Team Liquid
Encyclopedia
Team Liquid is a popular StarCraft
news website and community, as well as a successful StarCraft team, founded by Victor Goossens and Joy Hoogeveen.
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 220,000 active members and over eleven million total posts. The website employs four full-time staff at their New York office to work on the site.
, Razer USA and Twitch.Tv
. The team has a dedicated news site separate from the more community oriented site at www.teamliquidpro.com, announced and released on May 10, 2011.
– Terran Jos "Ret" de Kroon – Zerg Shawn "Sheth" Simon – Zerg Song "HerO" Hyeon Deok - Protoss Choi "Zenio" Jung Min - Zerg
Global StarCraft II League (GSL).
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.
StarCraft
StarCraft is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. The first game of the StarCraft series was released for Microsoft Windows on 31 March 1998. With more than 11 million copies sold worldwide as of February 2009, it is one of the best-selling...
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.Community Site
The Team Liquid website primarily provides StarCraft pro-gaming news coverage, discussion forums for the Blizzard EntertainmentBlizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce and currently owned by French company Activision Blizzard...
games StarCraft
StarCraft
StarCraft is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. The first game of the StarCraft series was released for Microsoft Windows on 31 March 1998. With more than 11 million copies sold worldwide as of February 2009, it is one of the best-selling...
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 220,000 active members and over eleven million total posts. The website employs four full-time staff at their New York office to work on the site.
Content
The website has several features in addition to the forums, including –- Liquipedia – A StarCraft & 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 sportFantasy sportA fantasy sport is a game where participants act as owners to build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by the real individual players or teams of a professional 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.
- News - An aggregation of current eSports news
Tournaments and Events
In addition to running a community site and team, Team Liquid also hosts a variety of tournaments and events for the community to enjoy.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.
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. The team is sponsored by The Little App FactoryThe Little App Factory
The Little App Factory is a software company based in Sydney, Australia which develops software for the Mac OS X platform.-History:The company was founded in 2002 and initially released M-Beat, a freeware iTunes controller. The next year iPodRip was shipped and has been extremely successful...
, Razer USA and Twitch.Tv
Justin.tv
Justin.tv is a website created by Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel and Kyle Vogt in 2007 that allows anyone to broadcast video online. Justin.tv user accounts are called "channels", and users are encouraged to broadcast a wide variety of user-generated live video content, called...
. The team has a dedicated news site separate from the more community oriented site at www.teamliquidpro.com, announced and released on May 10, 2011.
Current Roster
Victor "Nazgul" Goossens – Playing Manager – Protoss Hayder "HayprO" Hussein – Zerg Tyler "Tyler" Wasieleski – Protoss Dario "TLO" Wünsch – Terran Jonathan "Jinro" WalshJonathan Walsh
Jonathan Walsh , nicknamed Jinro, is a Swedish professional player of the computer game StarCraft 2. He lives in South Korea, and plays for Team Liquid in the GOMTV Global Starcraft II League , but currently lives with the oGs house due to an agreement between both teams. He plays as Terran...
– Terran Jos "Ret" de Kroon – Zerg Shawn "Sheth" Simon – Zerg Song "HerO" Hyeon Deok - Protoss Choi "Zenio" Jung Min - Zerg
Former Members
Chris "HuK" Loranger - Protoss to Evil GeniusesEvil Geniuses
Evil Geniuses is a professional gaming organization based out of the United States. Founded in 1999, the organization is known as being the premier North American electronic sports organization, boasting highly successful players across each competitive genre...
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, 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 team to events around the world. On August 13th, three players traveled to Korea in order to live in the OGS training house and compete in GOMTV'sGom player
GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law....
Global StarCraft II League (GSL).
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
Team Liquid
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:...
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
- 1st -
Dreamhack Winter 2011DreamHackDreamHack is a digital festival, a local area network gathering with demo competitions, gaming competitions and more. It's arranged twice annually at the Elmia exhibition centre in Jönköping, Sweden and also twice a year at Expolaris Congresscenter, Skellefteå, Sweden and holds the world record ...
SC2 Championship - Song "HerO" Hyeon Deok - 2nd -
2011 North American Battle.net Invitational - Shawn "Sheth" Simon - 1st - 2011 European Battle.net Invitational - Jos "Ret" de Kroon
- 3rd/4th –
Sony Ericsson Starcraft II Code-S January 2011GOMTV Global Starcraft II LeagueGOMTV Global Starcraft II League is a StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty tournament hosted by GomTV and Blizzard Entertainment in South Korea. There is an English stream available for non-Korean viewers. The tournament features two leagues, Code S and Code A...
– Jonathan "Jinro" WalshJonathan WalshJonathan Walsh , nicknamed Jinro, is a Swedish professional player of the computer game StarCraft 2. He lives in South Korea, and plays for Team Liquid in the GOMTV Global Starcraft II League , but currently lives with the oGs house due to an agreement between both teams. He plays as Terran... - 3rd/4th – Sony Ericsson StarCraft II Open Season 3GOMTV Global Starcraft II LeagueGOMTV Global Starcraft II League is a StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty tournament hosted by GomTV and Blizzard Entertainment in South Korea. There is an English stream available for non-Korean viewers. The tournament features two leagues, Code S and Code A...
– Jonathan "Jinro" WalshJonathan WalshJonathan Walsh , nicknamed Jinro, is a Swedish professional player of the computer game StarCraft 2. He lives in South Korea, and plays for Team Liquid in the GOMTV Global Starcraft II League , but currently lives with the oGs house due to an agreement between both teams. He plays as Terran... - 1st – MLGMajor League GamingMajor League Gaming , founded in 2002 by Sundance DiGiovanni and Mike Sepso, is a North American professional Electronic sports organization, headquartered in New York City, New York. MLG has held official video game tournaments throughout the United States and Canada. Major League Gaming...
Dallas – Jonathan "Jinro" WalshJonathan WalshJonathan Walsh , nicknamed Jinro, is a Swedish professional player of the computer game StarCraft 2. He lives in South Korea, and plays for Team Liquid in the GOMTV Global Starcraft II League , but currently lives with the oGs house due to an agreement between both teams. He plays as Terran... - 1st – PokerIdol.com SC2 EU Championship – Dario "TLO" Wünsch
- 1st –
Assembly Winter 2011Assembly (demo party)The Assembly demo party is a demoscene and gaming event in Finland. The main organizers of the event are Pekka Aakko and Jussi Laakkonen . The event takes place every year between late July and early August, and lasts three to four days...
SC2 Championship – Jos "Ret" de Kroon - 1st - DreamHack Summer 2011DreamHackDreamHack is a digital festival, a local area network gathering with demo competitions, gaming competitions and more. It's arranged twice annually at the Elmia exhibition centre in Jönköping, Sweden and also twice a year at Expolaris Congresscenter, Skellefteå, Sweden and holds the world record ...
SC2 Championship – Chris "Huk" Loranger - 1st -
Homestory Cup 3 - Chris "Huk" Loranger