Starcraft: Broodwar, ASL Season 14, Semifinals, Match 1
Royal vs Soulkey
We are down to the final 4 players. Neither of these two have been to an ASL finals before so whoever wins will be making history for themselves. Who will win this best of 7 match?
English stream: play.afreecatv.com/dth03119/
Korean stream: play.afreecatv.com/afstar1/
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oh shit it's 5 am , noooooooooooo my sleeep scheduleeee REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Ahh, the age-old dilemma. Sleep or Starcraft?
SOULKEY FIGHTING
Unfortunately I have shit to do irl so I'll probably miss a couple matches.
Oh shit i haven't korea timed for a long while now, anyone relevant still playing?
Most of the older former pros have either retired or are not doing nearly as well as they used to but Bisu and Jaedong are still around and Flash will likely continue playing after he returns from military service.
I hope Royal wins but Soulkey is pretty good
front seats filled with harem
That was a pretty wild game. Considering how one-sided most of the games on arkanoid have looked, Royal did really well.
I still think it's a bit funny that Flash is trying to get into politics.
I just woke up, what the score ?
Royal is SLOPPY.
>that Valk micro
I love valkyries so much
Holy SHIT that was some hella great valk micro.
>that front row
zamn
good games today
>you will never have a squad of cute girls cheering you on
Wait, are they cheering for Royal or Soulkey?
That was like watching Mini play but with Terran. Super aggro and cheesy with questionable decision making that still somehow paid off.
This is shaping up to be a good series.
Good comparison. Actually makes sense.
Holy shit that first cheering girl fricking screamed.
>foreigner in crowd
>Terran cheese
Dishonesty and dishonourable.
how aggresive
btw 288 people are watching Sharp's stream right now.
>instantly snipes a muta
Damn.
I'm still annoyed that Scan is unable to maintain a consistent voice volume. I hate it.
>Sleep schedule is all sorts of fricked
>Wake up to korea time
Valks are tr-
-icky to use and often aren't very good value but can be game changing in some circumstances.
I love the absolute soul of the missiles being mechanically design to act really fricky at times but man that really sucks in a strategy game.
Also pic related been uttered today yet?
Nice cat.
so pale
sulky hwaiting
Damn, I used to moderate TL back in like 2008. Funny that it hasn't changed.
Should you ever put ghosts inside a bunker? is the + range worth it? Aren't they similar in dps with marines?
Ghost attacks are concussive which means that their dps is pitiful against a lot of targets and they require a lot of investment to make for not that much value.
You're better off making firebats for more damage at a fraction of the cost and also being able to fight under dark swarm.
Koreans experiment with ghost builds all the time, and there has only been very niche examples where a nuke rush is viable. The last untested waters is to try to get lockdown as a viable move.
Only pros have tested all of it, ghosts can snipe infantry but they are too soft...they are good against lurkers.
In case that you use ghosts u "should" (this fricking game lol) hide them and protect them with bunkers and drops...if you have enough gas ehehehe
>sharking around
Does Afreeca still have the 2nd studio? I know they got it JUST before COVID hit, and that must really hurt. I'm scared long term for Afreeca because I see a bunch of girl Afreeca refugees pop up on twitch.
It's downright idiotic they never integrated Tastosis into their system too. They should be doing it live and getting a cut of the ASL Patreon plus doing live events.
Did you see how much the Tasteless Lan Party raised? It was easily 25K over a few days.
OH NONONONO TERRANBROS
how could royal mess up this badly...
When you cheese every game, your opponent will start to expect you to cheese
AM I LATE?
Frick I am late, anyway, still game 5 so we have potentially 2 more games!
I just saw the Tastosis ro16 and here's PAIN as offering for being late.
v2 with smaller file size and without the white border below.
Holy frick Royal spread his attack across 4 sunkens during that attack wtf
FOCUS FIRE DAMMIT
What a game
soulkey more like soulkek
Soulkey's family will suffer another cold winter.
