Wha? You are leaving? NOOO, you are supposed to break 50,000 post by next Christmas!

Anyhow, good luck with school! I know how important it is to focus.

But mark my word, you will be back, and you know it.

Badjas

Netherlands2038 Posts

January 05 2010 21:04 GMT

#62

Thanks Kona, it was a good read. Good luck on your ventures outside of TL.

rmm

United States8 Posts

January 05 2010 21:08 GMT

#63

Thanks Kona, good translation and you will be missed...streams and all

Kinky

United States4126 Posts

January 05 2010 22:41 GMT

#64

Wow, I wonder what Day9 has to say about this analysis

It's pretty interesting how Becker tries to dissect the players' mindsets throughout the game.

piratebay

United States399 Posts

January 06 2010 00:22 GMT

#65

for game 3 analysis, i actually preferred day9's version on how the game unwrapped. calm had that huge window to exploit where he had total map control and just charge into 6 oclock expo and wipe that out, and cut off the two bases, but he didn't. instead of focusing his whole army on one position, he does drops here, little zergling attacks there, etc etc, and proceeds to lose as flash amasses a gazillion tanks off his 5 bases.

*edit* game 3 instead of 4

iNcontroL

USA29055 Posts

January 06 2010 00:38 GMT

#66

amazing writeup. Ty for posting this.

Mystlord

United States10264 Posts

January 06 2010 00:51 GMT

#67

Bye kona, you'll be back soon enough. I know it.

HonestTea

5007 Posts

January 06 2010 01:44 GMT

#68

Great work.

skronch

United States2717 Posts

January 06 2010 01:54 GMT

#69

amazing writeup, really insightful read. thanks for the final translation!

MuffinDude

United States3837 Posts

January 06 2010 02:11 GMT

#70

Nice write up. Too bad that you're leaving. =( I wonder what happens to the loli is not a crime club lol.

Titanidis

Greece132 Posts

January 06 2010 02:29 GMT

#71

thnx for everything

JiYan

United States3668 Posts

January 06 2010 02:39 GMT

#72

i like the maps

chongu

Malaysia2600 Posts

January 06 2010 03:08 GMT

#73

Gonna miss ur streams and translations. TL wont be the same...

SQneo

Canada89 Posts

January 06 2010 03:11 GMT

#74

great read and awesome play by flash

economist_

Vietnam719 Posts

January 06 2010 03:35 GMT

#75

such a great read, thanks for translation kona

Duckvillelol

Australia1259 Posts

January 06 2010 03:39 GMT

#76

Wow this is a brilliant read, thanks heaps Kona. Do they do this sort of article often? I would love to see more.

Good luck with everything Kona, I'll miss your red text!

ForTheSwarm

United States556 Posts

January 06 2010 07:28 GMT

#77

Awesome awesome awesome writeup! Thanks Kona! We'll miss you...

Also, what is this guy talking about when he mentions "programs like Kingdom's Manner Pylon"???

icystorage

Jollibee19350 Posts

January 06 2010 08:49 GMT

#78

thanks for the translations kona

and for the streams too, i really am one of the biggest fans of your streams.

this analysis is so good, made me understand game 3 and 4 more! all i can say is, woah, great work

Mortality

United States4790 Posts

January 06 2010 09:18 GMT

#79

Game 3 was actually quite handily in Flash's court for most of it. Check out the supply in the bottom right. At like 18 minutes into the VOD (which is less than 18 minutes into the game), Flash has 165 supply, like 40 supply above Calm. There was only a brief moment where I felt the tide had turned when Calm managed to bring down Flash's supply to his level, but Calm failed to capitalize on this. He needed to hit the 6 o'clock expansion and cut off Flash's bases. Since Flash had such a high SCV count, his main and nat were drained of resources really fast, meaning that if Calm could have permanently taken out 6, then he could work to bleed Flash dry. Instead you had Flash bleeding Calm dry even though Calm had 6 gas bases. Which is absolutely ridiculous I might add.

Game 3 IMO highlights the skill gap between these players. Not that I think any other Zerg right now can do better.