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Liquid Smash Brothers Melee

Text byLiquid`Nazgul
Graphics byshiro
March 18th, 2014 16:39 GMT


Today marks a historic day for the Liquid team as we are ready to unveil our two newest members:

Liquid`Ken and Liquid`KDJ.





A Word on Smash


Last October a documentary was released that followed the players and competitive scene of Super Smash Brothers Melee. It received a lot of praise and I would go as far as to say that I have never seen better esports content. If you haven't seen it I would check it out as it's a nice way to relax, and will make it easy to understand why we're adding players for Smash.

I've been pretty focused on just a couple games and after seeing the documentary it was like a whole new world opened up. I was blown away by the depth of this game and that it was still going strong after so many years without any support. The scene that is behind Smash is amazing. The game is 13 years old and has stood the test of time over and over again. The game is deep and deserving of being an esport.

After many years of absence in 2013 Smash Melee made its return to EVO, the largest fighting game tournament in the world. It snuck in through the backdoor by winning a poll measured in charity donations. It shocked the world by getting 700 entrants, the most ever for a Smash tournament, and 130,000 unique viewers, the second most watched game out of all eight games at EVO. At Anaheim, MLG will be bringing Smash back after a long, long absence. After 13 years, the game might just see their biggest year yet.

Smash is a bit of an outcast in the fighting game community. As an esport there hasn't been support from Nintendo and the balance of the game is largely held in place by many bugs that were never intended to be in there. It reminds me a lot of Brood War in so many ways.

The players we start a team with are KoreanDJ and Ken, two legends that together with our announcement will announce their official comeback to competitive Smash. They're incredible players and personalities. Ken actually is a huge BW/SC2/Dota, and Liquid fan and appeared on the popular TV show Survivor. KoreanDJ used to visit TL over ten years ago for BW replays and plays an amazing violin.

Having worked with both guys for a while now I am confident as ever that they will do a great job representing our team and sponsors. Recently KDJ took it to M2K at the Smashing Grounds tournament and went 2-3 with him, twice. An incredible feat for someone making a comeback. This announcement has been one of the coolest things we've ever done and I hope it is only the start. They will do a great job representing us.

Liquid`Nazgul


Episode One




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I am really excited that we have branched off towards the SSBM competitive scene. I am happy to have Ken “Sephiroth” Hoang and Daniel “KDJ” Jung to be a part of Team Liquid. I have been following the smash scene for quite a while now and these two are definitely some of my favorite players to watch. Being a big Smash enthusiast, I can’t wait to meet these two in person and play some friendly games (hopefully it won’t be too rough). After watching the Smash documentary I know that both of these guys show great dedication and passion for the game and I can see a bright future for both of them by being a part of Liquid. The hype just got more real now and I can’t wait to watch these two play under the Liquid tag.

Liquid`wayto


I'm very happy to see melee grow and for Liquid to get a team! I played SSBM a lot myself back in 2002 and several times since. Watching SSBM at the highest level is extremely entertaining and I recommend all SC2 fans and check out future events and enjoy the quality 'micro'.

PS: Yoshi is the most awesome character!!! Yoshiiiiiiiiiii !

Liquid`Snute


SSBM is a game built on speed, creativity, and emotion, a beautiful accident with a competitive scene that was never anticipated by its players or publisher. It is a game forged in living room couches and friends' basements, on tiny CRT monitors and $5 money matches. It is a game built on mechanical and mental skill with ten year veteran players who still smash every week and care about which coast of the United States you grew up on.

The highs and lows of Melee's life span are well documented. The game went from kids huddled in college dorm rooms to a big stage, golden age of $10,000 MLG tournaments, back to player-organized "lets hold one more grassroots event before Melee dies" back to a 100,000+ viewer EVO 2013.

Melee is a survivor. It fought slow declines, a "death" sequel, and the efforts of its creator to kill its competitive scene. Thirteen years later, here it stands, with the most entrants ever for events and Nintendo finally recognizing its scrappy little scene. Melee will be at MLG for the first time since 2007, and again a few weeks later at EVO 2014.

So when Liquid decided to pick up two legends from an entirely different, console-based fighting game, it felt natural. The game is StarCraft-esque, which is the best compliment we can give it. You don't form communities and friendships and a lifestyle around flash-in-the-pan, dead in six month game titles. Ordinarily, games should not see a revival 13 years after launch. But Melee, like StarCraft, is not just an ordinary game.

See you at Anaheim.

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DivinO
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United States4796 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-18 17:55:49
March 18 2014 17:55 GMT
#2
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.

EDIT: Whoo!
LiquipediaBrain in my filth.
Antylamon
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1981 Posts
March 18 2014 17:55 GMT
#3
What the fuck
Pazuzu
Profile Joined July 2011
United States632 Posts
March 18 2014 17:56 GMT
#4
OH MY GOD WHAT.

THIS IS F*$%ING INCREDIBLE IM SO HAPPY
"It is because intuition is sometimes right, that we don't know what to do with it"
TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28089 Posts
March 18 2014 17:56 GMT
#5
I'm pretty excited for this
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flamewheel
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts
March 18 2014 17:56 GMT
#6
What the fuckkkkk

Kennnn
Writerdamn, i was two days from retirement
KadaverBB
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany25657 Posts
March 18 2014 17:56 GMT
#7
FUCK YEAH!!!
AdministratorLaws change depending on who's making them, but justice is justice
Tamburlaine
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada288 Posts
March 18 2014 17:56 GMT
#8
What actually even is happening?
I like things.
Epoxide
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Magic Woods9326 Posts
March 18 2014 17:57 GMT
#9
checked if it was april 1st, not yet
LiquipediaSouma: EU MM is just Russian Roulette. Literally.
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United States10328 Posts
March 18 2014 17:57 GMT
#10
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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GreenNOM
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Canada24 Posts
March 18 2014 17:58 GMT
#11
I love you
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United States10328 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-18 17:58:27
March 18 2014 17:58 GMT
#12
NOW I CAN COMBINE MY TWO BIGGEST TIMEWASTERS HOBBIES
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ctypewriter
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63 Posts
March 18 2014 17:58 GMT
#13
I had to check to the date to see if this was an April fools lol
XaCez
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden6991 Posts
March 18 2014 17:58 GMT
#14
What in the what the what for how the what?
People get too easily offended by people getting too easily offended by the word rape.
OmniEulogy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada6592 Posts
March 18 2014 17:58 GMT
#15
LOL This is amazing! I never saw this coming.
LiquidDota Staff
KatatoniK
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
United Kingdom978 Posts
March 18 2014 17:59 GMT
#16
SSBM? Fuck yes, looking forward to seeing more of this.
Flying on the Jin Air hype plane. Lets go Maru, Rogue, sOs and the handsome CJ herO
Sunfish
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Austria162 Posts
March 18 2014 17:59 GMT
#17
...is this real life? So cool, Liquid!
retired from goodgame agency and now freelancing fucking everywhere -- come follow me at @william_partin
Pazuzu
Profile Joined July 2011
United States632 Posts
March 18 2014 17:59 GMT
#18
On March 19 2014 02:58 XaCez wrote:
What in the what the what for how the what?

WHO THE HELL CARES THIS IS FANTASTIC
LIQUID FIGHTING
"It is because intuition is sometimes right, that we don't know what to do with it"
shiroiusagi
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
SoCal, USA3955 Posts
March 18 2014 18:00 GMT
#19
YYYYEEEEEEE!!!
Graphics@shiroiusagi_ | shiroiusagi.net
Koromon
Profile Joined May 2012
United States304 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-18 18:04:52
March 18 2014 18:00 GMT
#20
<3 <3 <3
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