FXOpen have just recently announced that they have acquired the Korean Pro-Team fOu (For Our Utopia).

Firstly, this is truly great news and something that is great for E-Sports and Starcraft on a global scale. This makes yet another historic moment in E-Sports as this would be the first time a major Korean and Foreign team have merged together as one. This shows that Starcraft 2 is growing... on a global level and that is amazing. This might possibly start something where more Korean-Pro teams will merge or perhaps forge a relationship like oGs and Team Liquid have? That would be awesome. To the original FXO team members, this would be a great benefit now they will have a huge talen pool enter into their practice grounds and hence can cause them improve vastly. I am not saying they are not good players but their recent GSTL showings have not been the best and I am probably not the only one to admit to that.

Now FXO has been a team that seems to have a lot of money per-say. Judging from their practice house and facilities in Malaysiaand their cars they have. Acquiring a team like fOu is pretty huge, and one of my hater thoughts when I first read the news was... oh wow, they are like the New York Yankees of baseball. The thought ran through my mind thinking... so when they do not do well in the GSTL and can’t seem to win a game to save their lives, they go out and purchase talent and convert them to FXO, taking their fOu tag away. Why couldn’t FXO simply forge an agreement to become FXO.fOu instead like how oGs.TL works? This way, the fOu players can still have in their minds the roots of where they came from, that is from their clan: fOu. Now they are under FXO and their past seems to get removed right away as if fOu never really existed, it wasn’t as if fOu could not support themselves. I wonder what their fans think of this, it kind of feels like losing your hometown team all of a sudden doesn't it?

But at the end of the day, FXOpen is a business, and the man himself is a very successful businessman, it felt a little bit in my mind, that the decision was made as a business one. Also taking into account that the fOu players would have loved to get a salary and more opportunities given to them.