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Dear Starcraft Community,

I am proud to announce that FXOpen e-Sports will be attending the new format GSTL in Seoul, South Korea starting June 23rd.
We found this opportunity to be very good for our team given the direction the team is going. Although the past has not seen some amazing results, over the last 2 months, FXO has bound together as a team and put in the hard yards to warrant an entire team attendance to Korea.

After visiting Korea myself in February with Moonglade, I decided that Korea is the place to at least visit for any foreign player, even if the restrictions are high and even if it is contrary to what the broader community would like to believe.

The atmosphere, the training environment, the practice teams, its all a very major part in making players great. This type of environment we do not see in the western e-sports scene YET. We feel that it is important for our players to not only experience this, but nurture it fully, altogether at once.

Now a few points to make about the GSTL. Firstly, you need 8 players to compete in the GSTL. Secondly, you need the plane tickets to get there (I think this is a lot of sponsors yearly budget depending on location, to send 1 manager + 8 team members to korea). You also need a food budget for players to eat. After budgeting this trip, we decided its in not only our companies best interests, but also our players in their development as professional gamers.

On top of this, we feel that our entire team has the potential to be GSL material, once inside the correct environment.

To keep the community informed I will give a few details here below:

Players to attend GSTL –

FXOSheth
FXOqxc
FXOMoONaN
FXOpTiKzErO
FXOSLoG
FXOtgun
FXOFilthy
FXOWolf

To clarify, mOOnGLaDe is currently going through some personal problems. He is on call per se, for this event, should he resolve his issues. We wish him the best in solving them and hope that he gets where he wants to go. At the same time, we can almost confirm a new player to our roster to add to the GSTL team. This I won’t announce until its 100% solid. This will put wolf as a substitute should any further issues arise.
FXOunstable will be attending as team manager, as well as myself, FXOBoSs for the first 2 weeks of the journey. We will be documenting it via video and text, and keeping the community well inform on exactly how the Korean environment is, as it is portrayed a little bit incorrectly online from my point of view.

Although there may be some disappointed people out there that their favourite team did not get to attend, I believe our team is one of the top teams in the world and is more of an up and comer (Who thought that MVP would make the finals of their first GSTL? Who had even heard of DRG?). It would be welcomed if people would encourage more than discourage and wish my players well on their endeavours as I know the entire foreign scene will be watching.

Finally, this is an opportunity to play with the best, we have a team that wants to be the best and in order to be the best you have to beat the best.

Kindest regards,

FXOBoSs

Main link here

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=227347

BRING IT BITCHES!

Quick Comments

deL:

Already brought it and put it on the table BITCH

[pRoTimber]

gogogo!

[nard]

Hurray!1111

[x5_Potter]

Damn! I hope you guys have some epic ceremonies for when you win a set! Put them Koreans to shame :3

[pRoTimber]

You Tube

You Tube

[LennX]

And what will happen to your team house in Malaysia? Since most of the team will be in Korean for GSTL and GSL prelims

[Dox]

Holy **** this is the coolest thing that ever happened! I won't miss a minute of it.

[crAzerk]

What personal problems does moonglade have? hmmm

[Dox]

You know what personal means, right? :P

[Cordance]

Originally Posted by Dox

You know what personal means, right? :P

Means it has to do with a person and al ... some guy named al has been abusing moonglade on the forums guys down vote all of al's posts.
Seriously it perked my interested to ask but as Dox said they are personal so better to leave well enough alone. I hope they get resolved quickly with a positive outcome. The more quality players they have over there the better the chances of the right man for the right game.

Well done FXO! Its nice to see that although many people dont see the team as being as strong as others you guys have actually gone about building a team with a plan. Rather than just getting the best players and expecting things to fall your way.

[deL]

Originally Posted by Dox

You know what personal means, right? :P

Sir, you give the netizens of sc2sea too much credit! :P

[Azure]

really great news for e sports and for our SEA guys

[ETL.Santi]

im sorry but I lol´d

Quick Comments

	TAavanar:	wow ur an ass
	deL:	chin up champ I am sure cT will be next to go
	Dox:	play in traffic

[ROOT`iaguz]

Personal problems eh?

Well I know a few aLt guys have been nexus cancel 5 gating him a few times so his lose statistic is actually >0. Didn't think he'd take it that hard though. Sorry Andy.

Quick Comments

deL:

The problem here arose when you decided to post.

[PapaBigBelly]

Admiring Glade's spirit of never giving up and still continuing to practice on KR ladder despite personal stuff.

Gratz on Glade reaching KR Grandmaster

[nirvAnA]

whoaaaaaaaa this is huge!!

[iMSystem]

So huge! Mad congrats to all players, looks like a brutal lineup as well!

So excited!

[Dox]

Ahaha! Biggest troll iaguz. :P