SHUT UP!
How the frick could Soulkey lose that game !?!?
Holy shit
Royal
TERRAN IN THE FINALS. ONE MORE WIN.
Is this the strongest Royal's been like ever? I don't remember him being this strong. This is the first time he's gotten to an ASL final if I'm not mistaken.
Oops I'm a dummy, I forgot that this is bo7 and not bo5. Shit. Ignore me here .
Yeah, he's been gathering momentum over the last few seasons.
I think the casters were saying he had a very good showing in the last ASTL or one of the other tournaments in between this ASL and the last so this isn't completely out of nowhere but he's looking better and better.
Please explain!
The only logic I can imagine is:
>SK can't get ground units from his 3rd base
>he was in the middle of a Greater Spire transition, and he made two guardians which did nothing
>clutch irradiate on guardian
>lucky marines under other guardian
>clutch micro for handful of marines to kill 3 remaining lurkers
Ignored red hp vessels and got his lurkers killed
It's simple, if a zerg player goes greater spire in the ASL they lose the game. Guardians are cursed.
He should suicide muta to kill that vessel and attack incoming vessel reinforcement while micro lurker backward if he scan.
>Soulkey: should I go for swarm and win ? Nah, I'll go for guardians instead
...
If he put that into lurkers, lings, and sunks, I think he would have won. All of that invesment into guardians did nothing.
>ASL goes on break
>commercial features sexy Korean girls dancing & shit
>dick gets hard
HOTTO SIX? MORE LIKE HOTTO SEX.
>doraemon drink
choccy malk
LEWD FINGERS
There is something physically wrong with RoyaL's posture.
I'm scared for RoyaL.
I've been in this situation with 2Rax Acad builds before. The Zerg buys enough time for mutas to come and the bio ball gets wrecked by mass mutas.
its ova
>greater spire
LURKED.com
IS Royal transitioning to mech or what??
royal played too passive. its over
RoyaL couldn't decide between SK Terran or a Mech transition. RIP.
Bio-medic (that's the Korean term btw) backed with tanks is solid. It really hard counters the hyrdas as well. His problem was that all of his attacks were deflected and he had nothing going for it.
Yeah, it seems premature but it's solid.
>SK had a supply lead which is always doom
>his bottom base was totally exposed to further counter attacks
>his entire bio-medic army just got wiped out
>every single major attack was deflected
>Z was about to really explode with new units from his bases
>Bio-medic (that's the Korean term btw) backed with tanks is solid. It really hard counters the hyrdas as well. His problem was that all of his attacks were deflected and he had nothing going for it.
He had one attack which could not be deflected yet he went back to "defend" When his army was in the middle of the map and he was producing marines? Those were just like 6 zerglings and mutas, but he had turrets in the nat as well. He could have gotten control at that point but he pussied out of the attack.
Great series
Royal literally had that? The frick was that early GG?
zerg had 4 bases and ultralisk cavern completed. there is no recovery
>why did he gg?
Correct me if I'm wrong but he no longer had resources and his scvs in the mineral line were drained twice, by lurkers and mutas.
Also, RoyaL cannot micromanage such a huge base. Frick.
>tfw soulkey 4pools
>walk into a room in Korea
>Uh Mr. Kim?
>Half the room turns around
>Uh, Mr. Lee?
>Other half turns around
heh
RIP SK
>the city of SK
Esports are not real sports.
Yeah we're just reliving our teenage years.
WHY IS ROYAL SO PASSIVE
This, I feel like he should've followed up that early aggression.
I think he should have gone +1 5Rax here, he had econ advantage and 5 rax would have kicked just at the right time to control the map and even kill that 3rd base.
NEED A LIGHT?
ATTACK THE OPEN BASE FOR FRICK'S SAKE ATTACK ROYAL ATTACK
WHAT TEH FRICK
AHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHA
FRICKING LMAO
ROYAL YOU FRICKED UP BAD
HOOOOOLLYYYY SHITTTTT
Damn, that lurker kill was so smooth like
Royal fricked up royally.
