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Teamliquid: A Blast from the Past

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DeepBlu2
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States975 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-18 13:46:16
September 18 2011 13:11 GMT
#1
I think blogs will be appropriate for this and I want to give everyone, old and new, an old perspective on TL that has only been shown through bumping old threads, which won't have a similar impact.

I would like to show everyone what Teamliquid was like years ago and how it has changed. You will not just see more Brood war which a lot of people would expect; but every person who changed this site over the years, and a continually rising amount of active members (in the top left). You will not be able to sleep tonight, because you can't stop thinking about when Plexa will start writing again, since
his writeups were amazing.

Alot of people who joined at starcraft's launch overlook TL's environment except that they played brood war more. Hopefully some of these pictures give a different perspective and look at them closely, like the active member account and tournaments taking place.
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High Res Images are uploaded as well in case you can't see it well.
A picture says a thousand words but it would be interested to hear people's stories, including people who are new to TL, as in how they got here. It's incredibly interesting looking at the member count on TL in those pictures go up slowly, along with the posts, current tournaments, etc. I think in a couple of years everything will slow down a bit more which is good and bad. I like to see some old thread getting bumped, as I missed a few as well, but I don't think they have the same impact since most of the people after they get bumped just post 20 pages of "LOL" or "Epic" as opposed to most of the original posts. What's better than seeing when it actually happen like some of the posts in the pictures? I love stuff like this since I don't post very much.


Thank you for reading and seeing.



And here is an old old replay of Elky vs Rekrul.

http://www.teamliquid.net/replay/upload/ElkY-Rekrul6.rep



*****
u gotta sk8
Thrill
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
2599 Posts
September 18 2011 13:15 GMT
#2
5/5, fun retrospective and a blast of nostalgia. ^__^
sluggaslamoo
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Australia4494 Posts
September 18 2011 13:19 GMT
#3
Zealots vs Carriers?

What?
Come play Android Netrunner - http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=409008
marttorn
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Norway5211 Posts
September 18 2011 13:31 GMT
#4
OMG Manifesto-claus!

And wtf, how did savior go down a power rank to Bisu? -_- I gotta catch up on vods
memes are a dish best served dank
Robinsa
Profile Joined May 2009
Japan1333 Posts
September 18 2011 13:56 GMT
#5
Always nice with some nostalgia. The 08-09 SS's are white because of your settings right ? I cant remember it was ever that white for me.
4649!!
Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12246 Posts
September 18 2011 14:00 GMT
#6
Holy crap. Having joined TL only after the release of sc2, it's amazing to see how much the site has grown in the past 1-2 years. I can only imagine how stressed the mods must be...
ModeratorProtoss all-ins are like a wok. You can throw whatever you want in there and it will turn out alright.
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28617 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-18 14:14:40
September 18 2011 14:12 GMT
#7
holy shit active/logged in exploded with sc2 haha

I can't take much credit myself but wow amazing job by staff being able to handle the influx of new users.
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DeepBlu2
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States975 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-18 14:24:36
September 18 2011 14:23 GMT
#8
On September 18 2011 23:12 Liquid`Drone wrote:
holy shit active/logged in exploded with sc2 haha

I can't take much credit myself but wow amazing job by staff being able to handle the influx of new users.



Everyone had a role in some way. And they handled it well, but hopefully it still dies down a little in a couple of years.

Also, look at this. Credit goes to Spazer.

