG should really move away from a thought that flash cannot make such a mistake. He absolutely can and he did. This was not a hopeless situation. He needed 2 marines more and a few scvs and he clears even the speedlings and suddenly he lands his 2nd cc. Plus before, soma drone micro Vs scvs was twice as good as flash's.

All the finals flash cheesed and forced short games. He is too blame for it, not soma who had no choice but to be aggressive to stand a chance.


Oh yes, and the 4pool map, the marine took like seconds to return home after seeing lings. Wtf?! This is C level
j.r.r.
Kraekkling
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
769 Posts
May 24 2026 17:49 GMT
#611
immune against 13 CC
immune against the worst map pool of all time
immune against the best of all time

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CHEONSOYUN
Profile Joined August 2017
633 Posts
May 24 2026 17:56 GMT
#612
soma is 10x more clutch than flash

flash relied way too much on cc first and died for it when soma went jaedong on him instead of letting the game play normally
JAEDONG...!!! EFFORT IS ANGRY. ZERG...?!
Viejo1
Profile Joined May 2025
10 Posts
May 24 2026 18:21 GMT
#613
We need a UMS scenario map of this circus, starting at different timestamps, because some of these decisions looked absolutely insane.
I'm not saying it was match fixing, but I also wouldn't be shocked if people start asking questions. The 4-pool game already looked thrown. That marine taking two full seconds to correct direction was unbelievable.
At this level, that is not a "small mistake." That is the kind of mistake that makes you pause the VOD and ask what the hell you just watched. And then the last game? Forfeiting while having more supply? Come on.
Maybe there's some hidden explanation, but from the outside this looked terrible. Questionable at best, embarrassing at worst. Disappointing as hell.
Viejo1
Profile Joined May 2025
10 Posts
May 24 2026 18:28 GMT
#614
Uldridge
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Belgium5238 Posts
May 24 2026 18:53 GMT
#615
People really ruin everything don't they? We get a 7 set finals. We get Flash vs Soma. The only thing that remains is this 20+ whinefest about Flash "prematurely" resigning. Leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Grow the fuck up and enjoy the fact that you got to experience this, ungrateful shits. This isn't even analysis, it's destroying what it means to be human.
Taxes are for Terrans
EndingLife
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States1606 Posts
Last Edited: 2026-05-24 19:25:27
May 24 2026 19:23 GMT
#616
On May 25 2026 02:45 doktordingerdonger wrote:
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On May 25 2026 02:36 EndingLife wrote:
10 scv's from Flash vs 5 or 6 drones with expo 50% done from Soma at the end. The GG timing ain't mathing for a game 7 of the finals. Sure he might have had a 25% chance or whatever to win but should have at least played it out another minute or two...


How is 11 supply, 4 zerglings equalling 5 or 6 drones?

Soma stopped zergling production and is droning up (2 are in the middle of the map).

11 supply, 6 lings = 5 drones. Those are lings in the middle of the map.
QRCode
Profile Joined December 2024
United States62 Posts
May 24 2026 19:50 GMT
#617
So it's been more than 12 hours since the event, hopefully my mind is more clear and I can think about the series (and game 7) more clearly now.

Everyone should rewatch the last game. I even wrote some notes on what happened to be as unbiased as possible (hit the spoiler below).
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Soma went 9 overpool and a scout at the same time as overlord
Goes 12 pool as a response
Scout delays CC a couple of seconds and rax by a lot 4 secs
10 drones mining, gas up when he's delaying rax
Flash also has an SCV pulled so his economy is not really going too smoothly 9 mining
Soma pulls 4 drones
1 SCV goes scout
Flash sends another SCV down to build the second depot
Flash sends 5 SCVs down to the nat area to defend and has 5 mining
Flash loses 1 SCV
6 lings coming in
Soma loses a drone
Flash loses a SCV
Loses another SCV
Supply is even at this point!
Bunker going up
Marine out
Loses a drone
Lings arrive to nat
Loses 3 lings and a drone
2 lings join


Flash's best position was at 3:47 when he had 14 SCVs (not counting the wandering scouting SCV) and 3 marines. This is where people say Flash still had a chance if he moved to the nat. And I agree, moving to the nat was the best thing he could do. But he was still cooked and would've gg'd in 5 mins.

At that time, Soma would've had 7 drones in his base, starting nat hatch, and lair, with Flash bottled in between 5 speedlings and 2 drones in his main, and 6 speedlings outside his choke. Soma would've droned up heavily, and Flash would not be able to contest it unless he sat there massing basic marines and getting Academy tech, which requires serious amounts of time. Off one base with 7 mineral patches. Terran doesn't want to be in the position of macroing heavily on a weak economy on basic stuff just to contest and get map control. And he had no gas and not even a refinery started. He was so far behind he had to gg to save face, or the next few minutes would've just embarrassing for him.

Lastly, I had already seen a match on MP with a top level Zerg and Terran that went like this, the Terran moved to his nat about as quickly as sensibly be. Zerg surrounded him, out-teched him, and he got ripped apart by Mutas. It is such a tactical disadvantage to be at the nat.
chocorush
Profile Joined June 2009
696 Posts
May 24 2026 19:50 GMT
#618
On May 25 2026 04:23 EndingLife wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 25 2026 02:45 doktordingerdonger wrote:
On May 25 2026 02:36 EndingLife wrote:
10 scv's from Flash vs 5 or 6 drones with expo 50% done from Soma at the end. The GG timing ain't mathing for a game 7 of the finals. Sure he might have had a 25% chance or whatever to win but should have at least played it out another minute or two...


How is 11 supply, 4 zerglings equalling 5 or 6 drones?

Soma stopped zergling production and is droning up (2 are in the middle of the map).

11 supply, 6 lings = 5 drones. Those are lings in the middle of the map.


1 zergling is not 1 supply.
FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10627 Posts
May 24 2026 20:10 GMT
#619
On May 25 2026 04:23 EndingLife wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 25 2026 02:45 doktordingerdonger wrote:
On May 25 2026 02:36 EndingLife wrote:
10 scv's from Flash vs 5 or 6 drones with expo 50% done from Soma at the end. The GG timing ain't mathing for a game 7 of the finals. Sure he might have had a 25% chance or whatever to win but should have at least played it out another minute or two...


How is 11 supply, 4 zerglings equalling 5 or 6 drones?

Soma stopped zergling production and is droning up (2 are in the middle of the map).

11 supply, 6 lings = 5 drones. Those are lings in the middle of the map.

6 lings is 3 supply, they are 0.5 supply rounded up when there's an odd number. So there's 8 drones. Idk how people are making such a silly mistake with supply count.

FlaSh definitely was losing when he GGed. Could've been a hair premature, but definitely behind. But I wonder why he didn't just give up the main and mine from his natural when he got the bunker up. He had done a brilliant drill and killed 3 lings and like 2 drones. Just mine from the natural, lift the main CC, and go 2 rax acad to retake the main...

So disappointing, shocking decision making.
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CHEONSOYUN
Profile Joined August 2017
633 Posts
Last Edited: 2026-05-24 20:23:41
May 24 2026 20:20 GMT
#620
flash panicked when the drones successfully snuck around the scouting scv and killed the scv building the barracks.

game was over from there. i think maybe some people in thread have watched too many 4 pool games.

would have been hard to do anything with match point’s natural.

his mental game crumbled after the way he lost the base race and the 8 rax game. then he was put into the mud with the successful drone+speedling rush on the final map
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