KT Rolster: KT can't seem to beat CJ in a non-Winner's League situation. Closer this time than some earlier rounds but still messy. Flash will be done with individual leagues for some time, but until then the team looks like they still have training wheels on.

STX SouL: Only had one match this week, and took the victory. They are continuing to crush this round but it probably shouldn't take you untl the 5th game to beat KHAN. Still, they are in good shape to challenge KT for the top playoff seed.

MBCGame HERO: As a team they looked surprisingly shoddy against ACE, even came close to losing the deciding game. Coach Ha got his 100th victory this week so congrats to him. 8 Hyungjuns out of 13.

WeMade FOX They look like a real team these last few months, and its fun to see. This week they killed SKT (which is becoming less and less impressive) and went a long way towards securing a 4th place spot. Approaching with cautious optimism.

SK Telecom T1: Still playing nearly the exact players as last year, except they're all much worse now. Bisu looks terrible in games, and his stats show it (3-6) while fantasy has lost his edge and is now average (6-5). A week where your only winner is s2 does not bode well for the rest of the season.

CJ Entus: Well played. EffOrt looks good, Snow is blossoming, and Orion got a game. A great run through round 4. 100% this week.

Woongjin Stars: Lost both their matches, one in a route and one with their star losing twice (and once against horang2 of all people). Not a great performance, and for it they swapped their 6th place spot with CJ. A deserving punishment.

Hwaseung Oz: Ugh. I always call it silly to describe Oz as a one man team (last year HiyA and fOrGG were a huge source of wins) but this week no one else won a game. BBS in one of your good matchups, HiyA? Didn't you get an allkill once? 2 beedogs out of 11.

eSTRO: Beat up Oz and barely lost to KT. Really is probably the best choice for an ace game against KT, but you can't help but wonder what would have happened if another Action vs terran game went down. Impressive improvement through this year, still room for more and the future is promising right now.

hite SPARKYZ: One of the worst teams all year got a bit of a break, Leta won twice in pretty nice fashion against Stars and they showed they're "not as bad as ACE" by 3-0ing the Air Force team. They did so well as to bump KHAN into 11th place, good for them. Celebrate with some chicken a goodbye party for go.go.

Samsung KHAN: Who knows what their deal is. The ultimate on/off team, they look fine for a while and then explode. Losing their only match this week means they are now firmly in 11th because the difference in game wins is so great between them and the rest of the teams at the bottom.

Air Force ACE: Lost both their matches this week but they showed some heart while doing it. Nearly beating MBC has to count for something, though RuBy losing to Han and Reach losing to Horang2 says a lot about their season. I like their hustle. A for effort.

Flash, who showed a chink in his invincible armor this very week, started at the 11 o'clock base on Roadrunner against the rising start Action. Both players open with standard builds, 3 hatch muta vs 1 barracks expansion. Flash then moves on to build a quick engineering bay and refinery, mining only 100 gas for the +1 attack upgrade. Flash makes 5 barracks even before Action's spire is done and pumps out bionic units. Flash moves out with his small bionic army to pressure Action before his mutalisks come out.

Action takes the 8 o'clock main expansion and kills Flash's advanced army while losing a couple of mutalisks. Flash has been pumping out of his 5 barracks, and another army moves out as soon as his first army is destroyed. Action, seeing this, goes into Flash's natural with his mutalisks and Zerglings and kills a lot of marines and SCV's. Flash brings back half of his army to defend, while harassing the 8 o'clock main base with the other half.



Action techs to hive and builds a defiler mound along with a greater spire. He also pumps drones while making only enough units to stop Flash from destroying any of his expansions. Because Flash made 5 barracks early on, his tech is slower than usual. By the time Flash moves out with his bionic + tank + vessel army, Action is able to defend with defilers, lurkers, and guardians. Flash uses wraiths to take care of the guardians.

