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| Team Liquid | |
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| Created: | 2012-12-06 |
| Team Information | |
| Captain: | Kuro "KuroKy" Salehi Takhasomi |
| Coach(es): | Lee "Heen" Seung Gon |
| Manager(s): | Robin "Bumblebee" Nymann |
| Sponsor(s): | Twitch @@@#@@@HTC(htc.com)###@### PokerStars HyperX Razer Alienware Monster Energy J!NX AOC Discord NEEDforSEAT Crunchyroll |
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, ixmike88 Ixmike88 Background Information Name: ixmike88 Date of birth: 07 Jun 1991 (age 26) Country: United States Role: Support, Offlaner Signature Heroes: Links History History edit] Michael Ghannam, better known as ixmike88, is a professional Defense of 
, TC, and Korok at The International 2013 The International 2013 Seattle, Washington, United States Start Date 2 Aug. 2013 End Date 11 Aug. 2013 Teams 16 Version 6.78c Prize Pool $2,874,407 USD Website Link International 2013 Ticket Rarity: LegendarySlot: Ticket Buy Now 
.History
The team`s original incarnation has roots in a North American lineup headed by FLUFFNSTUFF called Team FIRE Team FIRE United States Created: 2014-12-20 Disbanded: 2017-05-07 Team Information Captain: Brian "FLUFFNSTUFF" Lee Coach(es): Links Website: Facebook: TeamFireEsports Twitter: FireEsports datdota: 2059672 DOTABUFF: 2059672 Team FIRE is an American professional Dota 2 team created 
, that went on to represent compLexity Gaming compLexity Gaming United States Created: 2012-02-16 Team Information Captain: Kyle "melonzz" Freedman Coach(es): Adam "343" Erwann Shah bin Akhtar Hussein Manager(s): Kyle "Beef" Bautista Sponsor(s): CreativeSoundBlasterCyberPower PCneweggCorsairTwitchDXRacerScuf GamingPwnit Wear Links Website: complexitygaming.com Facebook: ComplexityGaming Twitter: 
at The International 2012 The International 2012 Seattle, WA, United States Start Date 26 Aug. 2012 End Date 2 Sep. 2012 Teams 16 Version 6.74 Prize Pool $1,600,000 USD Website Link International 2012 Ticket Rarity: Legendary Buy Now on 
. Following an early knockout, the coL squad disbanded with TC, ixmike88 Ixmike88 Background Information Name: ixmike88 Date of birth: 07 Jun 1991 (age 26) Country: United States Role: Support, Offlaner Signature Heroes: Links History History edit] Michael Ghannam, better known as ixmike88, is a professional Defense of , and FLUFFNSTUFF moving over to Liquid and joining BuLba BuLba Background Information Name: ಕನಿಶ್ಕ ಸೋಸಲೆ Romanized name: Kanishka "Sam" Sosale Date of birth: 10 Jul 1991 (age 25) Country: United States India Team: Digital Chaos Role: Midlaner, Offlaner, Support Alternate IDs: BuLba-SaUr, flow, Harry Potter , who competed at TI2 with Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses United States Created: 1999 - Organization founding 2011-10-24 - Dota 2 division Team Information Captain: Andreas Franck "Cr1t-" Nielsen Coach(es): Clinton "Fear" Loomis Avery "SVG" Silverman Manager(s): William "ReaverXai" Burden Phillip "Tallgeese" Aram 
, and Korok, formerly of Quantic Gaming Quantic Gaming United States Created: 2012-02-21 Disbanded: 2013-11-14 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Sponsor(s): NEED for SEAT AVerMedia Powered By Alienware ROCCAT Links Website: quanticgaming.com Twitter: QuanticGaming Quantic Gaming (Quantic) is an organization formed by its 
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In 2013 the team established itself as one of the premier North American organizations with this roster, placing highly in events such as the Raidcall D2L, The Defense Season 3 The Defense 3 Online Start Date 4 Dec. 2012 End Date 30 Mar. 2013 Teams 32 Version 6.76 - 6.77 Prize Pool $20,000 USD Website Link The Defense 3 Rarity: MythicalSlot: Ticket Buy Now on Market The 
, The Premier League Season 4 The Premier League Season 4 Online Start Date 10 Feb. 2013 End Date 28 Apr. 2013 Teams 10 Version 6.77 Prize Pool $10,000 USD Website Link The Premier League Season 4 Rarity: RareSlot: Ticket Buy 
, and the American Dota League American Dota League Online Start Date 28 May 2013 End Date 10 Jul. 2013 Teams 10 Version 6.77 - 6.78 Prize Pool $10,000 USD Website Link American Dota League Rarity: Common Buy Now on Market AMERICAN DOTA 
in addition to securing an invite to The International 2013 The International 2013 Seattle, Washington, United States Start Date 2 Aug. 2013 End Date 11 Aug. 2013 Teams 16 Version 6.78c Prize Pool $2,874,407 USD Website Link International 2013 Ticket Rarity: LegendarySlot: Ticket Buy Now . After a rocky start they fell into the lower half of the bracket by a thin margin, which saw them defeat MUFC Invasion.MUFC Malaysia Created: 2010 Disbanded: 2013-10-16 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Manager(s): Chin Yi "chenizace" Chen Sponsor(s): Invasion eSports AMD Links Website: Facebook: InvasionMUFC FzFz, WinteR, dabeliuteef, TFG, and Ling at The International 2013. Contents 1 
and then had one of their defining moments in a stellar performance against LGD.cn, knocking the Chinese behemoth out of the event. A loss to the defending champions Invictus Gaming Invictus Gaming China Created: 2011-08-02 Team Information Captain: Fu "Q" Bin Coach(es): Manager(s): Li "zaizai" Pan Sponsor(s): Personal sponsorship from Wang Sicong Links Website: http://www.igaming.com.cn/ Facebook: InvictusGaming.Official Twitter: invgaming Weibo: 2099708877 Invictus Gaming (iG) is saw them out in 7-8th place.
After the event the roster changed once more, with ixmike Ixmike88 Background Information Name: ixmike88 Date of birth: 07 Jun 1991 (age 26) Country: United States Role: Support, Offlaner Signature Heroes: Links History History edit] Michael Ghannam, better known as ixmike88, is a professional Defense of going inactive to focus on ixdl, and Korok leaving for school. qojqva qojqva Background Information Name: Maximilian Bröcker Country: Germany Team: Escape Gaming Role: Midlaner, Carry Alternate IDs: Pro1Like Signature Heroes: Links datdota: 86738694 DOTABUFF: 86738694 Twitch: LiquidQojqva Twitter: Qojqva1 History Dota 2: 2012-10-01 — 2012-11-17Meet Your 
of mousesports mousesports Germany Created: 2011-12-05 Team Information Captain: Giorgos "SsaSpartan" Giannakopoulos Coach(es): Manager(s): Phillip Aram Sponsor(s): BenQ Sennheiser Fanobet Dr Pepper Links Website: mousesports.com Facebook: mousesports Twitter: mousesports datdota: 26 DOTABUFF: 26 qojqva, paS, Black^, FATA-, 
and Waytosexy of Dignitas Team Dignitas United Kingdom Created: 2012-09-22 Disbanded: 2013-11-12 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Sponsor(s): IntelAlienwareAntecCreativeKilleriiyamaQPadSCANWestern DigitalGamerbaseTwitchTVInitial GamesMultiplay Links Website: http://www.team-dignitas.net Facebook: TeamDignitas Twitter: TeamDignitas Universe, Fogged, Sneyking, Waytosexy, and Aui_2000 at The International 2013. Team Dignitas 
eventually filled the ranks. After a strong start in online leagues and group stages, the team had major stumbles at both Fall LAN events, falling early at both MLG Columbus and DreamLeague. By early Winter, the team started to falter in its online play as well, with the frustration boiling over and being shown by FLUFFNSTUFF on his TL.net blog. The blog resulted in an ultimatum for FLUFF: win as captain, or be removed from the team. The team failed to improve, and Liquid soon parted ways with Fluff. After trialing a few players, including Sneyking, DeMoN DeMoN Background Information Name: Jimmy Ho Date of birth: 08 Jul 1990 (age 26) Country: United States Team: compLexity Role: Support, Captain Alternate IDs: DGaF, Miley, AvA-, Pegasus Signature Heroes: Links datdota: 85805514 DOTABUFF: 85805514 Twitch: 
was added to the roster to take his place.
