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FXOpen e-Sports is excited to announce our first major offline event in the $20,000 FXOpen King of the Hill to be hosted in our team house in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This event is significant for several reasons, for one it will be the largest FXO tournament hosted to date in terms of prizepool. It will also be the first time the Malaysian FXO team house is used, and the first time FXO will broadcast an event from our studio infrastructure in Malaysia.
While many of the details are yet to be confirmed, we still have a lot of exciting information on the format and setup for the event approved. The first thing that I think commands your attention is the prizepool. At $20,000 it's FXOpen's biggest event to date and is a huge amount of money for an event of this format.
- $20,000 cash prizepool.
- KOTH format - winner plays on, order shuffled for each day.
- Date TBA in 2011.
- Five day event.
- At least 9 x Bo3 matches each day.
- Players stay in the FXO team house.
- $500 towards flight costs.
- $100 earned per victory on days 1-4.
- Bonus prizemoney available on day 5.
Second most of interest I think is the infrastructure being set up in Kuala Lumpur for this and future events. All players will be subsidised $500 travel expenses and stay in our Pro House for the duration of the five day event. While staying in the house all food will be supplied and the matches will take place in the FXO studio also in Malaysia.
While the schedule is yet to be announced for 2011 with everyone being kept busy on GSTL duty the format is mostly ironed out. Over the 5 days we will see the players play in Bo3 KOTH format in which the winner plays the next opponent in a pre-set order. This order will reverse or shuffle day to day so there is a fair distribution of games among the players.
Each player defeated will earn the players $100 until the final day where the remaining money will be used up by increasing the amount of cash won per victory. The format is by no means set in stone and may be subject to change if we come across any improvements in the mean time!
Live coverage of the event will be provided from our studio in Kuala Lumpur by hosts FXOWolf of GSL casting fame and also FXOUnstable who will be living in Malaysia! The event will also feature at least one special guest caster. What you can look forward to in the coverage:
- Live coverage from a studio.
- Multiple streams and languages.
- Guest casters.
- Giveaways, player interviews and other fun events.
The participants for this King of the Hill event will be primarily based on results from the  FXOpen KOTH weekly online events. The top three performers for each applicable region are outlined below for a preview of players pushing to claim one of the invite spots.
As mentioned, the players will be selected based on their performance in our weekly online $300 FXO KOTH events. Both total wins and ladder points may be used to determine who the three invites per region will be. One special invite to bring the total to 10 players will also be attending but will be announced later. There will be at least 10 more KOTHs per region, so if you are a top player from any of these regions and think you deserve a shot at one of the upcoming KOTH events please PM me or post in this thread and present your case!
Upcoming eventsFXO KOTH Europe #2 - Saturday, Jun 11 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)FXO KOTH Americas #3 - Sunday, Jun 26 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)FXO KOTH Europe #3 - Sunday, Jul 03 1:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)FXO KOTH Korea #3 - Sunday, Jul 03 8:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
Please note that FXOpen e-Sports staff reserve the right to alter the selection criteria as required and that no one is guaranteed based solely on a good online KOTH result.
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:D nice prize pool, are you contacting KR teams / players to make them aware of this or?
Can't wait to see the invites and when the event is scheduled for :D
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Awesome! Looking forwards to pictures of Malaysia!
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That sounds absolutely awesome... I am excite! Glad to hear FXO bringing the big guns here wish you guys success on your first major tournament! Also are all the FXO KOTH's invite only or am I able to sign up for let's say America #3 KOTH?
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I hope this goes superbly well.
Supremely epic level of sauce has been applied to my meal.
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Interesting format choice for a tournament with a $20,000 prize pool.
Very interested to see how this turns out.
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Nice! KOTH with such a big prizepool and at such an Awesome house! =D
Looking forward to it!
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Very cool! Should be awesome.
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stoaked.. fxo events always deliver this should be dope as fuck!
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That is one really big prize pool.
