Game 1: I didn't get to see it completely, but the end gave me chills down my spine. Very recommended. Game 2: Once again I couldn't watch the whole game, but somehow got back just in time to see the end, and realize its awesomeness. Game 3: No words, I repeat, no words, will ever be enough to describe this game. Game of the night. Game 4: The icing of the cake.
ZerO vs Flash rematch would be a headliner of the day. ZerO vs Stats almost as good. Really vs Flash could be excellent, Light vs Flash ditto, although either one probably gets smashed by a KT Protoss/beats any KT Zerg easily. If Action's on the right map he could give us a good game; Soulkey if he's on ditto. free vs Flash? free vs random KT Zerg? HoeJJa vs a Protoss? There's so much potential in this match.
My predictions: Roo < Crazy-Hydra Stats > Crazy-Hydra Stats > Soulkey Stats < free Action > free Action > Zero
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On March 19 2011 12:39 Musoeun wrote: ZerO vs Flash rematch would be a headliner of the day. ZerO vs Stats almost as good. Really vs Flash could be excellent, Light vs Flash ditto, although either one probably gets smashed by a KT Protoss/beats any KT Zerg easily. If Action's on the right map he could give us a good game; Soulkey if he's on ditto. free vs Flash? free vs random KT Zerg? HoeJJa vs a Protoss? There's so much potential in this match.
Light and Flash have been trading wins and losses ever since last year's WL final, and according to the record now it's Light's turn to win
On March 19 2011 12:39 Musoeun wrote: ZerO vs Flash rematch would be a headliner of the day. ZerO vs Stats almost as good. Really vs Flash could be excellent, Light vs Flash ditto, although either one probably gets smashed by a KT Protoss/beats any KT Zerg easily. If Action's on the right map he could give us a good game; Soulkey if he's on ditto. free vs Flash? free vs random KT Zerg? HoeJJa vs a Protoss? There's so much potential in this match.
Light and Flash have been trading wins and losses ever since last year's WL final, and according to the record now it's Light's turn to win
Flash going to go out first because of the maps (so he doesn't have to play Aztec or BR). Unfortunately, Flash has bad luck when he's not the final boss, but Chinboss and mafiaboss will be right behind him to clean up the leftovers.
On March 19 2011 13:02 moopie wrote: Flash going to go out first because of the maps (so he doesn't have to play Aztec or BR). Unfortunately, Flash has bad luck when he's not the final boss, but Chinboss and mafiaboss will be right behind him to clean up the leftovers.
On March 19 2011 12:40 mnesthes wrote: Light and Flash have been trading wins and losses ever since last year's WL final, and according to the record now it's Light's turn to win
On March 19 2011 12:50 Hinanawi wrote: Should be a good match, Flash said that Stars is the team he's most afraid of.
It makes sense. Free, Zero, and Light can all legitimately take games off of him, especially with preparation. At the moment there's only two other teams that can field even two players that can do that (SKT1 and Hite), let alone one of each race.
On March 19 2011 13:09 night terrors wrote: Light will win.
Light is terrible TvP this season, I really think this is a free win for KT.
The thing is.. if this season is going to keep up with itself then Light must win.
Stats plays mediocre for most of the round and then all kills SKT.
MBC breaks KT's streak and then gets beaten by Ace.
It only follows that Light, know for his abyssmal TvP, beats Stats after his AK.
Mmm.. after reading this post I realize that one thing doesnt follow the other, but what I mean is that this round has been constant in its lack of constancy.
stats loses two arbiters for nothing after they're trapped at 6?? but actually it's stats 2.5 (+1 building) mining to light 2 now so stats is very much still in this
That loss wasn't demeaning at all for light, he played well and had a good chance of winning it, I feel that his TvP improved since he went to woongjin
Amazing storms up at the 1 o clock and clutch stasis at the 6 brings home a comback win for Stats!
I don't know if stats won that game, so much as light beat himself. Gave away his lead after emp on 3 arbitors to muscle his way around the map and get two bases erased, but that isn't to discredit stats from playing near perfectly for the rest of the game. Definitely worth the watch!
Props to Stats. I can only imagine what it would be like to see this situation again and not automatically give in, when you play Flash on a daily basis.
On March 19 2011 13:43 deL wrote: I can smell the Stats all-kill.