Despite some early promise, the team still struggled, falling to EG and North American Rejects North American Rejects United States Created: 2014-04-11 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Links Website: North American Rejects is a professional Dota 2 team based in the United States. Contents 1 History 2 Roster 2.1 Former Players 
in straight sets, and in doing so, failing to qualify for The Summit The Summit Bundle Rarity: Rare Buy Now on Market The Summit is a global Dota 2 event! Top teams from Europe, America, & Asia will fight to qualify via online play. The best four teams 
. Shortly after, TL fell to EG in the final stages of the ESL One Frankfurt ESL One Frankfurt 2014 Ticket Rarity: Rare Buy Now on Market On Jun. 28th and 29th, eight of the best teams from around the world travel to Frankfurt, Germany to battle it out for the 
qualfiers. Due to the teams recent struggles, they were not invited as a direct seed to The International 2014 The International 2014 Seattle, Washington, United States Start Date 8 Jul. 2014 End Date 21 Jul. 2014 Teams 16 Version 6.81b Prize Pool $10,930,698 USD Website Link Access The International Compendium 2014 The International 4 
, and instead had to fight through another set of qualifiers. Liquid ended the group stage tied for first, setting up a winners finals against NAR, a team they had yet to ever take a match off. Liquid fell 0-2, setting up a match against ex-liquid players ixmike and FLUFF on their new team Sneaky Nyx Assassins Sneaky Nyx Assassins United States Created: 2014 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Links Website: Facebook: SneakyNyxAssassins History edit] In Apr. 2014, FLUFFNSTUFF, ixmike88, whiteBeard, SNA and USH form Sneaky Nyx Assassins. In Sep., SNA leaves the 
. After a close game one, Liquid appeared to have captured the momentum and convincingly took game two, advancing them to play NAR North American Rejects United States Created: 2014-04-11 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Links Website: North American Rejects is a professional Dota 2 team based in the United States. Contents 1 History 2 Roster 2.1 Former Players in the finals. The finals ended up being much more back and forth than any other set between the teams, but after the delayed final game and Liquid`s eventual defeat, they were forced to settle with a Play-In position for TI4.
Following up their disappointing TI4 qualifiers, the team continued to experiment with juggling their roles while playing in the GEST - The Challenge 4. Demon moved to the carry or offlane, with TC moving to support. The team showed some early success against we Try and Relax, but stumbled again when they hit NAR North American Rejects United States Created: 2014-04-11 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Links Website: North American Rejects is a professional Dota 2 team based in the United States. Contents 1 History 2 Roster 2.1 Former Players in the semi finals. Liquid capped off the month with a disappointing group stage exit in the D2L Western Challenge D2L Western Challenge Ticket Rarity: Common Buy Now on Market Eight of the world s best Dota 2 teams from the west return to the D2L for over $50,000! Each ticket purchased will increase the prize 
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In early Jun., the team did manage a small bright spot, with their second place finish in the second season of the American Dota League Season 2 American Dota League Season 2 Rarity: CommonSlot: League Bundle Some of the best teams from North and South America compete for a $10,000 prize pool. This bundle gives access to view games from the American 
, falling to mousesports mousesports Germany Created: 2011-12-05 Team Information Captain: Giorgos "SsaSpartan" Giannakopoulos Coach(es): Manager(s): Phillip Aram Sponsor(s): BenQ Sennheiser Fanobet Dr Pepper Links Website: mousesports.com Facebook: mousesports Twitter: mousesports datdota: 26 DOTABUFF: 26 qojqva, paS, Black^, FATA-, 1-3 in the finals. The team also shuffled positions slightly again, with BuLba BuLba Background Information Name: ಕನಿಶ್ಕ ಸೋಸಲೆ Romanized name: Kanishka "Sam" Sosale Date of birth: 10 Jul 1991 (age 25) Country: United States India Team: Digital Chaos Role: Midlaner, Offlaner, Support Alternate IDs: BuLba-SaUr, flow, Harry Potter moving to support, and Demon to the offlane. The tournament marked Team Liquid`s last official matches before fighting for the wildcard spot in Seattle in a month and a half`s time.
Although Liquid earned a trip to Seattle, they still needed four wins to make their way into the main event of the tournament. First up was the favorite CIS, coming out of China, and led by Black^ Black^ Background Information Name: Dominik Reitmeier Country: Germany Team: Team Faceless Role: Carry, Midlaner Signature Heroes: Links datdota: 21289303 DOTABUFF: 21289303 Twitch: blackdragon553 Facebook: DominikBlackReitmeier Twitter: BlackDotA2 HuomaoTV: 423 Reddit: BlackDragon553 History Dota 2: 2011-11-18 
. Heavily favoring the picks of Skywrath Mage Hero Strategy Counters Equipment Gear Responses Sounds Lore Old Abilities Changelogs Skywrath Mage 19 + 1.8 13 + 0.8 27 + 3.6 Level 
for BuLba and Tidehunter Hero Strategy Counters Equipment Gear Responses Sounds Lore Old Abilities Changelogs Tidehunter 22 + 3.3 15 + 1.5 16 + 1.7 Level Base 
for DeMoN, Liquid crushed CIS in two straight games, with a combined kill score of 49-12. This would advance them forward to face MVP Phoenix Organization Overview MVP Phoenix MVP HOT6ix MVP Phoenix South Korea Created: 2013-11-21 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Links Website: http://www.mvpzine.com/ Facebook: teammvp1026 Twitter: MVP_GG Contents 1 History 1.1 2013 1.2 2015 
, who had won their series against Virtus.pro Virtus.pro Russia Created: 2003 Team Information Captain: Alexei "Solo" Berezin Coach(es): Ivan "ArtStyle" Antonov Sponsor(s): G2A.comEGB.comSteelSeriesWiFireVertagear Links Website: virtus.pro Facebook: www.virtus.pro Twitter: TeamVirtuspro datdota: 1883502 DOTABUFF: 1883502 VK: virtuspro Virtus.pro (VP) is a Russian e-Sports 
on the other side of the bracket. After a close first match in which TL came out on top, Liquid were able to ride the momentum and close out the series in convincing fashion in the second match, qualifying for the main event without losing a game.
At the main event, Liquid stumbled out the of the blocks with another loss to nemesis Na`Vi.US (ex-NAR), but bounced back in a major way with wins over favorites Newbee Newbee China Created: 2014-02-13 Team Information Captain: Hu "Kaka" Liangzhi Coach(es): Wang "SanSheng" Zhaohui Sponsor(s): ZhanqiTV ACE Links Website: Facebook: NewbeeCN Twitter: NewbeeCN datdota: 1102 DOTABUFF: 1375614 Newbee is a professional Dota 2 team based , EG and DK in Day 1. In Day 2, TL continued to rack up wins, beating Empire Team Empire Russia Created: 2004 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Manager(s): Dmitry "Korb3n"Belov Sponsor(s): Seagate Razer TwitchTV 4frag Intel GG.bet Links Website: http://www.team-empire.org/ Facebook: EmpireEsport Twitter: Team_Empire datdota: 29 DOTABUFF: 46 VK: empirepage Team Empire is 
and Fnatic Fnatic Malaysia Created: 2012-03-30 Team Information Captain: Djardel "DJ" Jicko B. Mampusti Coach(es): Manager(s): Eric "ReiNNNN" Khor Analyst(s): Muriel "Kipspul" Huisman Sponsor(s): Fnatic GearMonsterZowie MonitorDafabetMSIAMDAlphaDraftNewzooTwitchDXSeat Links Website: fnatic.com Facebook: fnatic Twitter: FNATIC DOTABUFF: 350190 VK: 
, but lost three, to Cloud9 Cloud9 United States Created: 2014-02-09 Disbanded: 2017-05-13 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Manager(s): Danan Flander Sponsor(s): G2A Logitech ZAM BenQ HyperX Alienware HTCTechnology company LolClass NEEDforSEAT USA Nvidia Overwolf MOBAfire Links Website: cloud9.gg Facebook: cloud9gg Twitter: Cloud9gg 
, LGD LGD Gaming China Created: 2009 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Wang "Banana" Jiao Manager(s): Pan "Fei" Fei Sponsor(s): Guizhou Laogandie Food Taobao Razer Kingston HyperX ZhanqiTV Harbin Beer Links Website: Facebook: lgddota Twitter: LGDgaming Weibo: teamlgd 
, and most notably, Arrow Gaming, a loss that would haunt them in the next stage. In Day 3, Liquid managed to defeat the previous two TI winners, Invictus Gaming Invictus Gaming China Created: 2011-08-02 Team Information Captain: Fu "Q" Bin Coach(es): Manager(s): Li "zaizai" Pan Sponsor(s): Personal sponsorship from Wang Sicong Links Website: http://www.igaming.com.cn/ Facebook: InvictusGaming.Official Twitter: invgaming Weibo: 2099708877 Invictus Gaming (iG) is and Alliance, with an additional win over Titan, but also dropped two matches, one to Natus Vincere, and one to Vici Gaming. Liquid only had one game on Day 4, with a win guaranteeing them at least top 6 in the group stage, and top 8 overall. Unfortunately, mousesports mousesports Germany Created: 2011-12-05 Team Information Captain: Giorgos "SsaSpartan" Giannakopoulos Coach(es): Manager(s): Phillip Aram Sponsor(s): BenQ Sennheiser Fanobet Dr Pepper Links Website: mousesports.com Facebook: mousesports Twitter: mousesports datdota: 26 DOTABUFF: 26 qojqva, paS, Black^, FATA-, went on to defeat them, and Liquid finished in a 4 way tie for 5th spot, but fell to 7th after accounting for the tiebreaking rules.
Their 7th place in group put them up against LGD Gaming in the next round, the team Liquid upset in the previous year. They would face off again in an elimination match, loser walking home with ~50,000USD, and the winner guaranteed at least ten times that. This year was different from the previous though, and LGD outclassed Liquid, convincingly taking two straight games, and knocking Liquid out of the tournament in 9th-10th place.
The post-TI shuffle was not kind to Liquid. It was announced DeMoN DeMoN Background Information Name: Jimmy Ho Date of birth: 08 Jul 1990 (age 26) Country: United States Team: compLexity Role: Support, Captain Alternate IDs: DGaF, Miley, AvA-, Pegasus Signature Heroes: Links datdota: 85805514 DOTABUFF: 85805514 Twitch: had departed a couple weeks after the event, quickly followed up by waytosexy. About a week later, Team Tinker appeared, featuring both BuLba BuLba Background Information Name: ಕನಿಶ್ಕ ಸೋಸಲೆ Romanized name: Kanishka "Sam" Sosale Date of birth: 10 Jul 1991 (age 25) Country: United States India Team: Digital Chaos Role: Midlaner, Offlaner, Support Alternate IDs: BuLba-SaUr, flow, Harry Potter and qojqva qojqva Background Information Name: Maximilian Bröcker Country: Germany Team: Escape Gaming Role: Midlaner, Carry Alternate IDs: Pro1Like Signature Heroes: Links datdota: 86738694 DOTABUFF: 86738694 Twitch: LiquidQojqva Twitter: Qojqva1 History Dota 2: 2012-10-01 — 2012-11-17Meet Your . Many hoped this was a trial for a new roster for Liquid, but after less than a month, it was revealed that the two had left the Liquid organization. Being the last man standing, TC left Liquid in early Oct., leaving Liquid without a Dota roster for the first time in two years.
On Oct. 9th, 2015, Team Liquid announced their re-entry into the Dota 2 scene with their signing of 5Jungz.
Team Liquid`s success continued on to the Shanghai Major in Mar. 2016, where the team was able to reach second place, falling to Team Secret in the grand finals. Following their silver medal was another at ESL One Manila, where they lost to Wings Gaming the Finals. Finally taking home a win at a large LAN Team Liquid won EPICENTER in Moscow over Newbee 3-2. Returning to Manila for the Manila Major Liquid was again defeated in the Grand finals, this time by OG. After the two Majors, Team Liquid was among the teams that were directly invited to The International 2016.
Videos
Timeline
- Aug. 31st: JerAx leaves the team to join OG..
- Sep. 1st: FATA- announces that he is taking a break from competitive play.
- Sep. 16th: Miracle- and BuLba BuLba Background Information Name: ಕನಿಶ್ಕ ಸೋಸಲೆ Romanized name: Kanishka "Sam" Sosale Date of birth: 10 Jul 1991 (age 25) Country: United States India Team: Digital Chaos Role: Midlaner, Offlaner, Support Alternate IDs: BuLba-SaUr, flow, Harry Potter
join the team.
- Oct. 9th: Team Liquid announces the signing of 5Jungz, consisting of FATA-, KuroKy, MinD_ContRoL, JerAx and MATUMBAMAN.
- Mar. 26th: Liquid parts ways with FLUFFNSTUFF.
- Apr. 14th: DeMoN DeMoN Background Information Name: Jimmy Ho Date of birth: 08 Jul 1990 (age 26) Country: United States Team: compLexity Role: Support, Captain Alternate IDs: DGaF, Miley, AvA-, Pegasus Signature Heroes: Links datdota: 85805514 DOTABUFF: 85805514 Twitch: joins Liquid .
- Jul. 29th: DeMoN DeMoN Background Information Name: Jimmy Ho Date of birth: 08 Jul 1990 (age 26) Country: United States Team: compLexity Role: Support, Captain Alternate IDs: DGaF, Miley, AvA-, Pegasus Signature Heroes: Links datdota: 85805514 DOTABUFF: 85805514 Twitch: `s contract expires, and, with no new contract, he leaves Liquid .
- Aug. 4th: Liquid announces wayto is leaving the team .
- Aug. 29th: Liquid announce that BuLba BuLba Background Information Name: ಕನಿಶ್ಕ ಸೋಸಲೆ Romanized name: Kanishka "Sam" Sosale Date of birth: 10 Jul 1991 (age 25) Country: United States India Team: Digital Chaos Role: Midlaner, Offlaner, Support Alternate IDs: BuLba-SaUr, flow, Harry Potter and qojqva qojqva Background Information Name: Maximilian Bröcker Country: Germany Team: Escape Gaming Role: Midlaner, Carry Alternate IDs: Pro1Like Signature Heroes: Links datdota: 86738694 DOTABUFF: 86738694 Twitch: LiquidQojqva Twitter: Qojqva1 History Dota 2: 2012-10-01 — 2012-11-17Meet Your have been released, and the team would be going inactive .
- Oct. 7th: Liquid announce that TC has officially left the organization .
- Sep. 21st: ixmike88 Ixmike88 Background Information Name: ixmike88 Date of birth: 07 Jun 1991 (age 26) Country: United States Role: Support, Offlaner Signature Heroes: Links History History edit] Michael Ghannam, better known as ixmike88, is a professional Defense of leaves the active roster to pursue other Dota activities .
- Sep. 22nd: Traded Korok for waytosexy with Team Dignitas .
- Sep. 25th: Former mousesports mousesports Germany Created: 2011-12-05 Team Information Captain: Giorgos "SsaSpartan" Giannakopoulos Coach(es): Manager(s): Phillip Aram Sponsor(s): BenQ Sennheiser Fanobet Dr Pepper Links Website: mousesports.com Facebook: mousesports Twitter: mousesports datdota: 26 DOTABUFF: 26 qojqva, paS, Black^, FATA-, player qojqva qojqva Background Information Name: Maximilian Bröcker Country: Germany Team: Escape Gaming Role: Midlaner, Carry Alternate IDs: Pro1Like Signature Heroes: Links datdota: 86738694 DOTABUFF: 86738694 Twitch: LiquidQojqva Twitter: Qojqva1 History Dota 2: 2012-10-01 — 2012-11-17Meet Your joins the team Max `qojqva` Broecker Joins Liquid.
- Dec. 6th: Team Liquid announces a Dota 2 team consisting of TC, FLUFFNSTUFF, ixmike88 Ixmike88 Background Information Name: ixmike88 Date of birth: 07 Jun 1991 (age 26) Country: United States Role: Support, Offlaner Signature Heroes: Links History History edit] Michael Ghannam, better known as ixmike88, is a professional Defense of , BuLba BuLba Background Information Name: ಕನಿಶ್ಕ ಸೋಸಲೆ Romanized name: Kanishka "Sam" Sosale Date of birth: 10 Jul 1991 (age 25) Country: United States India Team: Digital Chaos Role: Midlaner, Offlaner, Support Alternate IDs: BuLba-SaUr, flow, Harry Potter and Korok .
Active
| ID | Name | Position | Join Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | MATUMBAMAN | Lasse Urpalainen | 1 | 2015-08-28 |
 | Miracle- | Amer Al-Barkawi | 2 | 2016-09-16 |
 | MinD_ContRoL | Ivan Borislavov | 3 | 2015-08-28 |
 | KuroKy  | Kuro Salehi Takhasomi | 4/5 | 2015-08-28 |
 | GH | Maroun Merhej | 4/5 | 2017-01-02 |
Former
| Former Players | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Position | Join Date | Leave Date | New Team | |
 | BuLba BuLba Background Information Name: ಕನಿಶ್ಕ ಸೋಸಲೆ Romanized name: Kanishka "Sam" Sosale Date of birth: 10 Jul 1991 (age 25) Country: United States India Team: Digital Chaos Role: Midlaner, Offlaner, Support Alternate IDs: BuLba-SaUr, flow, Harry Potter | Kanishka Sosale | 4/5 | 2016-09-16 | 2017-01-01 |  Team Onyx |
| The International 2016 Squad | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Position | Join Date | Leave Date | New Team | |
| | MATUMBAMAN | Lasse Urpalainen | 1 | 2015-10-09 | - |  Team Liquid |
| | FATA- | Adrian Trinks | 2 | 2015-08-28 | 2016-09-01 |  B)ears |
| | MinD_ContRoL | Ivan Borislavov | 3 | 2015-10-09 | - | Team Liquid |
| | JerAx | Jesse Vainikka | 4 | 2015-08-28 | 2016-08-31 |  OG |
| | KuroKy | Kuro Salehi Takhasomi | 5 | 2015-10-09 | - | Team Liquid |
Achievements
History
The team`s original incarnation has roots in a North American lineup headed by FLUFFNSTUFF called FIRE, that went on to represent compLexity Gaming at The International 2012. Following an early knockout, the coL squad disbanded with TC, ixmike88, and FLUFFNSTUFF moving over to Liquid and joining BuLba, who competed at TI2 with Evil Geniuses, and Korok, formerly of Quantic Gaming.