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Great event. Amazing prize pool too
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$100 a match? SICK PRIZE POOL!!
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The prize pool keeps on increasing.
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Just keeps getting better and better, FXO all over the world.
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Hmm not a bad concept with the $100 a match win thing but don't know if I like the fact that a $20k prize pool tournament is being done in this format. I'd much rather see a single elimination knock out style tournament as it adds more drama.
But still, can't say it's a bad thing.
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Sweet, I hope Azz and Perfect go, would be awesome to see my teammates there :D
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God damn it must be nice to be in FXO with all this money just lying around.... My boss is rich as fuck too, but I don't see anything other than my fortnightly paycheque!
God effing damn it. Effing what the eff!
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On June 10 2011 13:06 pdd wrote:
Hmm not a bad concept with the $100 a match win thing but don't know if I like the fact that a $20k prize pool tournament is being done in this format. I'd much rather see a single elimination knock out style tournament as it adds more drama.
But still, can't say it's a bad thing.
Tournament is relatively small to what we are planning longer term.
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I love the idea, hope it goes overwhelmingly well.
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On June 10 2011 13:06 pdd wrote:
Hmm not a bad concept with the $100 a match win thing but don't know if I like the fact that a $20k prize pool tournament is being done in this format. I'd much rather see a single elimination knock out style tournament as it adds more drama.
But still, can't say it's a bad thing.
We plan to have regular elimination tournaments in the future but they will be bigger than this. This event was just in response to the popularity and good feedback from viewers about the online KOTH events and to tide everyone over while we wait to set up for a larger elimination tournament!
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awesome
i think its good for the players also because at the end of the tournament, there will be a lot of happy people. I imagine the prize money will be distributed quite well unless some monster goes undefeate for 2 days or so.
best of luck and hope as many as possible attends =)
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it kinda sux that ur awarding pts for previous koth wins before you announced this event, had you announced ur offline finals prior to the koth's the competition lvl would have been much higher, as it is some of the players might be undeserving of their spot
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On June 10 2011 13:13 TT1 wrote:
it kinda sux that ur awarding pts for previous koth wins before you announced this event, had you announced ur offline finals prior to the koth's the competition would have been much higher, as it is some of the players might be undeserving of their spot
There are still a lot of events to go and it's not like the lineup has been terrible. The offline event was mentioned personally to the players invited but as there was no thread (as some details had not been finalised) I think a lot of people sort of ignored it 
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On June 10 2011 13:13 TT1 wrote:
it kinda sux that ur awarding pts for previous koth wins before you announced this event, had you announced ur offline finals prior to the koth's the competition would have been much higher, as it is some of the players might be undeserving of their spot
There is going to be at least 10 more KOTH events per region before this event.
Everyone has their chance.
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On June 10 2011 13:13 TT1 wrote:
it kinda sux that ur awarding pts for previous koth wins before you announced this event, had you announced ur offline finals prior to the koth's the lvl of competition would have been much higher, as it is some of the players might be undeserving of their spot
Truth ITP
Still can't wait, this should be really good.
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oh ok if there are that many koth's left to play then its fine
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On June 10 2011 13:16 TT1 wrote:
oh ok if there are that many koth's left to play then its fine
Glad we have your permission, was sweating for a while there.
BTW if someone can update the liquipedia page with this info I'd be greatful, I have to get back to study :o
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On June 10 2011 13:19 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On June 10 2011 13:16 TT1 wrote:
oh ok if there are that many koth's left to play then its fine Glad we have your permission, was sweating for a while there. BTW if someone can update the liquipedia page with this info I'd be greatful, I have to get back to study :o
actually i take it back its not fine, plz restructure ur tournament asap
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I'm so exited that Perfect got invited! Does this mean team VT has to pay for the flight over? It sucks because I don't think that they have the cash to splash. God I hope that I'm wrong, lol.
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On June 10 2011 13:24 Flaunt wrote:
I'm so exited that Perfect got invited! Does this mean team VT has to pay for the flight over? It sucks because I don't think that they have the cash to splash. God I hope that I'm wrong, lol.
Noone has been invited yet. The players listed are just the players that have performed well so far in our KOTH events. We'll be running a lot more in the coming months.
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On June 10 2011 13:24 Flaunt wrote:
I'm so exited that Perfect got invited! Does this mean team VT has to pay for the flight over? It sucks because I don't think that they have the cash to splash. God I hope that I'm wrong, lol.
Those rankings are current points, we will be running over 10 more Region KOTH's before the final live event, so we will need to continue to do well to get invited to the LAN itself
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Now THIS is exciting. You bet I'm fucking hyped.
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No live audience right? Just checking!
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On June 10 2011 13:39 tjhan wrote:
No live audience right? Just checking!
I might allow a small live audience in. But its more of an online production with live competition 
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Wow this is great! I'll be sure to spread the word to Wolf's two casting Dark Templars and all my friends... oh wait....
wow what a great 500th post.
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I'd fly over to watch it live.
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WTF ITS OVER 19000!!!!!!!! So much money T_T E-Sports is really growing.
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Yes! I hope Maka is there. Good luck hosting the tournament!
Edit: Ahh, so I went back and read the second page... so apparently $20,000 with players flying in from around the world is small in comparison for what is to come........
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FXO has some serious money.... and this looks so awesome!
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$20k "offline" tournament awesome!!!
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FXO it seems you a trowing money left and right at the sc2 Esport scene. Are you making sc2 you new flagship?
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Wow, really interesting format. Just hope that you get some good players aswell and this will turn out awesome :D
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would we be able to watch the tourney live at the studio?
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Canada1637 Posts
Looks cool! Any idea when it will end up taking place? I'm guessing around Q3 if there's going to be at least 10 more KOTHs per region? o.o
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this is insane - in a good way - i know why im a big fxo fan from the 1st moment on
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This is fucking cool.
I wish I had more to say but really that sums it up. I remember the initial annoucement of all the FXO events and the ranking events. It's all super exciting, <3
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On June 10 2011 17:39 nufcrulz wrote:
would we be able to watch the tourney live at the studio?
Scroll up a bit.
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On June 10 2011 17:39 nufcrulz wrote:
would we be able to watch the tourney live at the studio?
There may be a small live audience allowed if there's a lot of interest - I imagine letting X people in in groups during the day to get autographs and meet some of the players or watch a game or two could be doable. Or even have people come in for just the one play day and let others in the next day so it's not too crowded n_n I am sure something could be figured out.
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@fxo I hope you guys do schedule this awesome tourny right bcos there are still MLG's Dreamhack and Assembly also the NASL LAN Finals are all this summer. Would hate to see it being scheduled on a date where players that can join have to choose between 2 tournaments
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On June 10 2011 20:20 HaRxTears wrote:
@fxo I hope you guys do schedule this awesome tourny right bcos there are still MLG's Dreamhack and Assembly also the NASL LAN Finals are all this summer. Would hate to see it being scheduled on a date where players that can join have to choose between 2 tournaments
Thanks for the concern, but its unlikely we will be scheduling this in conflict with anything.
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Sounds awesome lucky guys who get to compete for that money
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Would be so awesome if morrow got a spot!
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On June 10 2011 22:20 Xodushai wrote:
Would be so awesome if morrow got a spot!
If he plays in our events he just might!
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what? huge event out of nowhere
FXO surely knows how to get money rolling
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FXO rocks! Thanks for such a great event!
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Awesome news,the more big tourneys the better. FXO bringing up the game.
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Wow FXO ,,, just telling how awesome you guys are.
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This looks great, finally using that kick-ass house :-)
I'm a bit worried about the fairness of KOTH with the shuffling and all, esp. given the size of that prize-pool, but I'm sure it'll be a great event to watch.
Looking forward to see who the guest casters will be =)
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this event will make white-ra a rich man
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nice price pool but players are meh.
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On June 11 2011 00:54 bucckevin wrote:
nice price pool but players are meh.
If you bothered to read the post you would have seen there are no players invited yet, and the invites are based off of our weekly KOTH results.
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On June 11 2011 00:54 bucckevin wrote:
nice price pool but players are meh.
dwag u gotta read the info more carefully no players are set in stone yet... there are gonna be about 10 more events per region to gain points to qualify!
So prolly wait til the actually players are actually confirmed dont ya reckon?
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On June 11 2011 01:10 frequency wrote:If you bothered to read the post you would have seen there are no players invited yet, and the invites are based off of our weekly KOTH results.
There WAS NO information about how many more events there would be, it's why TT1 commented in the first place.
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Sounds pretty crazy, nice job FXO.
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Time to start paying more attention to FXO's weekly KOTHs, then.
Neat concept, a nonstandard tournament format here and there is cool.
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Canada409 Posts
The awesome FXO tournaments just keep on coming. :D
Btw, any update on your website? Been looking forward to that for a while now.
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FXO you guys are amazing...
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holy wow.
Pretty much a paid vacation playing starcraft. I suspect we'll see tons of big names trying to get in the KOTH now with this announcement.
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Oh, another KOTH. That's nice, I kinda like tho-
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HOLY SHIT
A $20,000 King of the Hill, that's fucking preposterous. :lol :lol :bow FXOpen, you guys are the shit.
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Oh my gosh! Finally something awesome happening in Malaysia! I've read the other thread about the team house and am absolutely stoked. Especially since it seems near my residential area!
I'd definitely be there to watch this live! FXO fighting!
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This looks pretty great, and it's a great move for FXO. The big KotH will bring in hella viewers obviously but this'll definitely increase interest for the smaller 'qualifier' KotH's. I'm quite stoked.
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FXOboss is the coolest guy ever.... well, besides white-ra.
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100 bucks a win... that is pretty!
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Sounds like a great event and a good idea to reveal your team house. It's great how FXO makes things happen Only thing that bothers my a little is that there will be only 10 players in total, it will exclude a lot of fan favourites and might make the event a little bit montone.
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Finally... a LIVE EVENT I CAN GO TO!?
\o/
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On June 12 2011 10:33 sc_oldboy wrote:Sounds like a great event and a good idea to reveal your team house. It's great how FXO makes things happen Only thing that bothers my a little is that there will be only 10 players in total, it will exclude a lot of fan favourites and might make the event a little bit montone.
Prize pool isnt big enough for more, it has to be justifiable for everyone. Also I cannot house more than 10 or 11 in the team house... My butler will go mad.
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guys do you think idra will go?
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On June 12 2011 11:01 Golgotha wrote:
guys do you think idra will go?
He was going to participate in the last NA koth, before he was asked to commentate the EG MCS and that was before this was announced. So, I imagine he'll participate in them... playing in that setting for this kind of cash would be hard not to be interested in.
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20k divided among 10 invites is 2k each on average. that is a very very good deal for the invitees.
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On June 12 2011 10:57 FXOpen wrote:Show nested quote +On June 12 2011 10:33 sc_oldboy wrote:Sounds like a great event and a good idea to reveal your team house. It's great how FXO makes things happen Only thing that bothers my a little is that there will be only 10 players in total, it will exclude a lot of fan favourites and might make the event a little bit montone. Prize pool isnt big enough for more, it has to be justifiable for everyone. Also I cannot house more than 10 or 11 in the team house... My butler will go mad.
I think the prize pool would be sufficiant for more players, but i understand the tendencies of butlers to kill the landlord is something that shouldnt be underestimated 
btw how is it korea?
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Nice. Southeast Asia getting some SC2 love. I love that there is so much SC2 going on today.
