KCM 2024 Season 5 Week 8 - Starcraft Broodwar

[@SaiyanKCM]

Context: 73% of fans polled by KCM on afreecatv said zerg will win this week

[@Sc9cvsd]

Surprised it wasn't 99% haha. I'm not a big zerg fan but damn the zerg lineup is fire and others are very weak

[@XUNsc]

What a blast KCM is every week, it's the ultimate box of chocolates courtesy of Forest Gump himself. You never know what you're going to get and I hope you guys are as excited as Saiyan and I each week we get to bring you these great games!

[@AtomicRab]

This week was wild! Thanks for casting Xun and Saiyan.

[@millardjake]

snow finally here to close for these B tier protoss. great games, cheers. also, appreciate doing the spoiler blocks even if they hurt your algo

[@DeuceOnFace]

bro your intros always get me so fired up

[@hackerj23]

Wow what an amazing cast. Thanks you two!

[@Chamuzi]

The opening scene is Saiyan after a rough start to the ladder day.

[@L1golas1]

Was waiting for this the whole day!! ❤

[@ff19801]

same here

[@XUNsc]

Hope it was well worth the wait ❤

[@MundaneDave]

ggs Thanks for the cast! Very curious about next week

[@jordanarchuleta4179]

Protoss won one!!

[@denzelnolet]

FYI sk hasn’t been playing bw lately. He’s mostly been playing league

[@XUNsc]

If this is true kind of confirms my suspicions about his situation.

[@marcelvasilenechita2094]

Beautiful!

[@ProtossBrotoss]

Also, good cast guys!

[@chaelcanterbury8787]

V-Gundam push is popular again after 20 years. Crazy.

[@justintremblay3182]

Freaking great games, the last 2 were great, my race won for once lol

[@ProtossBrotoss]

*spoiler warning* I feel like Action, at least in PvZ is the quintessential abusive zerg (and I mean this in the best way possible). Oh you see my 9 pool? Psyche! I'm gonna drone behind it. Anticipating muta sniping HT? L O L I went lurker early, fool! I feel like playing him would be an actual nightmare, he is so good at utilising the threat of aggression to make room to drone, as well as so on top of utilising more defensive lurker into hive strats. Also regularly see him either 973 into macro, or 973 into fake macro and a delayed all in... like how can you ever metagame this guy? Really cool stuff

[@XUNsc]

There's a good reason I call him the most aggressive macro Zerg, he's on his own level and wave length.

[@leggchanyu]

You should do an annual poll of which season had the best intro music.

[@leggchanyu]

For me, I'd have to say Season 2 for 2024, as I'm partial to Cell music, and it had the Rest in Peace to Akira Toriyama message.

[@dragonsdynamite6403]

I thank you.

[@son_60han]

Not even 2 hour video and we got 3 top Z on the field.

[@albert4860]

Not all heroes wear capes.

[@zhongxiazhou6112]

Kickback is basically broken for ZVT with the run by. I guess it will be eliminated from the map pool in the next season.

[@MondSemmel]

Soulkey is an awesome player, but there's no such thing as an invincible player in Bo1s. The reason why he's been so dominant in ASL/SSL is that he's insane in tournament formats, in particular by coming back from several 0:2s. But he rarely wins without giving up maps, which is what you need to do to win a KCM week.

[@XUNsc]

I get what you're saying, but 2 of his 3 ASL/SSL titles were obtained with 4:1 in the grand finals and he's usually blasting multiple people in KCM in previous seasons on the regular.

[@MondSemmel]

@@XUNsc Sure, Soulkey is a heavy favorite in almost every bo1. But would you bet more than, say, 80% on any player to win a bo1? What makes the best players nigh-unbeatable in tournaments is that their opponents can beat 20% odds once, but probably not 3-5x. Whereas Soulkey just has to lose 80% odds once to get knocked out of a KCM week.

[@XUNsc]

@@MondSemmel Depends on their opponent, sometimes style is playing a huge factor in win % which would push it to 80%+ in some instances. Generally speaking I agree with you, though we are also talking about a pattern emerging from Soulkey losing 3 KCM weeks in a row recently now.

[@I-ONLY-BUILD-MECHS-AND-DUSTERS]

Some of my favorite terrans are here

[@11_Hashtagged_11]

What hurts you on the algorythm?

[@SaiyanKCM]

if I add an extra bit of time at the end of the video to disguise the fact that the series ends early.

[@XUNsc]

In over simplified terms, no one watches the spoiler part of the video - so it makes your video look less popular in KZbin statistics.

[@leonardobruzzoni9231]

About tie breaker, I guess that if the top 2 of the ranking are tied you skip the semifinal.... I hope I'm wrong thou!

[@Raptor-N-L]

Yes you are the best by doing anti spoiler on it. Now for the other games dont put spoilers in the thumbnail. That also pays in the end since I dont watch them. Also sont say how much games there are in one video. And also have rushes that did not work or worked in it. I know they are short so put a extra game behind it. I hate it when I see a rush and I already know he did just enough damage so the game got long. That is the reason I like tournaments more than normal games, it is not cuz of the games but cuz no spoilers at all. Keep doing what you do plz❤

[@JIu4Ho]

seems like a bit like 322 tbh :/

[@XUNsc]

Was thinking 133 but I see your point :\

[@scNkosiSW]

Your anti-spoiler padding at the end really helps me enjoy the games. Please don't lose this great service to your fans just to appease youtube's shitty algorithm.

[@SaiyanKCM]

Thanks, unfortunately the shitty algorithm decides whether I can pay my bills or not to some extent. Fans helping with extra support hopefully makes up for it and it becomes worthwhile in the long run.

[@scNkosiSW]

@@SaiyanKCM I understand. It's that age-old dilemma. Thou cannot worship Flash and Mammon both. Though what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his immortal Soulkey? ;)