Shout out to Tasteless and his improvement as a caster. I think over the last year he's been either massing games or studying the meta because his level of detail and insight is much better vs one year ago. I was thinking he might be getting burned out and his comments seemed to be just reiterating what Artosis would say but in this game in particular he still shows his ability to read the game and cast a great series.

Tastosis screaming NOOOO NOOO in game 3 pretty much sums it up

10:43 Tasteless & Artosis 24:38 Game 1 59:20 Game 2 1:15:42 Game 3 1:25:57 Game 4 1:47:32 Game 5

The return of double stargate reaver is upon us

"It's funny too Artosis, it's funny, don't forget, the plague reveals the Observer. How sad is that. Hydras can inadvertently just shoot them down when they don't even have any HP anymore." As a Protoss degenerate I love when Tasteless makes a good point against Artosis! hehehehe

After watching this, especially the first game, I feel like Protoss players will have to shift the PvZ meta. The old school gateway style doesn't seem to cut it when Zerg gets to the macro stage and has Lurker contain. New players like Soma start expanding more aggressively and quickly get an endless lurker contain. With a good spread, even storms cannot break through; Protoss cannot trade efficiently into this. Zerg is free to develop, and at max supply for each side, it's just a matter of time until Zerg wins. I'm expecting Protoss players to have a more technical approach next season. We'll probably see more Corsair/Reaver play, avoiding "fair" fights altogether. Technical play usually is the best answer to aggressive expanding. With that said, let's not talk like Best is already eliminated. I'm sure he isn't intending to roll over and die. He'll come prepared. :)

The thirst in chat whenever that lady shows up lol

always depressing when there's less than an hour left in the program and the games haven't even started yet xd

Thank you AfreecaTV.

Am I crazy or would dweb have not been an amazing upgrade to have in game 1 (around 40:00) when snow was trying to take the highground? He already had like 12 corsairs and was trying to go across 2 bridges and up high ground against a bunch of lurkers. Just throw down some dwebs and he has to pull back or lose everything to storm/goons. Seems like the perfect use-case.

One of the best tournaments so far

'Look at this YOLO game over here...' (seconds later) 'NOOOOOOOO!'

As a Protoss can I just say: Soma is my new (non-July and of course non-Jaedong but also non-GGPlay) favorite Zerg... because if a Zerg is gonna 3-0 a Protoss... MAY IT BE (cue Enya song from Fellowship of the Ring which I already had going for completely unrelated reasons) LIKE THIS!

Protosses, it's about time you find a counterplay to the Zerg siege. *Recall, D-web, mass drops, carriers*, I don't care, please no more hitting the wall with your head until you're KO. On another note, Stargirl was so classy!

Soma vs Flash is going to be interesting.

Soma's come a long way. I remember him as ChosimZerg and losing in earlier rounds and damn he's refined his game, his micro/macro is looking near flawless, and his strats and little mind games were insane too. He's my pick to win it all

Thought Snow's BGM sounded familiar. It's from ASL 5! Makes sense since that was his best season.

Time to bring back the good ol' days of corsair + reaver

excellent games this season but damn I miss the round of season 9, they were so entertaining and back and forth, so many games, this... this is a MASSACRE!

daed gaem jokes when Flash going Random is the most exciting thing in years Kappa I'm hooked again and even watching this series...

Damn flash might get rolled

As a zerg player I would like to see protoss use disruptive web vs lurkers. Especially the lurkers in the back on the highground. Not the ones in the front.

Hey, someone know the name of the sing in the end, when larva won?

Soma's immortal game

Good 1st & 3rd games.

Name of the song prior to the games?

Great job casting Tastosis! Island/Semi-Island maps are awesome. Stop the hate! Embrace the chaos!!! Hoping for ZVZ final SOMAvsLARVA!

Broooo protest the hero and in flames is it 2010 or am I bumpin

Does anyone know what the name of the song that starts at 52:21?

I think soma will win it all this year. He's on point

Why did they take away scourage from SC2?

