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[Hazaro]

BigFile MSL Grand Finals - Flash(T) vs Jaedong(Z) : Thread of BW, not SC II

MATCHES UPLOADED TO YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_mxhXnLUVM

Saturday, August 28th, 2010: 1800 KST / 1100 CEST / 0500 EDT / 0200 PDT
2AM PST (Expect 15 minutes of talking, 15 minutes of kpop, AWESOME INTRO WITH FIRE AND STROBES plus bad american music (hopefully), then 15 minutes of interviews and warm ups.
Expected start time 2:45-3:00am

Light reading:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=147950

Leaving aside moot questions like which is Nadal and which is Federer, or what it means to be the "Greatest of All Time" there can be no debate that (T)Flash and (Z)Jaedong are two of the best players Brood War has ever seen, and have been for years. Their primes have been contemporaneous: they have combined to dominate both Starleagues as well as the KeSPA ranking since early 2008 (9 of 17 Starleague titles, counting the current MSL); 26 of 30 months #1 in the KeSPA ranking [with (P)Stork and (P)Bisu accounting for the 4-month hiatus]). Their extremely close head-to-head record includes many high-stake games and several classics.

These alone would furnish plenty of reason for their rivalry to take its place among the classic rivalries of Brood War; indeed, if e-sports have any legitimacy, of all of sports. But there is something more to the rivalry of Jaedong and Flash: something that transcends the mere individual competition for glory, riveting as that may be; the same thing that distinguishes the truly great rivalries of any sport. Flash and Jaedong represent two different paradigms. They approach the game in two different ways; they play it in two different ways; they attract two different fanbases who appreciate their two different styles. It helps that they play two different races, of course, but this is more symptom than cause: more than anyone before them, Jaedong and Flash seem to exemplify their respective races. When we watch them play, we see more than two individuals playing a computer game; melodramatic as it may sound, we see nothing less than the primal clash of Terran and Zerg.

WHERE TO WATCH:
http://tv.zeroboy.net/kentor

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chaosstream

http://livestream.com/kentor

http://www.teamliquid.net/video/userstream.php?user=T.O.P.

http://www.teamliquid.net/video/userstream.php?user=Chaos

Venue: Incheon Samsan World Gymnasium

Set 1: Polaris Rhapsody
Set 2: Odd-Eye 3
Set 3: Fighting Spirit
Set 4: Triathlon
Set 5: Polaris Rhapsody

 

[Corran Horn]

Dont know if Ill stay awake for it, but should be good

 

[evlcookie]

God damn. Just spent 5 hours watching sc2 and tonight it will be original sc streaming.

One day i will actually play the game more than i watch it being played.

 

[Technosteve]

Going to set my alarm to wake up.

 

[Hazaro]

I think I'll set my alarm as well.
Matches should start 2:30 or later after intros and such.

FLASH FIGHTING!

 

[HolyCheck]

keen as mustard for this.

can't wait til everyone moves over to sc2 though ;_;

 

[Chris R]

fuck yea! Will watch a netflix instant stream movie and then join this in progress (will probably join in during all the pregame bullshit)

 

[Trickster]

still no info on streams?

 

[Fragamemnon]

The map pool is heavily favored for Terran. We'll see if Jaedong goes three hatch before pool like he's done in the past versus Flash and other opponents who go for the "scout to ensure safe 14cc" TvZ builds.

Expect to see some mech from Flash, Polaris Rhapsody and Odd-Eye both are some of the best mech maps made since the craze kicked into high gear with the wide play of the "Mechstination" map.

 

[JoeMartin]

Let's see if JD decides it's a good idea to sac 6 hydras trying to kill a bunker again.

 

[autobzooty]

<3 Flash

Any chance this'll be casted in English? I miss Tasteless and SuperDanielMan

 

[Hazaro]

http://c.zeroboy.net/kentor (no chat)

http://tv.zeroboy.net/kentor
http://livestream.com/kentor

http://www.teamliquid.net/video/userstream.php?user=T.O.P.

http://www.teamliquid.net/video/userstream.php?user=Chaos

 

[HolyCheck]

http://c.zeroboy.net/kentor (no chat)

http://tv.zeroboy.net/kentor
http://livestream.com/kentor

http://www.teamliquid.net/video/userstream.php?user=T.O.P.

http://www.teamliquid.net/video/userstream.php?user=Chaos

ty hazaro!

