FXOpen e-Sports
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| Coaches: | Daniel "Unstable" Siddel Lee "Choya" Hyung Seop |
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| Manager: | Josh "BoSs" Dentrinos |
| Website: | FXOpen e-Sports |
| Sponsor: | FXOpen Razer |
| TLPD: | FXOpen e-Sports International FXOpen e-Sports Korea |
| Twitter: | FXOpeneSports |
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| Created: | 2010-12-11 |
| Recent Player Trades: | 2012-05-06, left: Oz 2012-03-14, left: SLoG |
FXOpen e-Sports is the competitive gaming division of the major forex trading company with the same name. It owns and manages a StarCraft II professional team split into two rosters: FXO.KR, a Korean roster formerly known as team For Our Utopia, and FXO.CIS, a roster from the Commonwealth of Independent States featuring players from the late imba.FXOpen clan. FXO.KR and FXO.CIS are managed by two different staffs, and participate in different team events (both rosters will participate in IPL Team Arena Challenge 3), but otherwise represent the same team. This offers opportunities for the players of FXO.CIS to compete in Korea.
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[edit] Overview
In early December 2010 FXOpen, a major forex trading company, announced their intention to own and manage a competitive StarCraft II professional team. This most recent branch of FXOpen, dubbed "FXOpen e-Sports", was formed not only to host and sponsor events like the FXOpen Path of Ascension, but to support a competitive team with a view to furthering e-Sports.[2]
With history in sponsoring Drift teams and Martial Arts competitions, the FXOpen e-Sports branch represents another venture as a business being backed by an already successful business. Rather than trying to gain clientele by sponsoring an existing team, the company wishes to have players to call its own in order to best implement various visions for e-Sports, including the need for a global professional scene.
Being based in Sydney at the FXOceania division of the company, Josh "BoSs" Dentrinos sourced a signification portion of the team locally from the SEA/Oceania StarCraft scene. Initial pick-ups included mOOnGLaDe and eventually Filthy for the competitive team, and management was similarly Australian flavoured with Daniel "Unstable" Siddel joining team management and Brendan "deL" Ferguson and Marc "frequency" Onofrio co-ordinating FXOpen e-Sports Events Management.
The vision for the team included international players and so OpTiKzErO was also signed up early in the team's history after he impressed in the TL Open events. Following shortly after, with some controversy, was ex-ROOT player Sheth. Accusations of cherrypicking existing teams were dispelled when Sheth took the initiative to justify his move away from Root Gaming and to the new team, which included the team's vision for future e-Sports as well as financial support.[3]
Semi-Pro SC:BW player allaboutyou was picked up by the team mid January 2011 and now plays under the ID mOoNan. Shortly after this pickup was officially announced, it was also announced that Wolf Schröder would join FXOpen e-Sports as a professional caster and commentator.
In March of 2011 the team picked up qxc. With qxc came some relatively unknown players: SLoG, iceiceice, and tgun.
On May 28, 2011, it was announced that FXO would be flying out to Korea as a team to participate in the GSTL[4], as well as being sponsored by Razer. [5] On June 16, 2011 FXO announced their first Korean player signing, TwilightfOu, playing under the ID Oz.[6]
On July 18, 2011 FXO announced that they had merged with the Korean team fOu, continuing to use the name FXOpen e-Sports. This choice was made in order to have two team practise locations, and because of the talent and promise shown by fOu players.[7]
Following, on July 28, 2011, FXO signed a new recruit "in training"', Timber.
On August 14th, it was announced that FXO has left the SC2Con Organization due to a dispute with one of their representatives. FXO will be meeting with SC2Con in September to discuss the issue.[8]
On October 15th, 2011, Wolf announced on his Twitter that he and FXO parted ways.[9]
tgun announced his leaving of FXO on November 2nd. Three days later, Inori was also announced to be joining Team Reign.
On December 1st it was announced that qxc would be leaving FXOpen for compLexity.[10]
On May 6th, it was announced that Oz had officially left FXOpen e-Sports and joined Fnatic.[11]
[edit] History
[edit] 2010
- December 11th, the full team was announced.[2]
[edit] 2011
- January 14th, allaboutyou was added to the roster.
- February 26th, Wolf "Wolf" Schröder was added to staff as a caster.[12]
- March 25th, qxc, iceiceice, tgun, Athony, SLoG announced.[13]
- May 28th, Announced participation in GSTL.[4]
- May 28th, Announced new hardware sponsor Razer.[5]
- June 10th, Filthy retires from competitive StarCraft 2.[citation needed]
- June 16th, new player Oz announced.[6]
- July 7th, Raelcun added to staff roster.[citation needed]
- July 18th, FXOpen e-Sports aquires the Korean team fOu.[7]
- July 21st, Sheth leaves FXOpen e-Sports.[14]
- July 29th, Timber joins FXOpen e-Sports.[15]
- August 13th, mOOnGLaDe leaves FXOpen e-Sports.[16]
- August 14th, FXO leaves SC2Con.[8]
- September 9th, sC leaves FXOpen e-Sports and transfers to MvP.[17]
- October 15th, Wolf leaves FXOpen e-Sports.[9]
- November 1st, tgun leaves FXOpen e-Sports.[18]
- November 5th, Inori leaves FXOpen e-Sports and transfers to Team Reign.[19]
- December 1st, qxc leaves FXOpen e-Sports for compLexity Gaming.[10]
- December, FXOpen e-Sports website created and released with FXOpen e-Sports related news, replays and more.
