Team Liquid
File:Teamliquid logo blue.png
Location The Netherlands[1]
Founded 2000
Manager(s) Netherlands Victor Goossens
Sponsors The Little App Factory, Razer, Twitch.Tv
Divisions StarCraft (series)
Website https://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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History [link]

The website was founded on May 1, 2001 by Victor "Liquid`Nazgul" Goossens and Joy "Liquid`Meat" Hoogeveen under the domain teamliquid.cjb.net. On September 22, 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. Since then, teamliquid.net has become the central platform for everything Starcraft. Teamliquid.net is an important resource for people to improve at the game, meet outside of it (i.e. Barcraft), and access a wealth of Starcraft discussion and resources.

Community Site [link]

The Team Liquid website primarily provides StarCraft pro-gaming news coverage, discussion forums for the Blizzard Entertainment games StarCraft, StarCraft 2. MOBA games, League of Legends and embedded 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]

Content [link]

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 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 [3]

Tournaments and Events [link]

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 [link]

  • The two iterations of the TeamLiquid Starleague (or TSL for short) have been the biggest "foreign" (non-Korean) StarCraft:BW 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.[4] The tournament took place between March and May 2011. On 25 April 2012, a fourth installment was announced (TSL 4).

Team Liquid StarCraft 2 Open [link]

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

Community Events [link]

  • 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 [link]

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]

Current Roster [link]

Former Members [link]

Move to Korea [link]

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 13, 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]

Performance in Korea [link]

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.

In 2012 GSL Season 2, members South Korea Song "HerO" Hyeon Deok - Protoss and South Korea Yun "TaeJa" Young Seo - Terran made it to the Round of 8 of the Code S tournament, with TaeJa being eliminated while HerO advanced up to the semi-finals of the tournament.

Notable Results [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ "About TL.net". Teamliquid.net. https://www.teamliquid.net/about/. Retrieved 2011-02-06. 
  2. ^ TeamLiquid HQ Announcement
  3. ^ Cody. "https://www.ign.com/blogs/ign-esports/2011/07/14/teamliquid-net-ign-pro-league-season-two-coverage". IGN. 
  4. ^ Pokerstrategy.com TSL 3 Announcement
  5. ^ "IPL 3 Groups, Stream Info, LoL and much more!". IGN. https://uk.ign.com/ipl/news/2011/09/22/ipl-3-groups-stream-info-lol-and-much-more. Retrieved 26 November 2011. 
  6. ^ Goossens, Victor. "Razer Sponsors Liquid". Teamliquid.net. https://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=220364. Retrieved 7 May 2011. 
  7. ^ TwitchTV Sponsors Liquid
  8. ^ Team Liquid - Professional StarCraft 2 Team - TeamLiquidPro: Home Sweet Home
  9. ^ "Presenting TLAF-Liquid`!". Teamliquid.net. https://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=138553. Retrieved 2011-02-06. 
  10. ^ "Homecoming: Liquid` to Korea!". Teamliquid.net. https://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=143731. Retrieved 2011-02-06. 
  11. ^ Gaudioso, John (23 September 2011). "Pro Gamer Shawn "Sheth" Simon Talks MLG, StarCraft II and the Future of eSports". https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2011/09/23/pro-gamer-shawn-sheth-simon-talks-mlg-starcraft-ii-and-the-future-of-esports/. Retrieved 26 November 2011. 
  12. ^ "oGsLiquid House Tour". Giantbomb. https://www.giantbomb.com/giant-bomb-in-korea-ogsteam-liquid-house-tour/17-3516/. Retrieved 26 November 2011. 
  13. ^ Ret Sweeps Assembly Gold SK-Gaming.com

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Liquid consonant

In phonetics, liquids or liquid consonants are a class of consonants consisting of lateral consonants together with rhotics.

Distribution

Liquids as a class often behave in a similar way in the phonotactics of a language: for example, they often have the greatest freedom in occurring in consonant clusters. In many languages, such as Japanese and Korean, there is a single liquid phoneme that has both lateral and rhotic allophones.

English has two liquid phonemes, one lateral, /l/ and one rhotic, /ɹ/, exemplified in the words led and red.

Many other European languages have one lateral and one rhotic phoneme. Some, such as Greek, Italian and Serbo-Croatian, have more than two liquid phonemes. All three languages have the set /l/ /ʎ/ /r/, with two laterals and one rhotic. Similarly, the Iberian languages contrast four liquid phonemes. /l/, /ʎ/, /ɾ/, and a fourth phoneme that is an alveolar trill in all but some varieties of Portuguese, where it is a uvular trill or fricative. Some European languages, like Russian and Irish, contrast a palatalized lateral–rhotic pair with an unpalatalized (or velarized) set (e.g. /lʲ/ /rʲ/ /l/ /r/ in Russian).

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Liquid (Recoil album)

Liquid is the second full-length album and fifth studio release by Recoil, released by Mute Records on March 21, 2000. It was recorded at Alan Wilder's home studio, The Thin Line, in Sussex, during sessions that lasted from July 1998 to June 1999. The album was produced by Alan Wilder, with production assistance and co-ordination by Hepzibah Sessa, and additional production and sound design by PK. Liquid is Recoil's fifth album release.

Liquid's music continues in much the same vein as his previous album, Unsound Methods, but it considered to be a concept album revolving around a near-death experience in 1994. Wilder and his partner, Hepzibah Sessa, were driving in Scotland and a Tornado Bomber hit a hillside in front of them, and two airmen were killed. The idea of the album, especially the bookending track "Black Box", centered on what was going through the pilot's last moments of life.

Recoil again picked a diverse set guest vocalists - internationally acclaimed (and fellow Mute artist) Diamanda Galás, 1940s gospel singers the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, New York spoken word performers Nicole Blackman and Samantha Coerbell, and Catalan narrator (and Recoil fan) Rosa Torras. Additional musicians utilized were Curve's Dean Garcia (bass) and Steve Monti (drums), Ian Dury and the Blockheads' Merlin Rhys-Jones (guitar), and Miranda Sex Garden's Hepzibah Sessa (violin).

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Liberty

Liberty, in philosophy, involves free will as contrasted with determinism. In politics, liberty consists of the social and political freedoms enjoyed by all citizens. In theology, liberty is freedom from the bondage of sin. Generally, liberty seems to be distinct from freedom in that freedom concerns itself primarily, if not exclusively, with the ability to do as one wills and what one has the power to do; whereas liberty also takes into account the rights of all involved. As such, liberty can be thought of as freedom limited by rights, and therefore cannot be abused.

Philosophy

Philosophers from earliest times have considered the question of liberty. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121–180 AD) wrote of "a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed." According to Thomas Hobbes, "a free man is he that in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do is not hindered to do what he hath the will to do" (Leviathan, Part 2, Ch. XXI).

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Liberty (division)

A liberty was an English unit originating in the Middle Ages, traditionally defined as an area in which regalian right was revoked and where the land was held by a mesne lord (i.e., an area in which rights reserved to the king had been devolved into private hands). It later became a unit of local government administration.

Liberties were areas of widely variable extent which were independent of the usual system of hundreds and boroughs for a number of different reasons, usually to do with peculiarities of tenure. Because of their tenurial rather than geographical origin, the areas covered by liberties could either be widely scattered across a county or limited to an area smaller than a single parish: an example of the former is Fordington Liberty, and of the latter, the Liberty of Waybayouse, both in Dorset.

In northern England, the liberty of Bowland was one of the larger tenurial configurations covering some ten manors, eight townships and four parishes under the sway of a single feudal lord, the Lord of Bowland, the so-called Lord of the Fells. Up until 1660, such lords would have been lords paramount.

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Liberty (serial)

Liberty (also known as Liberty, A Daughter of the USA) is a 1916 American Western film serial directed by Jacques Jaccard and Henry MacRae, and was the first purely Western serial ever made. The film is now presumed to be lost.

Plot

Liberty Horton, an American heiress, is kidnapped by a Mexican rebel and ransomed to fund his rebellion.

Cast

  • Marie Walcamp as Liberty Horton
  • Jack Holt as Captain Rutledge
  • Eddie Polo as Pedro
  • G. Raymond Nye as Pancho Lopez
  • Neal Hart as Captain Winston
  • Bertram Grassby as Manuel Leon
  • Maude Emory as Theresa
  • L. M. Wells as Jose Leon
  • Charles Brinley as Alvarez
  • Tom London as (as Leonard Clapham)
  • Roy Stewart
  • Hazel Buckham

    • Production

    Liberty, a Daughter of the USA was the first purely Western serial, although Western elements were included in earlier serials such as The Perils of Pauline (1914).

    A print of Liberty was one of the primary footage sources used for the compilation film The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930–36).

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  • List of film serials
  • List of film serials by studio
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