Most bans from Admins/Banlings.
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Manifesto7 1866 669 381 174 81 49 512 0
EvilTeletubby 1029 391 180 85 61 14 298 0
Kennigit 1028 197 188 133 30 11 469 0
Nyovne 853 354 188 24 19 3 265 0
Hot_Bid 747 173 73 238 27 2 234 0
Plexa 700 301 124 39 17 4 215 0
Chill 697 187 69 47 7 7 380 0
zatic 678 294 99 23 19 2 241 0
Harem 597 153 81 38 11 6 308 0
Liquid`Nazgul 547 209 111 93 16 2 116 0
JWD 535 214 107 61 28 4 121 0
boesthius 378 161 58 28 4 0 127 0
Aesop 376 209 79 30 10 2 46 0
FakeSteve[TPR] 337 112 72 20 13 1 119 0
Puosu 326 145 31 9 3 0 138 0
Beyonder 283 98 65 29 2 0 89 0
p4NDemik 281 153 38 13 1 1 75 0
SonuvBob 278 42 42 31 8 5 148 2
Jibba 277 144 37 7 6 0 83 0
Twisted 273 16 42 32 2 0 181 0
Empyrean 260 98 49 23 12 4 74 0
Carnac 253 40 25 17 2 1 168 0
riptide 192 40 49 6 2 0 95 0
R1CH 189 25 16 6 3 0 138 1
vGl-CoW 188 53 34 8 4 0 89 0
Rekrul 171 19 19 13 0 0 120 0
GHOSTCLAW 158 109 17 4 1 0 27 0
KwarK 156 49 38 19 11 1 38 0
BroOd 139 42 20 9 7 0 61 0
Klogon 130 31 19 19 1 2 58 0
RaGe 128 20 24 12 7 0 65 0
thedeadhaji 124 47 27 15 0 0 35 0
micronesia 116 65 14 7 1 1 28 0
CTStalker 112 43 17 16 6 2 28 0
Ares[Effort] 110 69 10 5 0 0 26 0
pangshai 110 80 18 1 3 0 8 0
IntoTheWow 106 37 12 3 2 1 51 0
H 104 34 27 8 3 0 32 0
mahnini 103 30 41 15 3 1 13 0
SoMuchBetter 100 37 22 4 0 1 36 0
intrigue 88 36 13 12 1 0 26 0
Liquid`Jinro 87 22 16 2 3 1 43 0
Liquid`Meat 84 0 2 3 0 0 79 0
TheMango 82 7 4 4 1 0 66 0
iamke55 78 47 6 9 0 0 16 0
Tadzio 78 46 14 3 0 0 15 0
Excalibur_Z 69 30 9 6 2 0 22 0
heyoka 54 19 12 5 0 0 18 0
LosingID8 50 23 7 4 1 2 13 0
Last Romantic 47 15 11 6 2 0 13 0
PoP 47 7 9 16 0 0 14 1
iNcontroL 45 22 9 1 0 0 13 0
mikeymoo 44 25 5 5 1 0 8 0
TL.net Bot 39 0 0 0 0 0 39 0
motbob 37 20 4 1 2 0 10 0
ToKoreaWithLove 35 0 1 4 0 0 30 0
GTR 33 14 3 3 0 0 13 0
uhjoo 33 0 3 1 0 0 29 0
Liquid`Drone 32 1 7 3 0 0 21 0
Mystlord 31 8 7 4 2 3 7 0
{CC}StealthBlue 24 2 4 2 1 1 14 0
Daigomi 22 12 6 1 0 0 3 0
Saracen 21 9 5 4 2 0 1 0
pachi 21 4 1 1 0 0 15 0
Insane 20 8 5 0 0 0 7 0
semioldguy 18 9 0 2 1 0 6 0
pheer 17 0 8 3 1 0 5 0
Waxangel 16 2 4 0 3 2 5 0
Zelniq 14 9 3 1 0 0 1 0
Arbiter[frolix] 14 2 5 0 0 0 7 0
XaI)CyRiC 14 1 1 4 0 1 7 0
Saro 14 0 0 1 0 0 13 0
mrmin123 11 5 2 1 0 0 3 0
ManaBlue 10 2 2 0 0 0 6 0
Xxio 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0
mensrea 6 0 3 1 0 0 2 0
X)Benny 6 0 3 1 0 0 2 0
disciple 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
Kau 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 0
Live2Win 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Legionnaire 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
GroT 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Barrin 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Plexa & Kennigit 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Godzilla 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

u gotta sk8
ReaperX
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Hong Kong1758 Posts
September 18 2011 14:30 GMT
#9
5/5, awesome stuff!
Artosis : Clide. idrA : Shut up.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-18 14:52:21
September 18 2011 14:51 GMT
#10
On September 18 2011 22:31 marttorn wrote:
OMG Manifesto-claus!

And wtf, how did savior go down a power rank to Bisu? -_- I gotta catch up on vods

o.o ... Can't tell if you are serious lol.