In 2013 the team established itself as one of the premier North American organizations with this roster, placing highly in events such as the Raidcall D2L, The Defense, The Premier League, and the American Dota League in addition to securing an invite to The International 2013. After a rocky start they fell into the lower half of the bracket by a thin margin, which saw them defeat MUFC and then had one of their defining moments in a stellar performance against LGD.cn, knocking the Chinese behemoth out of the event. A loss to the defending champions Invictus Gaming saw them out in 7-8th place.
After the event the roster changed once more, with ixmike going inactive to focus on ixdl, and Korok leaving for school.qojqva of mousesports and Waytosexy of Dignitas eventually filled the ranks. After a strong start in online leagues and group stages, the team had major stumbles at both Fall LAN events, falling early at both MLG Columbus and DreamHack Winter. By early Winter, the team started to falter in it`s online play as well, with the frustration boiling over and being shown by FLUFFNSTUFF on his TL.net blog. The blog resulted in an ultimatum for FLUFF: win as captain, or be removed from the team. The team failed to improve, and Liquid soon parted ways with Fluff. After trialing a few players, including Sneyking, DeMoN was added to the roster to take his place.
Despite some early promise, the team still struggled, falling to EG and North American Rejects in straight sets, and in doing so, failing to qualify for The Summit 1. Shortly after, TL fell to EG in the final stages of the ESL One Frankfurt qualfiers. Due to the teams recent struggles, they were not invited as a direct seed to The International 2014, and instead had to fight through another set of qualifiers. Liquid ended the group stage tied for first, setting up a winners finals against NAR, a team they had yet to ever take a match off. Liquid fell 0-2, setting up a match against ex-liquid players ixmike and FLUFF on their new team Sneaky Nyx Assassins. After a close game one, Liquid appeared to have captured the momentum and convincingly took game two, advancing them to play NAR in the finals. The finals ended up being much more back and forth than any other set between the teams, but after the delayed final game and Liquid`s eventual defeat, they were forced to settle with a Play-In position for TI4.
Following up their disappointing TI2014 qualifiers, the team continued to experiment with juggling their roles while playing in the Gigabyte Challenge #4. Demon moved to the carry or offlane, with TC moving to support. The team showed some early success against we Try and Relax, but stumbled again when they hit NAR in the semi finals. Liquid capped off the month with a disappointing group stage exit in the HyperX D2L Western Challenge.
In early June, the team did manage a small bright spot, with their second place finish in the second season of the American Dota League, falling to mousesports 1-3 in the finals. The team also shuffled positions slightly again, with BuLba moving to support, and Demon to the offlane. The tournament marked Team Liquid`s last official matches before fighting for the wildcard spot in Seattle in a month and a half`s time.
Although Liquid earned a trip to Seattle, they still needed four wins to make their way into the main event of the tournament. First up was the favourite CIS Game, coming out of China, and led by Black^. Heavily favoring the picks of Skywrath Mage for BuLba and Tidehunter for DeMoN, Liquid crushed CIS in two straight games, with a combined kill score of 49-12. This would advance them forward to face MVP Phoenix, who had won their series against Virtus.pro on the other side of the bracket. After a close first match in which TL came out on top, Liquid were able to ride the momentum and close out the series in convincing fashion in the second match, qualifying for the main event without losing a game.
At the main event, Liquid stumbled out the of the blocks with another loss to nemesis Na`Vi.US (ex-NAR), but bounced back in a major way with wins over favorites Newbee, EG and DK in Day 1. In Day 2, TL continued to rack up wins, beating Empire and Fnatic, but lost three, to Cloud9, LGD, and most notably, Arrow Gaming, a loss that would haunt them in the next stage. In Day 3, Liquid managed to defeat the previous two TI winners, Invictus Gaming and Alliance, with an additional win over Titan, but also dropped two matches, one to Natus Vincere, and one to Vici Gaming. Liquid only had one game on Day 4, with a win guaranteeing them at least top 6 in the group stage, and top 8 overall. Unfortunately, mousesports went on to defeat them, and Liquid finished in a 4 way tie for 5th spot, but fell to 7th after accounting for the tiebreaking rules.
