AXiomatic eSports
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| Short name | Liquid, TL |
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| Divisions |
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Halo Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft League of Legends Overwatch StarCraft II Street Fighter Super Smash Bros. |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Location | Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Manager |
Victor Goossens Steve Arhancet |
| Partners |
Alienware Crunchyroll Discord HTC AOC J!NX HyperX Monster Energy NeedForSeat Razer Twitch.tv |
| Parent group | aXiomatic |
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www www |
| Industry | Entertainment and sports |
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Key people
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Bruce Stein |
| Website | www |
Team Liquid is a multiregional professional eSports organization based in the Netherlands that was founded in 2000. With the release of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Team Liquid signed their first professional players. In 2012, Team Liquid recruited a North American Dota 2 team, marking their first venture into multi-genre management. In January 2015, Team Liquid officially merged with Team Curse under the Liquid banner, bringing on Steve Arhancet, his supporting staff, and former Curse League of Legends, Street Fighter, and Super Smash Bros. teams. Team Liquid's website was originally started in 2001 as a news site focusing on StarCraft.
Their Dota 2 squad won The International 2017, which had the largest prize pool for any eSport tournament in history.
The website was released on May 1, 2001 by Victor "Nazgul" Goossens and Joy "Meat" Hoogeveen under the domain teamliquid.cjb.net. On September 22, 2002 the website was moved to the current address of teamliquid.net. 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.
Although Team Liquid was known as primarily a StarCraft news site, there are many sub sections on the forums dedicated to other games as well. It was announced on August 30, 2012 that Team Liquid would be expanding to also including Dota 2 as one of their main coverage games. On December 8, 2012, Liquid expanded their eSports franchise for the first time, with the announcement of the recruitment of a North American Dota 2 team.
On January 6, 2015 Steven "LiQuiD112" Arhancet joined Victor Goossens as co-owner of Team Liquid, officially commencing the merge between former Team Curse Gaming under the Team Liquid banner.
On January 24, 2015, it was announced that HTC had become an official sponsor of Team Liquid.
On September 27, 2016 Team Liquid sold its controlling interest to aXiomatic eSports, an investment group including Golden State Warriors co-owner Peter Guber, entrepreneur Ted Leonsis, basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson, and AOL co-founder Steve Case.
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