I couldn't watch this... where have all the reavers gone?

please add padding to videos at the end

Somaversnow. I like it.

Even though it seems soma is a better player overall Snow played really well this series

STARCRAFT BROODWAR #1

Anyone else screaming what about disruption web???? To deal with the lurker contain. You can just literally walk right on to the high ground and position perfectly against them or force them to pick up and move back.

I felt like Snow was just tilted after Game 1.

Somehow I knew from the beeps this [Game 1] was gonna be one of those 2 player map PvZs that comes down to whether the map splits 50-50 or whether Zerg is able to snipe a base from the "other half" of the map. Soma baited Snow HARD with that gaseous fart fleet of scourge into playing too passive/defensive to be able to secure the 12 o'clock base "BETTER LABELED AS: THE WIN". The storm drop was too little too late. There's this dynamic on 2 player maps in PvZ where if it's too easy to split the map 50 / 50 Protoss can aim for splitting the map in half and starving the Zerg out. But Soma made a great move to expand to the "5th" before the 3rd and to set up that contain to be able to get the 12 o'clock base and therefore the win. The quintessential game I'm thinking of is the Proleague ace match between Stork and Jaedong on Match Point which is here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f9CWabWq2LTVaX0.html Awesome game from both players... dang it I'm hooked on Brood War again...

have replay?

I can’t even imagine how he kept himself from putting two hatcheries with sunkens on these high grounds 39:07.

AfreecaTV, please include an hour of nothing at the end just so we aren't spoiled by the length of the video.

What kind of sick person puts jelly on first? You get PB in the jelly jar cause PB is on first.

1:22:01 look at the adrenaline pumping thru soma in this moment

Why don't zerg broodling high templars?

I want to become as good as soma but I don´t have more than 6 hours a week to play. Is that enough?

That third game, damn :(

That game 1 was WITHOUT Soma bringing overlords to snipe the observers. Everything revealed, nwbtoss still had no chance.

Rolled!

1:20:00 Super greed of protoss. You see 10 Drones zerg vs like 20 probes, see that many lings infront of your wall and your gate about to fall - and you don't even make shield battery or bring probes.

Whats the first song? at 0:00

11:44 - Anybody got an ID on this song?

Game 2 and 3 were painful to watch. Game 1 was frustrating to see Snow not change his strategy, he kept trying to get break through the heavy lurker defense. I think the Finals are gonna be Soma vs Flash.

need to add some filler at the end so you can't tell how many games are left

this matchup does feel solved after seeing soma destroy the last few protosses, all of whom are amazing pvzers. feels like on any regular ground map, P will be at a heavy disadvantage versus what zergs are doing nowadays. time to bring back dire straits? it seems tricky to design a map where all the matchups will be balanced though, good challenge to the map makers

*** SPOILER ALERT*** until the protoss start using more of their tech (DAs and DWeb), they won't win tournaments.

Man even Tasteless knows you need a separate knife for everything and he doesn't even know what pants are for.

Artosis: these lings arent going to do anything Soma: lul k

Spoiler... Looks like Snow, once again, out-thought himself and *didn't* go reaver. I guess he doesn't wanna be predictable, but there's just one teensy-weensy problem. Snow without a reaver loses, hard. Look at all those contains he tried to break, each time *without* a reaver. Snow's brain gets smaller every time he meets Flash.

TFW you see the video is 100mins and you know someone got 3-0'd

I thought snow was supposed to still be really good. He got completely destroyed in this series! Game 2 and 3 I just felt bad for him :( that lurker run by!

practicing vrs random is easy. Just get 3 of the best Z P T players you can find and then whichever race get drawn you have the person that mains that race to sit down. I don't think its easy to master playing versus random but practicing is pretty straightforward granted you can find good players that want to help you.

Why do they wear two headphones?

Flash in trouble :(

Can someone please tell Artosis that the word important is pronounced "im-por-tant", not "im-por-int"?

Name song at 1:22:57?

snow should of used d web and broke the contain that way.

