Born : 30 December 1976 (age 43), Kuala Lumpur
Nationality: Malaysian
Other names: Prince of Drift Tandem Assassin
Occupation: Head of Lotus Cars Malaysia, Head of Proton Motorsports, Professional Drift Car Driver, Professional Racing Driver
Known for: Motor racing, Malaysia Merdeka Endurance Race Winner (2005, 2006), Formula Drift Asia Champion (2009, 2010), All Star Professional Thailand Drift Series Champion (2011)

Nationality: Russia
Residence: Moscow, NY, Russia
Total live earnings: $5,107,776
Best live cash: $1,009,279

Date of birth: 1989-05-30
Age: 30
Country: Belarus
Weight: 73.94 kg
Height: 172.72 cm
Weight category: welterweight

The organizer of the competition “BURN FXOpen Drifting Challenge Belarus 2010” at a press conference held on September 14 at the National Press Center of Belarus spoke about the history of drifting in Belarus, revealed the details of the upcoming event, and also explained the rules of drifting.

The champion of the Asian drift formula Tengku Jan shared his impressions:

«I can say that the weekend will be hot, because the composition of the participants is very strong. Strong participants from England will come, most of all it is worth paying attention to the European champion. But besides this, many participants from the Russian League will come, judging by the video that I watched, there are also serious competitors, the struggle will be intense.»

Director of development FxOpen Denis Peganov also mentioned:

«FXOpen provides services in the Forex market. Our relationship with sports is not accidental, because in principle, Forex trading is also an extreme activity, which needs all the qualities that are inherent in extreme sports, it is quick thinking, skill, nerves. We not only sponsor drifting, but also M1, fights without rules. Earlier this year we signed a contract with Tengku Jan. He became our number one driver. Now we have launched a series of drift competitions in Southeast Asia. 2 stages have already passed, the final will be held at the end of the year. 2 best participants from the CIS will be invited to the competition, which will be held on September 18-19 in Minsk. In addition, there are plans to assist in the World summit in Belarus. In addition, we have brought 2 cars, professionally prepared for drifting, which will remain in Belarus. I think they will participate in all competitions in Belarus and the CIS. And also these competitions will be indicative, and we will look who from racers will operate our cars»

RACING.by and FXOpen present: the largest drifting competition in Europe! On June 25-26, the strongest pilots from Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Poland, Russia, Romania, the USA, Ukraine, Finland and other countries will meet at the airport Minsk-1. Recall that the previous competition FXOpen Drift 2010 in September brought together more than 50 pilots from 12 countries.

Ryan Tuerck, the current Formula Drift USA pilot, 3rd place following the 2010 season, confirmed his participation. Tengku Djan Ley - drift prince, champion of Asia, is already known to everyone and loved by everyone. The famous FXOpen / Bridgestone team will be played by Tengku Djan Ley, Ryan Tuerck and for the first time our Minsker Sergey Sak (Metis)! It is also worth noting that the honored guest will visit the competition - His Excellency Datuk Paduka Seri Mir Khan, Chairman of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) - the second largest intergovernmental organization in the world after the UN.
In total, the Organizers plan to collect at the start of more than 50 of the best riders from around the world! The prize pool of the competition is $ 10,000 and may be increased depending on the number of participants. Thus, the FXOpen Drift challange 2011 will be the main drift competition in Europe in 2011.

FXOpen Drift Belarus 2011, the largest drift competition in Europe, was held in Minsk.On June 25–26, 2011, the strongest drifters from Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Poland, Russia, the USA, Ukraine and Finland met at the territory of Minsk-1 airport.The first day was devoted to training races.On the second day, qualification and TOP-32 passed.The winner was Kristaps BLUSS (Latvia), the second place - Juha RINTANEN (Finland), the third - Jacub PRZYGONSKI (Poland) and the fourth - Tengku Djan LEY (Malaysia).

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.

StarCraft 2 game group FXOpen has signed a sponsorship agreement with streaming company Twitch TV. On the 11th, FXOpen announced a sponsorship agreement with Twitch TV. The contents of the contract will be to send e-sports competitions and individual broadcasts of athletes and to support a certain amount of money. The term of the contract is not fixed and it is confirmed that it will continue unless there is a big difference.