 

[Max]

Hopefully some games will be played before I need to go to sleep

 

[JoeMartin]

Welp the kpop (now with added autotune!) has started so the games can't be far off.

 

[slayzz]

ahh i was about to go to sleep. :lol

damn more singing......

 

[Sblargh]

That's why I play starcraft!
If one day, South Korea beats Brazil on soccer, I'll have to go over there beat Flash on Starcraft.
For the country, I say!

 

[F#A#Oo]

Man Korean women are hot! I don't understand the dislike of almond eye women!

 

[Hazaro]

Kpop concert is go!

 

[JoeMartin]

Jesus this shit is so bad I had to mute the stream.

Also I love the Alleh WAI PAI WAI PAI WAI PAI commercials.

 

[Sblargh]

Haha, for a second I thought the alien vs predator advertising was for a starcraft movie. :lol

 

[slayzz]

its about to start!!!

 

[Hazaro]

INTRO TIME

 

[JoeMartin]

hahahahahaha you so called the pyrotechnics and strobes.

Never change Korea.

 

[Pandaman]

looks like flash stopped weeping long enough to make it onstage. brave man.

 

[Hazaro]

Games in ~10-15 minutes

 

[Wallach]

Fuck yeah, I want to see some PLAYGUUUU!

 

[gimmmick]

Does SK really take this all seriously? lol. It just seems a little over the top for a video game.

 

[delirium]

Jaedong looks like he's been doing hard crack.

 

[BishopLamont]

http://tv.zeroboy.net/kentor

This one lagging for anyone else?

 

[Hazaro]

Does SK really take this all seriously? lol. It just seems a little over the top for a video game.

It's all in good fun.

It's a big spectacle mainly for the sponsors who hype this up.
Viewship is free so the more grand the spectacle, the more viewers.

Good stuff.

 

[Teknopathetic]

"Does SK really take this all seriously? lol. It just seems a little over the top for a video game."



$$$$$$$ makes anything serious. Dolla Dolla bills ya'll.

 

[Chesskid1]

kentor's channel has a translator in chat, fyi.

 

[JoeMartin]

He fixed it.

JD looks tired.

I want shots of flash getting out the ruler.

 

[gimmmick]

Is anyone having laggy feeds?

 

[F#A#Oo]

Does SK really take this all seriously? lol. It just seems a little over the top for a video game.

How is it any different to any other form of entertainment?

 

[evlcookie]

17 - 17 against each other.

Shit this is going to be insane.

 

[Hazaro]

They stream a stream most of the time so if the direct feed is stuttery there's not much the caster can do about it.

alt stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chaosstream

 

[Sblargh]

Go Jaedong!
Love yoooou!
Wooohooo!

 

[Bossman]

Edge just came and speared them both.

 

[Hazaro]

 

[F#A#Oo]

Jaedong!

For the swarm! \o/

 

[JoeMartin]

YESSSSSS RULER SHOTS

hahahahaha Flash is such a boss.

 

[evlcookie]

Holy shit, Day 9 wasn't kidding when he said today that flash brings a ruler and measures it all out.

Awesome

 

[godhandiscen]

Holy fuck, this is so epic. It shits all over MLG and any other e-sport event I have seen.

 

[Wallach]

Let's go JD! PLAYGUUU GA!!!

 

[Hazaro]

You know what else you won't see in SC II is a zerg making 3 hatcheries before a spawning pool

 

[Dresden]

Goddamn does the game look old. :lol

The announcers are so enthusiastic, but they have jack shit to say.

 

[gimmmick]

God, my eyes! lol SC1 really looks dated.

 

[Hazaro]

For those coming to the thread, watch here:

http://tv.zeroboy.net/kentor
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chaosstream

*oh shit the patch is off! :lol