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TwitchTV Sponsors Liquid
October 27th, 2011 02:13 GMT
We are very proud and pleased to announce TwitchTV as a new Liquid sponsor. While all our sponsors are ardent supporters of ESPORTS, few have done so much to directly advance the industry as JustinTV, and their gaming branch TwitchTV. Though the technology for streaming has existed for some time, JustinTV was among the first to realize its amazing potential in ESPORTS. Much different from the 'on the outside, looking in' environment in the past generation of ESPORTS games, streaming allows for an incredibly deep level of fan-player interaction. JustinTV provided an amazing platform for enabling these kinds of close relationships, which led to the huge of amount of interest in Starcraft II. Furthermore, JustinTV's Partner Program opened a completely new way for gamers to pursue careers as professionals, separate from the old model that was tied down in corporate sponsorships. Streaming has brought us some of ESPORT's biggest stars at present, and opens the way for countless more to come. Even pro-teams benefit from streaming, as they are able to explore new, more flexible avenues of funding. Without a doubt, JustinTV has played a critical role in bringing the scene this far, and their creation of TwitchTV shows their desire to continue to lead the industry. Liquid’s players have long since embraced the importance of streaming in the Starcraft II community and its ability to bridge fans and players. Ret and Tyler were already running ahead of the pack during their Brood War days, providing the community with excellent BW content when streaming was not at all the norm. Sheth and TLO have been fervent streamers since the early days of SC II, and by sharing the many ups and downs of their careers with their fans, they have become some of the most well-known pro-gamers. Furthermore, Liquid players have been pioneers in charity streaming. TLO led the way with his 24 hour Starcraft Without Borders marathon, while Sheth soon followed with his own charity event. TwitchTV was eager to show their charitable spirit as well and assisted Sheth as he teamed up with Destiny in their recent charity marathon.Our experience using TwitchTV has been extremely positive. They clearly consider gaming to be a key part of their business, and the many features and capabilities of their platform reflects this. Most importantly, their support and communication has been second to none. They been extremely helpful whenever we have had questions or requests, even working closely with Liquid's technological wizard R1CH behind the scenes to improve their product. As a team with a long streaming history, we are making a strong commitment to TwitchTV. Everyone is intent on streaming more often, and with better quality than ever. In the future we will also be working together with TwitchTV on more projects similar to Starcraft without Borders. We expect many great things to come out of this relationship. - Liquid`Nazgul
Today, we at TwitchTV are proud to announce our official sponsorship of TeamLiquid's professional StarCraft II roster. Team Liquid is one of the most popular ESPORTS communities, including some of the most recognizable and respected players in the pro-gaming world. At TwitchTV, we consider it our mission to bring the ESPORTS scene to the next level by enabling players, teams, leagues and other organizations to earn a living doing what they love. TeamLiquid and its players have played a critical role in the developing eSports scene, and they exemplify TwitchTV's core mission and values. We are honored to have TeamLiquid as part of our community, and are proud to support the organization and players. Welcome! Game on. - The TwitchTV Team
"To have Twitch.TV as a sponsor is definitely a great move. Twitch.TV is definitely the premier way to stream for SC2, and I've really enjoyed my time streaming in large part to them. Whenever I have a problem with my stream someone from Twitch.TV is always ready to help out. TheGunrun is always helpful, as well as everyone else! Also, Kevin has been an extremely easy person to work with as Twitch.TV's representative. Most of the best streamers and big events happen on Twitch.TV, and I'm extremely excited that we'll be able to have them partnering with TL. Hopefully this is the beginning of a great partnership that leads to more streaming, more games and an all around a great time. Thanks Twitch.TV!" - Liquid`Sheth "Though it might be hard for fans to sympathize, there comes a point in every pro-gamer's career when not every single game feels new and exciting, and you really have to force yourself to play every game. Our lives tend to lack routine, and that makes it hard to squeeze in those 'one more games.' That is why I am grateful for streaming as it can insert some much needed structure into our lives. It makes games feel like work, and I mean work in the good way. The way that makes you feel responsible, like you have a duty and goal. 'One more game' becomes a lot easier when playing for an audience, and it also makes you try harder - what's better motivation than looking your best for your fans? Twitch.TV is the best way to do this. They really help us so out so much, so all we have to worry about is playing our games and talking to our fans; they take care of the rest." - Liquid`Jinro
Thank you, TwitchTV for showing your support and care for Liquid and ESPORTS!
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This is awesome! Gratz to Liquid!!!
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Wohoo great news! Congrats Liquid
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Ares[Effort]
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WAT! GZ LIQUID!!! this is just as awesome as when razer sponsored liquid
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GOGO Liquid Taken over Esports 1 sponsor at a time Gratz!
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Only the cool stuff gets to be on TL shirt.
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Hong Kong9136 Posts
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Looks like I'll have to buy another team shirt next release with updated sponsors
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Liquid has the best sponsors. Who needs Monster Energy?
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NICE!!! THIS IS SOOOOO AWESOME!!!!
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10387 Posts
Liquid players gettin that pay raise ~
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This is great
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MrHoon
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HELL yes
<3 twitch.tv, great great wesite!
For E-SPORTS!!!
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Amazing!
Couldn't ask for a better partnership
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I approve of this message.
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Awesome news! Congrats ^^
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Liquid hwaiting! Man, they totally deserves this!
