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Update: FXOBoSs clarifies the situation with "new" FXO:
On March 05 2012 16:54 FXOBoSs wrote:Dear E-Sports community  I am going to formally address this once and for all. First of all, what people are already calling FXO-RU and FXO-KR, is actually just FXO. That is, the teams are now officially 1 team. However due to geographical issues and langauge issues, the Eastern side of the business will be completely run by me, and another one of our staff, Vladimir, will be running the Western side of the business. Players such as strelok and bratok will have opportunities to compete in Korea with FXO, and we will be working on joint sponsorships for both sides. All in all, it is now officially the same team, but with extra managers. I hope this clarifies things for everyone. If it doesn't please feel free to ask your questions here. Regards, FXOBoSs
Original post:
Today it was announced that team imba.FXOpen ( BRAT_OK, Strelok,  HappyZerG, LoWeLy and others) is now reformed as team FXO. Did you previously confuse imba.FXOpen with FXO? Now prepare to confuse Russian FXO with Malaysian/Korean FXO!
At the same time a few members of imba.FXOpen reformed old Guild of Imbalance in its old pre-sponsored way: as a friendly amateur clan.
Players of FXO:
FXO.BRAT_OK
FXO.Strelok
FXO.HappyZerG
 FXO.Elbegast
FXO.LoWeLy
...and others (see team profile on goodgame.ru -- click on "StarCraft II" section to see a list of players)
Players of Guild of Imbalance:
imba.Adolf[RA]
imba.vindikat
imba.Couguar
imba.onelastgoodbye
imba.dSKe
...and 8 (!) female players. See full team profile on goodgame.ru
Sources (in Russian): sc2tv.ru, goodgame.ru
Now a little bit of history. Guild of Imbalance dates back to Broodwar. Back in 2008 this team created the site sc2tv.ru, which became one of the biggest Russian StarCraft/eSports sites, with daily news, streams and articles. After SC2 came out, Russian branch of FXOpen (not to be confused with "big" FXOpen) started to sponsor sc2tv.ru and Guild of Imbalance. Clan Imba started to turn into professinal team: they changed their clantag to imba.FXOpen and eventually signed a few famous Russian and Ukrainian players, as well as some promising up-and-comers.
Sc2tv.ru hosted a few tournaments, including the biggest Russian team league -- RPL. First season of RPL took place back in BW days, and there were 3 more seasons in StarCraft 2 (also RPL 4 was sponsored by HP). Most people consider sc2tv.ru and goodgame.ru as the biggest "rival" sites, when it comes to covering SC2 in Russian.
It seems like eventually some conflicts aroused between FXOpen and old Imba team. This lead to sc2tv.ru no longer being sponsored by FXOpen for a few months now. Today's announcement brings the logical end to the partnership of "old school" Guild of Imbalance and FXOpen Russia.
I am not entirely sure if the tag FXO is temporary. It obviously seems wrong for two different FXO teams to exist. And I think FXOBoSs will be against it :D
Update:
On March 03 2012 15:16 FXOBoSs wrote:
I will address this on monday as i had no idea
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Makes sense. I haven't heard about the protoss player, lowely is ok, but BratOK, Strelok, and happyzerg are sick players
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I like how the '8 female players' are all lumped together as an afterthought
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I doubt that it'll be a different team. Its just like when they bought fou. Now the fxo family has grown.
I saw a lot of great stuff out of slivko (happyzerg) and if he spends any time with leenock hes going to wreck the eu scene like no one else. I'm talking 4 base to 2 base zvp levels of crazy, oh wait both of the extra 2 base's are gold base's.
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On March 03 2012 08:39 lit0st wrote:
I like how the '8 female players' are all lumped together as an afterthought
why wouldnt they be
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So is it now FXO Russia and FXO Korea? Or is it the same team? Is there going to be any interteam training or what? (I would especially love to see any of these players hone their skills in Korea) Will they function as one team for team leagues?
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On March 03 2012 08:39 lit0st wrote:
I like how the '8 female players' are all lumped together as an afterthought
There is a series on sc2tv.ru "Escape from the Bronze", where a bronze-platinum level female player is coached by master level player. Some of the episodes featured Brat_ok and HappyZerg as coaches. Most of new Imba female team comes from this series.
Packawana, I am as confused as you are. But they always were separate teams with separate management, so my guess is they will stay as separate teams
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Wow the level of confusion in this is crazy.
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Hah I love how FXO took every player worth a damn from imba. I never understood how this was a good investment from FXO, but oh well.
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Maybe they felt the relationship was imbalanced.
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imba adolf ? Please tell me I am not the only one who finds this ... strange, at best.
Its IMBALANCED ADOLF. Come on. For real
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Today it was announced
You lost me.
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If it makes you guys feel any better, I work for FXO and I'm confused by this as well...
I'll try to wake someone up and get some clarification for you guys hang on
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On March 03 2012 09:00 Raelcun wrote:
If it makes you guys feel any better, I work for FXO and I'm confused by this as well...
I'll try to wake someone up and get some clarification for you guys hang on
lol nice. GOGO Raelcun!
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Why don't they just merge the teams together? Couldn't you save overhead costs that way and avoid confusion? I would love to see guys like Strelok, Brat_OK, Lowely training with the FXO Koreans and getting better.
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I don't get a thing out of it either :D They part ways but their players go to fxo ? What?
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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
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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?
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EPT
