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//: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm |OT| Like Riding a Bike
- Thread starter Corran Horn
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Pretty long lines i guess. Im not familliar with fan expo but i heard a lot of people go so you should go a bit early. Also food is expensive inside so you should bring snacks, its also hard to go in and out repeatedly
Also flash iem group is..mm easy? Not familiiar with scarlets play lately
demosthenes
Member
Are you expecting lines to watch SC2 though? I wasn't.
Isnt sc inside the fan expo venue? The lines are to get inside itself
That said im not too familiiar with fan expo so im gonna read up more
Yeah and im going for four days so i can update you
If he plays the way he has been for the last couple months, ezpz.
Want to hear something even more insane? If we go by the month of August alone
Flash is 297 (80.56%) in games and 151 (93.75%) in matches.
http://aligulac.com/players/55/resu...ntry=all&bestof=all&offline=both&game=all&op=
The only match he lost was against zest
And August is getting close to over.
Is there *anything* better than a live rock concert on the ACDC or Iron Maiden scale. So, damn, good. I could blast their songs all night and all morning and my god ACDC was *incredible* live
Maiden was more intense but ACDC was better because it was a whole damn stadium AND we had a thunderstorm during thunderstruck I mean really
Maiden was more intense but ACDC was better because it was a whole damn stadium AND we had a thunderstorm during thunderstruck I mean really
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Kherion? What the fuck happened to your name, Biskie?! Please tell me this is some guy faking, or at least say it's some sort of sick joke...
On topic: what exactly "triggered" Flash lately? Anyone know?
On topic: what exactly "triggered" Flash lately? Anyone know?
unknownstranger
Member
Probably got hyped from Proleague playoffs and hasn't let off since then.
Part of it I think is that Flash has always been the predictable player, he would just execute at such a level that he would run you over given enough time (looking at his BW matches in this thread shows this). Even when he was first starting in SCII people were commenting that the 'Flash Macro' was still evident in the transition. Part of the reason it has taken him this long to really get back up to form again is probably because there are so many more funky openings and timings in SCII than BW, so finding the sweet spot build is much harder as is learning how to properly adapt to the scouting information you have. If you look at his recent games, he is opening the same way every game (per race) (with some variation depending on the map) but he seems to have found a way to play in each game that, through his raw power, neutralizes a lot of gimmicky play from his opponent and constantly sets him up safely for the mid and late game where he just wears his opponents down over time, so far people are just unable to keep up with him as long as the game goes on long enough and his reactions to cheese, even when caught off guard, are optimal.
But he also seems to have adapted to how active and constant terran has to be on the map, which is a change from brood war.
TL DR: I do not think anything triggered him (aside from proleague maybe), he has talked about, even when his Tv results were only average or above average, that he was dominating the team house, I think it is just a matter of him slowly learning more and more through accumulated experience, to the point where he has started putting noticeable distance between himself and most other players again. The thing that really to my mind sets Flash a part is that he is an analytical monster on top of having amazing mechanics. He never seems to 'forget' tricks, or lessons learned, every game he has played since switching over has slowly been making him stronger. He does not become stagnant, he only improves.
TL DR: Flash is a fucking Borg Queen.
But he also seems to have adapted to how active and constant terran has to be on the map, which is a change from brood war.
TL DR: I do not think anything triggered him (aside from proleague maybe), he has talked about, even when his Tv results were only average or above average, that he was dominating the team house, I think it is just a matter of him slowly learning more and more through accumulated experience, to the point where he has started putting noticeable distance between himself and most other players again. The thing that really to my mind sets Flash a part is that he is an analytical monster on top of having amazing mechanics. He never seems to 'forget' tricks, or lessons learned, every game he has played since switching over has slowly been making him stronger. He does not become stagnant, he only improves.
TL DR: Flash is a fucking Borg Queen.
Yeah, I think it's a matter of slow perfection. Knowing exactly the right build orders and responses, and exactly the capabilities of each of his units. For example, there was one game I thought he was too late in pulling SCVs to shore up the bunkers, but nope his timing was perfect, and he lost the least possible mining time, not to mention units. I think a zerg like True will give him problems being such an overwhelming force, but with protoss early game strats pretty weak in the current meta, he should do just fine.
Hopefully (fingers crossed) he will continue to perform well (everyone ragged on his finals in Shoutcraft, but up to those last 3 games he was consistently giving nerd chills) and his return along with the upcoming season of Proleague (along with the evident commitment to the game from Kespa) will help the game continue to rise in popularity in Korea. The games in the proleague finals weren't epic tier, but I think the venue and spectacle of it was actually pretty important for the perception of the game in Korea. We'll see.
unknownstranger
Member
He has one of the easier groups outside of Dark.
I remember pro league being PACKED for his birthday or something this year, and when he won the crowd went nuts.
Slow perfection is a good way to put it. Flash was not called "The Ultimate Weapon" simply because his macro and control were ungodly in Brood War, he is the total package.
While the nature of SCII may have made his macro abilities less pronounced, and SCII being a far more volatile game has only slowed his ability to refine, you can't beat his mind. All the qualities that made him "god" in Brood War are still there, he is inevitable.
*now watch Flash go out last in his group*
Slow perfection is a good way to put it. Flash was not called "The Ultimate Weapon" simply because his macro and control were ungodly in Brood War, he is the total package.
While the nature of SCII may have made his macro abilities less pronounced, and SCII being a far more volatile game has only slowed his ability to refine, you can't beat his mind. All the qualities that made him "god" in Brood War are still there, he is inevitable.
*now watch Flash go out last in his group*
Watching Journeys stream while waiting
http://www.twitch.tv/journey92
All the better, the masses demand blood.
http://www.twitch.tv/journey92
All the better, the masses demand blood.
StopMakingSense
Member
That game was hilarious.
unknownstranger
Member
LOL what a ridiculous game 1.
unknownstranger
Member
Solar gonna 10 pool next game.
unknownstranger
Member
Very entertaining series.
http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/2e5hih/kespa_ama/
How does KeSPA feel about the state of SCII, is their business growing or is it stagnant? Are you doing better or worse than last year?
How does KeSPA feel about the state of SCII, is their business growing or is it stagnant? Are you doing better or worse than last year?
StopMakingSense
Member
This is a very entertaining night so far.
Holding the Reaper back after showing in televised games him losing or cancelling CC to 4-6 lings. IT WAS ALL A BAIT TO ADVANCE IN RO32.
Flash with the fucking great engagement timings on +2 and +3 obliterating with heavy marauder comp to vaporize roaches then keeps them up with a huge medivac count bolstered by only making that one early tank. Beautiful.
Flash with the fucking great engagement timings on +2 and +3 obliterating with heavy marauder comp to vaporize roaches then keeps them up with a huge medivac count bolstered by only making that one early tank. Beautiful.