[edit] 2012
- March 3rd, Guild of Imbalance parts ways with FXOpen, FXOpen retains Strelok, Brat_OK, Elbegast, Snake, LoWeLy and HappyZerg.[1]
- March 14th, SLoG leaves the team.[20]
- April 15th, xD leaves the team.[21]
- May 6th, Oz leaves FXOpen e-Sports and joins Fnatic.[11]
[edit] Player Roster
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[edit] FXO
Best Yearly Results:
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asd | Lee Dae Jin | - |  Ro16 
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Choya | Lee Hyung Seop | Ro8
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GuMiho | Koh Byung Jae | Ro64
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Leenock | Lee Dong Nyung | Ro16
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Lucky | Lee In Soo | - | 2nd 
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mOoNan | Min Gyun "Peter" Kim | 25 - 32nd
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OpTiKzErO | Karl Angeles | - | 22nd
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Sirius | Choi Jin Sol | Ro64
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TheBest | Kim Chan Min | Ro16
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TopClass | Jung Bang Min | - | Ro32
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Tree | Kim Hyun Mok | - | - | Ro32
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Weekend | Lee Haeng Seon | - | Ro32
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[edit] FXO.CIS
Best Yearly Results:
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Brat_OK | Pavel Kuznetsov | Ro24 
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Elbegast | Pavel Semenov | - | - | - |
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HappyZerg | Svyatoslav Vlasyuk | - | - | - |
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LoWeLy | Anton Plebanovich | - | Ro32
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max | Maxim Yurkov | - | - | - |
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Snake | Dmitriy Grigoriev | - | - | - |
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Strelok | Eugin Oparyshev | Ro16
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[edit] Other
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Crane | Kim Han Byul |
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JKS | Song Jae Kyung |
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kAsyu | Han Byung Hoon |
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Supreme | Choi Seung Min |
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Tear | Nam Ki Woong |
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VoidRay | Lee Jung Bum |
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Whale | Ahn Joon Hwa |
[edit] Former
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iceiceice | Daryl Koh Pei Xiang | |
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Inori | Woo Min Gyu |  Reign
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Filthy | Phil Edwards | |
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sC | Kim Seung Chul |  MvP
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Sheth | Shawn Simon |  Liquid
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Terious | Song Byung Hak |  Prime
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mOOnGLaDe | Andrew Pender | Invidia |
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Wolf | Wolf Schröder | |
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tgun | Bradley Seymour |  It's Gosu
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Anthony | Anthony Accettone | |
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qxc | Kevin Riley |  compLexity
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PartinG | Won Lee Sak |  StarTale
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Timber | Julian Ho | |
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SLoG | Andrew An |  Eclypsia
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xD | Choi Joon Hyuk | Retired |
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Oz | Kim Hak Soo |  Fnatic
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[edit] Management
| Nickname | Name | Position |
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| BoSs
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Josh Dentrinos | Team Owner |
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Daniel Siddel | Team Manager / Coach |
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Lee Hyung Seop | Team Manager / Coach |
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Brendan Ferguson | Team / Events Manager |
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Marc Onofrio | Events Manager |
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Alan Brusky | Stream and Media |
[edit] Team Achievements
[edit] FXO.KR
| Date | Event | Result |
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| 2012-03-17 | North American Star Team League |  FXOpen e-Sports  3 : 2  Team Empire
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| 2012-03-07 | IPL Team Arena Challenge 2 |  FXOpen e-Sports 2 : 5  New Star HoSeo
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[edit] FXO.CIS
| Date | Event | Result |
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| 2012-04-18 | incredible Panic Team League Season 3 |  FXOpen e-Sports 4 : 2 Team Empire
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[edit] FXOpen Events
As part of FXOpen e-Sports vision for the furthering of professional StarCraft 2, several cash prize events will be held over 2011. Their first two tournaments - an open tournaments and an invitational - served as a test run for future events to come in 2011. The invitational series continues, and a King of the Hill style tournament has since been added to the list of FXOpen managed events.
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[edit] Interviews
[edit] References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Guild of Imbalance and FXOpen part ways". TeamLiquid.net. March 3rd 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Introducing Team FXOpen e-Sports". TeamLiquid.net. December 11th 2010.
- ↑ "FXOpen and Good Wishes". TeamLiquid.net. December 12th 2010.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "FXO decides to participate in the upcoming GSTL!". GOMTV.net. May 28th 2011. Thread on TeamLiquid.net.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Razer sponsors FXOpen e-Sports". TeamLiquid.net. May 29th 2011.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "FXO adds Korean Protoss Twilight". TeamLiquid.net. June 16th 2011.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "fOu Becomes FXO Korea". TeamLiquid.net. July 18th 2011.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "FXO leaves sc2con organisation". TeamLiquid.net. August 14th 2011.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Wolf's Twitter. Twitter.com. October 15th 2011. Thread on TeamLiquid.net.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "FXO transfers qxc to Complexity". ESFI-World.com. December 1st 2011.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Fnatic signs Oz
- ↑ "[FXO] FXOpen e-Sports Announcements". TeamLiquid.net. February 28th 2011.
- ↑ "[FXO] New Players Announced". TeamLiquid.net. March 25th 2011.
- ↑ "FXO parts ways with Sheth". TeamLiquid.net. July 22nd 2011.
- ↑ "FXO welcomes pRoTimber to its training team". TeamLiquid.net. July 29th 2011.
- ↑ "mOOnGLaDe released from FXO". August 13th 2011.
- ↑ "FXOsC to MVP!". TeamLiquid.net. September 9th 2011.
- ↑ "FXOtgun and FXO part ways". TeamLiquid.net. November 1st 2011.
- ↑ "Korean Protoss Inori joins Team ReIGN". TeamLiquid.net. November 5th 2011.
- ↑ SLoG's Twitter. Twitter.com. March 14th 2012. Thread on TeamLiquid.net.
- ↑ Choya's Twitter. Twitter.com. April 15th 2012.
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