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= Forza World = Forza World is a Canadian e-sports and entertainment organization that is focused on the Forza series for Xbox. Founded in 2013, the organization began on Instagram, where it is most popular, and has since expanded to Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, and other forms of media. Forza World primarily develops in-game photos and videos, and also provides news and reviews regarding the game.

History
Founded in 2013, Forza World began primarily as a content creation account that specialized in in-game photos. The account was one of the first to take advantage of the camera mode in the newly released Xbox 360 exclusive Forza Horizon. As a result, a culture and strong relationship between Forza photos and Instagram quickly gained popularity. In 2015, the account was considered the most popular Forza account on social media, and had teams rostered in various e-sports competitions worldwide, including 2 runnings of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a first place victory of the 6 Hours of the 'Ring, and a full season of the Virtual Super Trofeo endurance league. The team also ran several unofficial World Championship events hosted by private sponsors, with it's best overall finish being second in a 2014 Forza Horizon 1 championship that spanned 2 weeks at 3 races per day. Though the organization never got to the podium in major gaming competitions, this was years before a proprietary gaming league was created by the series itself, and before more popular e-sports leagues included the game in competitions. More recently, with the decline in popularity in media due to overpopulation of similar accounts, Forza World has shifted its focus to news, updates, speculation and reviews, also choosing to improve its website rather than engaging on social media more frequently.

Photography
Forza World has long been a staple of the Forza Photography community. The account was a common feature on the official "Photo of the Week" competition from 2013 to 2016, until the organization decided to produce content exclusively for their social media accounts, because of significantly larger impressions on Instagram vs in-game. Forza World does not have a primary focus car genre, and typically posts a general range of car types. Additionally, a long running tradition the group uses is to not use out-of-game editing software when it comes to photography, due to both the challenging nature of doing so as well as a testament to the quality of the game.

Partner Pages
From 2014 to 2016, Forza World had many partner pages on Instagram that produced photographic content and ran game lobbies for various Forza games. The purpose of this was to complete the original vision for the concept of Forza World: to bring meaning to the name by creating a network of pages that specialize in different elements of the game. The team from this time period consisted of the following, in the format of account name and respective city: Forza Canada (Edmonton), Forza America (Atlanta), Forza Universe (New York), Forza Japan (Tokyo), Forza Australia (Adelaide), Forza Europe (Barcelona), Forza England (London), and ForzaHorizon2 (Toronto). All of these accounts had members who resided in the area relative to their username, with the exceptions of ForzaHorizon2 and Forza Universe. These pages operated on synchronized posting schedules. Some focused primarily on one of designs, photography, videography, tuning, or news, depending on the skillset of the individual. The concept was extremely successful in the beginning, bolstering Forza World to over 10,000 followers on Instagram alone. Forza Canada and Forza Universe proved to be the most successful, hitting 1,000 followers in mere days without paid advertising. The Forza World team as it was called ran until 2016, when a slowdown in popularity of the game on Instagram cut overall engagement by 45%. Team members Australia, Japan, Europe, England and Universe collectively decided to disband and focus on other endeavours within e-sports, whereas ForzaHorizon2 went rogue, stealing the account and shedding the user handle, which is currently parked due to its value. Remaining team members include Forza Canada and Forza America, although Forza Canada has unofficially shut down operations to exclusively write for the Forza World website, while Forza America has scaled back operations significantly due to involvement in the supercar photography scene in Atlanta. It was announced that the group was officially dissolved in January 2019, almost 3 years after the last official page shut down.

Speculation
Forza World is also occasionally a source of speculation for the game and its happenings. The website posts about cars expected to come to the game, which is usually a very popular aspect of Forza news, second only to speculation of the location of upcoming Horizon games. Forza World was one of the first sites to independently confirm the location of Forza Horizon 3, as well as its cover car. Notable correct reports include the arrival of the Jaguar F-Type, the BAC Mono, and the Ferrari 458 Speciale.