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On February 13 2009 21:03 Tyxiquale wrote:
ah.. that was fucking smart of flash.. something I didn't pick up before.. and when the commentators went back to the replay, it made sense..

flash killed 2 out of 4 dropships with his 6oclock gollies.. even sacrificing a few of them, then lifted his ebay to take turret fire, and immediately elevated all his shit upstairs..

goddamn beautiful play

On February 13 2009 21:03 Tyxiquale wrote:
ah.. that was fucking smart of flash.. something I didn't pick up before.. and when the commentators went back to the replay, it made sense..

flash killed 2 out of 4 dropships with his 6oclock gollies.. even sacrificing a few of them, then lifted his ebay to take turret fire, and immediately elevated all his shit upstairs..

goddamn beautiful play

On February 13 2009 21:03 darktreb wrote:
If Flash manages to beat Best next week, this game will be looked back upon as one of those great games that displayed the sheer will of a champion. Flash was sooooo close to being on the brink of OSL elimination (would have needed to beat Best and Hwasin to win just to get into a tiebreaker). Now his fate is in his own hands (as is every other player in the group).

On February 13 2009 21:04 AltaiR_ wrote:
another crucial mistake was hwasin left alone 1 o clock until it mined out, never even touched it

On February 13 2009 21:05 ssj114 wrote:
By the way, Flash and Bisu are making the TLPD ELO 2300 barrier a joke. If they keep this up, they may even crack 2400. In my opinion, the ELO needs to be revised, so as to pay respect to the early era masters like Boxer, NaDa, iloveoov.

On February 13 2009 21:05 o[twist] wrote:


yeah 1 or 9 would have been easy drops.

On February 13 2009 21:06 NovaTheFeared wrote:
Truly sick game from Flash, can't believe he pulled that one out. And with so little practice time with all the games he's been playing recently.

On February 13 2009 21:06 Rucky wrote:
I wouldn't call this a comeback from flash at all and definitely not HUGE. Since flash had the advantage the entire game. Earlier 3rd, earlier 4th, Earlier 5th. He was always 1 base ahead of hwasin. The only reason hwasin seem to be winning in terms of army is just because flash was expanding. Also, the game to me was flash pushing and pushing hwasin. Hwasin never did any pushing just defending. Just because hwasin was able to defend off the pushes of Flash doesn't mean he was at an advantage to win the game.

Hwasin did do a beautiful contain on Flash, but he didn't expand to capitalize on it or gain any advantage from it besides being safe for couple minutes. It was short lived.

BASICALLY Flash simply had the lead from the beginning and won from it.

If you were to cut the map in half, flash can easily secure the 9expo and hwasin can easily defend the 5 expo. That puts both players at 4 bases. Flash took the 12/1expo which was the one that's between flash and hwasin. To match (gas)bases, Hwasin was left with either the main or nat that's empty which either way is harder to secure. I think Hwasin should have fought for the 12/1 expo base and force flash to take the main or nat instead. This would have put Hwasin in a better position and defense of his main.

BASICALLY whoever secured that 12/1 expo between them has an advantage to win the game.

On February 13 2009 21:03 GinNtoniC wrote:

That's actually a sick valid point. When hwasin had 4-5 turrets at 9'o clock and a dropship advantage.... Why didn't HE try to elevate onto the high ground above Flash's main?
With the turrets for elevator base, it would have been really hard to drop on top of that.

Why didn't I think of this? Why didn't Hwasin think of this?
That should actually have sealed the deal right there, or at least have bought Hwasin enough time to secure those lower expansions.
You sir, have a greater strategical mind than this poster.

On February 13 2009 21:06 Rucky wrote:
I wouldn't call this a comeback from flash at all and definitely not HUGE. Since flash had the advantage the entire game. Earlier 3rd, earlier 4th, Earlier 5th. He was always 1 base ahead of hwasin. The only reason hwasin seem to be winning in terms of army is just because flash was expanding. Also, the game to me was flash pushing and pushing hwasin. Hwasin never did any pushing just defending. Just because hwasin was able to defend off the pushes of Flash doesn't mean he was at an advantage to win the game.

Hwasin did do a beautiful contain on Flash, but he didn't expand to capitalize on it or gain any advantage from it besides being safe for couple minutes. It was short lived.

BASICALLY Flash simply had the lead from the beginning and won from it.

If you were to cut the map in half, flash can easily secure the 9expo and hwasin can easily defend the 5 expo. That puts both players at 4 bases. Flash took the 12/1expo which was the one that's between flash and hwasin. To match (gas)bases, Hwasin was left with either the main or nat that's empty which either way is harder to secure. I think Hwasin should have fought for the 12/1 expo base and force flash to take the main or nat instead. This would have put Hwasin in a better position and defense of his main.

BASICALLY whoever secured that 12/1 expo between them has an advantage to win the game.

On February 13 2009 21:06 GinNtoniC wrote:

That's like changing the time system to make sure Michael Johnson never loses his world record at 400m ^^

On February 13 2009 21:05 GHOSTCLAW wrote:


best's PvT hasn't been very good recently imo. He needs to start being able to win with something else other than 2 base into arb. Other players have called his number on that particular build recently.