Flash does a great job preventing Action from securing a 4th gas expansion, constantly utilizing his map control in the middle to shut down expansion attempts at 9 and 7 o'clock. With overwhelming map control at this point, Flash secures both 1 and 2 o'clock expansions and marches his army towards Action's natural expansion, seeing the minimal defense there. With clutch swarms, Action fends off the attack all while mounting a small lurker/ling/defiler attack at 1 o'clock that is handily defended by Flash.



Having seemingly secured 7 o'clock, Action now turns to try and take 9 o'clock. At 1 o'clock, Flash has built three additional factories, in preparation to switch to a tank heavy army. Flash barrels into 9 o'clock and wipes out Action's expansion attempt with ease, pulling back out to the middle of the map. Now on 4 base and with a huge vessel count numbering over 10, Flash looks to be seemingly in control of the game.

With a small zergling army, Action attempts a small attack at the 2 o'clock expansion, only to be wiped out with ease. As Flash's forces move out towards the 4 o'clock expansion, Action catches Flash's science vessels out in the open and lands 2 huge plagues on almost all of the science vessels. Action now begins pushing out towards the middle with lurker/ling/defiler. Meanwhile at 1 o'clock, Flash has at least 10 tanks just lined up, and has also taken the 3 o'clock expansion while Action has finally secured 9 o'clock.

With no sign of ultralisk tech, Action continues to pump out lurker/ling/defiler and proceeds to launch an attack at 3 o'clock, which forces a liftoff of the command center. After swarms wear off, Flash's tank heavy army is able to clean up with ease. Action now takes towards the center with a ling heavy army and launches a huge plague over all of Flash's vessels once again.



At three o'clock, we see guardians once again, attacking the turrets and units at three o'clock. Flash cleans up the guardians with ease thanks to irradiate, but loses three vessels in the process to one lone mutalisk.

Once again, Action pushes towards the center with hydra/ling/lurker/defiler al the way up to 1 o'clock, but is forced back by tank fire. Now the tides have turned, as Action now has firm control over the center of the map, pushing towards the 1 o'clock expansion. Flash continues roaming his vessels out into the open, irradiating stray defilers as Action continues his assault on 1 o'clock, taking down 3 tanks in the process.

Now having taken 10 o'clock, Action is now on 6 gas, still firmly on lurker/hydra/zergling/defiler tech. Action catches Flash's vessels once again with a huge plague that allows two mutas to kill 6 vessels. Flash attempts to drop 10 o'clock, but is denied by great scourge play, picking off both dropships. Action attempts to attack the turret ring at 2 o'clock, but doesn't micro his guardians well, losing all his guardians in the process.

Flashing to first person views, we see that Flash at 196/200 with 2.5k/750 in the bank. Action now expands towards 4 o'clock, taking the last free expansion on the map. Flash pushes out from both 1 o'clock towards the middle as well as towards 4 o'clock with marine/medic/tank armies, but is denied in both directions by clutch swarms. At 4 o'clock, Action attacks with ridiculously well placed swarms, and hydra/ling, killing off the few stray tanks pushing towards 4 o'clock.



Flash has successfully united his armies at 4 o'clock, breaking Action's lurker army in the middle with a nice defense matrix on a firebat. Flash once again pushes towards 4 o'clock, but Action with ridiculous swarm defense forces Flash to pull back temporarily. Relentlessly attacking 4 o'clock, Flash is repeatedly denied by Action's ridiculous swarm defense, as Action now has an insane number of defilers, forgoing ultralisks for more defilers. Action now has pushed his way into 3 o'clock, launching huge plagues all over the tanks, swarms all ove the place.



In the middle of the map, we see a 2 queens from Action, presumably to infest the CC at 3 o'clock. Action continues his assault on three o'clock, with a huge hydra/lurker/zergling army, wiping out Flash's low ground units at 3 o'clock. But with 10+ tanks on high ground, Flash's tanks completely melt away the units, and Flash lifts the CC at 3 o'clock well before the queen can come in for the infest.

