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It's been a while since we had a sick showmatch on our hand, right? Well, here is one for you! ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/a/ab/Picon_small.png) Kevin ' RotterdaM' van der Kooi proudly presents, a battle for $500 between Ilyes ' Stephano' Satouri and ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/8/8a/Ricon_small.png) Jung ' Balloon' Woo Joon.
Date, Format, Players & Cash
On this Friday, May 16th, there will be a Best-Of-7 shotmatch between the French retired Zerg player Ilyes 'Stephano' Satouri and the Korean Random player Jung 'Balloon' Woo Joon. The winner of the match will walk away with $500 prize money, while the second place finisher gets nothing.
Poll: Who will win, Stephano or Balloon?Stephano (294) 59% Balloon (201) 41% 495 total votes Your vote: Who will win, Stephano or Balloon? (Vote): Stephano
(Vote): Balloon
Time, Caster(s) & Stream
The showmatch will start in , which is 17:00 CEST or 08:00 PST.
For the battle, we have two awesome casters for you ready. One of them is the organizer of the showmatch - RotterdaM - the second one is going to be a surprise and is announced tomorrow live on the stream.
Since RotterdaM is one of the casters, the match will be streamed via his channel on Twitch, which is linked below. The language of the cast will, of course, be English.
Social Media
To support the players and casters, please make sure to follow them on Twitter.
Sponsor and Support
The whole showmatch is sponsored by @WizeCrax. Please check out his Twitter as well and thank him.
Also a big thanks to @rtschutter for the graphic.
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Pretty cool event. 
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So... if Balloon decides to mech we get to see Swarm Hosts in three matchups?
I better get some snacks ready
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Ballon wins I think, but there will be sick entertaining games either way.
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ballons terra is weak so
zvt stephano win
zvz is swarmhost time so
zvz stephano win
zvp ballon will win i think
zvp ballon win
overall its hard for ballon having a 2/3 lose chance at the start with race xD
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rooting for balloon, the scene needs successful randoms!
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this is gonna be awesome!!
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balloon so sexy 
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your Country52797 Posts
Hmmm… Balloon 4-3 I think, will root for both players to make it close
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I have a feeling Stephano's gonna swarmhost every map
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Sorry Balloon, but Stephano's gonna burst you!
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Nice. I cant wait for it. My bet is on Stephano.
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very retired
gogo Balloon though
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Go Balloon!!!! Get those $$$ for your MLG trip!
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Rotterdam proudly presents: the Swarm, hosted by Stephano. should be fun.
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Balloon is better but the SH might be too much
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Just wondering, the countdown (currently 23 hours and 58 minutes) is counting down to 18:00 CET but it says 17:00 CET. Which one is correct?
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Stephano about to bring the beat down.
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On May 16 2014 01:02 Neemi wrote:
Just wondering, the countdown (currently 23 hours and 58 minutes) is counting down to 18:00 CET but it says 17:00 CET. Which one is correct?
Text says 17:00, picture says 17:00, TL calendar says 17:00. 17:00 seems a safe bet. 
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Balloon is super awesome. Aside from him playing Random, he's just cool overall.
:D
GL to both
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This is cool! GL to both players!!
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Oh man this is awesome :D 100% rooting for Balloon here, but it should be great to watch regardless of what happens!
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On May 16 2014 01:02 Neemi wrote:
Just wondering, the countdown (currently 23 hours and 58 minutes) is counting down to 18:00 CET but it says 17:00 CET. Which one is correct?
Hi man. I was wondering about it too. I checked it and I found out, that it's not CET, it is CEST. That makes the 1 hour difference. :-) Enjoy the games.
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wow im so much fan of balloon im totally rooting for balloon , voted
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On May 16 2014 05:13 mYiBalloon wrote:wow im so much fan of balloon im totally rooting for balloon , voted
This balloon guy, so much hype. He must be pretty gosu XD
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On May 16 2014 05:13 mYiBalloon wrote:wow im so much fan of balloon im totally rooting for balloon , voted
you better bring out the 2 raxes if you want to sleep on friday
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props to Wizecrax for sponsoring this awesomeness
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Only 3 hours left - get hyped! :D
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Balloon held his own in the Jjakji showmatch, so this should be interesting. Hopefully $500 for Stephano's new bar tab at Meltdown? =P
On May 16 2014 05:13 mYiBalloon wrote:wow im so much fan of balloon im totally rooting for balloon , voted
Bahaha, this kind of humor is great. I really like your attitude, Balloon.
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The mandatory "To the Bank!"