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It's 4:19 in the morning here and that's pretty much the first time that I see a news post with only 2 comments, maybe I should stay up so long more often. And gz TL :D.
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That's amazing. Good on you twitch ^^
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So.... that r1chtl wasn't a troll?
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Balllllllllllller. Grats TL
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Great news!
<3 twitch.tv <3 esports <33 TL <33
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AWESOME! This is great for TL
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ballin'
Although disappointed with the lack of shoutout to hero's epic 14 hr streaming marathon that happen like weekly haha.
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man great news for liquid ^^
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Wasn't this already known? I guess it's just official now.
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great deal for both! congratulations!!!
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About time! Perfect sponsorship.
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So cool, congrats to both party's.
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wow awesome! congrats to both Liquid and Twitch.tv <3 <3
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congragulations! twitch.tv is wonderful for streams. hopefully you guys can stream even more :D
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Congrats! Its better than winning 1 million esports dollars
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Congratulations! I think TL is doing a lot well for TwitchTV
HOWEVER, R1CH could you ask them to make a better API? Or at least document it better, I once tried to code some stuff but had almost no reference to their interface >.>
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Wow, congratz!
Twitch.tv <3
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Awesome! I approve!
(not that you need my approval or anything)
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Okay, think about this. Just use the extra money from the twitch deal to buy Bisu or Jaedong out of their BW contracts. Think about it... You know you want to :D
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Sick sick sick.... the best team just got better.
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ESPORTS! Congrats, Liquid guys. More sponsors are never a bad thing. <3
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So awesome i always wondered why great companies didn't sponsor a team as popular as Liquid
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Fantastic for both parties
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awesome news, congrats on acquiring the sponsorship.
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Great news!
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Awesome news! Hope this sponsorship works out for the best. Liquid and JustinTv fighting!!
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United States11637 Posts
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awesome. congrats Liquid
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Congratz to TL and TwitchTV
This gives me one more reason to watch more streams, lol!
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Congrats on the new sponsorship, TL hwaiting!
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AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
my two favorite ESPORTS entities joining together
i feel like something magical just happened.
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yay great sponsor =] they do after all run like EVERY tournament Long awaited!
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more sponsors is really cool yeah
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I love tl, i love TwitchTV. Maybe the 2 most important entities in sc2. This partnership was bound to happen, and it's so great that it did. Congratulations to both parties. Love you guys.
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iNcontroL
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TEAM LIQUID.
Only team I recognize.
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United Kingdom14464 Posts
Very cool, TwitchTV is an awesome sponsor to have.
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Oh cool! Nice surprise to get when I open TL.
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this is really awesome and i'm also going to add that jinro's is the best stream of all on twitch tv :D
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Awesome sponsor! This is awesome!
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Awesome, Twitch.tv is a great website! Congratulations to Liquid!
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Awesome, huge congrats Liquid.
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Huge news, congratz Team Liquid and TwitchTV!
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To me it seems like Liquid has been sponsoring twitch tv for a while now. Its cool they returned the favor.
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On October 27 2011 11:27 iNcontroL wrote: congrats!
In response to TL's new venture EG signs with
+ Show Spoiler +FOX! Which will start airing the DeMusliM's Hijinks, IdrA's Gear Grinder, iNcontroL's Down with Ponies Hour and more! o;
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Great news for Liquid and Twitch! :D
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Damn! Not bad at all! Congrats Team Liquid!!
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Cant wait for those new team shirts with "Twitch.tv" written on them
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All thanks to djwheat, so fucking awesome.
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twitch.tv has played an incredible role in bringing me and many gamers up to speed in starcraft II. I'm glad they've decided to sponsor such an incredible sport!
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It's about time. Twitch.tv investing in the community Is the kind of thing that'll continue to move eSports, but honestly this is something they should have done earlier.
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United Arab Emirates874 Posts
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Congratz! Always good to hear more sponsorships happening!
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yay TL!!! thanks twitchtv!
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We are absolutely thrilled to support TeamLiquid's StarCraft 2 team! Hurray for ESPORTS :D
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Wow, with their recent hire of DJWheat, this whole industry is getting really interconnected.
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Thanks Twitch.TV for all you do for E-Sports, I wish you guys & Liquid all the best.
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Ah so Jinro has been going through the "Don't feel like playing SC2 phase" that seems oh so deadly. Makes sense, glad to see streaming has given him some motivation though.
Congrats on the sponsership!
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WOOT! Go Twitch TV, they fuckin' know what they're doing.
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Congratz TL! The more sponsors the better =)
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I bet the Liquid team's streams will run just that little bit smoother now :D
"Sorry IdrA, we have no idea why it drops all your viewers every 5min."
It's like Coldplay being sponsored by iTunes. Too easy!
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Twitch.tv is the best. Congratulations to both parties and thank you to twitch.tv.
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This is awesome. Twitch TV is awesome for streaming SC2 content. Go Liquid and Twitch!
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Gogo Liquid and thank you twitch.tv!!!!
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Woooooooooooow!!! Congrats to all involved, this is perfect.
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United Kingdom31255 Posts
wow amazing
Congrats!
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This is awesome, Congrats! Thankyou twitch for sponsoring one of my fav teams!
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awesome news, congrats Liquid!
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<3 twitch.tv keep giving us e sports live streaming service and supporting teamliquid... tl FIGHTIIIINNNNNNNNN!!
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Twitch.tv is truly important to the growth of eSports; they're already the premiere streaming platform for nearly every game and I look forward to their future contributions to this booming world.
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Awesome!! Congrats Liquid!!
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Twitch tv has been doing great things for all esports. I'm glad to see them keep it up.
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Yay TL! Truly the centre of ESPORTS.
So many great team sponsors. I dare say there could be some big sponsors for TSL3 and, good thing, because TSL3 will blow all these other generic SC2 tournaments out of the water.
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Is that hero beside jinro on the homepage pic? If so, Hero looks like a complete badass.
Oh and congrats on getting another sponsor liquid :D
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TeamLiquidTwitchTV`Tyler is a tongue twister.
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Twitch killing e-sports. Call 9-whine-whine.
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This is great news! Congrats to TL!
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Wow, this is awesome! Grats TL! ^^
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Does anyone know how to disable ad block plus on just tl and twitch tv, this has inspired me.
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wow, sweet. didnt see this coming, but man is this awesome! i love how in twitch's statement, they capitilized ESPORTS too
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Congrats Liquid. Proud of you TwitchTV.
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SIIICKKKK!!!! CONGRATS LIQUID!!!!!
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Great news, congratulations to Liquid and TwitchTV.
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United States4796 Posts
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I thought I couldn't love TwitchTV more than I already do. I was mistaken! <3
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omg LOL. I was JUST wondering if JTV would sponsor TL no joke.
GG WP JTV!
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Congratulations. I know you guys have talked about the many plans you have in expanding what TeamLiquid is. Hopefully with more sponsors, some of those goals will be easier to achieve. So far, everything TL does seems to be of the highest quality so I am excited to see what you guys do next.
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What an awesome company twitch/justin tv is... These people just keep stepping up to the plate and keep knocking the ball out of the park each time they do.
First all the gamer specific features they added from feedback
Then the partner program
Then TwitchTV division
Then DJ WHEAT and 2GD!
NOW TEAM LIQUID!!!
There is a future in this western ESPORTS thing if organizations like these guys, IGN, and MLG set the precedent.
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"They been extremely helpful whenever we have had questions or requests, even working closely with Liquid's technological wizard R1CH behind the scenes to improve their product. " Should be They have been... Other than that wtg TL
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Awesome! another patch to add
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Yay! Thanks TwitchTV!
GOGO ESPORTS!
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Cmon catch up with EG
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This is so cool ^_^
grats to the team!
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Nice. That will be a good partnership.
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twitch.tv has become by far the best streaming site for game related content so it's good to see them giving more support to e-sports and even better if the support is given to TL specifically.
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Great sponsor, though I think ~100% of people are already streaming with them due to how awesome they are.
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I'm glad to work for such an awesome company! I've always had great love for TL and all the people that I have met from the organization. We'll keep coding the features you want, need, and love if you guys keep watching and supporting the growth of esports and TwitchTV!
<3 to all the community!
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Wow I think that's huge. Congratulations, Team Liquid \(^_^)/
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TeamLiquid is slowly gaining sponsors... :D
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This is amazing! Liquid hwaiting!
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That's great news for Liquid and for Twitch.TV.
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Sweet this awesome. I was kinda worried about Liquid because of there lack of sponsors. BUT things are looking great keep it up liquid :D
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United States2095 Posts
Just wanted to type here too! Hooray! :D
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Esports is expanding faster than zerg on tal darim altar! Great news. Gl and hf w/ the partnership.
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Hell it's about time! TL does so much for the community!
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if you start to notice iNcontrol's stream lagging more... now you know why!
On October 27 2011 12:21 MostGroce wrote: Esports is expanding faster than zerg on tal darim altar! Great news. Gl and hf w/ the partnership.
just gotta remove the fucking rocks and we can prosper.
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I tried to skim most of the replies and I didn't see it mentioned in the original post. How will this affect streamers(featured and unfeatured) of non-team liquid members?
Will they be required to use TwitchTV now or...
Great news regardless.
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
On October 27 2011 12:27 plazz wrote: I tried to skim most of the replies and I didn't see it mentioned in the original post. How will this affect streamers(featured and unfeatured) of non-team liquid members?
Will they be required to use TwitchTV now or...
Great news regardless. I believe that they all use TwitchTV, so it doesn't really matter
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great news! Go twitch tv and TL!
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GO Liquid, more sponsors for one of the most non esports hurting teams!
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I can see no negatives to this partnership. Both sides benefit greatly. Good stuff!
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Congratulations on yet again another solid sponsor keep going strong, Liquid!
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On October 27 2011 12:27 plazz wrote: I tried to skim most of the replies and I didn't see it mentioned in the original post. How will this affect streamers(featured and unfeatured) of non-team liquid members?
Will they be required to use TwitchTV now or...
Great news regardless.
It's not like TL refrains from featuring streams that have Steelseries sponsored players. It'll be fine.
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Awsome partnership. Two sites that have to have a strong partnership already through streaming etc. so it only makes sense that they should work together!
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Congratulations Team Liquid :3
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Holy crap this is some awesome news!
Grats to Liquid! x)
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Gee that team tag is starting to get long lol
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I was just screaming out loud with excitement. This is AMAZING!!
OMG!!OMG!!
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
did I mention how happy I was about this?
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this is awesome! congrats, liquid! :D
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Had to post here :D
<3 nazgul hotbid kennigit sheth TLO r1ch and everyone else who made tl what it is today! Can't wait to start working with you dudes!
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This is awesome! twitch.tv seems like a huge sponsor to pick up, what with all the streamers and teams that use it. Great job TL!
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Smix
United States4549 Posts
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Fantastic news, congratulations to everyone :D :D
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Great! I sincerely hope Team Liquid can improve even more and show their personalities and skills, and good luck to all the team and Twitch.tv!
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Wow this is amazing! Way to go TL and Twitch.TV! So happy for you both
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Makes perfect sense. Congrats to everyone involved.
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Liquid gettin that paper , gl guys! This partnership sounds awesome!
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WOOOO! Great job!
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Holy shit! Seriously?
Holy Shit! This is the best news! This is so awesome.
ummm... I have nothing to contribute to this thread except for a stream of positive enthusiasm and excitement.
!!!!!!!!!
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Fucking awesome! Go twitch! :D
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I was worry that TeamLiquid is not getting enough sponsors to support their players. YAYAYA!!!
congras ^_^
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Canada13372 Posts
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Awesome! Met GunRun for the first time over the weekend, awesome guy and so happy to see twitch and team liquid teaming up! FOR ESPORTS!!
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Nice move by both sides, hope this partnership works out well. Congrats!
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On October 27 2011 12:54 supdubdup wrote: Come Back Huk. I wish. I would be so happy
Congratulations TeamLiquid <3
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Yes! Another sponsor for Liquid! Twitch.tv showing they care about eSports growth.
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On October 27 2011 12:22 Gamegene wrote:if you start to notice iNcontrol's stream lagging more... now you know why! Show nested quote +On October 27 2011 12:21 MostGroce wrote: Esports is expanding faster than zerg on tal darim altar! Great news. Gl and hf w/ the partnership. just gotta remove the fucking rocks and we can prosper. Oh my god.... That joke is pretty funny, but true... I swear blizzard just has to add the FU rocks on every map... T_T
This is amazing news though, really cool to see Team Liquid to be sponsered by a product that they have used to stream now. I am not sure, but I think TL was the first and maybe the only team to have all of their active members stream and they all did it through JTV. So happy right now, best of luck.
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congrats TL, this is an amazing sponsor and I hope it is merely the beginning for u for things to come
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Twitch tv has my respect and support for all they've done for esports.
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sweet liquid, congrats ^^ twitch.tv is AWESOME!
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Amazing sponsorship. Congrats to both parties~!
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This is really really awesome. Looking forward to how this might affect the players' streams!
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Awesome pickup. It is cool to watch twitch.tv grow in the past year and im glad it will in turn help TL grow even more also.
Gratz!!
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Ret and Tyler were already running ahead of the pack during their Brood War days, providing the community with excellent BW content when streaming was not at all the norm. Always gotta watch the nony arbiterssss video whenever I get reminded of it, kinda like the Chill vs. Combat-ex show match. Grats to liquid on more sponsors.
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Hell yea, this is freaking awesome, love twitch.tv!
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This is so cool! Good move by twitch, they obviously know who's boss :D
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Amazing! Congrats to twitch and liquid
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Awesome... So lets c twitch.tv in the new tshirt design.. I will buy it for sure :D.. Dhinka Chika.. (means I am excited).. TL <3 and Fighting!!!
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wow. I always wondered when twitch tv would sponsor a team. This is a win win situation for both parties.
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Considering how much traffic TL pumps into Twitch TV (and vice versa), I'm going to use a modified day9-ism and say this is the most logical thing in the world.
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I've always enjoyed the ability to watch the streams that the players have. Twitch.tv does great work.
Congrats!
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Awesome news, grats and GL HF everyone~!
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Very nice sponsorship. Will be interesting if we see anything in the near future because of this.
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United States17042 Posts
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God, Jinro is so well spoken, I hope he does well in GSL again so I can read his interviews all of the time.
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That's pretty bad ass I'm really loving what twitch is doing lately they really seem to be compassionate about SC.
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Awesome! Congrats to both parties.
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Awesome!
At the beginning of SC2 there were a lot of problems with JustinTV/TwitchTV when watching from Europe. But they seemed to work very hard and now it's the number one streaming platform! <3 TwitchTV
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This is huge. I like the words from the players. A few days ago in the ask TL staff anything:
On October 27 2011 00:32 p4NDemik wrote:Show nested quote +On October 26 2011 23:32 Rykros wrote: Is teamliquid sponsored only by TLAF ? If so why don't you guys get a lot more sponsors. This website has so many visitors and users. There's also Razer. To answer your question, admins are very picky as to which brands they want to associate Team Liquid with. I guess Twitch TV is a good brand.
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Awesome! Love seeing companies stepping in for eSports. Congrats!
Now lets just hope that justin can handle TSL's huge numbers!!
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Amazing news!!! Congrats to both sides! Talk about a win-win!
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Yes. Congrats to both parties. Very happy to see Liquid getting some well deserved sponsors.
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amazing!! got to love jtv and how involved they have been with the scene. Love the sponsorship and congrats
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Amazing news
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Awesome news for TL congrats!
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Well deserved this is a great partnership and makes perfect sense.
Grats to both, and nice to see more sponsers coming in Esports.
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Grats to TL, always good to see new sponsors get involved!
