Team Liquid

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Team Liquid
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Abbreviation Liquid
operator Team Liquid
Manager NetherlandsNetherlands Victor "Nazgul" Goossens
Headquarters NetherlandsNetherlands Utrecht
founding year 2000
Clan color blue
Main sponsor Kingston HyperX
Homepage www.teamliquid.net

www.teamliquidpro.com

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Team Liquid is the name of e-sports - Clans and associated news portal, which in its function as an online media and community as the most important English port of call on StarCraft valid E-Sport. The coverage was later expanded to include other esports titles.

Due to the dominant market position of teamliquid.net , the team is also referred to as Team Liquid Pro based on the separate internet domain . With the TeamLiquid StarLeague there was also a separate tournament series.

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The Liquid Clan was founded at the end of 2000 by the Dutch StarCraft player Victor “Nazgul” Goossens. In StarCraft: Brood War , Liquid has long been considered one of the strongest teams outside of South Korea. With the appearance of the successor StarCraft 2, a new team was put together, which partly consisted of the SC: BW players from Team Liquid and partly of new signings.

At the end of 2010, the team entered into a cooperation with the South Korean StarCraft 2 clan Old Generations, in the course of which most of the Liquid players moved to Seoul into the training rooms of oGs and gained a foothold in the local professional league, the Global StarCraft II League tried. The most successful was the Swede Jonathan "Jinro" Walsh , who reached the top 4 both in the last season in 2010 and in the top division of the January 2011 GSL. Most of the players are now back in their homeland.

The team has had its own website since May 10, 2011.

On December 6, 2012, the organization was expanded to include a Dota 2 team, which until it was dissolved in 2014 belonged to the expanded world elite. The team consisted of parts of the former team compLexity and one former player each from the teams Evil Geniuses and Quantic Gaming . On March 18, 2014, Victor Goossens announced the formation of a Super Smash Bros. Melee team consisting of Daniel "KoreanDJ" Jung and Ken "Sephiroth" Hoang.

At the beginning of 2015, the team merged with Curse Gaming and took over, among other things, the top-class League of Legends team from Curse, which plays in the North American professional league LCS . The organization also presented a lineup for the first time in the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive discipline on January 13, 2015. Team Liquid signed the former Denial E-Sports team around Nick "nitr0" Cannella. The team was initially strengthened in 2016 by the Ukrainian Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev and from June 2016 by the Dane Jacob "Pimp" Winneche . In July 2016, Liquid moved into the finals of ESL One Cologne 2016 and lost there against SK Gaming .

Team Liquid won The International in August 2017 and the associated prize money of almost eleven million US dollars.

The CS: GO team was meanwhile, especially in the middle of 2019, as the best team in the world. 2019 was the most successful year in clan history for the CS: GO division of Team Liquid with seven relevant tournament victories.

On August 25, 2019, Team Liquid won the League of Legends Championship Series (short: LCS ; formerly, until September 2018 NA LCS - " North American League of Legends Championship Series ") for the fourth time with the Summer Split 2019 . Team Liquid is the first team to win four titles in a row in the North American top division.

Website

First and foremost, Team Liquid provides comprehensive coverage of the StarCraft e-sports scene and offers discussion forums for games from Blizzard Entertainment , such as StarCraft and StarCraft 2 . In addition, streams of ongoing events or games are listed. Over time, Team Liquid has grown to become the largest StarCraft and StarCraft 2 community on the Internet, with over 85,000 active members and more than 7 million posts.

The website was launched on May 1, 2001 under the domain teamliquid.cjb.net. On September 22nd, 2002, the website received the new and still valid domain teamliquid.net. One day after the inauguration, Team Liquid's name was confirmed in a vote.

Team Liquid offers its users additional content, among other things

  • Liquipedia - a wiki with articles on players, tournaments and strategies for the StarCraft: Brood War, StarCraft II, Dota 2, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm and Smash Bros. games.
  • TLPD - a player database that lists the results of professional players in tournaments. (StarCraft: Brood War, StarCraft II)
  • TL Power Rank - an editorially created world ranking of players.
  • Calendar - a calendar that lists upcoming and past events.
  • Live User Streams - a list of ongoing streams from programmers and community members.

