Come & watch competitive StarCraft: Brood War! We are now in the Quarterfinals of Afreeca Starleague (ASL) Season 21.Today's matchup is the only mirror match in the quarterfinals:soma (Z) vs herO (Z)Korean livestream: https://play.sooplive.com/afstar1English livestream: https://play.sooplive.com/dth03119Liquipedia page:https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/ASL/21
It's his turn to win.
>>737745949he's the hero of burgers
ZvZ on Jane Doe sounds good.
Whoever wins gets the honor of jobbing to tulbo in the next round. High stakes game here today.
>>737745982Of lollipops too.>>737746029kek
>zvzzzZZZzzzZZZzzzZZZzzzat least it will be over quick
both english casters are zerg main so i will settle with them for this matchup over tastosis
>>737746227Moreover, they actually cast it live instead of larping over a vod 48 hours later. BUM CITY.
>>737746265they give quality english translation for interviews thoughbeit
>zvzlet's get this over with so I can go back to bed
LETS FUCKING GO
HERESY
>>737745939>ZvZThe one time I see Korea time as it's starting...
>>737746316Is Flash still playing? I thought his hands fell off.
>>737746384https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneLastJob
>>737746328Soma and Hero is one of the ZvZ matchups most likely to go long, at least. They're both good enough not to die to stupid cheeses and their scourge control is good enough that whoever maeks doesn't necessarily win.I'm rooting for Soma.
I'm feeling like shit today lads so here's hoping this is what I need to feel bettereven if it is ZvZ
Somaaaaaaa :D:D:D:D:D
>>737746416It will be cool if it goes late, I do like ZvZ but it's an extremely volatile match-up where one mistake costs you the entire game, it usually ends fast.
Let's face it, the only way to prevent a Jaedong vs Soma ZvZ finals is for Soma to lose today so that Leta has a chance to defeat Hero
>>737746471Soma is in the finals, guaranteed. The only question is: does Jaedong beat Snow? Kind of a tall order.
>>737746519>will snow job to zerggee I wonder
>>737746519JD looked really strong in his games, he was the clear winner of his group though most people are overexaggerating how deadly that group is. Anyway, I could see it.
>>737746519>Soma is in the finals, guaranteedherO is pretty capable though.>>737746546Funnily enough he did lose 3-4 against Soulkey, which is not bad when this was Soulkey's peak.
>>737746546Snow is buck broken against Zerg Chads, no doubt, all Tossers are. But he is by far the strongest of the bunch. A power buck, if you will.
>>737746471Leta vs Tulbo is going to be a messkino of the highest order.
SHOULDER STATUS: COVERED
>>737745939>eh>neh>eh>neh
>>737746519ZvZ is a coin flip, Hero 3:4'd to peak Soulkey in the finals and he only lost because he happened to use the wrong buildsoma is the better player but all it takes is a bit of luck for hero to go through
xeno scum
CUTE
>>737746471>tulbo or leta will be seeded next seasonwhat a tournament
>>737746805This has been the best ASL in a while and it's not even because of Flash.
>>737746805If Flash advances but doesn't compete next time maybe both will be seeded.
Thou shall not trickle thy Mutas
Hero's probably got this but it could still go either way.
>>737745939I'm late
lmao
>>737747023>high templar>dark archonuhhhhh....
Hero threw.
>>737747023Oh fuck, you mean to tell me this is ZvZ?
>>737747023Bingo is impossible, it's ZvZ not PvZ
>>737747062
>>737747054>>737747062Just. Fucking. Kill me
hero got outmicrod so bad
>>737747115it's okay retard kun, you have a second free space in sick scourge dodge, and 9 pool is almost guaranteedyou'll still get a bingo!
>>737747103Even in Korea time, F O E!
Reigning Champion Zerg Gigachad Soma.
engstream is 22 seconds behind
stall it
Soma winning another ASL will be so unsatisfying because of just how easy is run has been, he basically has a free ticket to the finals being is up against tulbo/leta next. He's yet to have to work hard or deal with any real challenge. Meanwhile Jaedong/Flash/Snow had to deal with so much and it's not over yet
>>737747261Flash had a free qualifier and a free RO24.
>>737747247What happened to the other 10 seconds
>>737747261Tulbo vs Flash finals. Trust.
Attempt 2
>13kfunny how after all this time after gom tv, bw is still a very alive game.
>>737747261>free ticket to [the next round] being up against tulbo/letahow many times has this been said this tournament already?
>>737747278fuck. ye it's 32. crazykorea stream chads can spoil it all away for engcucks
>>737747312I am completely aboard the Leta train this season
>>737747303JD vs flash had almost 130k over all soop streams (gypsy checked it from his unofficial twitch live stream)
>>737747247I switched to the Korean stream this season because eng was slow to start + big delay + visibly lower quality stream. It wasn't always that bad.
>>737747359no matter how old people get, people will want to see flash/JD and others play some bw. it's like cs, over 20 years old but it's still a good game.
Yep, still boring.
HerO wins this map
>>737747359soop allows streamers to rebroadcast ASL and they often get higher viewership than the main stream
Sneaky sneaky drobe
>>737747420lol
hero's overlord was moving towards bottom left but he changed its course to bottom right
lmao the fake out
Send the mutas to his main
Hero really needs to win this, you can't go down 0-2 in a ZvZ.
>zvz day>everyone shows up for 1 hour before all the games are done>boring as shitI don't get why people prefer this over TvT
>>737747686Sometimes they go wildly off-script and weird stuff happens. This is shaping up to be one of those games.
MANAYO
>>737747776Nope, this is yet another game of "i maeked two more mutas and now i wonnered"
hero throwing desu
if hero goes for hatchery first evolution chamber again in the next game i'm gonna scream
say GG ffs
soma waiting for 200/200 before he kills him
Even Fantasy would have GG'd by now
is he hoping for some miracle scourge hits? not likely
>i'm behind>in an unwinnable position>surely if i throw 20 more larvae away in useless scourge/ling harass i can come backjust fucking gg re you re-tard
say gg
THERE GOES MY by.her0
gee geeeeeeeee
HEROREVERSE SWEEPI BELIEVE
I didn't give a fuck and so I won't start now.
Poor guy is gonna eat his feelings after today
"ZvZ is just a coinflip" niggas really quiet when a better player just completely moggs his opponent
>>737747929Yeah...that's not gonna happen. I mean you almost never come back from a 0-2 to begin with, much less in this match-up.
>>737747929what a fantasy
>hmm this guy is clearly out of my league>I should play standard
TOP TIER game!
his muta control was better so he won.
>>737747929The reverse sweep is on the bingo card
>>737747945Quite.
>>737747686nobody says this is better than anything but mirror match ups are all asspretty much the only flaw with this game
>the fact we're gonna have to put up with more of this shit in jaedong v soma finalsugh, way to end what has been an awesome series on such a low noteI should just treat the semifinals of bracket two as the real finals
>>737747982soma had more mutas and better upgrades because his build didn't suck donkey ass
>>737748046first game hero had more of everything and ate shit
>>737748039Jaedong beating Flash is far from a certainty
>>737748039I believe in Leta.
>>737747995>ensnare>uktralisk>guardiani like your enthusiasm at least
>>737748038tvt is interesting because games go long enough where planning, map control and fatigue all become issueszvz does at least have the baited breath of waiting for that hype game that somehow gets to hive stage, unfortunately 99% of games are just muta/ling ballspvp is the absolute worst though, coinflip meta and if both people have the same BO then it's just "who made one more dragoon", it feels like starcraft2
>>737748082LOL Snow is gonna beat Flash
>>737748132nuh uh
...why are the cameras so focused on the audience's phones' screens?
>>737748082>he thinks flash will have a chance to play vs jaedongahahahahahahahah
>>737748163google play sponsorship bullshit
>>737748163They were giving away google play points and inputting codes
>>737748132snow is not immune to flash's match fixing retardation aura and will walk 20 dragoons into a high ground tank line that he has perfect vision ofi think jaedong is the only player left who won't devolve into a stuttering mess when he walks on stage vs flash, but will he be able to beat him? maybe, jd's games looked good last round, but jd is notorious in the last few years for getting people to hope, only to fall apart
>>737748132>Snow has to beat flash in R8>Snow then has to beat JD in R4I can only hope that light does well
miss the hottosex sponsership. jewgle can go to hell.
