Who is PiQliQ?

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March 01 2011 00:46 GMT

New Developments: PiQLiQ has contacted me over Team Liquid himself, to clarify who he is. He stated firmly that he does not wish to be mistaken for anyone else, so please disregard the stuff I originally wrote in my blog. I am spoilering that just to leave some context for someone who is confused, but my speculations were mostly FALSE.

PiQLiQ told me to inform you all that he is indeed just a random Swedish player, who plays a ton of other games like War3, WoW, Quakelive, BW, Dota, etc. He does not want to be famous, and is in fact a very humble person, mentioning that he doesn't even consider himself very good but that he plays purely for fun, and that you can take games off of even the best players in the world if you manage to surprise them.

He does not want to gain any fame on Starcraft or be confused with anyone famous, but I hope you can all respect him some more after reading this!

This was the original post. I'm leaving it here PURELY for context. But again, please don't take any of it seriously because PiQLiQ doesn't want anyone to be confused.

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Welcome to my first blog entry.

Today's topic is pondering the identity of the semi-well-known North American Protoss player by the name of PiQLiQ. You may have seen his inspiring play on the streams of TL users such as CatZ, Spades, or HasHe, often introduced with such comments as "Oh fuck it's PiQLiQ", or in-game chat like "Cannon rush, Voidrays, DTs, or all three?"

Other than his notorious reputation of using cheesy strategies, not much is known about this mysterious man (or woman?). He plays on the NA server, and mains Protoss, although he is known to execute a pretty solid MMM as well. He was at the tippy top of the NA ladder on at least one occasion, striking fear into the hearts of many a hard-working player. He appears to be teamless, and has not been too hot lately, losing 18 of his last 20 games (http://sc2ranks.com/us/2178533/PiQLiQ).

I'm not sure if he uses TL, but he apparently has a YouTube page at http://www.youtube.com/user/PiQLiQ It reveals that he is actually a master of many games, from QuakeLive to Tetrisfriends, and may be from Sweden, which, smarter readers will notice, is in fact NOT in North America.

So with what little I know about this peculiar fellow, I'm going to attempt to guess who he is.

My (many) guesses:

1. Naniwa - Known to have several smurfs on the NA ladder, from Boyardee to MeatyOwlLegs, Naniwa actually makes some sense. He's Sveedish, and was on top of the NA ladder for some time, AND plays protoss. However, PiQLiQ's win ratio is not nearly as high as Naniwa's other smurfs. Maybe he just messes around with cheese on PiQLiQ?

2. Athene - known by all as the best protoss in the world, Athene is a possible candidate. PiQLiQ has to be at least one of the 5 or 6 best Protoss in the world, so the skill level is pretty close. Recently, Athene was been dominating the EU ladder, so he had to have started somewhere right? Well, assuming it's not KiWiKaKi playing for him. I would be pleasantly surprised if PiQLiQ was indeed Athene.

3. Day[9] - god knows what Day[9]'s real account is, but it must be pretty freakin high ranked, since he's like, Day[9] and stuff. I don't know if Day[9] has the time to have all his dailies, and his school work, AND play 4000 ish ladder games, though. However, PiQLiQ WOULD be a cool name for a muppet.

4. David Kim - game balance tester dude from Blizzard. Dominated the NA ladder after the release of SC2, at the same time PiQLiQ wasn't dominating it. Coincidence? I think not! Plus, PiQLiQ's amazing cheese builds could only be created by someone with a real deep understanding of the game, right? And Dayvie plays random... obvious cheeser. And, as a Blizzard employee, he is not ALLOWED to enter tournaments.

5. Artosis - he recently switched from Zerg to Protoss, and as IdrA stated (I think), has been doing pretty well on the KR ladder. That Protoss experience had to have come from somewhere, right?

6. HayprO/Jinro - Deal with it, they're Swedish. Probably wanted to try out some of the epic 4-gates they experience on a daily basis on the Korean ladder. Plus, Jinro has stated he does have some smurfs.

7. oGsMC - PiQLiQ also doesn't seem to speak English very well, like MC. The only other indicator is that their skill levels are extremely close.

8. EGIdrA - How could IdrA comment on whats IMBALANCED! without having protoss experience at the "top level" of players, which he continually mentions his show is based on. Doesn't get much more high level than PiQLiQ. It probably also helps relieve some zerg-stress by successfully cheesing everyone on the NA ladder.

9. ppgBubbles - alright, this is actually a somewhat possible choice. Bubbles also has a lot of cheesy, creative plays, and does dabble in Terran on occasion, from what I've seen from CatZ's stream. I believe he has also used a build PiQLiQ used on Xel'Naga Caverns, making a Planetary Fortress at his natural. Plus, he said to CatZ something along the lines of "PiQLiQ is a player to learn from".

10. DJ Khaled - All he does is win, and that's something PiQLiQ is quite familiar with.

Anyway, that's all I got for now. Feel free to discuss and ponder with me who PiQLiQ's true identity is.

Other questions left unanswered:
Why does he play on the NA server, if he's from Sweden?
How does he balance his time on so many different games?
Who helps him train/come up with such sophisticated builds?
Why has no one signed him to a team yet?
Why does he not seem to participate in tournaments?
Will take his talents to Korea any time soon?
How did he come up with such an awesome name?
Does he high-five as well as IdrA?

Some innovative PiQLiQ play: