No hydra was harmed during the recording of this series.

If you're reading this you're one handsome nerd

Commenting for the algorithm. Long live ASL

I think I was about 15 when I first heard that people play starcarft as a sport professionally in south korea. Being a kid with no internet, I literally thought that those people must be insane. Now look at us. Watching a bunch of "old" dudes playing the game at a level that no casual person can even imagine. It means so much to me, that this scene is still alive and that Tastosis is still casting and that ASL is still the highest level of Starcraft, and maybe even the highest level of any esport to present day. I truly wish, that Broodwar will be played competetively for many years to come, as I get this experience from no other video game

Spoilers: The player who won the first game ended up losing this finals. This is the first time in 17 seasons this happened

Holy heck, I don't think Tastosis noticed but [spoiler below] . . . . . . . . . in game 7 Soulkey ran his lings down that lane in the middle in view of HerO's overlord, then (02:06:43) went off to the left, looped back toward his own base and ran down the middle again, possibly making HerO think even more lings were coming

Damn, JulyZerg really nailed Jaedong's flank mid-game.

Definitely appreciate the speed at which you're getting these out! Hologram Tastless be damned!

And now we wait for Season 18. THANK YOU

I enjoyed Tastosis being voiceast over the Korean casters as a compromise for the camera. Felt like I was watching Most Extreme Elimination Challenge from back in the day.

I'm glad SoulKey didn't repeat his mistake from the 1st game in the decider game. It's always nice to see people adapting and learning throughout the series

45:00 might be the peak ZvZ you were looking for, Come classic Rock, Paper, Scissors,

long live Tastosis and ASL. What an incredible season, I do think Soulkey is starting his "era" of dominance after years of people wondering why he hasn't won.

Of course soulkey is the one to break the curse of losing the first game in the finals yet still winning, awesome games ASL FOREVER TASTOSIS FOREVER

There should be a losers bracket ffa

S P O I L E R ------- B L O C K E R

love how they've trained for 10 years, played tens of thousands of hours and they win the competition to be the best player alive and their expression: =|

Congratulations to the 🏆 winner Thank you Tastosis for the superb casts It was my first ASL where I could see games in person. Can’t wait for next season Long live StarCraft

Fucking every time this guy, I'm going to have a heart attack. Anime protagonist SoulKey.

Well, for a ZvZ, that wasn't awful, but still quite a let-down from the rest of the tournament. Regardless, thank you Tasteless & Artosis, your commentary is always a treat!

Props to Hero for winning 3 games after getting the BO advantage in only 2 of the 7 games. Tough matchup.

2:02:32 La mejor parte de todo el stream, saber que Starcarft es el abuelo de los esports y sigue siendo el número 1. Yo soy un fanático de España y en Europa sigue habiendo muchos fans de este maravilloso juego. GRACIAS TASTOSIS Y MUCHAS GRACIAS ASL!

so hyped for this series. Really wish we had snOw instead of SoulKey though.

And we love you guys for keeping it alive SCBW forever!!

Watching all those ultras get plagued was awesome, but the devourer\muta\scourge vs queen\muta\guardian finale was unmatched in the history of the esport.

arriving home from work and finding the finals uploaded 🎉

Thanks for getting these videos out as soon as possible, guys! Humorous note: Missed chance to have Tasteless with Sock Puppet Arty 😂 Excellent finals all around.

GREAT change this season - and great casting! Thank you for delivering fast games and keeping brood war relevant

amazing series! thanks to all the players and sponsors

to bad ZvZ games are almost sooo short. I would love to see some longer games.

Best broodwar comentators out there! I agree, it's a great time to be a Broodwar fan :)

Haven't watched yet but of the mirror matchups ZvZ is my favorite. Here's to hoping there is at least one 25 minute game this series! Edit: I love how you made caster park ( I believe thats his name) much more audible in this cast, I love to hear how hype he gets.

Incredible season! Thank you again Tastetosis!

Thank you Tastosis for another amazing ASL, congrats to the champion and good job for all the runner-ups!

Very nice tournament! Thank you Afreeca TV, Artosis & Tasteless and the translator (forgot the name sorry!).

Getting it out quicker was definitely the preferred choice, thank you!

Fun map idea for ZvZ - if the game starts with two zerg players, a trigger is set on the map to auto spawn a spore colony in the base and natural for each player. I feel like this could be a safe and fun way to try and explore more late game ZvZ matches without any outrageous map designs

There are some issues with overlapping audio at the start and end of the cast.

3 Zergs in top 16, 2 in the finals. Ridiculous, but both these players completely deserve to be here. But now that this happened, he has to go for 3 and become the true legend. Absolute mind of steel, you just can't shake this guy in a series.

Thanks for another great season

Thanks again guys!