He genuinely had a brain fart
>hurr I'll file my marines in a line in front of these lurkers I scanned
LURKERED
RIP
Royal is panicking too fricking much
He's falling apart. He doesn't know what to do. Frick.
That 3rd expansion blunder genuinely costed him the game. He would've been able to kill the hydra den otherwise. He lost like 8 marines in a single shot wtf
why the frick did he sac his factory?
>BLUNDERKEY
What a messy game holy frick
these are the comfiest threads on Ganker
>Doubters
Fricking 10/10 matches tonight.
>floating minerals
TERRAN IN THE FINALS?
>this final match
Where were you when the most kino match of season 14 happened?
MAEK MARINE
>20 minutes on Butter
>match still not over
Certified ludo-kino.
what a fricking bloodbath holy fricking shit i love this game lads
>irradiates you without explanation
>leaves
CHAD.
WHY THE FRICK WOULD YOU GO UP THAT RAMP?????
frick these orange clouds
Royal needed to fricking repair his vessels man wtf.
STOP LOSING VESSELS
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
royal lost
>Amoving lonely hatch
Man Royal is really, really bad at focusing on one thing. KILL THE HATCHERY.
Insane game, you can feel how tired they are in the head at this point ?
For real, I feel like Flash is the only Terran who can really take care of his vessels.
we've been very spoiled by FlaSh's terran. he's really on another fricking reality.
We are, we are. Most other Terrans just feel sloppy by comparison. In my opinion, the closest we got to another Flash-tier Terran in recent memory (i.e. in this modern ASL era) is probably Last during his peak several years ago.
Yeah. It feels like an eternity ago. Even Light when he became champ just lacked something against T and Z. But against Protoss, Light was a fricking monster last season. But that's it. FlaSh fricking steps over the others and uses them as his boots with how fricking good he was.
But it's really good to see that ASL might have one more Terran champion after FlaSh.
CHAIR BROKEN
Frick I missed that moment, I had to look elsewhere for a moment. Shit. How do you watch VODs on Afreeca again? Can someone give me the link once this is over, please?
https://vod.afreecatv.com/player/92656557
exactly 1 hour in that it happens
I'd make a webm but frick afreeca player is too laggy
>but frick afreeca player is too laggy
da fug? you can download vods and you should be using mpv to watch your streams in the first place.
ok then you make a webm
Nice. Can you do a longer one where he celebrates THEN falls of his chair?
Here it is
that's so cute
Thanks.
all you need to do is load the webpage player around the 1 hour mark.
Developer tools -> network find the .ts segments the website is giving you
1119.ts and 1200.ts (maybe 1201.ts) will give you what you want, then you can just append them easily and webm
This is 1200.ts
Late reply from me, but thanks anon. I was the one who requested here
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>FELL DOWN THE CHAIR
KEK CONGRATS ROYAL
APOLOGIZE
best game gg royal
My man's literally crying. goddamn,
That was the most miserable game I have ever watched for 40 minutes. Jeeeesus.
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POST YFW YOU REALISE ROYAL IS IN THE FINALS
>uni girl qt squad roots for you
what a chat
MILKERS
holy shit, RoyaL munches on those banzongas every night?
Royal played sloppy as frick
Jesus
So he faces either Rush(t) or hero(z)
Thoughts?
>Royal played sloppy as frick
>Jesus
Correct. Another T would have finished SK 10 minutes earlier.
Now I want Royal to win, unlikely though it may be. Feels nice to have someone else win the finals other than the usual top tier players, you know?
>Thoughts?
Unlikely he'll win because Rush and Hero are strong as frick. They're both like just a step below Flash.
>Unlikely he'll win because Rush and Hero are strong as frick. They're both like just a step below Flash.
