StarCraft and StarCraft II The gaming clan "Liquid" was founded by Victor "Nazgul" Goossens near the end of 2000, after he decided to leave his previous 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 were handpicked by Goossens. With the arrival of
StarCraft II, Team Liquid announced plans to become an active professional esports team. Shortly after, sponsorship by The Little App Factory was announced, which qualified them as a sponsored professional team. This allowed Team Liquid to pay their players a salary and send the team to events around the world. The team created a dedicated news site separate from the more community oriented site, announced and released on May 10, 2011. On August 13, 2012, three players traveled to Korea in order to live in the OGS training house and compete in
GOMTV's Global StarCraft II League (GSL). Of the three players entering the preliminaries, only one, Dario "TLO" Wünsch qualified for the first two GSL events. He was eliminated out in the Second and First rounds respectively. The third GSL was the strongest showing of Team Liquid thus 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 to the semi-finals, losing 0–4 to the eventual winner Jang "MC" Min-Chul. In 2012, during GSL Season 2, members Song "HerO" Hyeon Deok and Yun "TaeJa" Young Seo made it to the Round of 8 of the Code S tournament, with TaeJa being eliminated while HerO advanced to the semi-finals of the tournament. At the end of 2023, Kim "Cure" Doh-wook and Clément "Clem" Desplanches reached the semifinals of ESL SC2 Masters: Winter 2023 Finals, at Dreamhack Atlanta. Cure lost to Dark 3-1 while Clem defeated Serral 3-1 and reached the finals. In the grand final, Clem competed against Dark and beat him 4-1. At the start of 2024, Kim "Cure" Doh-wook was eliminated in the Round of 8 of Master's Coliseum 7, losing 3-4 against Solar. In February 2024, Clément "Clem" Desplanches reached the Quarterfinals in IEM Katowice 2024 but lost 3-0 against Serral. In February 2024, Kim "Cure" Doh-wook reached the Semifinals in IEM Katowice 2024 but lost 3-0 against Maru. Clément "Clem" Desplanches has assured his direct spot in the Esports World Cup 2024 in Riyadh by winning SC2 Masters Winter 2023. Kim "Cure" Doh-wook has assured his direct spot in the Esports World Cup 2024 in Riyadh by reaching top 4 at IEM Katowice 2024. Both Clément "Clem" Desplanches and Kim "Cure" Doh-wook stopped in the Knockout Round 3 of ESL SC2 Masters: Spring 2024. Clem lost 3-0 to HerO while Cure lost 3-2 to Shin.
Smash Bros. In March 2014, Team Liquid announced that it had picked up two
Melee players:
Ken, who is known as the "King of Smash" and KoreanDJ, who is known for being the first player to defeat
Mew2King during his peak, thus starting its
Smash team. After acquiring Curse Gaming, it also signed
Hungrybox, who is considered to be one of the Five Gods of
Melee, and Chillin, who was the first player to defeat Ken during his prime. On August 11, 2015, it picked up top
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player Nairo, who was the only player to knock
ZeRo out of a tournament, ending ZeRo's 56 consecutive tournament win streak at MLG World Finals. On September 28, 2015, Team Liquid announced that KoreanDJ resigned from the organization and retired from competitive
Smash, citing persistent hand and wrist pains.