FXOpen and Twitch TV discussed the agreement ahead of each other's interests and helped each other develop, and as a result, concluded the deal. FXOpen also announced that the sponsorship with Laser, which is an existing sponsor, would continue in good condition. The details of the contract were not disclosed, but in-kind sponsorship was better than before. FXOpen also announced that it will release new uniforms soon after signing a sponsorship agreement with Twitch TV.

FXOpen Director Hyung-seop Lee said, “ I am very pleased to hear such good news after winning the GSTL. I am very grateful to Josh and Daniel of FXO for their hard work. ” He also expressed his appreciation and appreciation for the announcement. Meanwhile, FXOpen is expected to play TSL and GSTL Season 3 Round A Group 2 match on Friday afternoon.

If you were to look at performances in individual leagues only, this match would be hilariously easy to call. Beyond Leenock, FXO doesn't have a lot of trophies – certainly nothing to match a team like IM. But they do have two GSTL championships, obtained back-to-back (FXO also happens to be the only team with back-to-back championships) through strong performances during the regular season and with the GSTL final-version of Gumiho to close things out. Among the eSF teams, FXO has the definition of a strong core – a team not dependent on one single player, but instead relying on a solid handful of players that each can cause serious damage to any team. This is their greatest advantage, and very rarely has it been a disadvantage due to their core players always being able to step up when it has been needed, becoming super-aces for the duration of a single match.

Whereas IM is the team that should have won a lot more team leagues, FXO is the team that won without a star-studded line-up, and did it twice. In some ways, FXO is IM's polar opposite – the team is smaller, doesn't have as many individual championships, and at first glance the team's line-up would be considered a huge underdog against a team like IM.¨But toward the end of WoL, FXO's roster regularly crushed the opposition in GSTL. FXO's main strength is that unlike many other teams in GSTL, they do not rely on a single superace-level player to carry them match after match. FXO has at least three players capable of filling the ace role, with Leenock representing Protoss, Terran and Zerg respectively. Not only is it near-impossible to prepare single match-up snipers for all three of FXO's key players, but the preparation is even more difficult given Leenock's and Tear's aptitude for wonky strategies. While FXO's supporting cast isn't as strong as the core trio, Lucky, TheBest, and JKS are all solid players capable of holding their own.

TheBest and Lucky have both come through for FXO on many occasions in GSTL – although they don't always perform alongside the best players in the league, they more often than not come out and take down at least one player with them, which is all they need to do to set-up to core trio to clean things up. Honorable mention also goes to the out-of-retirement sC who has come back to Starcraft II. He might not be ready in time to play against IM, but he is almost guaranteed to make at least one appearance this season. Finally, there is JKS - the player who actually performed the best out of all FXO's players in the pre-season, winning games against Maru, Byun and SuperNoVa. We don't know very much about JKS, but beating Maru (who is currently sitting high up on the ladder) and Supernova (who has also looked very good in HotS) bodes well for him against a team that's likely to send out at least one Terran.

The FXO trio of aces was perhaps the most dangerous three-man squad in WoL GSTL. Tear, whose greatest GSL achievement is reaching the Ro48 in Code A, has an uncanny knack for performing far above expectations in GSTL, and has performed countless multi-kills against high-caliber teams. Leenock, likewise, time and again brought clutch ace match performances to the table whenever necessary. And then of course, Gumiho is 8-0 in GSTL finals, winning the championship almost single-handedly for FXO not once, but twice. To illustrate:

Naturally, this is a new game and the majority of FXO remains largely unproven against top tier opposition in HotS. Leenock showed some interesting use of swarm hosts at MLG, but fell unceremoniously to Innovation by a score of 0 - 3 after showing weakness in his previous best match-up ZvT.
But with Gumiho (whose aggression will now be much stronger with the addition of the turbovac) and Tear who will doubtlessly bring a slew of new, innovative strategies, Leenock still having yet to find his footing might actually be alright for FXO. Make no mistake, Leenock stepping it up and showing renewed confidence will be very important for FXO, but with how well Terran and Protoss have performed so far in HotS compared to Zergs-not-named-Life, things are looking grim but not impossible for the two-time champions.