@47:30 running upgraded speedlots through a bunch of shit is something even crappy player me can always appreciate

얘넨 스타 볼 줄 알고 보는건가 ㅋㅋ 신기하네

Well, that second and third games were just disgusting and painful to watch... First was nice. Looking forward to soma vs flash, should be fun :)

Game 1, a dark archon, disruption web, a single reaver, or arbiter for recall any of those would have made a difference. Game 2, I got nothing. Game 3, that cannon was late. Game 4, What? Game 5 Lol. GG

Ang ki mo jji

Toss needs a more balanced strategy between reavers and gateway units. Gateway units just can't outscale zerg late game, zerg is too mobile and sends wave after wave. Pure reaver corsair is good for harass but can't win. A gateway army with some reavers is so much stronger than just gateway units alone

1:08:20 Scumbag lurker run by 🤣🤣

저 그냥 궁금하지만 장윤철 선수는 사실 동성애자예요? 무작위의 사람한테 이걸 들었어요. 제가 단지 궁금합니다. 알려 주세요. 또한, 그 문장이 맞았어요? 저에게 한국 문법이 정말 헷갈려요.

I always though Protoss was OP. The more i play this game, the more i understand that Zerg is OP. Its just hideous and I play zerg!

Catching a Dragon instead of attacking the nexus is a God-like move

Still loling at Tastosis trying to tell us soma is on the way to becoming the best player in the world while Flash is loling undefeated into the round of 4 like someone that found a way to wallhack in pro CS legally or how to be a millionaire as a crack addict because his dad has been in the senate for 40 years buuuuuuuuuut.... @41:15 when Soma targets the advancing Archon with Lurker spines... much respect. Not as much respect as he already earned earlier in the match (first Soma vid I've seen I think, definitely seen Snow a lot though if he played on TV before SC2 came out I don't remember it), and not as much respect as he already earned with his name, whether it be a reference to the Rigveda, Brave New World, or something else entirely, but still.... respect. :)

Was Jaedong better than Soma in Jaedongs heyday?

Snow lost because he lost first zealot so stupidly.

1:18:11 - "he doesn't wanna play against this 2hatch muta b... stuff." keepin' it G rated and safe for TV, eh?

I wish my GF looked at me like cameraman next to Snow looked at cameraman next to Soma after game one.... 51:40 :))

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To think that the first game only needed 2 reavers to clean up those lurkers, with HTs and goons behind.

Soma vs Queen in final, zerg OP

Nicely done! My hopes and cryings were listened! Casters talk about builds and strategies ! Leveling up, Bois!

According to time stamps, it was a one-way match.

This round of 8 has been disappointing so far. Two 3-0's and now we get those dreadful ZvZ matchups. That's a snoozefest.

that map suuuuucks

noob Swon, you cant win ultra late game with Zerg without Arbiters and Rivers, I learned it in 2003 but Snow is still learning, what a mop

1:20:14 nononononono

PvZ is actually just a joke. Like it's so unfair and imba. At lower levels it's balanced enough that mechanics and good play can overcome but at high levels it's totally imba. It's by far the most imba matchups. PvT at least is balanced and TvZ is balanced.

3-0 lmao

Zerg Op on starcraft 1 and 2 by far

Soma best player on the planet right now? (as flash is random) Just so dominant

3:0 =/

That was the most one-sided roflcopterstomp I can remember. Total mismatch.

so why dont toss get D web. He had a ton of corsiars with max energy, he could have D webd the lurkers and broken through the middle with them. Why do people never get this upgrade? its like queens and dark archons, they just never use them

"a couple good plagues" From our holy text, Liquipedia I proclaim forth, doo de de doo in full Monty Python forMALity! : "In addition, Archons serve an important role against Defilers; their splash damage remains effective under Dark Swarm. The primary target takes 25% damage; units positioned directly between the Archon and the primary target take full damage. Target the second row of enemies in a Dark Swarm to deal full damage to the first row. Friendly fire can achieve a similar effect with robust micro.[1]. Further, Plague is effectively useless against Archons by virtue of their low health."

Gg