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Raelcun
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States3747 Posts
March 03 2012 00:14 GMT
#21
On March 03 2012 09:13 Spaceneil8 wrote:
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On March 03 2012 09:10 Raelcun wrote:
I believe that the implication here plus knowledge of this before it developed is as follows. Please keep in mind I'm not a spokesperson here so this might not be 100% accurate:

Okay so as it was tried to be explained in the OP:

-the FXOpen you guys all associate with the Korean team, and the foreigner teams was never fully associated with the guild of imbalance.
-The imba.FXOpen partnership was instead done through the Russian branch of the company, and management separate from FXOBoSs and FXOUnstable.
-There apparently have been issues... and now imba is splitting from the Russian FXOpen branch, but the top players are staying.
-And this is where it gets confusing, because they have now re-labelled themselves "FXO" even though they are still not affiliated with the Korean team, and the few remaining foreigners we have.
-So there are now two teams calling themselves "FXO" who are completely separate entities

I am so confused right now, and I'm literally the only person from our side of FXOpen esports awake right now... great

Why don't you guys just merge the two?


Like I said I'm the only person from our side of FXOpen awake right now, and I'm not the proper person to be commenting on that.
babybell
Profile Joined June 2011
776 Posts
March 03 2012 00:14 GMT
#22
On March 03 2012 09:10 Raelcun wrote:
I believe that the implication here plus knowledge of this before it developed is as follows. Please keep in mind I'm not a spokesperson here so this might not be 100% accurate:

Okay so as it was tried to be explained in the OP:

-the FXOpen you guys all associate with the Korean team, and the foreigner team was never fully associated with the guild of imbalance.
-The imba.FXOpen partnership was instead done through the Russian branch of the company, and management separate from FXOBoSs and FXOUnstable.
-There apparently have been issues... and now imba is splitting from the Russian FXOpen branch, but the top players are staying.
-And this is where it gets confusing, because they have now re-labelled themselves "FXO" even though they are still not affiliated with the Korean team, and the few remaining foreigners we have on our side of FXOpen esports.
-So there are now two teams calling themselves "FXO" who are completely separate entities...

I am so confused right now, and I'm literally the only person from our side of FXOpen esports awake right now... great

The whole thing sounds like a mess to me.
Wafflelisk
Profile Joined October 2011
Canada1061 Posts
March 03 2012 00:15 GMT
#23
Dear god, my brain. But congratulations, hope it helps your business.
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Postman
Profile Joined July 2010
United States269 Posts
March 03 2012 00:16 GMT
#24
Perhaps we'll see FXOru?

Keeping the same tag seems like it'd be to confusing, but at the same time merging the two probably wouldn't be ideal.
zylog
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada943 Posts
March 03 2012 00:19 GMT
#25
So instead of imba.FXO and FXO as two teams under separate management, we now have teams imba, FXO and FXO all managed separately?

This is really confusing.
Brett
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Australia3822 Posts
March 03 2012 00:27 GMT
#26
Doesn't really seem like such a big deal to me... I mean, Ok, the imba guys weren't happy and have split... But if FXO Russia is still sponsoring the rest of the players, it'd sort of make sense to just incorporate them? Or not.. and have FXO.(playername).RU or something?
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14105 Posts
March 03 2012 00:29 GMT
#27
On March 03 2012 09:19 zylog wrote:
So instead of imba.FXO and FXO as two teams under separate management, we now have teams imba, FXO and FXO all managed separately?

This is really confusing.


imba isn't a pro team so you don't have to worry about that anymore.

I'm surprised the relationship hasn't had an issue before ie in a team league. it shouldn't be too hard to tell the euros apart from the Koreans/foreigner that where the original fxo apart.

I'm sure this is going to be the lowest intensity esports drama of the year though.
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Alexj
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Ukraine440 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-03 00:36:09
March 03 2012 00:29 GMT
#28
On March 03 2012 08:57 marttorn wrote:
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Today it was announced


You lost me.
I am sorry, what?

English is not my native language. If I did any grammar mistakes, I would be glad if you PMed me about it, so I could correct it. No need to be passive agressive jerk about it.

Edit: sorry if you was sarcastic about announcement itself
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Raelcun
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States3747 Posts
March 03 2012 00:34 GMT
#29
On March 03 2012 09:29 Alexj wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 03 2012 08:57 marttorn wrote:
Today it was announced


You lost me.
I am sorry, what?

English is not my native language. If I did any grammar mistakes, I would be glad if you PMed me about it, so I could correct it. No need to be passvie agressive jerk about it.


He's being sarcastic because the announcement itself is confusing, your English was fine. The announcement itself is just very strange.
Ichabod
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1659 Posts
March 03 2012 00:34 GMT
#30
Interesting situation. Thanks for the background, really helps to sort things out.

gl to FXO.RU/imba in their plans
Cosmos
Profile Joined March 2010
Belgium1077 Posts
March 03 2012 00:34 GMT
#31
Well I think I understand, they should just call the russian team FXOru like Postman said. They are russians and it would easily help people when they want to talk about one of the team.
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AlternativeEgo
Profile Joined August 2011
Sweden17309 Posts
March 03 2012 00:35 GMT
#32
This makes perfect sense, I'm glad that it got sorted out. So...yeah.
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Chargelot
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
2275 Posts
March 03 2012 00:37 GMT
#33
On March 03 2012 08:57 marttorn wrote:
Show nested quote +
Today it was announced


You lost me.

I was completely unprepared for this without the announcement of this announcement.
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nooboon
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
2602 Posts
March 03 2012 01:28 GMT
#34
Either the russian FXO and the main FXO teams merge or the Russian FXO branch team changes their team tag.
Primadog
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4411 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-03 03:04:28
March 03 2012 03:04 GMT
#35
The only logical conclusion now is to resurrect the old fOu brand for the FXO branch that we all known and love.

Viva the asdfOu time
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Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
March 03 2012 03:05 GMT
#36
I'm prepared to be confused but I like both teams so its ok
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docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
March 03 2012 03:48 GMT
#37
Why split ways? i'm very confused by this idea that teams do better on their own, huge conglomerates do better it seems like. Like Quanti-startales and QIM.
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canikizu
Profile Joined September 2010
4860 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-03 03:51:51
March 03 2012 03:51 GMT
#38
Ok now we need the new FXO to partner with IM so that we can have fouFXO and IMFXO. This mess sounds fun.

lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
March 03 2012 03:51 GMT
#39
On March 03 2012 12:04 Primadog wrote:
The only logical conclusion now is to resurrect the old fOu brand for the FXO branch that we all known and love.

Viva the asdfOu time


And I look forward to all the troll names like HotfOu or IMherefOu.
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RoboBob
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States798 Posts
March 03 2012 04:15 GMT
#40
The whole imba.FXO and regular FXO always confused me.

I wish you guys would rebrand both teams. FXO-RU and FXO-KR.
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