EPTAs if to underline the point, Life cleaned up Flash in the last game with broodlords and infestors, as if completely oblivious to the fact that they, and zergs, were supposed to roll over and die in this new HotS era. There's been a lot of crying by zerg about imbalance, but in the end, only Life was able to "adapt" by simply pretending HotS never happened and winning like it was still the height of Lings of Liberty.
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Evil_Sheep
Canada902 Posts
As if to underline the point, Life cleaned up Flash in the last game with broodlords and infestors, as if completely oblivious to the fact that they, and zergs, were supposed to roll over and die in this new HotS era. There's been a lot of crying by zerg about imbalance, but in the end, only Life was able to "adapt" by simply pretending HotS never happened and winning like it was still the height of Lings of Liberty. | ||
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jeri
Germany335 Posts
On March 19 2013 04:36 Dodgin wrote: Life makes it work because he's mechanically and strategically superior to everyone else. imho violet is at the same level, atleast i thought so on last iem, but he couldnt get to the top aswell. | ||
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jeri
Germany335 Posts
On March 19 2013 05:09 Evil_Sheep wrote: Welcome to the future? You mean the past, right? All the zergs had been lamenting the state of HotS as they got annihilated by terrans and protoss unleashing a year of pent-up frustration, but Life seemed to be in total denial that the Lings of Liberty era was over. Whereas other zergs were trying to "adapt" with new HotS compositions like roach/hydra/viper, Life carried on like HotS had never happened, rolling over opponents with good old-fashioned muta/ling/bane and barely using the new units. Life tried out vipers game 1 but after he was just like nah and didn't touch them again. He didn't make one swarm host the entire finals. As if to underline the point, Life cleaned up Flash in the last game with broodlords and infestors, as if completely oblivious to the fact that they, and zergs, were supposed to roll over and die in this new HotS era. There's been a lot of crying by zerg about imbalance, but in the end, only Life was able to "adapt" by simply pretending HotS never happened and winning like it was still the height of Lings of Liberty. only use for vipers, is when terran rolling hard with tanks grip+cloud = gg. | ||
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theinfamousone
United States103 Posts
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TheEmulator
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rice_devOurer
United States773 Posts
On March 18 2013 19:30 p14c wrote: Unfortunately for Flash he had like 2-3 weeks to practice HOTS..He had awful Widow mines control or maybe widow mines are really that unreliable? ..Who knows. PS: I'm sad that another tournament was won by a Zerg yet again. at least it wasn't a zvz final... | ||
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LockeTazeline
2390 Posts
MC was the only player to advance through using "gimmicky HotS strategies", but even he utilized amazing execution and micro. The other top 4 (Life, Flash, Bogus) are all players that you'd say are just innately insanely good at Starcraft. Upsets were at a bare minimum throughout the entire tournament, and it'll be interesting to see if that trend continues in future tournaments (or even increases as the metagame establishes itself) tl;dr HotS is looking incredibly skill based thus far. | ||
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funKy_KroK
France101 Posts
Flash, who celebrated joyfully after winning his first major championship, might have been amused by the demeanor his successor. In any case, he can be assured that until the day that he should reclaim the title of best player in the world, it rests in good hands. You can't really compare a BW 2008 Starleague to an MLG | ||
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snively
United States1159 Posts
:O shocked and amazed and slightly overjoyed ^^ | ||
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Cyrak
Canada536 Posts
On March 19 2013 08:08 funKy_KroK wrote: You can't really compare a BW 2008 Starleague to an MLG No shit. An article that was essentially a long winded way of saying "Life beat Flash and Life is young but Flash is old now so life is the new Flash QED" after an MLG weekend tournament in a game that came out a week ago is maybe overstating the case. | ||
opterown
Australia54784 Posts
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mrRoflpwn
United States2618 Posts
On March 18 2013 19:30 p14c wrote: Unfortunately for Flash he had like 2-3 weeks to practice HOTS..He had awful Widow mines control or maybe widow mines are really that unreliable? ..Who knows. PS: I'm sad that another tournament was won by a Zerg yet again. Are you fucking kidding me? Did you even watch the games? Life won because he was far and away the much superior player than Flash. Life was easily the best player at MLG. Every other zerg got crushed by terran while he was the only one in the RO8. | ||
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vult
United States9400 Posts
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MateShade
Australia736 Posts
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ElMeanYo
United States1032 Posts
I also wanted to add that Flash's macro is a really high level... like MVP level. He does still make micro mistakes though under pressure. | ||
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Alryk
United States2718 Posts
When you look at the 2 games Life lost as well, they weren't nearly as dominating as the games Life won. A 2 rax, poorly defended, and another game where Flash admittedly played very well. I'm not taking anything away from him, obviously getting to the finals and beating Parting/Innovation is no small feat, but I'm simply saying that he certainly isn't going to be the god of Starcraft II anytime soon. And while I believe everything I just wrote, I'm fully prepared to eat my words if necessary. | ||
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ZzKaelzZ
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fluidin
Singapore1084 Posts
Life played amazing otherwise, but like others have mentioned I too felt Life could have lost it against Polt and Last. I understand that this is probably a very emotional triumph for Zerg/ESF fans though. HOTS is still very new. While the top tier players now are likely to remain at the top, new ones are still very likely to break into these ranks. And shuffling of positions amongst the top will be inevitable. | ||
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Zululu
Germany4 Posts
I expected more Scouting by flash in the last series after the first game. Most of the Games would have been much closer if he had 1 or 2 Widdowmines in the right places. Especially on Cloud Kingdom. no Overseers with this huge Bane/Ling composition just overrun the depo wall and the marines with their medivacs :/ | ||
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maartendq
Belgium3115 Posts
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