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All Games: fnatic expands with Asian team

By: Lucas Bigham - Published December 02, 2008 at 11:29 PM EST - Writer Archive
fnatic E-Sports announced their newest expansion to StarCraft.
"Today marks another era in the RTS scene for fnatic. After our successful WC3 and DOTA teams, we felt it was the right time to add a Starcraft team. While some may percieve it as a merc move towards SC2's launch. We are very much interested in building up a SC community with fnatic.com," said General Manager Elroy Pinto.

For several days, rumors were flying around the community of this new team after reviewing the roster on their ICCUP page. However, today the rumor has turned out to be true.

"The players are top notch and while a few of them are unheard of their talent and skills over the next few months shall define fnatic.SC for years to come," Elroy Pinto adds.

The squad is made up of three former MYM players including their manager Andrik "Ash" Tan. SEn was widely known as one of the top non-Korean players during his prime, but after battling with inactivity for some time he has returned.

The remainder of the squad includes the well-known Chinese players Sun Yi "F91" Feng, Ding "JayStar" Wei, and Zhuang Chuan "Phoenix66" Hai. Liu Bo "lbh" Hao is known as a strong player within the Chinese community, but has yet to gain an international following. Gordon "JukeBox" Hoi is a longtime friend of Ash along with being a former WCG Singapore champion.

"I look forward to the day till we can finally be regarded as the best non Korean BW team like what MYM.BW is at the moment," Andrik "Ash" Tan said. "I can assure all of you that we will see more of the actions from our players in the near future."

The roster is the following:

China Sun Yi "F91" Feng
China Ding "JayStar" Wei
China Liu Bo "lbh" Hao
China Zhuang Chuan "Phoenix66" Hai
Taiwan Yang Chia "SEn" Cheng
Singapore Gordon "JukeBox" Hoi

SOURCE: Fnatic

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Nice!
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get those minerals.
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no koreans = fail
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good pickups
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so really good non-korean gamers there, i'm a big fan of sen! hopefully we can see more ppl in the next few years give the koreans a run for their money.
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y an asian team. ur an aussie company! support the aus cs community
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#6 It's StarCraft not Counter-Strike. A little late to pick up a SC team and seems like big name organizations are getting ready for SC2 since mTw picked up a SC team a couple of months ago.
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fnatic aussie?

only for the taxes rofl
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2009 is going to be the year that determines e-sports! Lets hope starcraft 2 (I think it comes out in '09) and counter-strike can do their parts.
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i wud be surprised it its an aussie company cos of taxes. our rates arnt exactly that great. although i wudnt have a clue wat swedish rates are like
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gl guys
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gl guys!
BANKAI!
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OLD NEWS
w a f f l e s.
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fnatic hq are based in the uk
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-_-;; and if any of these players make it pro they'll leave in a heartbeat leaving them in the cold. It's how SC works. If you can't support a korean team you're fked, unless you focus your team on another part of the world and their events (IE EUROPE AND AMERICA) where you can actually win.

This comment was edited at 12/03/2008 1:04 PM
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