STOP LOSING THE GAME WITH THE SAME SHIT BUILD ORDER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
>9 hatch hero? more like COMPLETE FUCKING RETARD
>>7377479959 pool
>>737748227>maybe, jd's games looked good last round, but jd is notorious in the last few years for getting people to hope, only to fall apartThat is true.
Herobros........
what was he thinking
POOL ACK
>>737748285I don't deserve this after the shaky start
geegee
if the pool survives...
owari da
sponing
SAY GGSTOP COPING
he's really gonna keep playing with no spire, no lair, no fucking spawning pool
Fuck awlful
H-Hero...?
why is his name HERO instead of STUPID FUCKING IDIOT BUTTHOLE
It's never been as over as how over it is right now
garbageas expected
AHHH GEEGEEEEEEEELess than a full hour of games, ad breaks included. At least I'll have plenty of sleep.
maybe they started the game wrong and Hero was replaced by easy AI
oh fuck Soma actually slayed herOvery decisivelyI thought for sure we'd go to game 4 or even 5
what a terrible set of games, at least it was over almost immediatelysee you faggots tomorrow for the TRUE GOD of brood war, tulbo
>spore out of range of poolhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>>737748465At least it was fast.
that was painful to watch
Why is ZvZ so fucking great in groups and so fucking ass in the bracket?
whelp see you tomorrow for kino
>>737747023>absolute nigger retard>still gets it
Such a whiplash to go from 4+ hour days to this. That was a complete stomp.
3-0 FAGGOTS! MUH COINFLIP??? MUH KNIFE FIGHT??? MUH HOBOS FIGHTING OVER SCARPERINOS??? MUH HERO'S ZVZ????? ARE YOU OK TERRANNIES??? TERRANNIES ARE YOU OK???
The only way to avoid a ZvZ final is if JD loses. The weak players got trapped on one side, and all the strong ones on the other side. No way Tulbo or Leta get to beat Soma who's in top form.
join tomorrow for the HYPEST grouptulbo vs leta
>>737748487whats more infuriating is>spawning pool down to 250 hp>soma signals intention to keep attacking it>hero refuses to pre-emptively build a backup spawning poolthe game was 90% over anyways but come the fuck on
probably the worst ASL day so far, hero couldn't even put up a fight
>>737748559>TulboYou just have to believe
why does he grip the mic like this?why are his eyes constantly twitching(but never when he's playing the game)?
>>737748514
>>737748546ZERG CHADS RISE UP!!!!!!!!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3dLS_QgWxM&list=RDT3dLS_QgWxM&start_radio=1
>>737748592Strangling the microphone since he's not allowed to strangle his opponent in real life.
>>737748592its called public speaking anxiety
>>737748637>just wanted to play some good fucking games>hero keeps dying to the dumbest shit imaginableI'd be upset too.
Lee Hyun Kyung's infant.
thoughts?
Meme match of the century tomorrow
>>737748702Meme players. Leta will somehow make two port wraith builds.
>>737748702Leta clears
>>737748702/ourguy/ Tulbo's got this
ASL???16/f/cali
>>737748702Leta historically is very weak in TvP so it's probably not going to go well, which is a shame, I think he'd play some great games against Soma. Maybe he'll surprise us.
>>737748506in group play, you have less time to prepare vs what you think your opponent is doing so you just wing it, same goes for your opponent so it's a chaotic messin brackets you just dedicate an entire week to performing the "optimal" build orders and that makes very rigid and also dogshit games like what we saw with hero doing fucking 9hatch repeatedly
>>737748702>bad terran vs bad protossTulbo wins.
relevanthttps://youtu.be/gTpvVgE2fq8?si=pJEggWE2e0yFRqQ-
Why is this thread so quiet? Are you ok Terrannies?
