ive just seen the first game... I cannot believe Flash was so cocky/stupid enough to think going for interceptors would actually work, if he had gone for carrier instead of interceptor he would have easily won it, and he did this for like 10 minutes straight at least what the shit? there's never any reason to go for interceptors even if a protoss is out of minerals because it's still faster to go for carriers than kill all those interceptors. And the rate he was losing goliaths and the time and money it takes to rebuild goliaths is wayyyyy much more than losing interceptors and time/money it takes to rebuild them..that was the most retarded game I've ever seen, because I've lost a game the exact same way long ago (when I had a humongous lead and all protoss had were carriers).
just glancing through this thread makes me a little sick
and what the hell is with all the people saying flash had bad goliath micro? it had nothing to do with his micro ability, jeezes christ I don't know how he could have made it more obvious that he wanted to just kill interceptors, who knows why he did it (I still cant figure it out.. maybe he was annoyed at Stork not leaving and wanted to show "I can even win by just killing interceptors, thats how ahead I am" or perhaps "I'll eventually win because he'll run out of interceptor money while I won't (yet unaware of Stork's island expo)"
Regardless of what he was thinking It was probably the worst decision I've ever seen anyone make. But it was so obviously intentional, how do you people say "wow he has bad goliath micro" ..... it's just as bad as the flood of dumb comments made during games @ SC2.org's live chat
They both played like shit in game one. Stork for the first 10 minutes and Flash for the rest.
Game 2 was Hitchhiker being the gayest map ever made.
Game 3 was Stork playing like a man and Flash having no answer. He should have done his gay rax/gas rush again. It's clear he doesn't have a clue for Monty Hall.
I'm disappointed somewhat, but I feel that Stork plays to the level of his competition, so you can't really be hard on a guy for the way he wins. Flash on the other hand played like a complete joke. I really couldn't believe a guy with such crazy TvP stats could pull crap like THAT.
Simply put, this is the most retarded series I have ever watched. If I wasn't so pissed I'd have been laughing my ass off the whole time like the rest of you.
Whether you like how he got to where he is or not, he was an OSL semi-finalist competing for a 3rd-4th place match. It's not like he didn't deserve to be where he was. Granted, there could have been better opponents, but he made it to where he is.
Oh come on mana, don't be so mean to the little fellow.
I really wanted Flash to get owned because of the cheezy way he got around bisu. I hated bisu for losing like that... twice. But I never seen THIS comming.
First game, yeah, flash screwed up big time. He wanted the limit to make sure he gets the win, well, he didn't.
But Game 2 was art. Hitchhiker is a gay map, but it had little to do with the outcome of the game. The same could have happened on other maps too. Flash didn't lose because of the map. He lost because he made awful decisions. He didn't go back to his base soon enough, and because of that he lost a LOT of tanks. About 3-4 at his main, then when he finally decided to come back, 4 more. And to what? 1 goon. 1 reaver. 1 scout. Not to mention 5 rines and over 10 scvs. Apart from that he also thought that clearing out stork's main would mean gg. What kind of progamer doesn't consider a hidden expo in that situation? His lack of experience cought up with him. One too many bad decisions gave stork the upper-hand in a game that was clearly his.
And game 3 was bad because he let stork get carriers. Those things are horrible to fight on monty, so he should have been more agressive or so. You're saying he should have done his gay rush again, but he was 0-2. It would have taken tremendous ammounts of iron balls to do a rush like that when you're 0-2, epecially if your opponent was aware of the possibility that you'd try it. I think he was emotionally distroyed after the first two fuck-ups to be in any position to fight back in game 3.
I don't see why you're so pissed off though, a big part of his stats in TvP were cheeses/well timed rushes, stork just knew how to give him difficult decisions, hoping he would make the wrong choices. And it worked.
stork... your play in game 2 was.... i dunno... FUCKING AMAZING.. no words can account to the greatness you have brought to aiur... however, dont be fooled. the next OSL will not go to you, but the fall sasin toss, ANYTIME!!!!
i was very impressed by flash's play, he didn't get huge leads in the first two games by accident. but stork was like a phoenix and once killed came back from the ashes and made brilliant comebacks. 2 games added to my hall of fame folder... that was some crazy shit!
Actually I didn't watch game 2 and 3, but clearly Stork gained the momentum after the ridiculous display of crappy play from both sides that was game one, but especially Flash's inability to kill of Stork.
Wtf did Flash do? Sure he wanted to kill interceptors...it's not like he tried to target the carriers but failed to do so. But the question is, WTF was he thinking. He was so much in lead and had Stork by the balls, and I got so angry watching the game, I actually yelled out loud "Kill the fucking carriers you fucking moron!"
Seldom have I seen a supposedly skilled player like Flash loose a game like this, it was nothing less than pathetic.
His vult micro is great and he find opportunities to harass Stork alot in the first game. Then he proceeds by expoing all over and pumping out a large number of tanks and goliaths + melting Storks entire ground army at 11.
Then he fucking went on loosing the game, I don't fucking get it and probably never will.
don't mind me, i am just changing the urls to working links so i can right click
Not only thx very much to Yakii for his outstanding work thus far on releasing these vods in such format - but lately I haven't been able to get them to DL, but I used to be able to. For the past few days now, whenever I try his released VOD's, they wouldn't get any progress on them, and stay at 0%, however, now that this guy has re-uploaded them, w/ the URL links for right-click saving, they work again!! so yay and thx to both of u for making these available to another fan.. Protoss fan