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On June 12 2011 11:27 sc_oldboy wrote:Show nested quote +On June 12 2011 10:57 FXOpen wrote:On June 12 2011 10:33 sc_oldboy wrote:Sounds like a great event and a good idea to reveal your team house. It's great how FXO makes things happen Only thing that bothers my a little is that there will be only 10 players in total, it will exclude a lot of fan favourites and might make the event a little bit montone. Prize pool isnt big enough for more, it has to be justifiable for everyone. Also I cannot house more than 10 or 11 in the team house... My butler will go mad. I think the prize pool would be sufficiant for more players, but i understand the tendencies of butlers to kill the landlord is something that shouldnt be underestimated btw how is it korea?
Korea is lovely so far
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My boy mOoNan representin'.
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I sooo hope that MaNa will go! How do you decide the spots from people on equal results?
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I needed a reason to boost my post count, and this just showed up to be the perfect place for me to drop a "This is awesome" comment to do it.
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Cool cool. Hopefully they get good players
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Wow this is pretty awesome. I imagine the weekly online tournaments will get a lot more intense.
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Great! I love to see a totally different format for a major event!
NJ again FXO!
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On June 10 2011 12:43 425kid wrote:
MAKAAAAAAAAAA
MAKA PRIME TIME!!!
Hes gonna sweep this ****.
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wow how to join this fxo in malaysia?
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I guess the Koreans don't really play in their weekly tournaments.
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On June 12 2011 13:28 jedrus07 wrote:
I sooo hope that MaNa will go! How do you decide the spots from people on equal results?
We will be running at least 10 more KOTHs per region, so there will be far less chance that people are equal on points in a few months time.
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Hopefully having a prize pool this big will draw all of those players to Malaysia. Might be better to have this event later in 2011 or sometime during a gap in big events.
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Ive criticized many FXOs decisions in the past but this is awsome. Thank you FXO. I know you always does everything with the best of heart and it really shows.
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such a huge prize pool very nice
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500 Dollar travel expanses. You can get a return trip from Seoul for this money, or a little more.
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Please note that FXOpen e-Sports staff reserve the right to alter the selection criteria as required and that no one is guaranteed based solely on a good online KOTH result.
:D
But other than that, sounds awesome. Bit worried about the format but we'll see how it turns out!
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On June 12 2011 20:30 ket- wrote:Show nested quote +Please note that FXOpen e-Sports staff reserve the right to alter the selection criteria as required and that no one is guaranteed based solely on a good online KOTH result. :D But other than that, sounds awesome. Bit worried about the format but we'll see how it turns out!
There may be a case where someone is higher on the ladder but who can't afford or doesn't have a team to support a trip to Malaysia even with the $500 towards it. Also the ladder points system is quite new and there may be unanticipated flaws in it There is a long way to go before the event so it's best to warn players that the final format for the event may be tweaked between now and then n_n
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sounds great, I hope the players are as exited as I am.
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I first read 2,000 $ and I was like "wow, this is good money for a KOTH"
Then I realised I didn't read correctly and I passed outé This is so awesome ^^
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Will be intresting to see a KOTH with 20,000 prize pool
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Thx FXO for this awesome event !
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nice initiative ! can't wait to see the studio set up aswell
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Please note that FXOpen e-Sports staff reserve the right to alter the selection criteria as required and that no one is guaranteed based solely on a good online KOTH result.
Well the only chance for some players with big teams but no chance on success to get there and keep going with hyping themselves up and showing zero reslults. Should be really just picked buy activity and results in fxopen´s. but it would not be a big surprise if in backround some money flow is going on and teams are buying themselves spots.
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On June 13 2011 02:01 tadL wrote:Show nested quote +Please note that FXOpen e-Sports staff reserve the right to alter the selection criteria as required and that no one is guaranteed based solely on a good online KOTH result. Well the only chance for some players with big teams but no chance on success to get there and keep going with hyping themselves up and showing zero reslults. Should be really just picked buy activity and results in fxopen´s. but it would not be a big surprise if in backround some money flow is going on and teams are buying themselves spots.