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Congratz, seeing news like this always makes me happy -.^
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A lot of popular streamers are getting sponsored by either Twitch.tv or Own3d.tv, nowadays.
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FUCK YEA!
See everyone is extremely happy - and without the fucking announcement of announcement of announcement shenanigans!
Grats!!!!
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wow this is sick news, very well deserved.
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gratz to both prties! <3 esports
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Congrats are due to both sides, this is great news for everyone!
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This is amazing news! I always love to hear news about new sponsors for any team!
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woot woot!!! This is awesome! Go Justin.tv!!!!
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This makes me extremely happy! Congrats to twitch and liquid. I'll for sure be using twitch for my stream from now on. ESPORTS fighting
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Holy shit, this is awesome! Congrtz to everyone in Liquid!
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Awsome news. Have been watching Justin.tv since i discovered SC2 streams and loved every moment of it. I have not even switched my TV on in god knows how long because all i do is watch Justin.tv or Twitch.tv.
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So how are you going to celebrate? Redirect every other stream to one of your players' at random?
/Troll face
Congrats Liquid!
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Teamliquid raking in the moneyyyy. This is so good, I'm happy that liquid found a sponsor like twitch tv who genuinely wants to make a long-term partnership with e-sports rather than a quick buck. Congrats!
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Calgary25938 Posts
Cool
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WOOT LIQUID DESERVES MORE SPONSORS.
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Booyah. Team Liquid will conquer all!
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Yay Wheats making such good decisions. <333 TY WHEAT GJ Liquid!!
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I always loved twitch.tv
Congraz to liquid and twitch.tv !!
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Congratulations, that is a huge pickup!
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i dont understand it
why does twitch want to sponsor TL and not like EG or mouz which have a bit better lineup atm i would say
i mean hero and sheth are really good but tyler TLO haypro are not doing well
congrats to them anyways though
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On October 27 2011 14:47 sVnteen wrote: i dont understand it
why does twitch want to sponsor TL and not like EG or mouz which have a bit better lineup atm i would say
i mean hero and sheth are really good but tyler TLO haypro are not doing well
congrats to them anyways though
That would be a little something called image I guess. There is no team in the world that has a better image than TL. Team Liquid and teamliquid.net are also so intertwined that being mentioned around one is the same as being mentioned around the other. Something I, as an imaginary/hypothetical sponsor would say is more worth than a couple of recent MLG wins.
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Gratz TL!! Great Sponsor for a great team! may the e-sports domination continue!
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On October 27 2011 14:47 sVnteen wrote: i dont understand it
why does twitch want to sponsor TL and not like EG or mouz which have a bit better lineup atm i would say
i mean hero and sheth are really good but tyler TLO haypro are not doing well
congrats to them anyways though haypro isnt doing well? lol
Tyler and TLO are pretty big names with a good history.
People need to stop having such a short term memory when it comes to player records. These sponsorship contracts extend longer than the 1 week memory of the masses. It's about how you will be represented over the course of that contract.
Most sponsors think about how well their product will be marketed by supporting a team. Better results from the team doesn't mean that product will get marketed. It's about how much attention. With Twitch sponsoring TL, that means that TL events, like TL attack and the TSL will be streamed on their platform. In addition to that, TL is still the leading news site for SC2. Even though TL keeps the team and the site separate, by sponsoring the team, you still get attention from the TL community.
Edit: Also EG has A LOT of sponsors right now. If you want to stand out better, you pick up a team that is probably more well known with less sponsors.
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Congrats, very awesome sponsor! :D
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On October 27 2011 14:47 sVnteen wrote: i dont understand it
why does twitch want to sponsor TL and not like EG or mouz which have a bit better lineup atm i would say
i mean hero and sheth are really good but tyler TLO haypro are not doing well
congrats to them anyways though
Team Liquid's combined stream viewership is higher than Mouz's, EG's, etc. And they're willing to stream a lot.
TL brings a lot of viewers to Twitch, so Twitch is giving them money. My guess? This is a growing trend, as the competition between streaming services is heating up.
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This is sick! What a good move by both parties
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Well if that's not the best sponsor you could have, I don't know what is.
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Great GL Twitch.tv & Liquid, I am sure both parties will benefit from this :D :D
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thedeadhaji
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Awesome news, and awesome fit!
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Much love <3 awesome sponsor!
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Great to see Liquid getting more sponsors so that they can financially compete with the biggest dogs in the Starcraft World. And you can bet if you're a sponsor of TL. You're more likely to get your ROI back than nearly every other team. Goodluck to both i say .
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Congratulation TL, and good job Twitch.tv.
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On October 27 2011 15:03 Novalisk wrote:Show nested quote +On October 27 2011 14:47 sVnteen wrote: i dont understand it
why does twitch want to sponsor TL and not like EG or mouz which have a bit better lineup atm i would say
i mean hero and sheth are really good but tyler TLO haypro are not doing well
congrats to them anyways though Team Liquid's combined stream viewership is higher than Mouz's, EG's, etc. And they're willing to stream a lot. TL brings a lot of viewers to Twitch, so Twitch is giving them money. My guess? This is a growing trend, as the competition between streaming services is heating up.
Yep, it's probably the reason why TeamLiquid will not feature any tournament streams that aren't on Twitch.
