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ALLEYCAT BLUES51036 Posts
On May 25 2026 13:51 CHEONSOYUN wrote: what if he’s protoss and you’re terran. could easily lose money
he's mentioned before he used to play zerg.
Used to because he doesn't play the game anymore, just talks nonsense about strategy while ignoring the real time side of a Real Time Strategy game.
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I did drone scout and 5 drone pull and the timing works awesome. The drones cross map on polypoid show up 2 seconds before marine pops out, ez to zone it away from bunker.
It feels insane to have not known this was an option.
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United States10410 Posts
On May 25 2026 13:51 CHEONSOYUN wrote: what if he’s protoss and you’re terran. could easily lose money Couldn't care less what race he's playing because he's awful and doesn't actually play the game. He can race pick, play random, whatever.
On May 25 2026 14:11 AttackZerg wrote: I did drone scout and 5 drone pull and the timing works awesome. The drones cross map on polypoid show up 2 seconds before marine pops out, ez to zone it away from bunker.
It feels insane to have not known this was an option. What if Terran responds faster and scouts the pull and reacts in time with 5 scvs of their own to buy time for the marine? Aren't you just fucked since even if you pull the drones all the way back to your natural, Terran SCVs are already at their natural and can return to mine instantly.
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On May 25 2026 14:11 AttackZerg wrote: I did drone scout and 5 drone pull and the timing works awesome. The drones cross map on polypoid show up 2 seconds before marine pops out, ez to zone it away from bunker.
It feels insane to have not known this was an option.
That’s why BW is awesome, Soma probably prepared this extensively to use it against Flash.
Vs other players he would have killed them outright but Flash somehow got his first marine in the bunker
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On May 25 2026 14:13 FlaShFTW wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2026 13:51 CHEONSOYUN wrote: what if he’s protoss and you’re terran. could easily lose money Couldn't care less what race he's playing because he's awful and doesn't actually play the game. He can race pick, play random, whatever. Show nested quote +On May 25 2026 14:11 AttackZerg wrote: I did drone scout and 5 drone pull and the timing works awesome. The drones cross map on polypoid show up 2 seconds before marine pops out, ez to zone it away from bunker.
It feels insane to have not known this was an option. What if Terran responds faster and scouts the pull and reacts in time with 5 scvs of their own to buy time for the marine? Aren't you just fucked since even if you pull the drones all the way back to your natural, Terran SCVs are already at their natural and can return to mine instantly.
Because it was cross map, Terran did not see the pull or drones, so in my game, terrans pull came after mine arrived, it was 6 drones vs 3 scv (1from rax making, 1 chasing scv and 1 from building cc) I used the mineral on the ramp on poly to boost and line up in front of barracks and lings arrived to stop bunker. I did not even engage his scv, just made sure marine couldn't get to bunker. Since this was my first time deploying it, I don't have everything mapped out.
My nightmare is what if terran can make a wall and I can't mineral boost through. Then you just suicide-ed awkwardly.
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On May 25 2026 14:13 FlaShFTW wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2026 13:51 CHEONSOYUN wrote: what if he’s protoss and you’re terran. could easily lose money Couldn't care less what race he's playing because he's awful and doesn't actually play the game. He can race pick, play random, whatever. Show nested quote +On May 25 2026 14:11 AttackZerg wrote: I did drone scout and 5 drone pull and the timing works awesome. The drones cross map on polypoid show up 2 seconds before marine pops out, ez to zone it away from bunker.
It feels insane to have not known this was an option. What if Terran responds faster and scouts the pull and reacts in time with 5 scvs of their own to buy time for the marine? Aren't you just fucked since even if you pull the drones all the way back to your natural, Terran SCVs are already at their natural and can return to mine instantly.
This is down to Flash’s stubbornness going for cc first on Match Point’s top spawn where marine spawn is facing downwards and there’s alot of surface area for drones. Don’t think this works well for vertical wall-ins
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Netherlands4522 Posts
On May 25 2026 14:20 Dante08 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2026 14:11 AttackZerg wrote: I did drone scout and 5 drone pull and the timing works awesome. The drones cross map on polypoid show up 2 seconds before marine pops out, ez to zone it away from bunker.