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I knew I recognized the other caster's voice but couldn't find who it was. Shame on me.
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Norway119 Posts
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France7248 Posts
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The picture on the post before yours says Overgrowth.
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Norway119 Posts
On May 17 2014 00:30 Boucot wrote:The picture on the post before yours says Overgrowth.
Overgrowth
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France7248 Posts
On May 17 2014 00:30 Boucot wrote:The picture on the post before yours says Overgrowth.
oops
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Eh was bored, so i put in the info's
Was overgrowth on map 1 for stephano
map 2 was king sejong station for balloon
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The pre-game banter is getting out of hand.
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On May 17 2014 00:32 Yhamm wrote:Show nested quote +On May 17 2014 00:30 Boucot wrote:The picture on the post before yours says Overgrowth. oops
It would be sweet if you could specify which race played Ballon for each map. <3
EDIT : Mr Yhamm, you rock.
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man i really wanna see some Swarmhosts. stop cheesing =/
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Stephano vs. Asian Major.
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Ok, Balloon's Terran. Stephano wins
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Pretty good defense from Stephano but stop being so greedy please ><"
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balloonovation , best terran
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Stephano seems really outmatched in this series
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On May 17 2014 00:14 MrMotionPicture wrote:
ezpz for stephano
really ? xD
On May 17 2014 00:51 Clazziquai10 wrote:Ok, Balloon's Terran. Stephano wins
jaeh not so nice to lose to his worst race
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Stephano gets so many viewers haha for this random showmatch it's over 10000
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On May 17 2014 01:02 DamageControL wrote:
Stephano gets so many viewers haha for this random showmatch it's over 10000
It's his "I'm technically out of retirement showmatch."
Also Balloon's playing Random. :D
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On May 17 2014 01:03 IntoTheheart wrote:Show nested quote +On May 17 2014 01:02 DamageControL wrote:
Stephano gets so many viewers haha for this random showmatch it's over 10000 It's his "I'm technically out of retirement showmatch." Also Balloon's playing Random. :D
also Friday evening in EU and Rotterdam. but yeah probably the viewers are mostly due to the Stephano factor.
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wtf, just rushed home to catch this and it's already 3-2?
edit: oh it's 3-1, still very fast, gogo Stephano, catch up please
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Am I the only one not surprised that Stephano loses because he is lacking variety in his playstyle? He does nothing but swarmhosts and balloon smartly goes for early attacks with air and detection. I guess the timing of the swarmhosts spawn time is the biggest weakness of that build, when the SH comes out, Balloon is hitting the natural.
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Very entertaining showmatch, good initiative!
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Units killed: 166 (100 of them are free units)
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Jesus stephano fanboys are annoying acting like the only reason Stephano loses is because he's ''retired'' and ''playing op amove protoss''
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Balloon went to Tod's school of having more warp prisms than your opponent has bases.
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Jesus stephano fanboys are annoying acting like the only reason Stephano loses is because he's ''retired'' and ''playing op amove protoss''
Pro Starcraft viewer tip : don't read Twitch chat.
EDIT : whoops didn't mean to make another post. Sorry 
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btw is this babyknight? or who is casting with rotti
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On May 17 2014 01:24 Undead1993 wrote:
btw is this babyknight? or who is casting with rotti
Yes it is !
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On May 17 2014 01:24 Undead1993 wrote:
btw is this babyknight? or who is casting with rotti
yeah it's BabyK
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"Still not good enough for the swarmhost god" ROFL
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Oh hey Balloon is pretty good, cool
second coming of RandomGumiho?
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Balloon
He should try Starbow.
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On May 15 2014 20:38 Drake wrote:
ballons terra is weak so
zvt stephano win
zvz is swarmhost time so
zvz stephano win
zvp ballon will win i think
zvp ballon win
overall its hard for ballon having a 2/3 lose chance at the start with race xD
lol at people thinking ballon was the weaker player :D
GG!
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Balloon afaik is among top 100 on KR ladder, he is obviously really good considering he plays random.
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On May 17 2014 01:43 Bagration wrote:
So 4-1 Balloon?
4-2
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On May 17 2014 01:43 Bagration wrote:
So 4-1 Balloon?
4-2 Balloon.
Stephano won the game on frost with his SH, was a interesting game though
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I knew it was worth watching Balloon's stream
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Woohoo Balloon!!! so glad he won
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glad to see balloon win. Very cool guy to watch play, with a lot of variety to his playstyle.
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EPT![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/c/c9/Zicon_small.png)
Ilyes 'Stephano' Satouri and ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/SaRHg33.jpg)
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