Stupidest thing said in the thread. Read my earlier response to why I included this.
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Wow this sounds awesome !
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Super initiative from FXO, looking forward to this albeit...
first time FXO will broadcast an event from our studio infrastructure in Malaysia.
I don't know how the internet is in Malaysia, but i wish you the best of luck with the broadcasting.
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On June 13 2011 10:42 Marou wrote:Super initiative from FXO, looking forward to this albeit... Show nested quote +
first time FXO will broadcast an event from our studio infrastructure in Malaysia.
I don't know how the internet is in Malaysia, but i wish you the best of luck with the broadcasting.
Well, Kuala Lumpur is a highly industrialized city and is one of the centers of Asian economy so I don't think internet will be much of a concern.
Best of luck with this, my only concern is that if this is broadcasted from Malaysia, it'll probably won't be in a good time for viewers of the american continent :S
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On June 13 2011 02:01 tadL wrote:Show nested quote +Please note that FXOpen e-Sports staff reserve the right to alter the selection criteria as required and that no one is guaranteed based solely on a good online KOTH result. Well the only chance for some players with big teams but no chance on success to get there and keep going with hyping themselves up and showing zero reslults. Should be really just picked buy activity and results in fxopen´s. but it would not be a big surprise if in backround some money flow is going on and teams are buying themselves spots.
We dont need the money for people to buy spots. So it wont happen.
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cool tourney--KOTH format sounds interesting to me. i wonder how the fact that it's in malaysia will affect things.
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Awesome news, only problem is deL is affiliated with such a great team.
User was warned for this post
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FXO, you guys are just simply awesome. The SC2 esports world will grow so much thanks to your contributions. You guys have the heart and the deep pockets to do some amazing things. Keep it up and good luck!
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FXOboss really is a boss.... this is a great idea and i hope it goes really well!
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So I went to fxopen.com and realized how they have so much money to throw around. Great to see another big tournement.
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Awesome, looking forward to it
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On June 13 2011 23:43 ZanooKu wrote:
Awesome news, only problem is deL is affiliated with such a great team.
I am honoured you made an account just for me ♥
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On June 14 2011 07:41 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On June 13 2011 23:43 ZanooKu wrote:
Awesome news, only problem is deL is affiliated with such a great team. I am honoured you made an account just for me ♥
I had an account, I just don't feel you're worthy of representing such a great team.
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Because of the time zone difference, I am assuming there will be VODs.
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On June 14 2011 12:23 ZanooKu wrote:Show nested quote +On June 14 2011 07:41 deL wrote:On June 13 2011 23:43 ZanooKu wrote:
Awesome news, only problem is deL is affiliated with such a great team. I am honoured you made an account just for me ♥ I had an account, I just don't feel you're worthy of representing such a great team.
I can feel the love.
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On June 14 2011 13:16 frequency wrote:Show nested quote +On June 14 2011 12:23 ZanooKu wrote:On June 14 2011 07:41 deL wrote:On June 13 2011 23:43 ZanooKu wrote:
Awesome news, only problem is deL is affiliated with such a great team. I am honoured you made an account just for me ♥ I had an account, I just don't feel you're worthy of representing such a great team. I can feel the love.
Fancy meeting Mrs.Palmer in the shower?
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Woot, are you guys crazy? :D
I hope everything goes well, I'd hate to see them overextend themselves with the prize money .
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and now they have a new member... twilightfOu AKA FXOz
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cant wait
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On June 09 2016 23:43 yoigen wrote:
cant wait
You are gonna be waiting for an infinite amount of time. Unless time is reset and you wait 2011 years from that point .
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Wow, didn't know FXO was still around? This is awesome, thanks FXO!
EDIT : FUCK I got got
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