FXO's best shot at winning here is hoping for Lucky to take down Ruin in the opening match and then rely on Gumiho's relentless aggression to take down two or three players if or when Lucky falls. According to various interviews (and the statement he made by playing well), Ruin is one of IM's better players currently and will be no walkover for Lucky. Once again, it'll come down to adaption - how good is Lucky at HotS? He's been a solid player for FXO in team leagues for a long time, but has never really had the multi-kill potential of Gumiho, Tear or Leenock. With Ruin, it's still difficult to say where exactly he is at. Strong performances in the pre-season in combination with praise from his team mates should mark him as the favorite, but we haven't seen him play against Zerg yet. Still, with how shaky most Zergs looked at IEM and MLG, it's not hard to give the edge to Ruin barring clever all-ins devised by Lucky and friends.  Additionally, we will see the debut of the new GSTL map Red City. We've seen players take advantage of new, infrequently played maps by bringing some very map specific strategies to the table, and it will be interesting to see if either player wants to go that route. With a new map and a new expansion, this match could be very unpredictable.

There are two interesting stories to look out for tonight as the two teams battle it out in the new Gangnam studio: first, it's the matter of how well the key players on each team have adapted. We saw a glimpse of LG-IM's power in HotS, but how has the rest of the team fared? Second is the theme that starts off the season: the should-have-been-championship team Incredible Miracle vs. the actual champions FXO. Few people believed FXO to be the championship-caliber team they've shown themselves to be twice, whereas everyone has always considered IM the favorite. Will history repeat itself, or will IM finally take down their polar opposite to start off the season?

The International Gaming League ( IGL ) is excited to present our first StarCraft II event. Some of you may know that the IGL is my new organization and that I have been a long time supporter of StarCraft II and advocate for trying new things and finding new ways to sustain growth in eSports. Unlike my previous organization, IGL is very much focused on creating a structure and platform to build eSports using a 'bottom-up' approach. Currently, www.playIGL.com is now in Open Beta, but our Leagues, Ladders and Bracket systems are functional. Over the next 4 weeks, IGL will be supporting several game title communities through Show Matches and Launch Cups. Several of our ladders will open up and our full League Seasons will be announced shortly after.

The Show Match:
The Clarity Gaming and FXO.NA Teams have been very supportive and IGL and myself would like to personally thank both teams for their support and participation in this show match. This show match will use a different 'team' format then any other format offered. I understand that it may seem confusing at first and I am sure all of my documents, examples and outlines I have given each of the team Captains is making it appear more complicated then it needs to be.

Yes, this is a new format that will be tested and I am sure tweaked. To see examples of the new format and to better understand my thinking behind it, please click on the spoiler. This format was devised to encourage more use of each team's roster. A 'Team' effort must be structured for 'Team' events to be about the team and not a single player who can 'All Kill' the entire opposing roster. I wanted to still have the drama of a player that can make a 'run' on a team and win several matches in a row, but I also wanted to avoid teams being able to win a match using only 1 player. The first round of this format is the most unique. The first round consists of 2 matches (each a bo1). If the matches are split, with each team having a player win their match, those players will then meet in round 2. From that point, the format is similar to an 'All kill' format, but with limitations on the number of rounds a player may participate in and with Round 4 being the only 'best of 3' series of the match.

1 - Brackets - Fully functional 4 to 128 player/team single elimination or double elimination (sorry Carmac!) brackets to be used to run playoffs for leagues, special tournaments for ladders and weekly Cup series events (ie: playGAMES Series!)
2 - Ladders - Unlike most ladders, the IGL ladders will have 2 options for creating matches. A traditional 'create your own match' option as well as a 'Time Pool' option that allows teams/players to join a queue of teams, in which the IGL system then chooses your opponent and creates the match. Several of the game titles that we will be working with, will have automatic match information and reporting directly integrated into the system.
The best aspect of our Ladder system is that our ladders are 'Tiered'. This means no more searching through a list of 200 teams to find your team and activity levels on the ladder at less then 10%. Although you will be on a single ladder (ie SC2 ingame Ladder), you will be 'Tiered' into seperate standings tables of 30 or less teams/players. Every 7 to 14 days, the ladders will be re-Tiered and pruned (inactive teams removed). This will create specific identifies for each Tier and create more activity.
3 - Leagues - The big deal! The IGL leagues will be 'Divisional' and each Division will have it's own Logo Crest, Name and skill level requirements. The IGL League system is structurded to facilitate real growth in SC2 and eSports in general. Each division will have a playoff at the end of each regular season and 'Promotion and Relegation' matches (Up/Down) to determine the following season's divisional make up. Most game communities will start with an Open and Main Division and as more teams/players are added to the pool the Select and ultimately the Premier Divisions will open up.

With an already highly active team in Starcraft and an up and coming amateur league of legends team, FXOpen has chosen to move into DOTA 2 as it is quickly rising in the e-Sports scene. After winning Starcraft 2 2012 Hot 6ix GSTL Seasons 2 and 3 back to back, FXOpen prepares to use their newly formed team in the upcoming DOTA 2 to become a top contender in e-Sports. DOTA 2 is currently being prepared for launch in Korea by Nexon and is already causing a boom in China, South east Asia, North America and Europe.

DOTA 2 is produced by valve and is a sequel to the Warcraft 3 custom map DOTA Allstars. Icefrog, the developer of DOTA allstars, was involved in development and with a one million dollar prize pool tournament being held annually, DOTA 2 is securing its position in the e-Sports scene.FXOpen DOTA2 team consists of ‘March’ Park, Tae won, ‘Devilelf’ Kim, Jeong Ki, ‘Sagun’ Lee, Kyung Min, ‘Bangfish’ Kim, Byung Cheon and with ‘Hell’ Kwon, Jae Hwan acting as playing coach, it is a a team of five. Out of these players, Devilelf was a national representative at WCG 2012 DOTA2 while March was a national representative in WCG 2009 DOTA Allstars.

FXOpen Korea's head coach Hyoung Seop Lee said “our new DOTA2 members have held the title of national representative and are some of the best Korea has to offer” and “I am glad to be joined by top players who share the same vision as our organisation and look forward to competing in events both in korea and abroad”.
FXOpen’s DOTA2 team is set to participate in an  upcoming Korean based league as its first step before looking to compete internationally. FXOpen has announced their expansion to Dota2 and the creation of a Dota2 team. The team members will include March, Sagun, Devilelf, Bangfish, and playing coach Kwon Jae Hwan. FXOpen coach Choya said "Our team's Dota2 players have held the title of national representatives, and are the best in Korea." FXOpen plays to participate in future Dota2 leagues, and add additional Korean players who are active abroad.

FXOpen e-Sports was the competitive gaming division of the forextrading company FXOpen. In early December 2010, FXOpen, a Forex trading company, announced their intention to own and manage a competitive StarCraft II professional team. This branch of FXOpen, dubbed "FXOpen e-Sports", was formed not only to host and sponsor events like the FXOpen Path of Ascension, the FXOpen Invitational Series and the FXOpen KOTH, but also to support a competitive team with a view to furthering e-Sports.

The team began with a focus on South East Asian and Oceania scenes, as the team owner, FXOBoSs worked for the Oceania division of FXOpen. FXO has since expanded to the South Korean scene by acquiring the Korean team For Our Utopia in July 2011 FXO also sponsored the Russian team Guild of Imbalance, sporting the tag Imba.FXO featuring players such as Brat_OK, Strelok, LoWeLy and HappyZerg. In March 2012, FXO and the Guild of Imbalance stopped their collaboration, and the competitive players, together with management of Imba.FXO became the new European division of FXO. In October 2012, FXO also absorbed the American Team Legion, which was shutting down due to financial difficulties, become FXO's North American division, including the Legion Gaming Community, management and League of Legends squad.

The European division became the StarCraft II team of Natus Vincere in April 2013 with the latter organisation being sponsored by FXO,whilst the North American division disbanded in August 2013.On the 1st of November, the remainder of FXOpen e-Sports, that is, the Korean StarCraft II and Dota 2 division under Choya's leadership reverted to their former team after FXO stopped sponsoring the team.

You are widely acknowledged as Malaysia’s Hero on wheels, what sort of responsibility does the ‘National Champion’ tag carry?
Well I wouldn’t exactly call it a responsibility. The thing is there is a lot of pressure from a lot of parties expecting you to win; the general public expects you to win. That added a lot of pressure from the time I started drifting till about 2010. And my performance in 2010 wasn’t great, so we went back to the drawing board, see what the issues were and how to improve myself. Everyone expects me to do well, if not win, from my previous credentials, but I’m coming to this season very fresh and with a new approach – which consists of a lot of mental things like the mental preparation before an event, to make sure I’m calm, relaxed and focus in what I want to achieve.