Team Liquid StarLeague

  • The two tournaments of the Team Liquid Starleague ( TSL for short ) that have already been held were among the largest non-Korean StarCraft: BW tournaments. The first TSL was sponsored by Razer and hosted in 2008 and was a highly anticipated event for the elite of the Brood War scene. The TSL2 that followed a year later doubled the prize money compared to the first tournament to $ 20,000.
  • Team Liquid announced a third TSL tournament after StarCraft 2 was released, sponsored by PokerStrategy.com with a purse of $ 34,700.
  • The TL Opens were one-day tournaments that were played on the European and American Battle.net servers and were used to qualify for the TSL.

Important active players

(As of March 14, 2018)

StarCraft & StarCraft 2

League of Legends

Nat. Surname position
Korea SouthSouth Korea Jung "Impact" Eon-Yeong Top lane
DenmarkDenmark Mads "Broxah" Brock-Pedersen Jungle
DenmarkDenmark Nicolaj "Jensen" Jensen Mid Lane
United StatesUnited States Edward "Tactical" Ra AD carry
Korea SouthSouth Korea Jo "CoreJJ" Yong-In Support

Counter Strike: Global Offensive

Hearthstone

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Dota 2

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

  • BrazilBrazil Leo Duarte "zig" Borges Pinto (since 2018)
  • BrazilBrazil André De Jesus "nesk" Oliveira (since 2018)
  • BrazilBrazil Luccas Vinnicius "Paluh Molina (since 2018)
  • BrazilBrazil Thiago "SexyCake" Reis (since 2018)
  • BrazilBrazilAndré "Sensi" Kaneyasu ( Coach , since 2018)
  • BrazilBrazil Paulo Augusto "psk" Areneiro Lourenco (since 2018)

Important former players

Successes (excerpt)

StarCraft 2

Yoon "TaeJa" Young-suh
s. Main Products
Chris "HuK" Loranger
s. Main Products
Jonathan "Jinro" Walsh
Joseph "ret" de Kroon
  • European Battle.net Invitational 2011: 1st place
  • DreamHack Winter 2011: 3rd place
Song "HerO" Hyeon-deok
  • DreamHack Winter 2011: 1st place
  • North American Star League Season 2: 2nd place
  • DreamHack Winter 2012: 1st place
Dario "TLO" wish
Grzegorz "MaNa" Komincz

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Dota 2

  • Shanghai Major: 2nd place
  • EPICENTER 2016: 1st place
  • Manila Major: 2nd place
  • EPICENTER 2017: 1st place
  • The International 2017 : 1st place
  • DreamLeague Season 8: 2nd place
  • EPICENTER XL: 2nd place
  • China Dota2 Super Major: 1st place
  • The International 2018 : 4th place
  • MDL Disneyland® Paris Major: 2nd place
  • EPICENTER Major: 2nd place
  • The International 2019 : 2nd place


League of Legends

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. TeamLiquidPro: Home Sweet Home ( Memento from July 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
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  4. Curse Gaming merges with Team Liquid ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dailydot.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dailydot.com
  5. TeamLiquid is expanding its LoL troop from esport.kicker.de
  6. Team Liquid with CS: GO team. Change: The American organization takes over adreN and Co. 99 Damage, January 13, 2015, accessed on January 13, 2015 .
  7. ^ Pimp signs for Liquid - Official. hltv.org, June 15, 2016, accessed June 15, 2016 .
  8. Dota 2 tournament The International: Berlin pro gamer wins with Team Liquid. heise.de, August 14, 2017, accessed on November 23, 2017 .
  9. Team Liquid. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  10. Team Liquid. Retrieved January 1, 2020 .
  11. The first TSL
  12. TSL2
  13. PokerStrategy.com TSL3 announcement
  14. Liquid Update: Zews & TACO traded for Stewie2K. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
  15. Welcome Back Coach adreN! Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
  16. European Battle.net Invitational 2011 ( Memento from October 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )