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
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
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