Team Liquid
Team Liquid Dota 2 Team LogoThe team name should also be a name for everyone. Represented in almost all esports titles, Team Liquid’s roots can be found in Brood Wars and Starcraft. It would be presumptuous to summarize the fame and success of this traditional club in so few lines. The team has been involved in Dota 2 since 2012 and played the first The International in 2013. Last year, the blue racehorse was finally flying high and was represented at least at the end of every Dota 2 tournament on the winner’s podium. The boys won three gold medals and one silver. The team management also remains loyal to its regular players and MATUMBAMAN, MinD_ContRoL, and KuroKy are now considered real veterans.
In terms of play style, however, they make their opponents “look old” and are known for more aggressive moves. The team’s mission is to go home with nothing less than gold and eliminate all opponents along the way. Competitive always means depending on the form of the day, but we trust Team Liquid to have the experience… Here are the facts:
Biggest success so far: Winner The International 7
Team Roster:
- Carry: MATUMBAMAN/Miracle-
- Mid: Miracle-/MATUMBAMAN
- Offline: MinD_ContRoL
- Roamers/Support: GH
- Hard Support: KuroKy (Captain)
League of Legends explained – LoL for Dummies
The name of probably the most influential eSports title of the last few years – “League of Legends” – has been heard quickly; but what exactly it is all about is rather difficult to grasp, especially for the layman. Therefore, this complex game is broken down here to simple basic elements, understandable for everyone.
League of Legends or “LoL” is a video game published by Riot Games and belongs to the genre (game category) “MOBA”. MOBA is a sub-genre of strategy games and stands for “Multiplayer Online Battle Arena” – so it is an online team game that is played on a closed map that is always the same.
On this map, usually the so-called “Summoner’s Rift”, the teams compete in a five-against-five match with the goal of destroying the enemy base, the winner being the team that destroys the enemy’s main building, the “Nexus”. This usually takes between 25 and 35 minutes, but can also take an hour.
Each player controls one of over 140 available champions. These are selected before the start of each game and matched with the team. Each of these champions has its own skillset – i.e. abilities – and thus differs fundamentally from the others. Therefore, on the one hand it is important to perfect these champions as much as possible, but at the same time to know the skills of all champions in order to be able to compete effectively against them. This is also a long-term task, since new champions are added to the game all the time.