It feels insane to have not known this was an option. That’s why BW is awesome, Soma probably prepared this extensively to use it against Flash. Vs other players he would have killed them outright but Flash somehow got his first marine in the bunker
This has been used many times in the past before. Even saw it used casually in a few soulkey ladder replays i downloaded a few months ago. So it's been a thing.
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On May 24 2026 16:40 BLinD-RawR wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2026 16:38 ShloobeR wrote: I'm confused why people are blaming Soma for these aggressive builds when Flash is CCing first every single game because its Flash's final ASL and nobody wanted him to go out that way, its understandable. Doesn't really bother me, he did the cocky Nada hand signal. Which was great cinema but he sure is an arrogant guy, I'm glad Soma humbled him
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On May 25 2026 14:11 AttackZerg wrote: I did drone scout and 5 drone pull and the timing works awesome. The drones cross map on polypoid show up 2 seconds before marine pops out, ez to zone it away from bunker.
It feels insane to have not known this was an option. Yes. It is sad.
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IMO flash going cc first/meching in a lot of these games illustrates more so the deterioration of his hands, rather than it being flash being stubborn/gambling... iirc i remember seeing a video where he said that the reason he stopped doing the long epic 4-5 rax SK terran into late game mech switch is not necessarily because it doesn't work anymore, but that those type of games takes such a toll on his hands that he could only do it 2-3 times a day.
the one game where flash went +1 4 rax bio and crushed soma with a crisp pre-swarm timing is what i feel we would've seen more of, had has hands been in better shape. zergs these days have honed their muta micro and sunken defense timing with the innovations from soulkey/queen/soma to an absurdly high level, but flash (also light) showed that standard bio still works if your macro and control is absolutely cracked
i just wish he would learn better ergonomics, because his posture looks terrible for your wrists with the monitor to the side, keyboard tilted in an awkward angle, elbows far too low below the table... maybe he should also take a page off Light's book and crank up the DPI to minimize the degree to which you need to flick your wrist... would take him several months, maybe an entire season to adjust, but it would give his career more longevity
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United States10410 Posts
On May 25 2026 15:22 mtcn77 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2026 14:11 AttackZerg wrote: I did drone scout and 5 drone pull and the timing works awesome. The drones cross map on polypoid show up 2 seconds before marine pops out, ez to zone it away from bunker.
It feels insane to have not known this was an option. Yes. It is sad. Dodging the grudge match are we?
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On May 25 2026 15:25 Crimson)S(hadow wrote: the one game where flash went +1 4 rax bio and crushed soma with a crisp pre-swarm timing is what i feel we would've seen more of, had has hands been in better shape. zergs these days have honed their muta micro and sunken defense timing with the innovations from soulkey/queen/soma to an absurdly high level, but flash (also light) showed that standard bio still works if your macro and control is absolutely cracked
he converted the cc first opening really well with the first timing. killing 2 drones and trading efficiently weakened soma for the rest of the game. hard to say who would have won if it was just 1 barracks cc.
i think flash would have been better with bio though even with wrist pains. game 6 soma took full advantage of mech being weak to mutalisks on 2 bases even though flash was close to victory. mech just isn’t that strong vs zerg.
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On May 25 2026 15:36 FlaShFTW wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2026 15:22 mtcn77 wrote:On May 25 2026 14:11 AttackZerg wrote: I did drone scout and 5 drone pull and the timing works awesome. The drones cross map on polypoid show up 2 seconds before marine pops out, ez to zone it away from bunker.
It feels insane to have not known this was an option. Yes. It is sad. Dodging the grudge match are we? You are not even in my radar.
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ALLEYCAT BLUES51036 Posts
On May 25 2026 15:50 mtcn77 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2026 15:36 FlaShFTW wrote:On May 25 2026 15:22 mtcn77 wrote:On May 25 2026 14:11 AttackZerg wrote: I did drone scout and 5 drone pull and the timing works awesome. The drones cross map on polypoid show up 2 seconds before marine pops out, ez to zone it away from bunker.