RedBullLAN they refused to link to RedBull's site, they just linked to the Twitch stream which only had 1 stream instead of 7. At MLG, they link to their own site instead of MLG, etc.
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Congrats TL! I love TwitchTV!
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Twitcha teeeeeveee
Someone is supporting e-sports! :D
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On October 27 2011 14:47 sVnteen wrote: i dont understand it
why does twitch want to sponsor TL and not like EG or mouz which have a bit better lineup atm i would say
i mean hero and sheth are really good but tyler TLO haypro are not doing well
congrats to them anyways though
Do you really think the sponsors only care about "skill?" Team liquid is tied to the largest foreigner sc2 site there is, they have players that are popular among fans and get good stream numbers. Do you really think mouz is more appealing for a sponsor? Also haypro have done better than most of the line ups of mouz and EG, not sure why you exclude their "bad" players...
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This is so awesome :D
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Great news for Liquid.
Loved the quote by Jinro
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Gz! Perfect company to get sponsored by as an Esport-team. This is great news for both of you!
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Dominican Republic39 Posts
Im really happy TO read this, Congrats TEAM LIQUID, My source of info about gaming Since Broodward Back on 2004!!
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Love twitch tv gj
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Big pickup!!!!!! TWITCH!!!!!
Great news
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Nicely done!
As the most well known Team/Community it was about you get a little more cash
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Good to see TL getting sponsorships.
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very cool, gratz to both team liquid and twitch.tv!
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wow such a huge sponsorship! good deal
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This really makes me happy for u guys. Gz and hope we see better results as the number of sponsors go up
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Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
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does this mean pay raise?
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This is awesome, it's great to see TL get new sponsors, and great that they've continued to only let great brands sponsor them.
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This is really epic news, i can't wait to see more growth of this community. Congratz to TwitchTV & Team Liquid
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It's always great with more sponsors. Liquid hwaiting! On another (off topic) note.. + Show Spoiler +Why is esports always written in CAPS? I have wondered about this for a while.
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Congrats on a very nice pick up by TL!!!
Really cool to see one of the premier streaming sites (especially for gaming) get on board with such a great team.
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defenitely a move both parties will benefit from. GL for the future.
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Really awesome news! Congrats to both parties!
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Awesome. TL and Twitch.TV.
It's like Peanut butter and Jelly!
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Here, Here! Stoked for TL. I always come here to find my Twitch streams anyway
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This is really good news more the better, excellent to see TL getting more sponsors
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On October 27 2011 16:27 maggy0 wrote:It's always great with more sponsors. Liquid hwaiting! On another (off topic) note.. + Show Spoiler +Why is esports always written in CAPS? I have wondered about this for a while.
Because having any letter of it in lowercase is killing ESPORTS!
Congrats to Liquid. Is there now enough money available for Liquid`Yellow? :p
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Italy420 Posts
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On October 27 2011 17:17 Morfildur wrote:Show nested quote +On October 27 2011 16:27 maggy0 wrote:It's always great with more sponsors. Liquid hwaiting! On another (off topic) note.. + Show Spoiler +Why is esports always written in CAPS? I have wondered about this for a while. Because having any letter of it in lowercase is killing ESPORTS! Congrats to Liquid. Is there now enough money available for Liquid`Yellow? :p
I think it kills esports to write it in all caps... It seems unserious. Either way I don't want to kill esports
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This is amazing news! Liquid fighting!!!
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Thats really great news! Awesome move for both sides i think!
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With this partnership i really hope to see Ret streaming more often than once every two months ;D
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Gratz to both TL.net and Twitch.tv!!!
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This is awesome news for both TeamLiquid and the community. More money for them, more and better streams for us .
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congratulations Team Liquid and Twitch.tv
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Oh yes, it all bounds together somehow. Supercool!
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Hell yea! Thats amazing news!
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Siiiiick :D
Gogo Liquid`! Fighting!
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Congratulations on the new sponsor!
Although I don't really see what will change, as most of 'liquid already is streaming on twitch.
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siiiiiick. nice sponsor. TL fighting!!!!
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Grats liquid and Twitch.tv!
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nice, its a win-win scenario!
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Great news! Liquid always finds cool sponsors
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Very happy for TeamLiquid!
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TL deserves all the support it can get.
Congratz
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Nice.. E-Sports
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I was just like "ooooooh wow" Gratz Teamliquid awesome news!
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Very nice Gratz
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Always nice to see liquid get some good sponsors^^
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gratz, what a partnership!
Game on indeed.
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Great deal for my favorite team <3
but the best part is the explanation of Jinro. Damn that guy can expres his feelings and behaviour. Great piece of writing there Jonathan!
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Great news ! :D Gongratz to both sides :D
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Awesome news, congrats to TL
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Twitch.tv, always supporting ESPORTS
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wow really nice one, gratz both justin and liquid !!!
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Yay, finally it got announced! ^_^ I've been waiting so long for this. Twitch is the most awesome streaming portal and some of the most awesome people behind it.
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Great! Good luck and congrats to both parties!
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What a great partnership. Congrats 'Liquid!
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Gratz liquid
that statement by jinro was really cool and interesting, and i can see how that would make Twitch. TV and other streamers so important to progamers
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YYEEAA!!! ESPORTS!
Great partnership. It will be beneficial to all parties involved.
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Awesome, more sponsors! :D
Great partnership
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does this mean more korea visits?
