Brood War News Coverage

This website was created because there were fans out there who loved BW and deserved a better place to find their news. We started off by giving WaxAngel and mensrea the chance to write about the happenings in Korea, and over the next eight years, Team Liquid became the center for people who loved Brood War. Unfortunately, our coverage of the Korean professional scene came to an end a few months ago with the end of the last Proleague that featured BW. It was truly the end of an era for a lot of us.

However, it doesn't mean that our coverage of Brood War will stop. While there are no more professional tournaments at the time, the Brood War community is still strong, sticking with the game they always loved. There are plenty of people working to keep the competitive scene for Brood war going, and If you know where to look, you will find that there are still a lot of tournaments being hosted.

TL has been the main source for everything Brood War for years, and we wish to keep it that way in the future. Even though the Korean industry has moved on from Brood War, we hope that it will still be possible for a Brood War fan to come to TL five years later, and find something he likes.

We have a very clear goal for our frontpage, which is to cover the professional scenes of the games we love. The end of Brood War in the Proleague and OSL meant there was no more content for the front page, but that hasn't stopped our Brood War staff from working hard to make regular content regarding the foreign and amateur scenes. Together, we've decided on a way for Brood War to stay on as an important part of the site.

It will now be possible to visit TL and view BW news on the frontpage again. For those of you interested in reading about BW on the frontpage, you can go to the toolbox and turn on BW news option. Additionally, going to http://www.teamliquid.net/bw will have the same effect. In doing so we believe we can keep our front page focused on professional games, while also allowing Brood War fans easy access to the news they want.

To give you a taste of the content you'll be able to enjoy, check out the Amateur Brood War Coverage and recaps of the popular ThSL and SSL tournaments.

With this change we are also appointing 2Pacalypse as our head editor to take care of the BW content. He has been an excellent part of our Brood War staff for a long time, and we believe he is the ideal man for the job.

Let's face it, the Broodwar News team is no longer an equipped battlestar tearing across the universe in pursuit of foes. Those days are gone.

We went up against The Alliance the universe and lost, and now we're recouping, looking to put the pieces together. At best, we are now a ragtag group of adventurers who float along, looking for hope, looking for dreams, looking for games.

We find them sometimes on Fish and ICCUP, and more importantly, on Afreeca and Twitch, where we come together to watch everything from the SSL to the ThSL.

A while back, we newsed the final Professional Broodwar post, and in doing so, said goodbye to 10 years of Starcraft: Brood War progaming coverage here on Team Liquid. It was a sad day, and as we clicked through TL's admin interface and moved that post to news, we knew that things would never be the same again.

But even in these dark times, from the far reaches of Afreeca, there came, a signal.



Sonic.

It's right out of a fairytale, this one. Sonic, the Afreeca Broadcast Jockey who casts games out of the basement of his shoe shop, working after hours to deliver an amateur starleague for fans of the beautiful game. No massive sponsors, no studios, no screaming fans - just the familiar blip, blip, blip, and swoosh that sends us into games, games with Killer and Hiya, not Bisu and Jaedong, and yet games, games of Starcraft: Brood War being played by the best.

Though we can sit here and reminisce, and though we are a certainly a community that is known for its nostalgia, here, with our game under threat, we have chosen to look forward. We will remember Starcraft Progaming, because it defined this site and this community for over a decade, and yet here, even as pundits predicted its demise, we have seen a new scene emerge, a scene that is not professional in the true sense of the word, and yet in that respect, a scene that more closely resembles progaming at its birth, in the early 2000s, when Proleague was a distant dream and people played not because they had to, but because they were born to.

We have come full circle, friends, and we're back to Broodwar in its purest form. In the coming months and weeks, Team Liquid will be here to deliver the best of the Korean and International amateur leagues, and in doing so, celebrate the continued existence of a competitive scene for this game that we have come to know and love.

To that end we're also proud to unveil TL's newly constructed Brood War news portal. As our hastily constructed temporary BW news page once did, it will filter BW, the whole BW, and nothing but BW.


And if that wasn't enough, you can include this Brood War content on your front page by adjusting your front page settings here.

Well, there you have it. We've put our money where our mouth is, and brought you your game, the way you want it. The infrastructure is in place, and we've also got the manpower to provide you with the same great content you've been enjoying for years. Whether it's SOSPA or Gambit, ThSL or a great new foreign tourney run by Team Liquid itself, we're just letting you know that we will continue to cover the beautiful game the same way we've been doing it for the past decade.

We hope you'll be along for the ride.

Broodwar is dead. Long live Broodwar.