Team:Team Liquid

Team Liquid
Location	Utrecht, Netherlands
Owners	Victor Goosens (Nazgul) Steve Arhancet (Liquid112)
Player manager	Robin Nyman (Bumblebee)
Sponsors/Partners	HyperX Barracuda Networks ShinyThings Razer Twitch NEEDforSEAT
Other games	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Hearthstone: Heroes of WarCraft Heroes of the Storm League of Legends StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void Street Fighter Dota 2

Team Liquid (Liquid or TL) is a professional esports organization based in the Netherlands. Owned by Victor Goosens (Nazgul), the team began as a StarCraft: Brood War clan in 2000 and was initially centred around the video games of StarCraft II and Dota 2.

In March 2014, the sponsor entered the community of professional Super Smash Bros. by forming a Melee team of Ken and KDJ and became the first team with a major esports pedigree to enter the Smash scene. On January 6th, 2015, it was announced on Twitter that Team Curse was merging with Team Liquid under the Liquid banner, which means that Team Liquid signed Team Curse's rosters, including Hungrybox and Chillin, alongside Ken and KDJ. [1]On August 11th, 2015, Team Liquid signed Nairo as the fifth member of their Smash Bros. division, but leave a year later. On July 9th, 2016, Crunch was signed by the team as Hungrybox's official coach. On February 9th, 2018, Salem was signed to be their new representative for the Smash 4 scene, but they parted ways a year later, a short time after the beginning of the Ultimate scene. A few days before the beginning of Smash Ultimate Summit, on March 7th, 2019, Team Liquid announced Dabuz's arrival to represent Liquid on the Ultimate scene.

Current smashers

Professional smashers

	ID	Name	Game	Main(s)	Join Date
	Ken	Ken Hoang	Super Smash Bros. Melee		2014-03-18
	Chillin	Kashan Khan	Super Smash Bros. Melee		2015-01-06
	Hungrybox	Juan Debiedma	Super Smash Bros. Melee Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Super Smash Bros. Ultimate		2015-01-06
	ChuDat	Daniel Rodriguez	Super Smash Bros. Melee Super Smash Bros. Brawl		2017-06-14
	Dabuz	Samuel Buzby	Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Super Smash Bros. Ultimate		2019-03-07
	Atelier	Towa Kuriyama	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate		2021-09-01

Other smashers

•  Crunch  (Hungrybox's coach, joined July 9th, 2016)
•  L4st  (Community Tech Coordinator)

Former smashers

Professional smashers

	ID	Name	Game	Main(s)	Join Date	Leave Date
	KDJ	Daniel Jung	Super Smash Bros. Melee		2014-03-18	2015-09-28
	Nairo	Nairoby Quezada	Super Smash Bros. Brawl Super Smash Bros. for Wii U		2015-08-11	2016-08-16
	Salem	Saleem Akiel Young	Super Smash Bros. Brawl Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Super Smash Bros. Ultimate		2018-02-09	2019-02-27

Trivia

• The decision to form a team for Melee stemmed from The Smash Brothers documentary that was filmed by Samox, who also produced the announcement video for the induction of the duo to Team Liquid.
• Peter Nguyen (Waytosexy) welcomed Ken and KDJ on behalf of the Dota 2 team and revealed himself to be a Smash enthusiast, while Jens Aasgaard (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.)
• Outside of its professional gaming endeavours, Team Liquid hosts the most-visited StarCraft-related website in the world (TeamLiquid.net); both Ken and KDJ actually had registered and used the forums prior to joining Team Liquid. Since then, it has opened its own Smash Bros. forums and has also added Smash Bros. to its wiki, Liquipedia, which already includes sections for StarCraft II, StarCraft: Brood War, Dota 2 and Hearthstone: Heroes of WarCraft.

External links

• Official website
• Twitter account
• YouTube channel
• Twitch channel
• Guilded community page
• Team Liquid entry at the Smash Liquipedia section
• Team Liquid's Melee Trailer by Samox