I hope so, but i think Zero can block it.
Stats is on a 3-win streak against Zero, rolling the latter all 3 times in macro games. Unlikely, especially not when the map pool is unfavourable against zerg
On March 19 2011 13:43 Elyvilon wrote: Why wouldn't you hold Light until after stats has been beaten? I don't really understand.
Maybe you can put it this way: 5th is Aztec and 7th is BR, so WJ predicts KT to send Flash from the beginning, so they got Light practiced for La Mancha to snipe Flash.
On March 19 2011 13:43 Elyvilon wrote: Why wouldn't you hold Light until after stats has been beaten? I don't really understand.
Maybe you can put it this way: 5th is Aztec and 7th is BR, so WJ predicts KT to send Flash from the beginning, so they got Light practiced for La Mancha to snipe Flash.
lol I read BR = Battle Royale.
anyway Zero/Soulkey/Free??/Really??? have a good shot vs Stats, but could go either way... we'll see
On March 19 2011 13:43 deL wrote: I can smell the Stats all-kill.
I hope so, but i think Zero can block it.
Stats is on a 3-win streak against Zero, rolling the latter all 3 times in macro games. Unlikely, especially not when the map pool is unfavourable against zerg
wow 3 game streak vs zero, did not know that. impressive
On March 19 2011 14:04 POWEROUTAGE wrote: Stats playing too passively I feel.
He doesn't harass the 4base zerg, didn't do much with his corsairs either.
i think he's playing really really solid. at least he's macroing up and matching sk's base count. he actually has more bases than sk now. and stats is taking his time to gather a sizable force off his bases. he's gonna roll sk over imo
On March 19 2011 14:04 POWEROUTAGE wrote: Stats playing too passively I feel.
He doesn't harass the 4base zerg, didn't do much with his corsairs either.
i think he's playing really really solid. at least he's macroing up and matching sk's base count. he actually has more bases than sk now. and stats is taking his time to gather a sizable force off his bases. he's gonna roll sk over imo
On March 19 2011 14:04 POWEROUTAGE wrote: Stats playing too passively I feel.
He doesn't harass the 4base zerg, didn't do much with his corsairs either.
i think he's playing really really solid. at least he's macroing up and matching sk's base count. he actually has more bases than sk now. and stats is taking his time to gather a sizable force off his bases. he's gonna roll sk over imo
Yep forget what I said
protoss ball imba
hahaha yeee protoss ball is pretty strong especially when reavers are in it. sk should use defilers.. nice name by the way LOL
Okay, Soulkey. For every game you don't cheese, you don't get dinner. You pulled the exact same shit against Bisu on the same map. 9pool into no harass against a 12nexus. What. The. Hell.
One question though. Even though he ended up with a good protoss death ball at the end, it felt like he wasn't reinforced very much after that big surround attack by SK.
I'm thrilled he won, but it felt kind of weird how he just had this one group of 7-8 archons, some reavers, and not much else for a while. He had five bases, you'd think he would've been reinforced a lot more.
On March 19 2011 14:13 SimonB wrote: That was awesome by Stats.
One question though. Even though he ended up with a good protoss death ball at the end, it felt like he wasn't reinforced very much after that big surround attack by SK.
I'm thrilled he won, but it felt kind of weird how he just had this one group of 7-8 archons, some reavers, and not much else for a while. He had five bases, you'd think he would've been reinforced a lot more.
yeah i was wondering the same thing too.. he wasn't sending any reinforcements really. off 5 bases tosses usually constantly reinforce.. but oh well. he played really well nonetheless
On March 19 2011 14:16 POWEROUTAGE wrote: I think they'll send Zero next, circuit breaker a decent map for ZvP and apparently zero is 7-1 on it However if stats DOES manage to win, GG woongjin
I'm already quite satisfied with stats' performance though, his play looks ridiculously good right now
Come from behind win from Stats. OMG his storms are so accurate...He is slowly copying Flash's style,,, adapting to the situation, recovering from drought, reacting positively to each circumstance.
zero had to all-in with those hydras (late tech), and stats defended it fairly well. losing the natural didn't mean gg for stats...he still had his storms, and he used it :D
On March 19 2011 14:43 ScytheMan01 wrote: so what happened? no stream here...
