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Liquipedia Contributors and StaffEven if you don’t use TeamLiquid (pretty unlikely if you're reading this blog somehow), you probably use Liquipedia! Liquipedia is the premier resources on the internet for information on teams, events, and perhaps most notably, brackets and results! Liquipedia is known as an extremely reliable and up-to-date source for tournament brackets. We've even seen tournament admins or casters use Liquipedia in favor of their own websites for results.
A list of Liquipedia staff can be found here, but you don’t have to be on Liquid staff to contribute! You can tell who's contributed to Liquipedia by the number of coins they have on the bottom right of their posts in certain forums, including blogs! So even if you don't take some time to thank liquipedia staff, do them one small favor: It's Liquipedia, not Liquidpedia.
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TLPD StaffTLPD is perhaps an even more monotonous and thankless job than Liquipedia. Surprising, because it is the definitive source on the web for pro-gamer rankings and statistics. How else would back up your claim that Metropolis is one of the most Zerg favored maps in ZvT(65.9%), JYP is horrible at PvT(29.55%) or that Goody has the most officially recorded games of any player(1643 as of this writing). But did you know that actual people have to enter in the individual results for these tournaments? And with the current saturation of SC2 tournaments we have in the scene today, this is an arduous task. Yes, there are the obvious big tournaments like GSL, MLG, IPL, Dreamhack, ASUS ROG, and IEM, but then there are the small ones that 99% of people miss. These are your Playhem Dailys and your random other daily cups. That's a lot of work, and certainly something I'm just not cut out to do. So take some time out of your day to thank the few, the proud, the TLPDers.
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BanlingsBanlings are the overlords who try to keep the site clean and readable. There’s one that I want to highlight though, the undisputed king of banlings, GMarshal. Chances are, if you’ve been warned or banned from Teamliquid in the past year, it was by GMarshal. These are the number of reports handled by the top 10 moderators in the last month alone. As you can tell, it's not even close.
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A while ago, GMarshal posted this amusing comic in the staff forum. Let's show him that defending us regularly from these orange men/ogres? does indeed provide e-sports EXP!
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LR Thread CreatorsIt takes a lot of work creating and continuously updating the LR threads we depend on for up-to-date coverage on our live events. While organizations like NASL and IPL struggle to sometimes update their own LR threads, community members from our very own forums have a reputation of beautiful, accurate, and extremely up-to-date OPs. Regular SC2 LR thread creators include the recently departed SeeKeR, the ever-present twins of Probe1 and BLinD-RawR, and the most recent member of the team, opterown. Sorry if I forgot anyone in advance! Also, have you checked the LR resource thread, which houses a collection of old LR threads and where you can learn to make your own?
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TranslatorsTranslators are our portal to the thoughts of the Korean scene. While the SC2 Korean scene has certainly become less segregated than the SC1, translators still bring a bit more personality to those Koreans that some unfamiliar with the scene find difficult to relate to. The most busy translator is storywriter, a guy with an wildly appropriate name who even turned down a TL translator icon so that he could keep translating for us without any complications. Other regular translators include SeeKeR, WeirdKid, Caihead, and digmouse(chinese translator). For perhaps a more complete list, click here. Also, shame to those who make up translations of interviews. -_-
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Other Solid ContributorsYou may know wo1fwood from his many TL contributions including his mouse thread, this timing thread, or his edits to clean up threads like the SC2 LR Resources thread. But I consider his biggest contribution to TL to be, by far, his guide to BBCode, the language with which we communicate with on TL. In fact, I consider it to be one of the biggest and most important contributions to TL in the last year. With this guide, TL suddenly became a bit more aesthetically pleasing all-around, and I have personally used the guide in many of my contributions, including guides, guidelines, news articles, and even this blog!
So, who else have we not thanked lately?