Their 7th place in group put them up against LGD Gaming in the next round, the team Liquid upset in the previous year. They would face off again in an elimination match, loser walking home with ~50,000USD, and the winner guaranteed at least ten times that. This year was different from the previous though, and LGD outclassed Liquid, convincingly taking two straight games, and knocking Liquid out of the tournament in 9th-10th place.
The post-TI shuffle was not kind to Liquid. It was announced DeMoN had departed a couple weeks after the event, quickly followed up by waytosexy. About a week later, Team Tinker appeared, featuring both BuLba and qojqva. Many hoped this was a trial for a new roster for Liquid, but after less than a month, it was revealed that the two had left the Liquid organization. Being the last man standing, TC left Liquid in early October, leaving Liquid without a Dota roster for the first time in two years.
On October 9th, 2015, Team Liquid announced their re-entry into the Dota 2 scene with their signing of 5Jungz.. Team Liquid saw their first real test in the European qualifier for the Frankfurt Major 2015, but failed to qualify after being knocked out by The Alliance 1-2 in the lower bracket. Liquid`s first LAN event, the Nanyang Dota 2 Championships in Singapore, came about a month later. In the following months, Liquid continued to attend and do well at premier events, with a 3rd place in World Cyber Arena 2015 and 5-6th place at The Summit 4. Within two months of formation, Team Liquid won Dota 2 Champions League Season 6. They also secured their first LAN win at The Defense Season 5 at the Freaks 4U Gaming offices in Berlin, Germany, where they defeated the Frankfurt Major Champions OG in a best of 5 grand final. With the great success Team Liquid achieved in such a short span of time, things were looking up into the new year of 2016.
Team Liquid`s success continued on to the Shanghai Major in March 2016, where the team was able to reach second place, falling to Team Secret in the grand finals. Following their silver medal was another at ESL One Manila, where they lost to Wings Gaming the Finals. Finally taking home a win at a large LAN Team Liquid won EPICENTER in Moscow over Newbee 3-2. Returning to Manila for the Manila Major Liquid was again defeated in the Grand finals, this time by OG. After the two Majors, Team Liquid was among the teams that were directly invited to The International 2016.
Timeline
- January 1st - After 2 months of inactivity, BuLba registers with Team Onyx. .
- January 2nd - GH officially joins Team Liquid.
- August 31st - JerAx leaves the team for OG.
- September 1st - FATA- announces that he is taking a break from competitive play.
- September 16th - Miracle- and BuLba join the team.
- October 9th - Team Liquid announces the signing of 5Jungz, consisting of FATA-, KuroKy, MinD_ContRoL, JerAx and MATUMBAMAN.
- March 26th - Liquid parts ways with FLUFFNSTUFF.
- April 14th - DeMoN joins Liquid.
- July 29th - DeMoN`s contract expires, and, with no new contract, he leaves Liquid.
- August 4th - Liquid announces wayto is leaving the team.
- August 29th - Liquid announce that BuLba and qojqva have been released, and the team would be going inactive.
- October 7th - Liquid announce that TC has officially left the organization.
- April 10th - Wins RaidCall Dota 2 League Season 2
- May 19th - Wins Curse Dota 2 Invitational
- September 21st - ixmike88 leaves the active roster to pursue other Dota activities.
- September 22nd - Traded Korok for waytosexy with Team Dignitas.
- September 25th - Former mousesports player qojqva joins the team.
- December 6th - Team Liquid announces a Dota 2 team consisting of TC, FLUFFNSTUFF, ixmike88, BuLba and Korok.
Active
| Active Squad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Position | Join₠Date | |
| MATUMBAMAN | Lasse Urpalainen | 1 | 2015-10-09 | |
| Miracle- | Amer Al-Barkawi | 2 | 2016-09-16 | |
| MinD_ContRoL | Ivan Borislavov | 3 | 2015-10-09 | |
| GH | Maroun Merhej | 4/5 | 2017-01-02 | |
| KuroKy | Kuro Salehi Takhasomi | 4/5 | 2015-10-09 | |
Former
| Former Players | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Position | Join₠Date | Leave₠Date | New₠Team | |
| BuLba | Kanishka Sosale | 4/5 | 2016-09-16 | 2017-01-01 | Team Onyx | |
| Temporary stand-ins | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Replacing | ID | Name | Tournament(s) | |||
| GH₠₠ | Maroun Merhej | | BuLba | Kanishka Sosale | DreamLeague Season 6 WellPlay Invitational #6 | |||
| Team Liquid TI6 Squad | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Position | Join₠Date | Leave₠Date | New₠Team | |