League of Legends On January 6, 2015, Liquid acquired the
Team Curse's League of Legends roster, which consisted of Quas, IWillDominate, Voyboy, Cop, and
Xpecial. The team finished the LCS Spring regular season in 6th place with a 10–9 record. On Week 5 and 6 of NA LCS Piglet was benched and replaced on the starting roster by KEITHMCBRIEF in an effort to try to improve their standings. In the playoffs they beat
Counter Logic Gaming 3–0, before losing to
Cloud9 3–2 and finishing in 3rd. Team Liquid was very successful in 2018 and 2019, winning four LCS splits in a row. In the
2018 NA LCS season, Liquid had a roster of
Impact,
Xmithie,
Pobelter,
Doublelift, and
Olleh. At the
2018 League of Legends World Championship, Liquid went 3–3 in groups and failed to advance. In the
2019 LCS season, Liquid replaced Pobelter with
Jensen and Olleh with
CoreJJ. Liquid failed to make it out of groups at the
2019 League of Legends World Championship, however, as their 3–3 record was insufficient to advance. In 2020, Broxah joined the team as jungler, replacing Xmithie. The 2020 Spring Split went very poorly for Liquid; they finished ninth place out of ten. Doublelift was benched due to motivation issues and replaced by Academy ADC Tactical, and Doublelift was eventually traded to Team SoloMid for the summer split, with Tactical promoted to starter. Liquid finished third that summer split and made it to
2020 League of Legends World Championship, but again their 3–3 record was insufficient to advance to the quarterfinals. In 2021,
Santorin replaced Broxah as jungler, and LEC import Alphari replaced Impact as top laner. The team once again got a 3–3 record in groups at the
2021 League of Legends World Championship; this qualified them for a tiebreaker match with
Gen.G, but Liquid lost and failed to advance. The 2022 season saw a major shake-up of the roster, as the Honda sponsorship allowed the creation of a "super team" of
Bwipo, Santorin,
Bjergsen,
Hans Sama, and CoreJJ. Despite high expectations and finishing third place in the regular season of the summer split, Liquid narrowly failed to earn a Worlds slot in the playoffs, a disappointment that caused a major controversy. Hans Sama left the team at the end of the season. On 26 September 2022 they also released Guilhoto from the head coach position.
Other One week after the Curse merger, it was announced that Team Liquid acquired a
Counter Strike: Global Offensive team that previously played under the title "Denial eSports". On October 9, 2015, it was announced that Liquid would once again be fielding a
Dota team, after being absence from the competitive DotA scene for more than a year. On October 21, 2016, it was announced that Liquid would be fielding a professional
Civilization VI team, captained by former world champion Civilization player MrGameTheory. On August 7, 2020, Team Liquid announced their entrance to the Valorant esports scene by signing the fish123 roster, soulcas, Kryptix, L1NK, ec1s. Alongside these four players, they also added ScreaM as the fifth player. On February 24, 2021, Team Liquid parted ways with ec1s and added Jamppi into the roster. On April 23, 2021, Team Liquid announced changes to their Dota 2 roster on Twitter. Samuel "Boxi" Swann is taking a break from Dota to spend more time with his family. He will be replaced by Saeed Samail "SumaiL" Hassan. On December 25, 2021, analyst and translator Leon "Arthur" Lee interviewed Team Liquid coach, William "Blitz" Lee, who talked about the formation of the team, MATUMBAMAN and Zai, captain iNSaNiA and opponents at the Dota Pro Circuit. On 22 September 2022, they were announced as one of the 10 partner teams for the Valorant EMEA league. On May 5, 2023, Team Liquid became the first Dota 2 team to score the minimum number of DPC points and qualify for The International 2023. On November 21, 2023, Team Liquid announced its departure from
Rocket League. In May 2024, Team Liquid announced it was officially re-entering competitive
Apex Legends play after signing the orgless team "Legacy" ahead of the 2024
Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Split 1 Playoffs LAN. It marked Team Liquid's return to the
Apex scene, after leaving in December 2022. The roster is made up of Saul "YanYa" Ocampo, Luis Enrique "Neazul" Ramos Suarez, Alexis "Jaguares" Martinez, and Steven "Pistillo" Rojas as the coach. before the start of the
Overwatch Champions Series (OWCS) 2025 season as a Partner team after a seven and a half year hiatus from Overwatch Esports. The Team started with the signing of KNIFE, Tr33, Infekted, Rupal, And Vega for Stage 1. Then would add Zerruh to their roster before stage 2. KNIFE would leave before Stage 3. The team is coached by Cas Van "Casores" Andel, assisted by Danny "Danny" Mychakov On February 13, 2025, Team Liquid entered
chess by signing American
grandmaster Fabiano Caruana. The next day, on February 14, Liquid signed the Norwegian grandmaster
Magnus Carlsen. On June 28, Liquid announced the signing of Indian grandmaster
R Praggnanandhaa. These players will represent Liquid during the
Champions Chess Tour 2025. ==Sponsors==