IWDominate retired, and Smoothie moved to the Academy team. What "active subs" turned out to mean was a permanent roster shuffle, in which Dardoch and Matt joined the LCS team after the first game of the split. In January, Liquid announced the addition of Lourlo to fill the gap left by Quas and added zig, Dardoch, Youngbin, fabbbyyy and Matt as active subs from their Challenger team Team Liquid Academy. In late December, Team Liquid announced their plans for a 10-man-roster and heavily revamped their coaching staff with Locodoco as new head coach and new support staff. Soon after, Xpecial's departure was officially announced as well. The next day, Xpecial revealed that it was he who was leaving the team, not Piglet, and in October the team announced Smoothie as their new starting support player. A CLG victory over TSM in the playoff finals sent Team Liquid to the regional finals instead of giving them a direct seed to Worlds via Championship Points, and in the gauntlet they lost to underdogs Cloud9, ending their post-season abruptly.įollowing a rumor that Piglet was to leave the team published in late September 2015, Team Liquid announced that they were actually extending his contract. However, in the playoffs, they lost immediately in the semifinals to TSM, making them also the first team to finish first in an NA LCS round robin but not make the playoff finals. Team Liquid stuck with the same five-man roster for the entirety of the summer split, and they finished the round robin in first place after winning a tiebreaker match over Counter Logic Gaming - the first team other than TSM or Cloud9 to place first in an NA LCS round robin. There, they beat CLG 3-0 in the quarterfinals before falling to Cloud9 3-2 in the semifinals in the third-place match, Liquid finally broke the "fourth-place curse" that stopped them from placing higher than fourth place in any event that had persisted since they were Team Curse and took down Team Impulse 3-2. The team qualified for playoffs with the sixth seed after defeating Team 8 in a tiebreaker game. The team went 3-1 in weeks 5 and 6, and Piglet was returned for week 7 he stayed on the starting roster through the rest of the split. During this time, to accommodate Keith's high-school schedule, Liquid scrimmed with Piglet in the mornings and then with Keith in the afternoons. Piglet then returned for weeks 2, 3, and 4, but after poor performances and a 1-5 record, KEITHMCBRIEF (now Keith) was returned to the starting lineup. 2015 Season Īt the start of the season, Piglet was unable to play in the NA LCS Spring Split due to visa issues, and so Team Liquid Academy AD carry KEITHMCBRIEF started in his place for the first week. At the same time as this merger was announced, Team Liquid launched the site, a hub for all of their League of Legends content. They inherited Team Curse's spot in the LCS, and their starting roster going into the 2015 season included Quas, IWillDominate, FeniX, Piglet, and Xpecial. Team Liquid acquired their League of Legends roster in January 2015 upon merging with Team Curse (not to be confused with the team's former title sponsor Curse Gaming). The organization also runs the most-visted StarCraft-related website in the world, tl.net, which has given to a rise League sub-site, Liquid Legends since Liquid acquired Curse and joined the LCS. This page contains information about their primary League of Legends team, formerly known as Team Curse. In January 2015, they merged with Team Curse (not the Curse Gaming organization). Team Liquid is a multi-gaming team organization that was founded in the Netherlands in 2000 as a StarCraft: Brood War team.
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