Flash SC2 Replay vs KawaiiRice? - Page 10

On May 13 2012 16:26 xza wrote:
I sincerely hope that the replays of the BW pros will not get distributed out in the future. Even maybe in MLG or dreamhack or some random online tournament. The reason is because for them to maintain that high standard, their strategies and POV's must be kept secret.

It sucks to be us yes but I believe this is adds more value to tournaments because nobody can just load up their replays and study them weeks before etc.

On May 13 2012 16:51 Neurosis wrote:
His apm wasn't "omg insanely fast" but his multi tasking was. He was everywhere at once, and despite his apm being lower than kawai he still had smoother macro. He completely outmaneuvered his opponent in every way. Everything that was thrown at him was blocked and all of his moves landed perfectly. Also keep in mind he hasn't been playing sc2 very long and he is already incredibly good.

On May 13 2012 17:11 Dosey wrote:
Not really sold yet... That game highlighted KRs mistakes more than the skills of this alleged "Flash"

He put himself in a poor position multiple times and had poor decision making when it mattered. He may have psyched himself out by thinking it was flash I guess... But still.

Plus all that banked gas didn't make much sense to me. He (Flash) had 1000-2000 gas banked and was still building refineries on his expos. Granted... that could be attributed to BW and being used to only having one/no gas at your bases and grabbing them immediately for tanks (Unless Bisu steals it like 7 times). But it still feels like a mistake to grab gas immediately on an expo rather than saturate.

Then again, I don't play Terran exclusively so perhaps someone can enlighten me?

On May 13 2012 16:53 BagelyBagels wrote:


Yes KawaiiRice is the gate keeper into accessing incredibly good status ty.

On May 13 2012 17:26 SupLilSon wrote:


Yes, he has been playing the game for a fraction of the time of anyone else at his MMR has been. Ofc he will not be perfect yet, he will make mistakes. The impressive part is that despite his play being unrefined and obviously still developing, he is already near the top of KR ladder after a very short time.

On May 13 2012 16:45 crms wrote:
cool, thanks for linking the thread.

lol at everyone saying 'whocares' about this or is 'unimpressed' if this was anyone other than flash you'd be insanely impressed that someone playing a month completely tooled a sponsored professional player since beta in ~4 weeks of playing.

I dont care how good you think Flash is supposed to be after 4 weeks but he just beat a pro player while basically 'winging it' his build didn't even really make sense to any timings we see right now in TvT.

On May 13 2012 17:15 ProxyKnoxy wrote:
I don't think flash has played a game since beating kawaii. I think kawaii has blown our cover

On May 13 2012 17:40 canikizu wrote:

Playing 500+ games is not 'winging it'. You can say that he's trying to get all the timing right and is improving, but it's not 'winging it' in any sense. You are dismissing all of his hard work for the last whole month.

On May 13 2012 17:50 BlazeFury01 wrote:


Yeah people like Kawaii piss me off. Just because you know somebody is using a certain ID you don't have to let them know that you know. Somebody like Flash is most likely to change IDs or buy a new CD for a new ID if he know's his cover is blown. Flash is probably now using a different ID regardless of where he was on the ladder.

On May 13 2012 17:53 poorcloud wrote:


Are you serious? Flash probably has a multitude of accounts to pick from to practise. Kawaiirice did the whole community a favour by sharing that replay when he didn't need to at all.

On May 13 2012 17:53 poorcloud wrote:


Are you serious? Flash probably has a multitude of accounts to pick from to practise. Kawaiirice did the whole community a favour by sharing that replay when he didn't need to at all.