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awesome! grats to TL and twitchtv
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Wow, thats great news! Congrats TL for that sponorship.
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On October 27 2011 11:25 -Illusion- wrote: SICK
EPIC!
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Yeah, first sayle becomes partner and now TL sponsor, Yeah!
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Brilliant move on both parties.. Congratz to both of you
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ONly two words come to my mind right now:
warning "strong" language ahead (16+ only ) + Show Spoiler +
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Huge grats to Liquid. Also a million hugs and cheers for TwitchTV for not only being so awesome in providing the services they do, but for now directly sponsoring a major team! Those guys are AWESOME!!
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Awesome! Really great news. TwitchTV is awesome!!! Go TL go Twitch!
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It's about time TwitchTV sponsored a team, and there's no team more deserving than teamliquid.
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United Kingdom10823 Posts
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I am glad.....such an awesome sponsor is with Liquid...so
So will it be TTV-TLAF'Liquid now o.o ?
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Congratz on the sponsor pickup Liquid. Well done!
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team liquid did not have a lot of sponsors but now they will be rocking out in money! probably will be able to pay bigger salaries and keep players on their team!
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Great news for all involved, and stream-viewer me :D
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This is great news! Go Liquid!
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This is a really big sponsor. Congrats to TL.
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An awesome get for Team Liquid! Congratulations to them for getting such an awesome sponsor that plays a huge role in the development of esports.
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Congrats! That's a great news!
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This is awesome news for both Team Liquid and Twitch.tv
Twitch.tv has always been an awesome streaming service. I can't remember ever having any real issues with the site ever.
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I guess I will have to switch to Twitch now
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wow gz to teamliquid
i think teamliquids partnership with justintv will help esports to grow up faster.
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<33333333333333333333333333333333333
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Congratulations to TL and TwitchTV! Yay yaya!
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Awesome stuff Team Liquid. With you all the way :D
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YES! Tl definiteatly deserved this sponsor the most! They have been using Twitch.TV for a sick amount of time!:D Congratz TL and congratz Twitch.TV u just made the best choice of ur esport life!
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props to justin.tv for all they do for esports in general
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nice 1 gratz! and thx to twitch 4 doing such a great job!
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I love Jinro's quotes. gl with the sponsorship
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This makes a lot of sense. To me it seems like Liquid is really a sponsor of TwitchTV as so many people find out about TwitchTV via TL. I dont think that Twitch could have even formed without TL linking to them and providing viewers for streamers.
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Italy12246 Posts
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On October 28 2011 00:03 price wrote: This makes a lot of sense. To me it seems like Liquid is really a sponsor of TwitchTV as so many people find out about TwitchTV via TL. I dont think that Twitch could have even formed without TL linking to them and providing viewers for streamers.
idd, seems to be a great mutual partnership.
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Great sponsor for TL, Grats to the team!
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Awesome news.
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great news
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and who else does a better job at advertising TwitchTV's streamers than the "Live Streams" section on TL!? A deserving sponsor. Congrats TL!
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Team Liquid starting to get some good sponsors! Exciting news! The players deserve only the best and glad Twitch TV is able to help!
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Baltimore, USA22222 Posts
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This seems like a really nice sponsorship. Congratulations to TL&TwitchTV.
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OMG I'm so excited Whats next to come?
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I'd recommend anyone to buy their smartphone app. It's amazing.
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What's the new tag going to be? TLAF-Twitch-Liquid`Jinro? hah
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Yeah... definitely happy Twitch decided to support the most wickedly awesome team out there. Congrats to both sides I hope it is a long and fruitful relationship for all involved!
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Gratz! U go Twitch TL and 2DG =)
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great way to say it Jinro, you guys don't get enough recognition. Congrats to team liquid and twitch/justin TV!!!! :D great news for everyone.
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Thumbs up to Twitch.tv (justin.tv) for supporting the gaming industry
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This is great news. It is always nice to see more sponsors supporting teams. Every time e-sports gets a little bit bigger.
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This is awesome for liquid.. Twitch has done nothing but try to help and support Esports as much as possible.
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Good for TL, Good for eSports. Thanks TL and TwitchTV.
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Big Congrats to Liquid. TwitchTV is not killing esports.
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Congrats TL! Much deserved and awesome sponsor!
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Sick stuff! Congrats to Liquid! <3
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i feel like as i read that article, everytime ESPORTS is written in all caps, somewhere out there hotbid is making a fist and yelling EEEEEEEEEEEESPOOOOORTS
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congratulation Liquid & Twitch TV, you'll hopefully do well together !
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Great news! Tyler's is the only liquid stream i watch now that HuK is EG but it's still awesome to see a new sponsor tag on the players arms.
Frankly it's unbelievable how underfunded TL.pro is... The name alone should be enough to make sponsors flock; indeed it should be the go-to choice for a company looking for "something in esports". I do feel like the pro section of TL is somewhat mismanaged or at least neglected.
The numbers you brought to pokerstrat.. Wow, you need to hold more TSL's so potential investors see a more obvious ROI i guess.
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wow fantastic news! Good on ya twitch tv! Gratz to liquid another boss sponsor!
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Excellent!!
This is a boss move - Also, a manager and a sponsor could not ask for better praise than what Jinro wrote in his text - Guy is so smart man =)
Liquid fighting!
TwitchTV fighting!
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great news, grats to both!
