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Cooler Master and GOIMBA will sponsor their first event of 2014, featuring two of StarCraft’s top contenders. The event will be hosted by Nathan “Nathanias” Fabrikant and will be streamed on Twitch.tv.
Head over to GOIMBA and make your predictions on the matches in order to enter your chance to win a Cooler Master headset, mouse and keyboard.
Poll: Who will take it?Polt (81) 68% Stephano (38) 32% 119 total votes Your vote: Who will take it? (Vote): Polt (Vote): Stephano
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Hey guys looking forward to bringing you this match, super excited as you all know I'm a big Polt fan as well as a Terran player and it'll be cool especially with Polt playing his WCS Match around this time as well
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solid showmatch idea, hope stephano plays well.
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Polt 4-0., Hope Stephano plays well though.
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Russian Federation1016 Posts
So Stephano will play from Take's appartment as far as I understand. Will there be an overlap with HSC (I suck at counting time zones)?
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On June 03 2014 17:00 IAmWithStupid wrote: So Stephano will play from Take's appartment as far as I understand. Will there be an overlap with HSC (I suck at counting time zones)?
Good question ! 6pm PST is 4am in Germany, so it's most unlikely it will be live. Probably casted from replays.
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I don't like neither fo them but I think Polt has this ez pz G_G
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Really hope Polt takes this 4-0.
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I see a 4-1 Polt win in the works.
Thanks for the show match CMStorm and Nathanias!
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Oh man. One of the most epic Korean vs foreigner rivalry ever. This is going to be good.
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ZvT isn't good for swarmhosts, so Stephano is at big disadvantage xD. Probably 4-0 unless Stephano does some allins.
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Polt should probably win 4-0, but his TvZ has been kinda weak lately. I say 4-2 Polt anyway, but would not be surprised to see large swings in either direction.
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Stephano 4-0
Greatest wol rivalry, Polt vs stephano NEVER dissapointed !
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United States23455 Posts
Forget mouse/headset/keyboard. I want to win a CMStorm jacket :D
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Polt 4-1. Stephano will catch Polt off guard with swarm hosts in the first game
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On June 03 2014 22:43 Tuczniak wrote: ZvT isn't good for swarmhosts, so Stephano is at big disadvantage xD. Probably 4-0 unless Stephano does some allins. Inb4 stephano goes swarmhost roach corruptor spore
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United Kingdom31935 Posts
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If you guys would like a shot at winning your very own CM Storm Polt mouse and keyboard, head on over to the CM Storm page and post what you think the end score will be, as well as the victor.
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This will be amazing - cant wait for this!!
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Is this "Winner takes it all" format ? 1000$ is a sweet prize for one match.
Edit : If I understand correctly we gonna see more matches organised by Cooler Master & GOIMBA ?
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Polt´s gonna send Stephano into retirement... oh wait. 
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Legendary!
EDIT: wait, 6 pm PST? worst possible time for Europe...
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Looking forward to this! So many good games of StarCraft in a short time with THIS, HSC, and ShoutCraft. Great stuff!
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On June 03 2014 16:24 Dodgin wrote: solid showmatch idea, hope stephano plays well. hmmm considering he was tired in HSC already and has to stay awake till 3am and then play a BO7 i think it is going to be Polt who will just outplay Ilyes
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this will be a bigger beatdown than Hyun vs Dragon
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Polt will unconditionally flatten Stephano 4-0, it will be brutal and glorious
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Yea this is going to be a 4-0 stomp.
Still will be fun to watch Stephano's chat antics, lol.
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On June 07 2014 08:29 mikumegurine wrote: this will be a bigger beatdown than Hyun vs Dragon
On June 07 2014 08:43 sorrowptoss wrote: Polt will unconditionally flatten Stephano 4-0, it will be brutal and glorious
On June 07 2014 09:43 Beastgief wrote: Yea this is going to be a 4-0 stomp.
Still will be fun to watch Stephano's chat antics, lol. rekt
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On June 07 2014 08:43 sorrowptoss wrote: Polt will unconditionally flatten Stephano 4-0, it will be brutal and glorious
On June 07 2014 09:43 Beastgief wrote: Yea this is going to be a 4-0 stomp.
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Everybody forgot about this event. Not even 1k viewer.
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Oh it's from replay, so less hype.
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your Country52797 Posts
On June 07 2014 10:25 pigmanbear wrote: Oh it's from replay, so less hype. The chat from lag makes it super obvious hahahaha
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On June 07 2014 09:43 Beastgief wrote: Yea this is going to be a 4-0 stomp.
Still will be fun to watch Stephano's chat antics, lol.
Yeah, I love when he trash talks while stomping.
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Wow, Stephano rocking Polt. Wtf
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Pano playing pretty darn well so far
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Can someone fill me in how Stephano won the first 2 games???
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ofc its replays ^^ its 3:30am in germany xD
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your Country52797 Posts
Stephano going muta/ling/bling? What on earth?
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On June 07 2014 11:06 The_Templar wrote: Stephano going muta/ling/bling? What on earth? And doing it well!
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This would basically be comparable to someone like Lucifron making a comeback and owning Jaedong in a bo7.
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your Country52797 Posts
On June 07 2014 11:08 checkupriv wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2014 11:06 The_Templar wrote: Stephano going muta/ling/bling? What on earth? And doing it well! He even won with it 0.O
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On June 07 2014 11:09 The_Templar wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2014 11:08 checkupriv wrote:On June 07 2014 11:06 The_Templar wrote: Stephano going muta/ling/bling? What on earth? And doing it well! He even won with it 0.O He's won every game with it. The one game he lost so far he went ling/roach/infestor
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On June 07 2014 11:09 Hider wrote: This would basically be comparable to someone like Lucifron making a comeback and owning Jaedong in a bo7.
What?
Not at all. Stephano is the best foreigner ever, and Polt isn't Jaedong.
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The game speed seems a little fast. Is it just me?
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Great series.
And a cool $1,000 goes to Stephano.
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BOOM. My boy Stephano still tearing shit up even in retirement.
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Damn such cool scrappy play from Polt. Oh well
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On June 07 2014 11:55 jeeeeohn wrote: BOOM. My boy Stephano still tearing shit up even in retirement.
This is getting ridiculous.
If he lost he would have said "good job beating a retired player."
He attends more tournaments than nearly every foreign pro gamer.
Streams all the time.
The dude isn't fucking retired lol.
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On June 07 2014 12:28 Beastgief wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2014 11:55 jeeeeohn wrote: BOOM. My boy Stephano still tearing shit up even in retirement. This is getting ridiculous. If he lost he would have said "good job beating a retired player." He attends more tournaments than nearly every foreign pro gamer. Streams all the time. The dude isn't fucking retired lol. For the record, he said that to Nerchio because Nerchio was being a piece of shit about the games
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How did Stephano win? What?
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Stephano beats Polt 4-2 apparently (source: reddit)
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Not looking good for Polt's WCS run.
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On June 07 2014 12:28 Beastgief wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2014 11:55 jeeeeohn wrote: BOOM. My boy Stephano still tearing shit up even in retirement. This is getting ridiculous. If he lost he would have said "good job beating a retired player." He attends more tournaments than nearly every foreign pro gamer. Streams all the time. The dude isn't fucking retired lol.
And yet he plays 5 hours per week, maybe double or triple that amount maximum for special occasions.
Millenium manager said Stephano wanted to rejoin his team after leaving EG but he turned down the offer because Stephano wasn't ready to play more than an average 5 hours / week (so instead he went to MeltDown eSports).
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The matchup is really strange. Polt opened Banshee in every game while Stephano played different openings.
The highlight of the series was Stephano losing his whole lot of Mutas in a 4 widow mine hit on Overgrowth. He GG'ed instantly - similar to Jjakji vs Revival game. Even Nathanias couldn't control his laughter.
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On June 07 2014 20:06 v_lm wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2014 12:28 Beastgief wrote:On June 07 2014 11:55 jeeeeohn wrote: BOOM. My boy Stephano still tearing shit up even in retirement. This is getting ridiculous. If he lost he would have said "good job beating a retired player." He attends more tournaments than nearly every foreign pro gamer. Streams all the time. The dude isn't fucking retired lol. And yet he plays 5 hours per week, maybe double or triple that amount maximum for special occasions. Millenium manager said Stephano wanted to rejoin his team after leaving EG but he turned down the offer because Stephano wasn't ready to play more than an average 5 hours / week (so instead he went to MeltDown eSports).
You really trust that ? ^^ He does easily the triple only by stream + tournaments, and he practice a lot more than when he was officially totally retired (when he met nearly everyday pros on GM ladder :D ). Actually he's a lot better, too.
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your Country52797 Posts
So what I got from this is that Stephano is perfectly able to play normal games but goes swarm hosts every game anyway. He also only shows swarm hosts in his high level competition games and saves his builds for show matches. -.-
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What a strange loss for Polt.... I could see him dropping a game, maybe even a bo3 if Stephano went swarmhosts... but it was a b07 and he didn't go swarmhosts from what I saw
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Actually stephano played pretty well in nation war, destroying qxc, so 'im not "that" surprised
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On June 07 2014 22:34 Pino wrote: Actually stephano played pretty well in nation war, destroying qxc, so 'im not "that" surprised
''Destroying QXC'' well...you can't really compare QXC to Polt not ever
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United States23455 Posts
On June 07 2014 19:31 calh wrote: Not looking good for Polt's WCS run. Wouldn't worry about it. Just one show match :D Polt turns it on in WCS AM
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Were these games played live?
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No it was something like 2 weeks ago. Right after the hellbat patch.
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