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Team Liquid
File:Teamliquid logo blue.png
Founded2000
LocationThe Netherlands[1]
ManagerNetherlands Victor Goossens
DivisionsStarCraft (series)
Websitehttp://www.teamliquid.net/

Team Liquid is a popular StarCraft news website and community, as well as a successful StarCraft team, founded by Victor Goossens and Joy Hoogeveen.

History

The website was founded on May 1st 2001 by Victor "Liquid`Nazgul" Goossens and Joy "Liquid`Meat" Hoogeveen under the domain teamliquid.cjb.net. On September 22nd 2002 the website was moved to the current address of teamliquid.net with this post signifying the grand opening. A day later the very first poll was posted as a vote for the website's name with the current name winning over other suggestions such as likwit.com.

The Site

The Team Liquid website primarily provides StarCraft pro-gaming news coverage, discussion forums for the Blizzard Entertainment games StarCraft and StarCraft 2 and live video streams of events and games. With the launch of StarCraft 2, Team Liquid has grown into the largest StarCraft and StarCraft 2 community on the internet with over 85,000 active members and 7 million+ total posts. The website employs two full-time staff at their New York office to work on the site. [2]

Content

The website has several features in addition to the forums, including –

  • Liquipedia – A StarCraft & Pro-Gaming wiki featuring articles about players, tournaments, strategy and other StarCraft Brood War & StarCraft II information.
  • The TLPD – A Player Database that records results from tournaments for players in Brood War and StarCraft II. The Database also calculates an ELO rating for players.
  • TL Power Rank A subjective ranking of players in the Korean Progaming Scene.
  • Team Liquid Fantasy Starcraft – A Fantasy sport league based around the Korean Progaming Scene.
  • Calendar – A calendar on the right sidebar displaying upcoming and past events in the community, such as shows and tournaments.
  • Live User Streams – A list of current live first-person streams by pro-gamers and standard community members.

Tournaments

Team Liquid Starleague

  • The two iterations of the TeamLiquid Starleague (or TSL for short) have been the biggest "foreign" (non-Korean) StarCraft tournaments. The The first TSL sponsored by Razer in 2008 was highly anticipated at the time, sporting all of the world's top Brood War players. It was topped one year later with 2009's TSL 2, which featured a total prize pool of over $20,000 and remains the largest non-Korean Brood War tournament to date.
  • With the release of Starcraft II, Team Liquid announced a third installment, sponsored again by PokerStrategy.com with a prize pool of $34,700.[3]

Team Liquid StarCraft 2 Open

  • The TL Opens are one-day open single-elimination tournaments alternating between the US and EU battle.net servers. The eight TL Open events leading up to the TSL 3 also serve as a qualifier for the TSL.

Community Events

  • TL Attack: Modeled after a Korean TV show called "Bnet Attack", a professional player plays games against non-professionals while chatting with the hosts.
  • Liquibition: A King-of-the-Hill that is played in Bo7 mode.
  • TL Arena: A professional player will be matched up with inferior opponents. With each win he gains, another handicap is added that limits his game play options, until he loses or he has defeated a certain number of opponents.

Team

The clan Liquid was founded by Victor "Liquid`Nazgul" Goossens around the end of 2000. Approximately three months after leaving his previous clan, [i'm], Goossens made the decision to start his own clan. Liquid started with four members for the first months and grew to eight players over the following year. The members of the Liquid clan are handpicked by Goossens based on both personality and talent.

Current Roster

  • Netherlands Victor "Nazgul" Goossens – Playing Manager – Protoss
  • Sweden Hayder "Haypro" Hussein – Zerg
  • United States Tyler "Tyler" Wasieleski – Protoss
  • Germany Dario "TheLittleOne" Wünsch – Random
  • Sweden Jonathan "Jinro" Walsh – Terran
  • Netherlands Jos "Ret" de Kroon – Zerg
  • Canada Chris "Huk" Loranger – Protoss

Move to Korea

With the arrival of StarCraft 2, Team Liquid announced plans to become an active Pro-Gaming Team. Shortly after, sponsorship by The Little App Factory was announced,[4] which qualified them as a sponsored professional team. This gave Team Liquid a budget and allowed them to pay their players a salary and send the them to events around the world. On August 13th, three players traveled to Korea in order to compete in GOMTV's Global StarCraft II League (GSL).[5]

Performance in Korea

Of the three players entering the preliminaries, only one, Dario "TLO" Wünsch qualified for the first two GSL events. He was knocked out in the Second and First rounds respectively.

The third GSL was the strongest showing of Team Liquid so far. Three players, Hayder "Haypro" Hussein, Jos "Ret" de Kroon and Jonathan "Jinro" Walsh qualified for the main tournament. While Hussein lost first round and de Kroon in 2nd, Walsh made it all the way to the semi-finals, losing 0–4 to the eventual winner Jang "MC" Min-Chul.

Notable Results

References

  1. ^ "About TL.net". Teamliquid.net. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
  2. ^ TeamLiquid HQ Announcement
  3. ^ Pokerstrategy.com TSL 3 Announcement
  4. ^ "Presenting TLAF-Liquid`!". Teamliquid.net. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
  5. ^ "Homecoming: Liquid` to Korea!". Teamliquid.net. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
  6. ^ Ret Sweeps Assembly Gold SK-Gaming.com
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