• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 18:33
CEST 00:33
KST 07:33
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
HomeStory Cup 27 - Info & Preview18Classic wins Code S Season 2 (2025)16Code S RO4 & Finals Preview: herO, Rogue, Classic, GuMiho0TL Team Map Contest #5: Presented by Monster Energy6Code S RO8 Preview: herO, Zoun, Bunny, Classic7
Community News
Weekly Cups (June 23-29): Reynor in world title form?6FEL Cracov 2025 (July 27) - $8000 live event13Esports World Cup 2025 - Final Player Roster14Weekly Cups (June 16-22): Clem strikes back1Weekly Cups (June 9-15): herO doubles on GSL week4
StarCraft 2
General
The SCII GOAT: A statistical Evaluation Weekly Cups (June 23-29): Reynor in world title form? How does the number of casters affect your enjoyment of esports? Esports World Cup 2025 - Final Player Roster HomeStory Cup 27 - Info & Preview
Tourneys
HomeStory Cup 27 (June 27-29) WardiTV Mondays SOOPer7s Showmatches 2025 FEL Cracov 2025 (July 27) - $8000 live event $200 Biweekly - StarCraft Evolution League #1
Strategy
How did i lose this ZvP, whats the proper response Simple Questions Simple Answers [G] Darkgrid Layout
Custom Maps
[UMS] Zillion Zerglings
External Content
Mutation # 480 Moths to the Flame Mutation # 479 Worn Out Welcome Mutation # 478 Instant Karma Mutation # 477 Slow and Steady
Brood War
General
BW General Discussion StarCraft & BroodWar Campaign Speedrun Quest ASL20 Preliminary Maps BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Unit and Spell Similarities
Tourneys
[BSL20] GosuLeague RO16 - Tue & Wed 20:00+CET The Casual Games of the Week Thread [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL20] ProLeague LB Final - Saturday 20:00 CET
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers I am doing this better than progamers do.
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Path of Exile What do you want from future RTS games? Beyond All Reason
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Trading/Investing Thread Stop Killing Games - European Citizens Initiative Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Russo-Ukrainian War Thread
Fan Clubs
SKT1 Classic Fan Club! Maru Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece [\m/] Heavy Metal Thread Korean Music Discussion
Sports
2024 - 2025 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion NBA General Discussion TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 NHL Playoffs 2024
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Blog #2
tankgirl
Game Sound vs. Music: The Im…
TrAiDoS
StarCraft improvement
iopq
Heero Yuy & the Tax…
KrillinFromwales
Trip to the Zoo
micronesia
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 610 users

Teamliquid: A Blast from the Past

Blogs > DeepBlu2
Post a Reply
1 2 Next All
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.
2004
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
High Res-
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]




2005
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
High Res-
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]




2006
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
High res-
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]




2007(Look at the banner ^^)
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
High Res-
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]





2008
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
High Res-
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]



+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
High res-
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]



2009
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
High Res-
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]





2010
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
High Res-
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]




2011(Here we are)
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
High Res-
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]




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
Norway28636 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.
Moderator
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.
+ Show Spoiler +
Mod                	Bans  	2 day 	1 week	2 week	30 day	90 day	Perm 	Unknown
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:
Show nested quote +
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.

+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
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
Australia6259 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
Norway28636 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.
Moderator
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!
1 2 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 1h 28m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
JimRising 494
SteadfastSC 314
Livibee 209
PiGStarcraft7
StarCraft: Brood War
Calm 2212
Rain 1347
Mini 370
EffOrt 103
firebathero 94
Dota 2
NeuroSwarm94
League of Legends
Grubby4251
Counter-Strike
summit1g6891
taco 590
sgares207
Super Smash Bros
PPMD166
Other Games
fl0m854
ToD249
Pyrionflax176
Sick93
Maynarde88
Mew2King58
Organizations
Other Games
BasetradeTV31
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 14 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• davetesta42
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• Pr0nogo 4
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• masondota2924
Other Games
• imaqtpie1434
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
1h 28m
Wardi Open
12h 28m
PiGosaur Monday
1d 1h
The PondCast
1d 11h
Replay Cast
2 days
RSL Revival
2 days
WardiTV European League
2 days
Replay Cast
3 days
RSL Revival
3 days
WardiTV European League
3 days
[ Show More ]
FEL
3 days
Korean StarCraft League
4 days
CranKy Ducklings
4 days
RSL Revival
4 days
FEL
4 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
5 days
RSL Revival
5 days
FEL
5 days
BSL: ProLeague
5 days
Dewalt vs Bonyth
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2025-06-28
HSC XXVII
Heroes 10 EU

Ongoing

JPL Season 2
BSL 2v2 Season 3
BSL Season 20
Acropolis #3
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 2
CSL 17: 2025 SUMMER
Copa Latinoamericana 4
Championship of Russia 2025
RSL Revival: Season 1
Murky Cup #2
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 7
IEM Dallas 2025
PGL Astana 2025
Asian Champions League '25
BLAST Rivals Spring 2025
MESA Nomadic Masters
CCT Season 2 Global Finals
IEM Melbourne 2025
YaLLa Compass Qatar 2025

Upcoming

CSLPRO Last Chance 2025
CSLPRO Chat StarLAN 3
K-Championship
uThermal 2v2 Main Event
SEL Season 2 Championship
FEL Cracov 2025
Esports World Cup 2025
FISSURE Playground #2
BLAST Open Fall 2025
BLAST Open Fall Qual
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.