On May 12 2012 02:33 aTnClouD wrote: I understand the hype and I'm excited too but the people saying he plays well in these 2 vods are funny.
His money was below 200 the whole time. His multitasking was on point. He won every battle. Maybe his marine splits weren't absolutely perfect but he did control them and maybe he could have landed his third 20 seconds faster. Not sure if his ebay upgrades were finished or not so i can't really comment if he was slacking on that. This seems pretty damn well to me. He kept the pressure up non stop since he started attacking. How is this not playing well? When you compare this to top sc2 players now, he is doing what they are doing.... I'm not sure why its funny though. Could you clarify?
the rest was for bw elitists and brainwashing the sc2 community for months that their game is so easy a monkey from bw could dominate it.
now we see that's not the case, so how bout you let everyone enjoy it for a minute, ok? ;-)
are you even comprehending the intrigue quote that you proudly brandish as your sig? he says "with a latency of a few months."
To be fair, 'latency' is too big a word to fit in so closed a mind.
i must've really hit a soft spot for someone as respectable as you to resort to such common ways of trying to insult complete stranger over the internet... twice! )))
On May 12 2012 02:09 snailz wrote: these days are so fun for me, because i get all these laughs thinking about that elephant in the room article when i see bw pros updates and how they struggle in sc2
"What does it say about the scene then, when a bottom-tier burnout from Brood War on a relaxed practice regimen still wins the GSL?"
"I am saying that there are 300 current pros and semi-pros that have the potential to come in and dominate SC2 at any moment, with a latency of a few months from the day they switch."
On May 12 2012 02:33 aTnClouD wrote: I understand the hype and I'm excited too but the people saying he plays well in these 2 vods are funny.
Beating a pro player after only switching 1 month ago. Not bad.
Exactly. ClouD, I think most of us are just impressed by how well he's playing for the amount of time he's played SC2 (~1-2 months?). No one is dumb enough to put him in the same class as a Code A player (yet).
In the tvt his opponent made huge blunders that shouldn't have happened, in the tvp flash showed a good game sense but horrible control. Knowing how good he can be I am not satisfied by this. I am not saying he is disappointing just right now it's too early to make any judgement imo.
On May 12 2012 02:16 kakaman wrote: While it doesn't seem anything special, he definitely has watched a lot of vods and things like that. Factory float v P is common SC2 strategy but not something you normally do in BW. Makes me wonder if the whole "beat players using 3 units" was only feeding into the mystique. Can't judge until these guys switch to SC2 fulltime.
Ebay and Rax float however were popular in both TvT and TvP. So it's not a new concept.
On May 12 2012 01:41 MegaFonzie wrote: Well since they're just going to show you a picture of his screen I guess they aren't trying too hard to hide his profile.
Rank 56 masters in korea/taiwan, pretty impressive :O.
Wth? He's played over 400 2v2's...
Probably just getting used to the different mechanics, but still..
Flash asks his 2v2 partner to leave every game so he can play 1v2s constantly. He got to Masters so that's rather impressive, especially with the low practice time.
lol but if you know anything abou 2v2, then you would know 1v2 is much easier than 2v2 :D
1st game was a pretty good hold for the situation, 2nd game was fucking BOSS mode, marine micro vs the tanks was pretty good.. only mkp really does that atm from what i've seen
On May 12 2012 02:09 snailz wrote: these days are so fun for me, because i get all these laughs thinking about that elephant in the room article when i see bw pros updates and how they struggle in sc2
"What does it say about the scene then, when a bottom-tier burnout from Brood War on a relaxed practice regimen still wins the GSL?"
"I am saying that there are 300 current pros and semi-pros that have the potential to come in and dominate SC2 at any moment, with a latency of a few months from the day they switch."
and i'm sorry, but that really wasn't impressive at all. flash is supposed to CRUSH faces, cause SC2 is so easy and all that jazz
I really don't want to be insulting but your post is unintelligent. He's just recently starting out. Of course he's a more talented RTS-gamer than Nestea, MC and MVP. The most talented players remained in the Brood War scene because they had contracts and well-paying contracts at that.
On May 12 2012 02:37 wbirdy wrote: In the second video he outmacro-ed Apocalypse on equal bases, and crushed him by pushing edges and barely winning each engage. If that isn't impressive I don't know what is.
on equal bases without any mules u might add . was awesome
That actually is really impressive... I thought he was playing a random high masters player but Apocalypse is really good. I've seen Apocalypse take games off Thorzain so..
This is without a doubt going to be the biggest change in Sc2 yet, having all the BW pro's come over this next season. It makes me so sad to see BW Proleague go away but i'm happy for the next generation of Sc2 because atleast the players we all know and love won't be going anywhere!
the rest was for bw elitists and brainwashing the sc2 community for months that their game is so easy a monkey from bw could dominate it.
now we see that's not the case, so how bout you let everyone enjoy it for a minute, ok? ;-)
are you even comprehending the intrigue quote that you proudly brandish as your sig? he says "with a latency of a few months."
To be fair, 'latency' is too big a word to fit in so closed a mind.
i must've really hit a soft spot for someone as respectable as you to resort to such common ways of trying to insult complete stranger over the internet... twice! )))
On May 12 2012 02:33 aTnClouD wrote: I understand the hype and I'm excited too but the people saying he plays well in these 2 vods are funny.
Beating a pro player after only switching 1 month ago. Not bad.
Exactly. ClouD, I think most of us are just impressed by how well he's playing for the amount of time he's played SC2 (~1-2 months?). No one is dumb enough to put him in the same class as a Code A player (yet).
In the tvt his opponent made huge blunders that shouldn't have happened, in the tvp flash showed a good game sense but horrible control. Knowing how good he can be I am not satisfied by this. I am not saying he is disappointing just right now it's too early to make any judgement imo.
Ok those are fair points to bring up. I do think apoc could have played slightly better in building his third in his main instead of at the mineral patch where he had to cancel it setting him more behind. And yeah the tvp he could have won that battle a bit more decisively with better control.
On May 12 2012 02:37 wbirdy wrote: In the second video he outmacro-ed Apocalypse on equal bases, and crushed him by pushing edges and barely winning each engage. If that isn't impressive I don't know what is.
on equal bases without any mules u might add . was awesome
Dont know what game you were watching, but he was muling...
EPT
but i'm happy for the next generation of Sc2 because atleast the players we all know and love won't be going anywhere!