What a great finals! Such a back and forth!

looking forward for next season!!!

BW FOREVER~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~LOVE Y'ALL

@2:06:46 - does Soulkey path his lings to make it appear as if he's mass flooding? when in reality he's transitioning to muta? It looked like the intent had herO (and our casters) fooled that it was a ling all in.

7 games, what a treat, thanks TASTOSIS!!!

What is the song that plays in the break before the final game? I dig it a lot! But there's no music credits given in the description.

getting it up quicker is always better! great job artosis / tasteless

Insane series 👏

Awesome series, thanks Tastosis! I'm gonna he in Seoul in August and would love to go to the studios. I saw that the ASL starts around August/sept. I couldn't find dates googling. Are they already set?

Is there no 3rd place match this season? That usually happens before the finals, right?

It was a great season, congratulations to the winner, he definitely deserved it! I am grateful for the ASL experience, but I do wish we had a sister tournament in a double Round Robin format as well. Just shower thoughts.

Yoooo it's here!

man,. this is just peak gameplay. 3 units only ever built, 5 minute games. peak, truly peak.

TY for nice cast! Will you guys make 3rd and 4th place video?

Thanks!

What a season, what a great time to be a Starcraft fan

thanks for the casts, this ASL season was great! btw could you guys turn the volume down for the korean audio when the translator is talking? the koreans and BGM are clashing with the translator (like at 8:00)

Tasteless was soooo close to the perfect transition into the game. It could've been, "I've got the skies covered. You've got the seas covered. We're going to go into this next game." Good cast. SoulKey played well and overall outplayed Hero. Solid finals.

Thanks, lads!

Really appreciated for quick delivery even on family holidays

Best eSports game, best players in the world, casted by the best duo. GG

HYPE

Perfect thumbnail too

Amazing series. I thought that Hero was gonna come on top, but Soulkey's decision making was impecable. Also loved every second of this cast.

Of course SoulKey's the first player to break the first game loss curse 🔥. I'm all for this new era of dominance from SK, one of my favourite players. I feel bad for herO though... He's so good and deserves a championship 😢

20:16 Artless commentary commences 30:15 Game one! 48:13 Game two! 58:53 Game three! 1:14:39 Game four! (plus some good pre-game banter) 1:32:37 Games five and six! (plus tasteless gets a geography lesson) 2:01:57 Game seven!

great games, great commentary

asf finals, tastosis casting it all in 2024 there is nothing more I want to watch! Keep it up guys!

I reallY like the fast uploads. I don't really need the translated graphics :)

LETS GO!!!!!

Great commentary

The craziest part I noticed while looking at both of their builds from each game is that SoulKey will float minerals before picking a build. I have to assume its because hes waiting on information like if 4/5 pool is incoming or something like that.

Shoutout to Artosis for taking the time to cast this during his family vacation

This is the first ASL finals I've managed to watch without being spoiled first. Thank you spoiler block comment heroes

I don’t know if the sound balance was a little off for this video but I had a much harder time, in this particular video, hearing the English VoiceOver with the Korean as loud as it was.

much love all!

Hell yeah, well done to the winner!

love it

Awesome freaking series! So glad it wasn't a blowout

Didn't expect the series to be that tight.

I feel like the FINALS deversed a better audio quality which makes me think both of them weren't home for the recording, and it shows, especially with Tasteless' robovoice :(

Caster Park doing the pre-Finals interview reminds me of Mike Myers as the Japanese game show host on Saturday Night Live 😀

Wait, there is no 3rd place match?

Who is the player who makes the chair commercial?

Great tournament!

I love how Dan was talking at the end and it just cut him off lol

Gods ❤❤

GG

really rock-paper-scissors feeling - unfortunate but this is such a sad matchup in a game with so many amazing ones

Yesssss finally hero vs soulkey let's goooooo

It's not only the builds that worked. Also are those who failed. They may Become a future revolution. Like snow with his mass Reaver's or soulkey with his one base island base for troy.

No goodbye from Tastosis? The ending was oddly silent, no casting. Did they forget to unmute their mics or something lol

No worry about things being over in a half hour, they played 53 minutes. No spores, no hydras, very old-school. Hero's micro wasn't up to the task, but he did finally break the 'Winner of the first game takes the title' streak.

GG WP what an excellent series despite being a ZvZ. Surprisingly I don't think we had one Spore did we?

The audio was really bad, I like the speed but audio quality should also be taken into consideration....

CasterMuse is such an instigator and I love it !

Love ASL and this season was awesome, but ending it with just lings and mutas, I hope the T's and P's are repping in S18! Keep it up Tastosis.

LETS GO!

Was hoping to see some longer games but. Either way GG to Soulkey on the great win.