It feels insane to have not known this was an option. Yes. It is sad. Dodging the grudge match are we? You are not even in my radar.
Please don't add delusion to your already ignorant comments on starcraft.
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On May 25 2026 16:02 BLinD-RawR wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2026 15:50 mtcn77 wrote:On May 25 2026 15:36 FlaShFTW wrote:On May 25 2026 15:22 mtcn77 wrote:On May 25 2026 14:11 AttackZerg wrote: I did drone scout and 5 drone pull and the timing works awesome. The drones cross map on polypoid show up 2 seconds before marine pops out, ez to zone it away from bunker.
It feels insane to have not known this was an option. Yes. It is sad. Dodging the grudge match are we? You are not even in my radar. Please don't add delusion to your already ignorant comments on starcraft. Like comments winning GFs 2 years down the line? Do yourself a favor, stop trolling me.
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ALLEYCAT BLUES51036 Posts
On May 25 2026 16:10 mtcn77 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2026 16:02 BLinD-RawR wrote:On May 25 2026 15:50 mtcn77 wrote:On May 25 2026 15:36 FlaShFTW wrote:On May 25 2026 15:22 mtcn77 wrote:On May 25 2026 14:11 AttackZerg wrote: I did drone scout and 5 drone pull and the timing works awesome. The drones cross map on polypoid show up 2 seconds before marine pops out, ez to zone it away from bunker.
It feels insane to have not known this was an option. Yes. It is sad. Dodging the grudge match are we? You are not even in my radar. Please don't add delusion to your already ignorant comments on starcraft. Like comments winning GFs 2 years down the line? Do yourself a favor, stop trolling me.
What the fuck are you even talking about?
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The Korean comments on the youtube vod for the series are... focused on a single issue. I didn't know that they felt so strongly about it (im a bw noob), can anyone shed light on why there appears to be a difference between how we (this sub) appears to be talking about the games and the korean comments talking about that crypto stuff. I kind of missed all that anyway.
edit: I forgot that youtube comments bubble to the top based on popularity, still, I don't see many talking about it here or don't pay attention enough.
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On May 25 2026 15:49 CHEONSOYUN wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2026 15:25 Crimson)S(hadow wrote: the one game where flash went +1 4 rax bio and crushed soma with a crisp pre-swarm timing is what i feel we would've seen more of, had has hands been in better shape. zergs these days have honed their muta micro and sunken defense timing with the innovations from soulkey/queen/soma to an absurdly high level, but flash (also light) showed that standard bio still works if your macro and control is absolutely cracked he converted the cc first opening really well with the first timing. killing 2 drones and trading efficiently weakened soma for the rest of the game. hard to say who would have won if it was just 1 barracks cc. i think flash would have been better with bio though even with wrist pains. game 6 soma took full advantage of mech being weak to mutalisks on 2 bases even though flash was close to victory. mech just isn’t that strong vs zerg.
jane doe is the exception, i 100% agree going mech there. i've seen soma in practice games (also another zerg i can't recall right now... maybe queen?) do a map specific variant of crazy zerg on that map, where he takes advantage of the fact that he can have 3 gas with only 1 choke to defend. if both people play somewhat standard, terran has an advantage, which attributes to the map's lopsided TvZ win percentage, but soma's jane doe crazy zerg build turns that on its head. i'm sure flash was aware of it and chose to mech that game because of it. was hoping we'd see this build at ASL at least once but i'm guessing terrans had the build on their radar
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On May 25 2026 16:17 FataLe wrote: The Korean comments on the youtube vod for the series are... focused on a single issue. I didn't know that they felt so strongly about it (im a bw noob), can anyone shed light on why there appears to be a difference between how we (this sub) appears to be talking about the games and the korean comments talking about that crypto stuff. I kind of missed all that anyway.
edit: I forgot that youtube comments bubble to the top based on popularity, still, I don't see many talking about it here or don't pay attention enough.
https://tl.net/forum/brood-war/574711-flashs-crypto-scandal
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