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everyone saying gratz to TL!?
gratz to Justin.tv i'd say...
<3
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Gratz Team Liquid!
I was expecting Twitch to make a move like this, but never thought it would be TL. It's awesome!
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HOORAY!
GOGOGOGO Liquid, this is wonderful news :D
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yea now the players only need to win some stuff ^^
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FUCK YEA! GREAT NEWS! Continue to grow TL!
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Everything that makes my TLnet bigger and better be welcome.
Nice, I hope you guys can keeps working for eSports a ton :D
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A match made in heaven :DDD. Good Job Twitch.tv! For the growth and expansion of our gaming culture!
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United States13896 Posts
On October 28 2011 04:45 Thrill wrote: Great news! Tyler's is the only liquid stream i watch now that HuK is EG but it's still awesome to see a new sponsor tag on the players arms.
Frankly it's unbelievable how underfunded TL.pro is... The name alone should be enough to make sponsors flock; indeed it should be the go-to choice for a company looking for "something in esports". I do feel like the pro section of TL is somewhat mismanaged or at least neglected.
The numbers you brought to pokerstrat.. Wow, you need to hold more TSL's so potential investors see a more obvious ROI i guess. I'm not involved with any of the negotiations or privy to the details, so you have to take my thoughts with a grain of salt, but I think it has a lot more to do with finding sponsors that fit TL's core ideals and level of prestige rather than any form of mismanagement or neglect. TL is a leader in its field and naturally it is probably one of the first places companies interested in investing in SC2 look. In the same way it isn't good business sense to completely ignore sponsors, it isn't good to just accept funds from whatever organization that rolls in. Look at the announcements for this sponsorship, as well as Razer and TLAF. The emphasis is that these are companies that Liquid management believe put forth a quality product and ones whose names they can be proud to bear on Liquid jerseys. Finding brands you can really say that about with complete confidence can't be easy.
On top of that, you have to consider that while TL offers a lot of exposure as the largest SC2 hub out there, the actual team didn't come into being until last July (in the sense that was the first time it had any sponsorship at all ). So while you or me may look at TL as a powerhouse when it comes to marketability and exposure, the team is still the new kid on the block compared to teams that have been paying their players for years and years. All these teams are fighting for a finite amount of sponsorship money, and the guys who have been around longer have an advantage when it comes to securing their share of the pot.
edit: I wrote all of this and forgot to mention how excited I am about the sponsorship lol. Good news worthy of a proper fist pump!
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Nice, the 2 sites i visit most are now partnered with each other!
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United States4796 Posts
On October 27 2011 12:31 ReaperX wrote: GO Liquid, more sponsors for one of the most non esports hurting teams!
I laughed, hahaha. Liquid really deserves this. Hope TwitchTV gets something great out of it.
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Australia8532 Posts
Big plays Liquid`
Big plays!
I think i spend over half of my life on twitch.tv watching various streams <3
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Congrats to both parties, great sponsorship!!!!
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gratz
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grats to liquid and i am happy that i can finally watch twitch.tv (eu lag gone)
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wtf took them so long? GO TEAM LIQUID!
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Sweet Congrats liquid. Hopefully now Keep and get amazing players easier woot!!!
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congrats TL wooo
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Just came by to drop a meaningless and contentless "This is awesome!" post, therefore raising my post count by 1.
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Lol I clicked on a Twitch.TV stream from teamliquid yesterday and in the URL is said something like "source=teamliquid.net" and I was wondering what % of their hits were from teamliquid.net. Apparently enough to constitute a sponsorship. Awesome!
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Its cool to see all these parts coming together. Streams are getting better, Teams are getting sponsors, and E-sports is growing.
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This is amazing news... I want TL to have alot of sponser, most of the team are good people and they deserve alot.
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grats, gotta love how big sc2 is getting
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Really great news, Twitch.tv is the perfect sponser choice given their work and communication with the SC2 community.
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Awesome news, Twitch is an amazing streaming platform!
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awesome.
Liquid gets the best sponsors
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Well deserved. Congratulations to TL!
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So that makes 2 sponsors, TLAF and Twitch, right? GJ guys! :D
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Amazing news!! Twitch is the best!!
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Twitch.TV? The one previously with the slogan "Better than real sports?" Yay.
Still, I would choose them over own3d any day. Go, go, Twitch.tv!
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So glad to hear about this, a classy sponsor for a classy team. Cheers to all involved!
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That is great news! Liquid now has another great partnership!
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impressive sponsor, grats!
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nice nice nice!
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Awesome! congrats on the awesome sponsor!!
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Congrats on an awesome sponsor!
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I love that more and more are getting on board with sponsorships. Support for the teams, support for the players... the game does the rest, and thousands, even millions benefit!
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twitch.tv is the best stream site by far. gratz liquid!
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omg team liquid will now be rich!!!!
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Very well deserved!
gratz to Team Liquid!
You guys rock! m/
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Congratz on the new sponsor TL! Twitch.tv is the bomb!
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Omg what a good move. WP TL.
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This is just amazing. Can't wait to see the cool stuff that comes out of this partnership. I talked to some of the head guys at a career fair the other day and they have some super sick ideas for the development of esports. Cant wait!
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lol jinro looks like he has massive killer arms on the tumpnail for this!! great news btw!!
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TL got Twitch so many viewers, it's about time they give them something back
jk, gratulations
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