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[[Image:Team Liquid Logo.jpg|300px|thumbnail|Official logo.]]
[[Image:Team Liquid Logo.jpg|300px|thumbnail|Official logo.]]
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! Location
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| Netherlands
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! Owner
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| Victor Goosens (Nazgul)
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! Player Manager
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| Robin Nyman (Bumblebee)
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! Sponsors
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*[http://www.kingston.com/us/memory/hyperx HyperX]
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*[http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ Barracuda Networks]
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*[http://www.getshinythings.com/ ShinyThings]
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*[http://www.razerzone.com/ Razer]
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*[http://www.twitch.tv/ Twitch]
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*[http://www.needforseatusa.com NEEDforSEAT]
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! Smashers
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*{{Sm|Ken|c1=Marth|USA|g=SSBM}}
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*{{Sm|KoreanDJ|c1=Marth|c2=Fox|USA|g=SSBM}}
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! Other Games
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* ''StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm''
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* ''DotA 2''
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! Some Other<br/>Famous Players
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*Yoon Yeong Seo (TaeJa) <small>''StarCraft II''</small>
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*Dario Wünsch (TLO) <small>''StarCraft II''</small>
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*Jens Aasgaard (Snute) <small>''StarCraft II''</small>
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*Peter Nguyen (Waytosexy) <small>''Dota 2''</small>
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*Song Hyeon Deok (HerO) <small>''StarCraft II''</small>
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'''Team Liquid''' is a professional gaming
team
based in the Netherlands
that has become popular for its eSports achievements
.
On March 18th
,
2014, it entered
the ''
Smash
''
arena by forming a
''
Melee
''
team with {{Sm|Ken}} and {{Sm|KoreanDJ}} as its first members. Liquid co-owner Nazgul made
the
following announcement on
the
team
'
s website and invited fans to discuss it<ref>
[http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/smash-bros/446516-liquid-smash-brothers-melee
Liquid
''
Super Smash Bros.
Melee''
- Written Announcement by Liquid'Nazgul & Forum Discussion
]
TeamLiquid
.
net.</ref>:
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'''Team Liquid''' is a professional gaming
[[crew]]
based in the Netherlands.
Owned by Victor Goosens
, the
crew was initially centred around the video games of [[wikipedia:StarCraft II|
''
StarCraft II
''
]] and [[wikipedia:Dota 2|
''
Dota 2
''
]]; in 2014,
the
crew entered
the
community of professional
'
'Super Smash Bros.'' by
[http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/smash-bros/446516-liquid-smash-brothers-melee
forming a
''Melee''
team
]
of {{Sm|Ken}} and {{Sm|KoreanDJ}}
.
The decision to form
a
crew
for
''Melee'' stemmed from
the
[[The Smash Brothers]] documentary that was filmed by Samox; the same director produced the announcement video for the induction of the duo
to
Team
Liquid.
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<blockquote><p>
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Today marks
a
historic day
for the
Liquid team as we are ready
to
unveil our two newest members: Liquid`Ken and
Liquid
`KDJ
.
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Last October a documentary (''The Smash Brothers'') was released that followed the players and competitive scene
of
''Super Smash Brothers Melee''. It received a lot of praise and I would go as far as to say that I have never seen better eSports content. If you haven't seen it I would check it out as it's a nice way to relax, and will make it easy to understand why we're adding players for ''Smash''.
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Outside
of its
professional gaming endeavours
, Team Liquid
hosts
one of the
largest
''StarCraft''-related
websites and forums
in the world
;
both Ken and KoreanDJ
actually had registered and used the
forums
prior to joining Team Liquid
.
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I've been pretty focused on just a couple games and after seeing the documentary it was like a whole new world opened up. I was blown away by the depth of this game and that it was still going strong after so many years without any support. The scene that is behind ''Smash'' is amazing. The game is 13 years old and has stood the test of time over and over again. The game is deep and deserving of being an esport.
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After many years of absence in 2013, ''Smash: Melee'' made
its
return to EVO
,
the largest fighting game tournament in the world. It snuck in through the backdoor by winning a poll measured in charity donations. It shocked the world by getting 700 entrants, the most ever for a ''Smash'' tournament, and 130,000 unique viewers, the second most watched game out of all eight games at EVO. At Anaheim, MLG will be bringing ''Smash'' back after a long, long absence. After 13 years, the game might just see their biggest year yet.
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''Smash'' is a bit of an outcast in the fighting game community. As an eSport, there hasn't been support from Nintendo and the balance of the game is largely held in place by many bugs that were never intended to be in there. It reminds me a lot of Brood War in so many ways.
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The players we start a team with are KoreanDJ and Ken, two legends that together with our announcement will announce their official comeback to competitive Smash. They're incredible players and personalities. Ken actually is a huge ''BW/SC2/Dota'', and Liquid fan and appeared on the popular TV show ''Survivor''. KoreanDJ used to visit TL over ten years ago for BW replays and plays an amazing violin.
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Having worked with both guys for a while now I am confident as ever that they will do a great job representing our team and sponsors. Recently KDJ took it to M2K at the Smashing Grounds tournament and went 2-3 with him, twice. An incredible feat for someone making a comeback. This announcement has been one of the coolest things we've ever done and I hope it is only the start. They will do a great job representing us.
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-Liquid`Nazgul (Victor Goosens)
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</p></blockquote>
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With the announcement and signings, Ken and KoreanDJ's ''Smash'' squad joined the TL ''DotA 2'' squad (founded in 2012) and its ''StarCraft II'' squad (
Team Liquid
began as a ''Brood War'' clan in 2000 and has featured
one of the
best ''StarCraft'' teams based outside of Korea) on the Team Liquid roster.
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Waytosexy welcomed Ken and KDJ on behalf of the ''Dota 2'' team and revealed himself to be a ''Smash'' enthusiast, while Snute did the same on behalf of the ''StarCraft'' team while himself revealing that he had played ''Melee'' extensively in 2002, especially as Yoshi, and equated high-level ''Melee'' play to high-level ''StarCraft'' micro (the RTS shortening of micromanagement, meaning unit control.) ''Smash Brothers'' director Samox also produced Team Liquid's ''Smash'' video announcement for YouTube, which featured KoreanDJ providing violin accompiment to "Animus Vox" by Glitch Mob as highlights of the two players were shown.
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Team Liquid also has opened a ''Smash'' forum on its website, which is already the most-visited
''StarCraft''-related
website
in the world
and attracted pro gamers including
both Ken and KoreanDJ
to its
forums
long before they joined the team
.
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==References==
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{{reflist}}
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{{Art-wikipedia|Team Liquid}}
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.teamliquid.net/ Team Liquid website]
*[http://www.teamliquid.net/ Team Liquid website]
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*[http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Team_Liquid Team Liquid ''StarCraft II'' Liquipedia entry]
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*[http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Team_Liquid Team Liquid ''StarCraft: Brood War'' Liquipedia entry]
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*[http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Team_Liquid Team Liquid ''Dota 2'' Liquipedia entry]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUT1FGLODm4 Team Liquid's ''Melee'' Trailer by Samox]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUT1FGLODm4 Team Liquid's ''Melee'' Trailer by Samox]
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