Team Liquid is thrilled to announce that our very own Spencer "Xxio" Wightman will be writing regular content on behalf of us for PCGamer. TL has always taken pride in its writers, and we encourage you to follow Xxio as he takes our content to a wider audience. You already know Xxio from his TLFEs and SC2 coverage. Now, watch him take our message to people outside progaming circles.
As a site known for its unrivaled written coverage of leagues and tournaments since the days of Starcraft: Brood War, this content partnership with PCGamer is just a natural progression in our ever expanding coverage plan. Our goal has always been to provide the best SCBW/SC2 coverage and in doing so introduce these great games to more fans worldwide. We look forward to making this happen on PCGamer.com.
Thanks to the hard work of writers like Xxio, TL continues to do what it does best - make Starcraft progaming accessible to everyone. Keep this thread bookmarked and follow our run on PCGamer. TL Fighting!
In any sport, there’s a loser for every winner. Every time a champion is showered in champagne (or Diet Coke, if they’re underage) and raises a trophy to a screaming crowd, there’s a player who stands silently to the side, humbled, overshadowed and defeated. Lee Jung Hoon has been this player four times. At 17 years old, he’s a StarCraft veteran, one of the best Terran players in the world, and he’s incredibly successful. His fans rank among the most passionate, his games as the most exciting. Jung Hoon is well-mannered, exciting, emotional, a little bit shy, all while maintaining his status as one of the most dynamic figures of StarCraft 2. Yet he’s never won a major tournament.
In the still-early life of competitive StarCraft 2, we’ve seen hundreds of incredible, memorable matches. Many professional players’ fame or infamy has been earned by toppling the giants who came before them. That shift in attrition, that expert pivot of micro-management or creativity in a single match can surge a single player’s reputation—when an unknown kills a Goliath (no, not that one) he becomes an Internet champion, epitomizing the wonderful parity that’s emerging with competitive SC2. Everyone loves to root for the underdog and watch a good upset—here are StarCraft 2’s top four
StarCraft 2 has revitalized one of PC gaming’s best facets: the feeling of fandom. Live match streaming and YouTube broadcasting has spawned networks of bottomless competitive footage–if you haven’t cheered at your keyboard for your favorite player as he makes an impossible Baneling Bust to turn the tide of a tournament, you’re missing out. To encourage you to get involved, we’ve identified our five favorite “foreign” (i.e., not from Korea) SC2 professionals that deserve your spectating, fanmail and low-level worship.
Professional StarCraft 2 is constantly growing. Whether you are new to the scene or a veteran, the TeamLiquid.net calendar, tournament tracker, player database, and Liquidpedia are great resources to follow upcoming events, tournament results and players. 2011 is going to be full of tournaments. In particular, keep an eye out for the GSL, TSL, MLG and IEM tournaments which are sure to have some of the big names listed below.
On March 30 2011 10:49 Cynexyst wrote: Awesome. Just curious though, what does a website administrator do?
More commonly known as an admin he has supreme powers, or in other words he is the god of the realm that is his website. He can do anything, thats the point of admin, what he says goes.
Wow, this is awesome because I had just read that article, and thought to myself, "wow when did PCgamer get a writer who actually knows about, and writes good articles about sc?"
Wow I read that article earlier but I had no idea that a TL writer wrote it. The picks make so much more sense now (I thought the PCGamer people didn't know much about pro SC2 but the picks were surprisingly good). This is great news!
Fantastic, all the gaming sites and newspapers should be talking about Esports. If we can brick PC gamer's server by showing interest in one article on sc2 players maybe they'll get the hint that they should report more on it. :D
On March 30 2011 11:01 ThaZenith wrote: No wonder the article seemed right, it was written by a pro TL writer.
Awesome, can't wait for more of his articles.
Haha, exactly!
I'm so excited about this! More and more mainstream coverage! Great job, TL, and congrats to Xxio!
That picture in his author profile sure looks familiar. One of the newer SC2 songs, I think? Either that or an absolutely striking resemblance. I'm honestly ashamed I don't know right off the bat, as it shows I didn't pay attention to the name of who made the video and such. *blush*
On March 30 2011 12:58 Starfox wrote: I hope his articles will also be linked on the TL main page. :>
I second this. We already get regular things like "XVI" on the featured list, so I would love to have these show up! Otherwise I'm already looking to see if I can slap it into Google Reader through a RSS feed.
Edit: Haven't found a RSS feed for just this. My attempts just lead to PC Gamer articles as a whole. I'll let you guys know if I've found anything!
On March 30 2011 12:58 Starfox wrote: I hope his articles will also be linked on the TL main page. :>
I second this. We already get regular things like "XVI" on the featured list, so I would love to have these show up! Otherwise I'm already looking to see if I can slap it into Google Reader through a RSS feed.
Edit: Haven't found a RSS feed for just this. My attempts just lead to PC Gamer articles as a whole. I'll let you guys know if I've found anything!
P.S. reading the PCGamer article, I found a small error ... perhaps xxio reads this and can correct it: In Idra's profile it says: "Quarterfinalist GSL January 2010" ... it should be 2011.
Whilst the write-up was great, when I saw the title I expected to see names that weren't "mainstream" in our community. I understand that the whole point of the article is to outsiders to glimpse into our world per say but for ourselves, I guess we already know these are people to watch.
Great article, well written! After having read that you walk away feeling compelled to check out these guys. And it's brilliant to compare them to other sports pros (moonglade = Steve Nash? Sure!)
Really great new article! Though I assume this was made before the Thorzain vs MC match as game 4 clearly would have taken the #1 spot imo. Still, some really good matches there, especially for introducing new people to the awesomeness that is SC2. Keep it up!
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cant open the article, would have loved to read it.... did TL power overload the pcgamer server??