It has been 7 years since your first big win in 2005, how has the Malaysian drift scene changed since then?
The drifting scene in South East Asia is growing very huge. Thailand is very big now; Indonesia is growing in the last 2 years and has developed in leaps and bounds. Malaysia is kind of stagnated at this point, but then again there are parties who are trying to revive the sport. Getting new blood in is very important, at this point in time, since the first day it’s been more or less the same faces, year in year out. So the key is to develop this sport and get new faces in.

How does the Malaysian motorsport scene stand when compared to its regional counterparts?
I think we have been overtaken by Thailand, with all their local championships going on. The level of drifting there and the support they receive is crazy. Every competition we go to there has no less that 40 cars, it’s very intense and their drivers are really good. Indonesia has also grown and the level has gone up; the drivers now are a force to be reckoned with. I would say that everyone in the region is now quite on par with each other, it really depends on the track layout now. Everyone also stands a good chance to win now.

Source: https://vernonchan.com/interview-tengku-djan-ley-spearheading-malaysias-challenge-at-archilles-formula-drift-malaysia-2012/

FXOpen, one of the leading brokerage companies in the industry FOREX, the sponsor and organizer of the grandest events of drifting in Eastern Europe "Burn FXOpen Drifting Challenge Belarus 2010" which took place this autumn, 18-19 September. Without false modesty, they can be assigned to international status, as they took part in more than 50 drifters from more than 10 countries worldwide.

Among them were the champions of drifting from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia. Visitors from the JDM All Stars champion Australia, Luke Fink, European champion Dan Chapman, a champion of Ireland, Walter Smith, Juha Ritnanen champion in Finland. But the major stars, of course, have become recognized as aces Drifting - Tony Angelo, founder of the team "Drift Alliance", Judge Formula Drift USA, and Tengku Djan, unchallenged champion of Asia on the drifting for several years, a team member "Drift Alliance", Ambassador of Bridgestone's Southeast Asia (both racers form a team FXOpen).

First time competitions passed in heart Minsk (Belarus) for territory Airport Minsk -1, specially for this was prepared special playground where was laid new asphalt worth noting that all days competitions airport remained acting and continued accept and send aircraft normally.

The first day in the morning began with training races. In the afternoon, held qualifications, then the Top 16 final and final races in the amateur class Street. In this classification involved cars without safety cage. For them, the configuration of the route has been less rapid.

As a result of the intense struggle took first place at the Andrew Pesegov Nissan Skyline, a team representing the Tuning Factory (Russia), second - Andrey Antoniuk from Tarantino Team (Ukraine) and third place - Maxim Shatilo (Belarus).

On the second day, there were training, then qualifying, top 32 and the finals of class Pro. In the final, contested the strongest - Juha Rintanen from Team JDM Racing (Finland) and Tengku Djan from FXOpen Bridgestone (Malaysia). The winner "Burn FXOpen Drifting Challenge Belarus 2010" was a participant from Finland. Third place went to Dan Chapman from Driftworks (England).

Competition culminated in a solemn ceremony of rewarding and spectacular fireworks in honor of the winners. Competition prize fund was $ 20,000. The main prize for first place in the class PRO - $ 12000.

Also, two of the best drifters in Belarus, and Russia Sergei Sack (Belarus) and Eugene Satyukov (Russia) won a trip to Malaysia to competition in FXOpen Drift Series.

For those fans of drifting, who failed for whatever reason, to attend events in person, on site drift.by was organized by a live Internet broadcast through 3G interenet provide mobile operator VELCOM.

Partners in the competition were: "Racing.by" - a team with more than 5 years of experience in organizing major motorsport events in Belarus and the Energy Drink "BURN" (Coca Colla company) in the last 2 years working closely with the team "Racing.by" and actively supports motorsport in Belarus.

FXOpen not the first time become the sponsor of the competition for drifting. After all, the ability to quickly analyze situations and make correct decisions in a constantly changing environment - are qualities that are equally important as the trade in the currency market FOREX, and in this sport as drifting. According to this company supports young people who seek to cultivate perseverance, analytical skills and determination that are so necessary for success.