As the action settles, Flash has cleared Action's units at 3 o'clock and is now pushing towards 10 o'clock with a marine/medic/tank army that he seemingly whipped out of nowhere. As 10 o'clock falls, the tide of the match has turned, as Action is now on the defensive after being the aggressor for the last 10 minutes of the game.



Flash reclaims 3 o'clock, and is now pushing down towards 9 o'clock with the army that just wiped out Action's 10 o'clock base. Switching to a first person view, we see Flash at 186 supply with over 3.5k/2k in the bank, while Action sits at about 160 supply, but is almost broke with only 50 minerals and 250 gas.

Flash pulls his huge marine/tank force and attacks 4 o'clock, taking advantage of tank range to blast away at trailing zerglings coming in to attack. Despite good swarms, Action just doesn't have the units to fend off Flash's tank/marine/medic/vessel army, and as 4 o'clock falls, Action GGs.

After a long time without an update I feel there's too many things to say. The match-fixing scandal really screwed some teams. People are seeing thrown games everywhere, as their expensive picks perform worse and worse!

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• Buy low! Sell high?
  WeMade FOX, CJ Entus and eSTRO have the lead in the ranking in terms of points. The three of them ended up with bad scores last round. Some teams that did good last round (like KT and MBC) went down in terms of efficiency. Playing safe in FPL will only get you to the middle of the rankings.
  
  Woongjin for example had a very good start this round, but then stayed with the same amount of points for 3 weeks. Only a couple of FPL teams in the top ranks can hold with that flaw. As we draw near to the end of this round, risky trades make all the difference.
  
  
  
• Winter is coming
  Snow is as of now, the best 'bang for your buck' pick. As FPL went back to the old scoring system, cheap picks are making all the difference. Let's crunch some numbers!
  
  Snow (2$): 26 points.
  Flying (2$): 25 points.
  Midas (2$): 24 points.
  Horang2 (2$): 24 points.
  Classic (1$): 21 points.
  
  That's 120 points for 9$. Leta costing 9$ racked up 34 points so far. Ouch!
  
  
  
• One man stand
  No. I'm not talking about Flash. With the match-fixing scandal hite was left without a coach and a manager and lost 3 'big' names in their line-up. go.go, Yarnc, type-b. Leta is one of the few strong cards left in hite along with Horang2.
  
  Despite that, hite managed to go 2-0 last week (3-0 Air Force ACE, 3-2 Woongjin). As player choices narrow for the team, hite trades get hot. Hite's current roster consists of: Horang2, Britney, Leta, PuMa, HoGiL, ASuka-Jr according to Horang2 (who knows what happened to Tazza, HakSoo, etc). That only leaves two choices per race, some easy trades in there it seems!
  
  
  
• One week left!
  Only one week of Proleague left for this round. And as the trade gains and weekly rank changes show, the top is up for grabs. GTR stayed in the lead for a long time, but despite his smart trading (+54 points for trading) he couldn't keep it. 'Who is playing who?, 'What teams are playing twice?', 'Who is playing ACE?' is all things people in the top 30 should be asking themselves to do the last trades for this round.
  
  
  
• But ITW, what's the moral of the story?
  DON'T PICK RORO FOR ANTITEAM. No, seriously, don't do it. He will get double the line-up appearances you think he will and ace every time and win (even vs Jaedong). He rapes anti-teams for a living.
  
  See you guys next week! :3

The rounds really do fly quickly. One moment, I'm sitting here, watching KTFlash fail against WeMade FOX in the first week. I blink my eyes, and Flash has crushed Mind. I blink again, and KT loses the next three. One last time and... it's week 7 already? Holy cow. This round has definitely brought out a lot of new stuff. New players and teams have risen, such as WeMade, and old teams such as OZ and KHAN have fallen from the top. Well, this last week is going to be short. There are only three days of playing time left, and each team is going to be looking to wrap up the round by playing the one team they have not yet played. Looking through the matches for this week, I could not help but feel just a tad bit sad, knowing that the season is coming to an end, but after this week, Round 5 awaits, and the road to the Championships draws nearer.