Felt like Bisu was playing worse than usual here but Flash was on fire, more than usual, just incredible control at every position and tactical awareness while macroing like a beast. Very very hard to beat someone who plays so perfectly.
Is Terran OP? Maybe slightly. I think the problem is most other Terran pros aren't capable of executing it as Flash does, it's not really comparable to any other historical pro situation either I think because the skill of all players has increased so much. But then what do you do? You can't really nerf a race because of 1 player. We just have to accept him as the champion for his truly exceptional talent. I feel that Flash definitely has a strong psychological advantage vs most opponents and pros like Bisu seem to be quite fragile when it comes to that. Look at his previous games vs Baxter, he's like a different player.
What sc rm really needs right now is to reincite passion from talented players like Jaedong and put Larva on an intensive ZvZ training program. I also think there should be some discussion on rebalances and bug fixing.
if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN
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whamm!   Albania. Nov 01 2017 15:27. Posts 11625
vultures should cost slightly more,
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YoMeR   United States. Nov 04 2017 07:37. Posts 12435
omg who is this solo noob casting. he's so fucking bad it's depressing.
eZ Life.
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whammbot   Belarus. Nov 05 2017 02:24. Posts 517
that guy literally killed the ASL lmao
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Ryan Neilly   United States. Nov 06 2017 04:18. Posts 1631
i just love checkin in on day9, him and his brother really kick ass met them wcgusa been too long marshall [dak]tnt and i got so fuckin stoned back then it was awesome ahaha
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Daut   United States. Nov 08 2017 02:09. Posts 8955
NewbSaibot: 18 TIMES THE SPEED OF LIGHT. Because FUCK YOU, Daut
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ggplz   Sweden. Nov 08 2017 02:39. Posts 16784
if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN
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blackjacki2   United States. Nov 08 2017 06:52. Posts 2581
Rain fucked up in his series. Bisu fucked up 1 game vs Larva by trying to out muscle 4 base turtle Zerg with 3 base Protoss. I mean technically I couldn't compete with any of them but strategy wise even the highest lvl players do stupid shit.
-> You have larva turtling with sunks, lurker, scourges etc. .. instead of going full blast attack mode and sacrifice all observers/units inefficiently in the process, just go from 3 base to 4 or 5 and turtle yourself while getting corsair/shuttle harassment going. The koreans are godly in SC1 but sometimes they are just very uncreative in what to do at times. Protoss is great defensively, just get more/same amount of bases as Zerg and don't throw Shuttles+units away by trying too hard vs a prepared Zerg with scourges/hydra/overlord all over the map.
Rain's games were so disappointing/frustrating from a strategy perspective. But I love that SC1 is active again and if blizzard would have done a better job with the relaunch it would be even bigger. SC2 seems to die tho, but I think it has hugely to do with the macro mechanics, which basically game theoretically incentivize you to favor macro and be defensive instead of offensive/1 basing. SC1 is much more nuanced with 1 base tactics and every worker means so much more. Just overall more enjoyable because turtling can be punished harder and just in generally the mechanics make for a better game imho.
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CCMoz   United Kingdom. Nov 10 2017 10:48. Posts 925
Agreed FiSheYe.
my balls your mouth
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Daut   United States. Nov 12 2017 16:00. Posts 8955
NewbSaibot: 18 TIMES THE SPEED OF LIGHT. Because FUCK YOU, Daut
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NMcNasty   United States. Nov 12 2017 18:31. Posts 2039
Surprise, Flash wins handily. Nice auto-win hard counter in game 1 but other wins he just pushes out and it’s over.
No real answer to him really, but I do feel his opponents are losing a little too quickly. Maybe tech and power up a little less, and concentrate on having more units for the mid game push that eventually comes. At least make it to late game. Early and mid game there’s just no chance.
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Daut   United States. Nov 12 2017 19:42. Posts 8955
I really wish hero had 3 lurkers on that ramp in game 4, but doubt it makes any difference. Awesome job game 3 to force drops right after the mech switch.
Still very sad we didn't get Larva/Flash and Hero/Bisu. Larva wouldn't have been able to win game 3 the way Hero was able to, but he would have gotten 3rd gas consistently and turtled up to defilers better.
NewbSaibot: 18 TIMES THE SPEED OF LIGHT. Because FUCK YOU, Daut
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blackjacki2   United States. Nov 12 2017 20:09. Posts 2581
whammbot   Belarus. Nov 13 2017 10:13. Posts 517
We want that dream battle of two equally skilled players but we all know that never happens now in BW. If Flash goes to army we'll always be thinking that he stomps everyone no question and be a little bugged by it so interest will kinda fade. Soulkey is great in dealing with Flash in their battles online but you can clearly see Flash eventually just catching up to him and shutting him down after a week of studying. SK is the only Flash threat in a bo5 out there right now, period. Unfortunately he cannot devote 100% of practice/study only to Terran, he dies to P and Z in the process.
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blackjacki2   United States. Nov 13 2017 19:28. Posts 2581
I really feel kind of bad for zergs having to face Flash. You can't win in the early-game but you can lose. You can't win in the mid-game but you can lose. You can win in the late game but you have to micro your ass off with defilers and you can still lose. They literally have to play optimally just to not die for the first 15 minutes just so they can hope to have a chance to win. Flash is just the best I've ever seen at finding any chink in the armor to exploit and win the game. He knows exactly how many sunkens you need at your natural, exactly how many lurkers you need on a ramp. If at any point you have 1 too few it's just gg.
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whammbot   Belarus. Nov 13 2017 23:51. Posts 517
yea it's getting pretty bad. we used to see some youngin catch up with whoever's been stompin everybody but in Flash's reign it's quite clear nobody comes close to consistently beating him or even closing in skill-wise. the worst thing about Flash is that he is never fancy nor does amazing new things, just godly mechanics with unbelievable gamesense. SoulKey is coming in to his own but poor guy is so focused on beating Flash his ZvZ has turned to shit lately lol