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Highways
Profile Joined July 2005
Australia6105 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-15 10:40:32
October 15 2008 10:34 GMT
#321
Vod is up (Jaedong vs Flash).

#1 Terran hater
Uraeus
Profile Joined February 2008
France1378 Posts
October 15 2008 11:24 GMT
#322
This is the best battle thread in a while, boys! Some comments were really hilarious. I loved the "new Flash depot-cc-cc build"
As an Oz fan, I am happy they won. As a Starcraft fan, all games were disappointing (Hiya, BackHo, Firefist, playing like trash and fast BO win for closer) except Lomo vs Tempest which was just insane. This is the craziest game I have seen in a while (even better than Tempest vs Ruby). Lomo has unbelievable micro and game sense. He is Boxer's heir to me, even though I guess he will never even be half as succesfull as Him.
You are lucky I don't have a banhammer
Kyuki
Profile Joined February 2008
Sweden1867 Posts
October 15 2008 13:11 GMT
#323
When watching that VOD.. I really hope Flash has learned now.

Was quite sad to watch him with that regretful face. :/
Mada Mada Dane
Piy
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Scotland3152 Posts
October 15 2008 13:11 GMT
#324
Insanely dissapointing ACE, but the Lomo/Tempest game was fun I guess.
My. Copy. Is. Here.
mSLeGenD
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
115 Posts
October 15 2008 13:13 GMT
#325
On October 15 2008 14:51 DeepGray wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2008 14:43 Kentor wrote:
On October 15 2008 14:42 DeepGray wrote:
On October 15 2008 14:40 Tyxiquale wrote:
anyone else think lomo looks like a girl? Its his eyes.. if he had any makeup on, he'd fit right in as a fashion model on the catwalk.

Have you seen that OZ promo vid of their members dressing in drag? o_o;;

where!

http://www.scforall.com/news/news02.asp?mNum=n02&articleNum=388&where=&query=lecaf&sterm=
You have been warned.

I just clicked the link and as I hit play coincidentally DotA by Basshunter came on and I could of SWORN it was in the video, then I checked my iTunes... T.T
My nationality is NOT Canadian, And that's all you need to know.
StylishVODs
Profile Joined December 2005
Sweden5331 Posts
October 15 2008 14:46 GMT
#326
stop complaining about flash's strat guys, if jaedong made 12hatch u'd all be like wow 14 cc nice wow bla bla..
According to Reach, he is the fastest learner he has ever seen. He start bw only like 2/3 years ago. Infact, his bw history knowledge is so limited, he didn't even know what the map Guillotine was.
Kyuki
Profile Joined February 2008
Sweden1867 Posts
October 15 2008 14:49 GMT
#327
He would've 12hatched against any other Terran you know
Mada Mada Dane
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36389 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-15 17:09:06
October 15 2008 16:46 GMT
#328
On October 15 2008 15:07 Scaramanga wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2008 14:55 EvoChamber wrote:
To be fair, this wasn't only a BO win. Jaedong read Flash's mind perfectly. Harmony is a large map, which favors early expansions over rush builds, and it's known to favor Terran in general. Flash thought that if he could get off a 14cc, he could win the game using the huge macro boost and the map to his advantage. Jaedong keyed in on this and did the only build that could counter 14cc on such a large map. So....it's not like there wasn't strategy, just that it was all done before the game and not in-game.

LOL, i'll be the odd one out
Nah dude your wrong. this is just straight BO loss if you cant see that its kinda silly, if FS can call sea's loss to fantasy a BO loss then im calling this a BO loss, he beat hiya so im not dissapointed.
BL my little monster, go smash fantasy in gom and some random MBC player

Show nested quote +
On October 15 2008 14:58 ArC_man wrote:
Flash is trash now


Based on a BO loss to JD, even though he beat hiya?

yes its "technically" a BO loss, but then so is 3 hatch before pool vs 9 pool in ZvZ

BO loss implies that luck was the major determining factor here, and i don't think thats the case. Flash lost because he played overly risky and Jaedong anticipated this. if you do something extremely risky and get punished for it, you can't chalk it up to "BO loss" because then 80% of progames are "BO losses"

14cc in this situation isn't "ballsy" or "brilliant" its just a giant gamble on your opponent scouting late or not doing an aggressive build
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Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36389 Posts
October 15 2008 16:50 GMT
#329
On October 15 2008 23:46 AnOth3rDAy wrote:
stop complaining about flash's strat guys, if jaedong made 12hatch u'd all be like wow 14 cc nice wow bla bla..

Flash has shown a pattern of 14cc'ing often, and doing this sort of risky play in the Ace match is just bad decision making. It seems Flash is not confident in his TvZ especially against Jaedong, so he wants to push every advantage he can get.

If you 14cc and they don't 9 pool, you gain an advantage
If you 14cc and they 9 pool, you basically auto-lose
If you 1 rax expo and they 12 hatch, it's basically even

I don't think the risk is worth the reward, especially if you're someone that 14cc's often, and you have such a strong late game like Flash does, why risk it? Why not just 1 rax expand? It's not like it's that huge a difference that Flash was forced to 14cc.

I maintain this was a horrible decision and Flash shouldn't have done it.
@Hot_Bid on Twitter - ESPORTS life since 2010 - http://i.imgur.com/U2psw.png
SilverskY
Profile Joined September 2008
Korea (South)3086 Posts
October 15 2008 17:43 GMT
#330
Flash should've lifted his CC and rushed with his 4 initial SCV's.
Graphics
LRM)TechnicS
Profile Joined May 2008
Bulgaria1565 Posts
October 15 2008 18:08 GMT
#331
Omg first pages of posters here are definetly nostradamuses, gj guys xD
Enjoy the game
Athos
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2484 Posts
October 15 2008 18:11 GMT
#332
I feel like flash is burned out from all the pressure KTF puts on him. Maybe they should have put Luxury in there for ACE.
fanofbest
Profile Joined August 2008
United States145 Posts
October 15 2008 18:55 GMT
#333
Luxury could win him in ZvZ. Cause of he is now top2 in zvz
Best[hyo] ftw
jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6639 Posts
October 15 2008 19:39 GMT
#334
On October 15 2008 14:58 ArC_man wrote:
Flash is trash now

And he has been for some time -.-

Nice work by JD in these matches though, he's like the only zerg player I'm a fan of
The road to hell is paved with good intentions | aka Probert[PaiN] @ iccup / godlikeparagon @ twitch | my BW stream: http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/jello_biafra
jgad
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada899 Posts
October 15 2008 21:01 GMT
#335
On October 15 2008 14:49 o[twist] wrote:
Luxury needs to pwn him at least once every fifteen minutes during practice just so he understands.

qft
콩까지마
Asjo
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
Denmark664 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-15 21:59:56
October 15 2008 21:52 GMT
#336
On October 15 2008 14:55 EvoChamber wrote:
To be fair, this wasn't only a BO win. Jaedong read Flash's mind perfectly. Harmony is a large map, which favors early expansions over rush builds, and it's known to favor Terran in general. Flash thought that if he could get off a 14cc, he could win the game using the huge macro boost and the map to his advantage. Jaedong keyed in on this and did the only build that could counter 14cc on such a large map. So....it's not like there wasn't strategy, just that it was all done before the game and not in-game.


I think you misunderstand the expression "build order win" then. Or, at least, the logic that I see in it, is that it's a win where the build order is the deciding matter, not how the players played or anything like that. So, given that, even if Jaedong did outthink Flash, it's still a build-order win. Just so people don't get confused.

And we can all boo at Flash, but lets just rejoyce at how well this demonstrates how people consistently having a "greedy" gameplay is starting to backfire. I mean, the zerg vs terran match-up can be really great if the terran tries to make something of it, but the pattern I see is that these game have deteriorated into the terran simply securing a few bases with defensive play, and with even economy the zerg has no chance to stop a terran who will slowly be able to push with his siege tanks. Hopefully, more terrans will start to do like Boxer, but, of course, he does it for the entertainment value, not to have a better chance of winning. It's just like how protosses seemed to have gotten into the groove of securing a macro advantage by fast-expanding every single game, knowing that they will very likely be able to fight the zerg if the economy is even, and have been punished for this greedy play a lot more recently. On a lower level, it was fun to see how Mondragon had incorporated this into his zerg vs protoss play when playing on the TSL ladder - just about every game he killed off 5-10 drones by pushing zerglings through the weak defence of the protoss, and kept his opponent occupied through the entire start of the game. Of course, a few players blocked well, but on some maps he was successful every single time.
I am not sure what to say
EvoChamber
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France2505 Posts
October 15 2008 22:07 GMT
#337
Just so you don't get confused, I didn't say that it wasn't a BO win. I said that it wasn't only a BO win. Progamers don't just pick their builds out of a hat before the match starts. They choose a specific build based on the matchup at hand, the layout of the map, and their assumptions about what the other player's build will be. Flash read the map and the matchup and assumed Jaedong would 12hatch, in which case the build that would give him the most advantage would be 14cc. Jaedong made the correct assumption about Flash's assumptions and punished him by going overpool speed. You seem to think that build orders and how a progamer plays are separate. I think that choosing a build order is one of the most important, if not the most important, part of playing professional SC.
That's not awful writing, DAMMIT. It's perfectly sensical english construction.
Asjo
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
Denmark664 Posts
October 15 2008 22:12 GMT
#338
Let me rephrase: you seem to assume that someone saying it's a build-order win necessarily means that it doesn't come down to wise strategical choices. I'm simply saying that this is not what it means, the way I figure it

I hope this clears up your confusion.
I am not sure what to say
EvoChamber
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France2505 Posts
October 15 2008 22:24 GMT
#339
I don't really think we have a disagreement here, then. It's just that on TL, there's a tendency, when someone's favorite player loses, to blame it on "build order," with the implication that no skill was involved and that Flash or Sea or Jaedong is still the better player even though they lost and that the winner's victory somehow doesn't count, an attitude which is fundamentally dishonest about how the game is played. Hopefully soon we can refer to build-order wins without any of these connotations, but I'm not really holding my breath.
That's not awful writing, DAMMIT. It's perfectly sensical english construction.
Vasoline73
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States7819 Posts
October 15 2008 22:36 GMT
#340
You know what I think the difference between Flash and Jaedong going into this ace match was?

Flash went in thinking "Oh great I can redeem myself, play with my rival, and have a good game we can laugh over. This should be fun"

Jaedong went in thinking "I'm going to snipe a terran"

One meant business and the other was just too carefree. That's why Flash got owned... you could see it on his face before the match that he was just excited to play, and Jaedong was just a stone cold killer.


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