TL is consistently a place of mixed feelings for me. There's more people here, but there's less content also if you don't care about half assed streams. No more final edits, but a bigger audience if you decide to do something yourself? A bigger audience, but a high chance of a thread dying within a day if it is tl;dr. Makes low effort, shorter content more popular. Nice people and mean people on staff. More people on staff now than ever, means higher chance of less benevolent mods. Not like the very beginning when Rekrul just banned people who minorly annoyed him (before my time tbh), but somewhere in between when manifesto was a father figure more than a mod and took care of his nerds. Now there's just a lot of people who want to be right. What can you say about a place like TL? It's dynamic in more ways than one.
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
Ciraxis
Profile Joined June 2010
Australia400 Posts
September 18 2011 14:52 GMT
#11
TeamLiquid is such a tight and well-functioning site and has developed amazingly over the last 10 years. Great website, truly.
DeepBlu2
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States975 Posts
September 18 2011 14:57 GMT
#12
On September 18 2011 23:51 Chef wrote:
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On September 18 2011 22:31 marttorn wrote:
OMG Manifesto-claus!

And wtf, how did savior go down a power rank to Bisu? -_- I gotta catch up on vods

o.o ... Can't tell if you are serious lol.

TL is consistently a place of mixed feelings for me. There's more people here, but there's less content also if you don't care about half assed streams. No more final edits, but a bigger audience if you decide to do something yourself? A bigger audience, but a high chance of a thread dying within a day if it is tl;dr. Makes low effort, shorter content more popular. Nice people and mean people on staff. More people on staff now than ever, means higher chance of less benevolent mods. Not like the very beginning when Rekrul just banned people who minorly annoyed him (before my time tbh), but somewhere in between when manifesto was a father figure more than a mod and took care of his nerds. Now there's just a lot of people who want to be right. What can you say about a place like TL? It's dynamic in more ways than one.



I tried my best not to reveal some of this.. Not TL specifically, and I'm going to get a lot of shit for this, but I kind of hope the community in general dies down in a couple of years, like gets smaller. Not dead but just slightly smaller.. To be honest, I think high numbers of staff is necessary, considering the amount of bad posters. So yeah, there is a lot of mixed feelings. Can't say really any of it is TL's fault though. Nobody expected their active member count to go up 20x when sc2 came.
u gotta sk8
DeepBlu2
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States975 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-18 15:05:19
September 18 2011 14:58 GMT
#13
Shit. Wrong button.


Here's a picture from 2003 since I accidentally pressed the wrong button.

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u gotta sk8
marttorn
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Norway5211 Posts
September 18 2011 15:03 GMT
#14
o.o ... Can't tell if you are serious lol.


Haha yes just kidding, I know what happened ^^
memes are a dish best served dank
Vaelone
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Finland4400 Posts
September 18 2011 15:41 GMT
#15
Had no idea TL was that small before SC2, from 700 people online to 14000 is quite a development.

Yet many of the old BW enthusiasts seem to think what SC2 brought to TL was a curse. I guess smaller community has a lot of positive sides but for the site and the team having over ten times more visitors can't be a bad thing.
Geordie
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United Kingdom653 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-18 16:10:20
September 18 2011 16:10 GMT
#16
How did the site take such a step back in the design from 2004 to 2009? in 2009 in looked frankly horrible.
Azzur
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia6255 Posts
September 18 2011 16:25 GMT
#17
Bigger community = better in the majority of cases in my opinion.

TL was a great place already prior to SC2 but I think SC2 really helped TL immensely!
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
September 18 2011 16:27 GMT
#18
Awesome awesome stuff! I've seen the site in the past several times, but my God, 2003: it looks so basic haha!
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28617 Posts
September 18 2011 17:05 GMT
#19
On September 19 2011 01:10 Geordie wrote:
How did the site take such a step back in the design from 2004 to 2009? in 2009 in looked frankly horrible.


that's just some browser/temporary site error. design wise it was almost the same in 2009 as in 2006- probably some small changes to bars like "general forum" etc but the site wasn't designed to be all white for two years.
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villageidiot
Profile Joined May 2009
353 Posts
September 18 2011 17:06 GMT
#20
On September 19 2011 01:25 Azzur wrote:
Bigger community = better in the majority of cases in my opinion.

TL was a great place already prior to SC2 but I think SC2 really helped TL immensely!



It is shame that teamliquid.net is not a facebook...
Good night sour prince. You won't be missed!
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