Zero hydra busted Stats then double expanded to get up to 4 bases. He then droned up and made a constant hydra army. It got to the point where he even killed Stats natural and had four fairly well running bases himself, but his tech was very late. Stats then came out with some kind of amazing push and stormed Zero into oblivion. You have to watch the match to truly understand how amazingly Stats played.
What happened to all the streams? Craton is playing LoL, hirosue is playing BW, and GTR left >_>
Amazing play by stats tho, i thought he was dead. Zero's transition could have been better after he killed that nex, it was pretty clear stats wouldn't be noving out for a while
On March 19 2011 14:43 ScytheMan01 wrote: so what happened? no stream here...
Zero hydra busted Stats then double expanded to get up to 4 bases. He then droned up and made a constant hydra army. It got to the point where he even killed Stats natural and had four fairly well running bases himself, but his tech was very late. Stats then came out with some kind of amazing push and stormed Zero into oblivion. You have to watch the match to truly understand how amazingly Stats played.
STORM and amazing goon micro, excellent macro in d end, down 4:1 base. after 5 mins BOOM! He still won
On March 19 2011 14:41 ghrur wrote: Stats is the initial boss, Flash is the final boss.
in Disgea its called Mid boss.
But Mid boss is Hoejja.
Stats is the impossible boss misplaced on level 1 or 2 in one of those ridiculously hard NES games. Hoejja is the suspiciously easy fake boss before the real end boss.
Hot damnnn. Last I was reading it looked like he was in trouble against Light and then he wins. Then I come back and it sounds like his natural is busted by ZerO and hes surprisingly holding his defense, only for me to come back to check again and he won.
wow his performance this series and vs skt1 has shown chintoss is an incredible all around player... he really has become a top protoss.. he's well rounded and has incredible sense and control. go chintoss!
Four Legendary Toss (based on the four symbols in Chinese mythology) Stats: Azure Dragon of the East Tyson: Vermillion Bird of the South Movie: White Tiger of the West Snow: Black Tortoise of the North
On March 19 2011 14:52 Ryo wrote: Made by black-paper on dcinside:
Four Legendary Toss (based on the four symbols in Chinese mythology) Stats: Azure Dragon of the East Tyson: Vermillion Bird of the South Movie: White Tiger of the West Snow: Black Tortoise of the North
On March 19 2011 14:41 ghrur wrote: Stats is the initial boss, Flash is the final boss.
in Disgea its called Mid boss.
But Mid boss is Hoejja.
Stats is the impossible boss misplaced on level 1 or 2 in one of those ridiculously hard NES games. Hoejja is the suspiciously easy fake boss before the real end boss.
We're talking about Disgaea here so Hoejja is obviously midboss.
On March 19 2011 14:52 Ryo wrote: Made by black-paper on dcinside:
Four Legendary Toss (based on the four symbols in Chinese mythology) Stats: Azure Dragon of the East Tyson: Vermillion Bird of the South Movie: White Tiger of the West Snow: Black Tortoise of the North
On March 19 2011 14:52 Ryo wrote: Made by black-paper on dcinside:
Four Legendary Toss (based on the four symbols in Chinese mythology) Stats: Azure Dragon of the East Tyson: Vermillion Bird of the South Movie: White Tiger of the West Snow: Black Tortoise of the North
On March 19 2011 14:52 Ryo wrote: Made by black-paper on dcinside:
Four Legendary Toss (based on the four symbols in Chinese mythology) Stats: Azure Dragon of the East Tyson: Vermillion Bird of the South Movie: White Tiger of the West Snow: Black Tortoise of the North
On March 19 2011 14:52 Ryo wrote: Made by black-paper on dcinside:
Four Legendary Toss (based on the four symbols in Chinese mythology) Stats: Azure Dragon of the East Tyson: Vermillion Bird of the South Movie: White Tiger of the West Snow: Black Tortoise of the North
Tyson? No Stork and Bisu?
The word "shin" has 2 meanings. Myth/legend or new. It's titled Sa Bang Shin Toss.
On March 19 2011 14:52 Ryo wrote: Made by black-paper on dcinside:
Four Legendary Toss (based on the four symbols in Chinese mythology) Stats: Azure Dragon of the East Tyson: Vermillion Bird of the South Movie: White Tiger of the West Snow: Black Tortoise of the North
Tyson? No Stork and Bisu?
Legendary as in the four symbols are legends in Chinese mythology. It's more like the four new dragons, rather than replacing the old ones.
Stats has been kicking ass, holy smokes. Funny to think that even if someone does manage to take him down, they have to take down Flash afterwards hahahaha.
Stats did not just beat 2 really good teams in 8 straight games. Stats absolutely fucking crushed them. The only close game was a zerg trying to cheese him.
On March 19 2011 15:11 BLinD-RawR wrote: @OP why you no use TLPD?
I love black, hate fancy colors.
On March 19 2011 15:17 Musou wrote: Wonder what Stats will get for player ratings on Fomos today. Will he get another S-class rating for his play against Zero like he did against Sun?
On March 19 2011 15:17 Black[CAT] wrote: Congrats! Chin-toss! 2 AK in a row!! Sad though, cant watch Flash play...
Stats is playing like the protoss version of Flash right now. He's absolutely insane in all three matchups so I don't mind at all that Flash is getting less playtime.
Stats looking incredible...he's looking even more confident than flash in his recent games. KT imba at the moment with action getting back in his form, stats looking beautiful, flash being flash. Must be violet cheering up his fellow protoss 8D
On March 19 2011 15:16 TwoToneTerran wrote: Stats did not just beat 2 really good teams in 8 straight games. Stats absolutely fucking crushed them. The only close game was a zerg trying to cheese him.
The sun game was pretty close too, in both games he lost his natural but then proceeded to roll them hard
like a boss Man I'm absolutely elated by stats, he plays so ridiculously well now. Stats for S class?
On March 19 2011 15:25 POWEROUTAGE wrote: it's like stats is the champion of the pokemon league if you beat him, you get to beat the REAL final boss, steven/cynthia (FLASH)
Then Flash is the Red of the Pokemon because you need to fight him after Elite Four.
Too bad winners league is over, Stats won't have the chance to AK three times in a row. I've never been a big Stats fan, but I admit he played beautiful games today. And by beautiful, I don't only mean efficient, I mean with style.
On March 19 2011 15:35 endy wrote: Too bad winners league is over, Stats won't have the chance to AK three times in a row. I've never been a big Stats fan, but I admit he played beautiful games today. And by beautiful, I don't only mean efficient, I mean with style.
Winners' League ain't over yet. The last game of WL closes with KT vs. FOX, which gives another chance for the Chintoss to AK again.
Poor Stars, suffering the same fate as SKT... If you want Stars fans, I can post a translation of their previous interview against KHAN; it's quite funny (BM) and has ZerO in it. :<
On March 19 2011 15:35 endy wrote: Too bad winners league is over, Stats won't have the chance to AK three times in a row. I've never been a big Stats fan, but I admit he played beautiful games today. And by beautiful, I don't only mean efficient, I mean with style.
There's still one match against FOX left
On March 19 2011 15:38 Spica wrote: Poor Stars, suffering the same fate as SKT... If you want Stars fans, I can post a translation of their previous interview against KHAN; it's quite funny (BM) and has ZerO in it. :<
SKT is not out of the race for the WL playoff yet. >_>
On March 19 2011 15:35 endy wrote: Too bad winners league is over, Stats won't have the chance to AK three times in a row. I've never been a big Stats fan, but I admit he played beautiful games today. And by beautiful, I don't only mean efficient, I mean with style.
On March 19 2011 15:38 Spica wrote: Poor Stars, suffering the same fate as SKT... If you want Stars fans, I can post a translation of their previous interview against KHAN; it's quite funny (BM) and has ZerO in it. :<
SKT is not out of the race for the WL playoff yet. >_>
On March 19 2011 15:46 TwoToneTerran wrote: Those fomos ratings are dead wrong, he played even better tonight than he did against SKT, and the Woongjin players played better than SKT as well.
From the quote on the bottom their analysis said Stats could have gotten an S rank if his opponents played better. I guess he got downgraded because they considered the Stars players as playing worse than the SKT players.
On March 19 2011 15:24 hauton wrote: Stats has now become Final Boss Flash is now Bonus Boss - the extra-hard one you fight if you do well against the Final Boss
hahah, true, true
stats ak on skt and stars in a row, what. is. up. ?!