single matchup a day is a mistake
>2 seconds late>zvz already overOwari da... No surprise SOMA won tho
Concern trolling panican faggots on teamliquidshit:>https://tl.net/forum/brood-war/644924-asl21-ro8-preview-pt1-inheritors>(Z)Soma might have legitimately gotten the unluckiest outcome for himself, as he would have probably been happy to face off against Light or FlaSh in a ZvT. Instead, he gets a ZvZ matchup, one of his worst and one of (Z)hero’s best. To make matters worse, he’s been struggling in the online ZvZ matches for the month of April, causing him to slide all the way down to the 20s in the ranking. He’s 18-25 as of writing this article, and his last 3 extended series have been a 6-9 loss to Soulkey, a 4-3 win over Jaedong, and a 1-4 loss to Jaedong. Even worse, he’s 0-3 against (Z)hero in daily proleague matches as well. His ASL ZvZ record is also not great, as he’s been eliminated in ASLs 10, 14, and 16 to Zergs while not really having the same success against them. It’s going to be an uphill battle and while (Z)Soma’s understanding and gameplanning is top notch, his raw mechanics are lacking in a matchup that is predicated on lightning fast decision making and extremely tight mechanical duels.HAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
>>737748793The exact same sort of shit seems to happen every time esports niggers can turboautistically optimize their game, it's why the more investment in an esport, the worse it gets
>>737748951TvZ or TvT can last 2.5 hours with 45 minute matches being possible. It's just that ZvZ can result in 5 minute matches.
>>737748998that's a lot of words to say that he's bad at video gamei hate these fucking john madden wannabes who sit back and numbercrunch theoretical matchup spreads using exact data and here's why you should bet everything on red
The announcer to the far left needs to white his skin. I don't know who browned him, but he needs to whiten his skin.
>>737749147I mean, no, he's NOT bad. Soma's ASL ZvZ is 60%, and Hero's is like 50%. That janny is just making stuff up.
>>737749203Do you mean Intotherain? He took time off last year due to having leukemia. I think he has bigger priorities.
>Flash vs Soma finals>Best of all time vs current bestKino>Snow vs Soma finals>Rematch from last season's finalistsKino>Jaedong vs Soma finals>Jaedong vs Fake Jaedong("Soma" means "Fake Jaedong", Soma named himself after Jaedong, his StarCraft idol back in the day)Kino
>>737749385>("Soma" means "Fake Jaedong",How in the hell does that work?
>>737749324Imagine having leukemia, and then while having leukemia, someone spikes your kimchi with psoralen?Korea?
>>737749417Soma(짭제)'s name cames from 짭 = fake, 제 = jae,
>>737749417https://youtu.be/gnRgC33s7YA?t=1002&is=aLw9PpPnWE1iem_x
>>737749385>tfw we end up getting Light vs Leta TvT finals
>>737746471JD vs Flash in Finals and JD wins!
>>737749829anon....
>>737748998>Soma's raw mechanics are lackingNigga are you for real
>>737749829I don't think you understand how the bracket works
>>737749959>>737749978oh shit! Well fuck JD vs Flash in semi finals! JD Wins and faces T or P in finals (cus more fun then zvz) and wins!
>>737750329>faces T or P in finalsIn your dreams
Zerg Gigachad Soma's win in the second game was exceptional. He never threw mutas "harassing" the mineral lines, just probed for a weakness, put his mutas between Hero's two bases, forcing him to do something, and he chose to take the fight; did Zerg Gigachad Soma know he would do this and that he would win the engagement? He only began killing drones after gaining air superiority, some of his mutas died or were put in the red by Hero's spores, but it was well worth the exchange. He then did NOT scramble for the finish but took a third, gaining a totally insurmountable advantage, and Hero shortly conceded after seeing the third. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Terranyfag aka tossucker will cry when flash wins asl huh
>>737750543kek Trump what're you doing in a Korea Time thread?
>>737751359It’s obv rigged for flash tho, Mickey Mouse ass asl
terran negroes in shambles.
tossucker cope Lmao
>>737748689stalker
>>737750543that's the stuff
courtesy bump
>>737757378Arigato!
Zerg Chads, give yourselves a round of applause.
I am a god
terranies and tossissies fightingzergawds stay winning
>>737748998that site sucks.
