FPL Week 1 Reflections

by Milkis4 - 1 Woongjin Stars The results are quite surprising considering that these are the two deepest teams in Proleague at the moment. Who would have expected that the results would be so one sided? Although Soulkey won with his excellent use of queens, the rest of Woongjin fell apart as Light seems to suffer from the Woongjin Terran syndrome while Really did not have much of a chance against SkyHigh, the TvT bonjwa. Flying was an interesting choice on Alternative, but what hurt Woongjin the most was the fact that Zero was not able to stop Movie's amazing momentum.Almost makes you regret putting Movie on your anti team, huh? Air Force ACE 3 - 4The results aren't actually that surprising. SK Telecom is a team that is deceptively shallow -- while they look deep on the surface, they're only deep due to massive amounts of preparation rather than actual fundamentals. Indeed, Iris, ggaemo, and firebathero was successfully able to abuse the weaker parts of SKT's line up -- Iris aggressively pummeling s2 to submission, while ggaemo and firebathero pulling out wins against Ssak and By.Sun, the newbies. Bisu was able to save the day, defending ggaemo's drop perfectly and expanding again at exceptional timings to save SKT from defeat. STX SouL 2 - 4Not exactly a surprising result, especially when STX's one two punch, Kal and Calm was defeated by Pure (!) and Roro, easily leaving STX without their core. The new Empire of the Sun did not seem to deter Baby from completely outplaying his opponent, which is not too surprising considering Baby's record on that map. Some interesting strategies were used by Midas and Mind -- Midas choosing to play aggressive and attempting to keep Shuttle contained, but failing. Meanwhile, Mind's cheese put him at a huge advantage against Classic, who had apparently failed to simcity properly. Oh well.4 - 2 Hwaseung OZ Wait. What? Jaedong and Stork lost on the same day? Quite a shocking result, but of course, only one of them lost in a rather embarrassing fashion to a player who once called himself Princess. Jaedong's ZvZ was decided the moment great sent his Overlord to a different direction than what is traditional from most Zergs . Clearly, he was metagamed. The series also featured some nice aggressive plays from Jangbi and Juni.4 - 2 KT Rolster The Easter day buff ended with this series, with Best channeling the last bit of the buff to best Flash in a PvT. With Flash taken out, KT could not bring the game to the ace match, and unsurprisingly they lost. It didn't help that Bisu was completely familiar with Crazy-Hydra's cheese, as he has dealt with them before in practice games. But it wascheese, none the less.Oh, and Fantasy went Bio. That explains how Action won, I guess.4 - 2 Hite Entus Hydra and Movie get free wins from pushovers, yet the rest of Hite struggled against MBC's main team, which seems to have gotten stronger than most people are willing to give them credit for.4 - 3 Samsung KHAN If it wasn't for Winner's League, Ace would definitely be a midranked team. After all, they got a quite solid core in ggaemo and firebathero, and Iris finally seems to have adjusted into Ace. Ace regained their momentum at the end of Winner's League, and they've been able to pull through with them with a decisive victory over Samsung. WeMade FOX 2 - 4Wemade had the right idea in mind when they sent out Baby early -- after all, Baby is so often seen in Empire of the Sun that most teams always have him in mind when they play on Empire. Not only that, but the sniper could be caught off guard, which would also allow another Wemade player an easier win.The plan was good, and to an extent, it had worked -- it's not surprising that Really was sent out on the map to deal with Baby. And yet, the plan failed in both ways -- not only was Baby taken out by Light, but Pure was not able to win against Really. Maybe one day, Pure will win a game that's not PvP, but a las, this day was not the day. STX SouL 0 - 4Stats and the KT backup cards make short work of STX. Quite a disappointing showing from STX. MBCGame HERO 2 - 4Decent series overall. Jaedong comes back from a build order disadvantage with clutch Zerglings, and Hyun's strategy against HiyA almost would have worked but I don't think Zerg has any good ways of delaying Terrans when they pull of strategies like this. It almost reminded me of what Jaedong tried to do against Flash in Triathlon (double defiler mound and everything!), but HiyA was able to push through as he realized what was going on a bit quicker. Probably because Jaedong had warned him.