On March 19 2011 15:24 hauton wrote: Stats has now become Final Boss Flash is now Bonus Boss - the extra-hard one you fight if you do well against the Final Boss
hahah, true, true
stats ak on skt and stars in a row, what. is. up. ?!
just how many boses does KT have? i presume that Action is the "mini"-boss? rofl
On March 19 2011 12:50 Hinanawi wrote: Should be a good match, Flash said that Stars is the team he's most afraid of.
Well if Flash meets Zero in the ace match STars have a good chance to win this match.
Zero is historically one of the absolute worst ace players in proleague. I'd put Zero's chances of beating Flash at their worst in an ace match.
...You mean like last round?
This was awhile ago but you misunderstood me. I meant Zero is a very weak ace player pertaining to playing in a 7th match to win it all. Zero is awful under pressure.
Stats passed Stork in elo rating and is number 4 now (with new peak elo record of himself). Also, Top-5 are 3 P, 1 T and 1 Z. Good, I hope now P players will stop cry about siege tanks/T imba
interestingly stats seems to be getting more talk about how good he is etc etc compared to bisu, after his 3rd consecutive ak maybe its just me but it seems like it. and i dont know why
On March 19 2011 23:29 konadora wrote: stats all-kill, wtf? again? and all 4 recommended?
dayummmmm
Watch Stats vs Zero. If you're going to watch a game from this series at all make it that one. Absolutely insane.
On March 19 2011 23:44 evilfatsh1t wrote: interestingly stats seems to be getting more talk about how good he is etc etc compared to bisu, after his 3rd consecutive ak maybe its just me but it seems like it. and i dont know why
Are you joking? Bisu's AKs got insane amounts of attention, every single one of them. Maybe you need to go back to the threads because they were awhile ago -- also, while every single all kill is impressive, allkilling SKT and Stars is much more impressive than allkilling Wemade and MBC.
On March 20 2011 01:43 kamikami wrote: The problem with Stats is, he has more Terran fans than Protoss fans lol. This makes him look like he's conspiring with the enemy lol.
My main was Terran but after getting bashed up in iccup for my weak game play against all TvX than I switched to toss and stats become one of my favourite players to get source on builds and unit control so why not :D I don't see a problem of t fans rooting for a protoss hero . So let me say again CHINBOSS is the boss respect that :D.
On March 20 2011 01:43 kamikami wrote: The problem with Stats is, he has more Terran fans than Protoss fans lol. This makes him look like he's conspiring with the enemy lol.
It's called "cross-racial awesomeness"... Happens when Reach is your mentor, and Flash is your bro. btw we desperately need a Chinterview
It must be a nightmare to practice for a match against KT in Winner's League now.
I remember reading some progamer say that all teams mainly practice vs Terran when playing KT to take down Flash, but now Stats is there like "What's that, you practiced to face Flash? Too bad, I'm gonna AK your team".
On March 20 2011 08:14 Hinanawi wrote: It must be a nightmare to practice for a match against KT in Winner's League now.
I remember reading some progamer say that all teams mainly practice vs Terran when playing KT to take down Flash, but now Stats is there like "What's that, you practiced to face Flash? Too bad, I'm gonna AK your team".
It's really not even fair, honestly.
lol, but it is probably very true. The fact that Flash is on the bench and may come up as the final boss impacts heavily coaches decision. And I'm sure it does affect players practice. And then Stats is sent out and rolls the opposite team... GG
On March 19 2011 23:44 evilfatsh1t wrote: interestingly stats seems to be getting more talk about how good he is etc etc compared to bisu, after his 3rd consecutive ak maybe its just me but it seems like it. and i dont know why
You're 100% right. If you watch the games, it's easy to see why.
On March 20 2011 01:43 kamikami wrote: The problem with Stats is, he has more Terran fans than Protoss fans lol. This makes him look like he's conspiring with the enemy lol.
I'm not sure if KT will send Stats out first next game.
Where the hell does one find the proleague schedule? I'm not sure who they're up against, but I bet they're preparing to snipe Stats first as we speak.
IMO, send somebody relatively weak like Barracks - THEN if he loses, then by all means, let Stats go for the 3AK.
On March 20 2011 09:56 hauton wrote: Where the hell does one find the proleague schedule? I'm not sure who they're up against, but I bet they're preparing to snipe Stats first as we speak.