The Liquid Weekly #10

HuK at IEM NY, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

HuK represented on Friday at IEM, blazing through his group and going 2-0 against suggy and 2-1 against drewbie. On Saturday at 20:30 CEST, he will face off against qxc in the semifinals. Join us on stream and in the LR thread for all the usual banter and of course, the chance to win a TL t-shirt. HuK SMASH INCOMING!

Jinro, Haypro, TLO at GSL Open #2 Quals - This Weekend

Our boys are at the GSL Quals these next four days and will be battling a lot of competition to get through to the GSL Open #2. Jinro and HayprO play Saturday and TLO plays his match on Monday. Be sure to follow the action in the Live Report thread for today and check back on Monday again as TLO throws down in a bid to qualify for his second GSL Open!

In case you didn't notice, our boys in blue are also now sporting the colour in the form of an awesome new jersey designed by Kennigit. It looks pretty awesome, if we do say so ourselves. Think you'd like one too? Let us know.

Nada to oGs - This Weekend

Yes, your world has just been rocked, we know. Lee Yoon Yeol, the most successful progamer of all time, is joining Liquid's partner team oGs! We're super excited to follow up the Korean media announcement by bringing you Liquid's thoughts on this ground breaking piece of news, and also, exclusive replays of the man himself playing our very own TLO.


Hello, Liquid! Big news today. What were your initial reactions to it?

TLO: First I was like: Oh wow, then it went to HOLY SHIT, passing the "that cant be real, am I dreaming" making its big final in hopefully he needs to sleep in my bunk bed because everything is taken!

Jinro: Excitement, but my mind is too pre-occupied with the upcoming GSL to really feel much of anything.

Haypro: It' insane to have such a huge player on our partner team. Gonna be really cool to meet him!


Do you remember first getting to know about Nada? Where were you in life, and how did you find out about Lee Yoon Yeol?

Jinro: Pretty sure it was shortly after I started following progaming - was about 13 years old, had just watched my first OSL (actually, second - I started watching progaming around the NATE OSL semis, but Sky 2002 was the first full OSL I followed). Shortly after Reach 3-1ed BoxeR in the Sky finals, NaDa 3-0ed Reach to win the MBC Starleague (back then called KPGA tour I think) going on at the time... I remember sort of putting it down to Reach just focusing his efforts on the OSL finals, I was a huge fan of Reach, but Nada just kept on bulldozing.

Haypro: I remember watching replays of Nada playing on WGT where he in TvP just did 6 fac tanks only and won all games like that.


Nada was known as the Genius Terran in Broodwar and was famous for his vulture harass into 200/200 "Tornado" TvP. How do you think his play will evolve as he moves into SC2 and is there a particular style of play you expect to see from him?

Jinro: Well, the same I guess? Harass into big push seems pretty suitable for SC2 terran.

TLO: I think he will treat the game a lot like SC1, which is a very good thing not enough people do that. He'll be all over the map multitasking, doing drops and probably implement tanks a lot. So he can just roll over his opponent after damaging him enough.

Haypro: Yes indeed, I think harass into big push is a big thing for terran in sc2 and that will suit him perfectly.


TLO, you played him at IEM Gamescom. Even at that early stage, he showed remarkable prowess as a Terran. If there was something unique about his play compared to the Terrans you had met until then, what was it?

TLO: Well back in IEM he played a very oldschool Terran style in my opinion just having this tank line over the map. But nowadays he is not playing like that anymore I think.


In conclusion, what's gonna be the best part about having Nada around?

TLO: His Body. Actually, His Body and fangirls coming here to stalk him! :D

Jinro: I see a sexual harassment lawsuit in your future.

Haypro. Yes, Dario, be careful. I think we will all get more dedicated because we have such a big name player as part of our practice environment.

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