Apparently RoyaL is 10-0 against his last 10 zergs, 4 of those being hero
TvZ is definitely his best matchup
>tfw you're a sub60% wr pleb
>Electric Romeo
Kek which ASL was this?
When he went Random. S10?
Crazy
I guess he wasn´t able to manage all of it, if these guys can´t.... that must have been his limit
Here's hoping Hero wins the other final spot, don't want a TvT final
I wouldn't mind either. I'd rather a mixed final, but Rush is an old dog so he can get in if he tries hard enough.
Last year people have figured out that Firebats are good at more than just killing lings. They have splash and they're beefy so suddenly they're lurker killers. Watching 4 firebats burn down lurkers under dark swarm feels like a cheat code.
The university teams are really cool and helps bring up new amateurs and increase interest among 20 something's. All those QT's cheering on is really a nice flashback to the old days when school girls would cheer games.
That night Royal impregnated all those girls.
>and THAT, boys and girls, is how little koreans are made
>zerg egg hatching sound
i heckin love girls who arent obese and dont have globohomosexual hairstyle
How healthy long term is the Korean SC:BW scene? It's widely believed that the GSL is going to end this season so Korean SC2 is going to die. Korean Air tried to sponsor a few new seasons of OSL, but they never took off. KSL is also dead.
That leaves ASL, and the afreeca major leagues and amateur leagues. Pretty much everything is on afreeca now.
SC1 will probably go as long as humanly possible for a league that isn't like chess or whatever. It has a niche and devoted fanbase that is basically entirely contained within the country so there's minimal expenses for that and it pulls enough overseas viewers to keep going.
>and it pulls enough overseas viewers to keep going.
I don't think foreign views really matter. They don't bring in ad revenue and they're too low to matter. Which is why it's foolish for Afreeca to NOT make use of Tasteless and Artosis. They should be doing live events on stage and getting donations with them.
Weirdly, as
said it seems to be in a growth stage at the moment.
It's all on Afreecatv (besides the much smaller foreign scene) but they're running multiple major tournaments with plenty of support.
If you watch KSM Ladies league, there is a few very new very awful players and I presume they're new uni girls from the teams? They get stomped really badly as there's a huge mismatch. The top tier female players are actually a few steps below qualifying for ASL, so there might be a need for a a ladies amateur league.
There is an old guys+women league. Cadenzie played it when she didnt make ASL
Tomorrow we have more TvZ with Rush vs Hero
Don't forget!
see you. i hope tomorrow's a bloodbath too.
>only see this thread now
>its ZvT, my favorite
>its soulkey, the fate of his family dependent on his success
Frick, how could i have missed it
Royal in the finals is pretty wild.
Also these threads separated the Tastosis e-celeb fans fro mthe real SC:BW fans. I really don't care who casts the game, and I frequently watch Korean casts if I have to. Tasteless is probably a long term alcoholic and Artosis is some right wing Canadian who fled Korea anyways.
I like Tastosis but the idea of having to wait 2+ weeks to just watch their commentary sounds really silly. Just like all competitive sports, it's always better to watch live. The way I do it now is I watch the Scan + Nyoken commentary live, and if there's a specific match that I really like or I want a second opinion/analysis on, I'll rewatch the Tastosis cast 2 weeks later. Rarely happens, but for this season I've watched like 3 specific matches on the Tastosis vids.
Did Royal thank THE Terror? The infamous meme streamer? I was seeing gifs of Terror freak out on /b/ in the early 00's before "streaming" was even mainstream.
Terror qualified for one season of ASL (I want to say 5?) so he shows up in a full pimp suit for some reason.
I didn't listen to all of Royal's speech at the end.
He thanked his practice partners, including Terror. If it's THE Terror, then he's the infamous meme streamer who was a meme before it was even a thing. Doing things like throwing a tub of onions sauce around his room, or jumping out of windows, or screaming like a lunatic. He was niko avacado before it was a thing.
This is him btw.
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