Team Liquid | |
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Location: | The Netherlands[1] |
Founded: | 2000 |
Manager(s): | Victor Goossens |
Sponsors: | The Little App Factory, Razer, Twitch.Tv |
Divisions: | StarCraft (series) |
Website: | http://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.
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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 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 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. [2]
The website has several features in addition to the forums, including β
In addition to running a community site and team, Team Liquid also hosts a variety of tournaments and events for the community to enjoy.
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.[5] The team is sponsored by The Little App Factory, Razer USA[6] and Twitch.Tv.[7] 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. [8]
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,[9] 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's Global StarCraft II League (GSL).[10][11] [12]
Of the three players entering the preliminaries, only one, Dario "TLO" WΓΌnsch 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 0β4 to the eventual winner Jang "MC" Min-Chul.