Liquid`Jinro MLG National Champion, 6th Nov 2010

Liquid stormed MLG Dallas this weekend and laid down pure destruction in an attack led by Jonathan "Liquid`Jinro" Walsh, the new MLG National Champion for Starcraft 2. Securing 4/8 top spots, our home team dominated, and then some.

Not dropping a series throughout the entire tourney, Jinro knocked both the eventual 2nd Runner-Up (Pain.USer) and the Runner-Up (TT1) into the Loser's Bracket and then in an extended series once again outplayed TT1 when he came to the Grand Finals after winning the Loser's. With solid mechanics, some great multitask and as Day9 says, a different build in every game, Jinro came out of a few months of practice in Korea and showed the entire foreigner scene that he was a force to be reckoned with.

Of course, while the Godfather went straight to the topic, his brothers also took care of business. Starting from Day 1, Liquid members began a trend of only allowing themselves to be knocked out by other Liquidians (with a few notable exceptions, of course), and the pwnage was laid down brick by brick.


Along with Nazgul's 2-1 win against Idra in the Winner's Bracket that surprised a lot of people, the Liquid wrecking machine was deployed and our home team secured more and more ground in every round they played. With Tyler, TLO, HayprO, Ret and HuK beating the likes of lzgamer, drewbie, axslav, Kiwikaki, Torch, gretorp, attero, machine, SeleCT and qxc on their climb to the top, the final standings saw Liquid with 4 out of the top 7 spots at the tournament.


Liquid didn't just run to the top though. They blinked, neural parasited, fungaled and nuked their way there, and in turn gave us some games to remember. Whether it's Jinro vs Socke on Oasis or Ret vs LzGamer on Metalpolis or Nazgul vs Idra on the same map, each of us has their favourite Liquid game of the tourney. From TLO's 6pool into 3 base transition to Tyler's force field usage, our boys in blue showed us an awesome time this weekend, and if you were crazy enough to miss those games you'd do well to grab the replay pack and put aside a few days to go through them all.


MLG being what it is, we also made ripples in the mainstream media after the event with PC World and G4tv running stories and interviews on us, so read up if you haven't already.

The bulk of Liquid content from MLG though is in this weekly, and you'd be pretty crazy not to jump right away into our post-tournament feature, Dallas Demolished.

Liquid at GSL Open #3 Quals, 15th - 16th Nov 2010

TLAF-Liquid`Jinro, TLAF-Liquid`HayprO, TLAF-Liquid`Ret and TLAF-Liquid`HuK will take part in the GSL Open #3 Qualifiers next week in Seoul. After their great run at MLG we look forward to seeing everyone from our outfit in Korea qualify for the GSL S3, and we know you're waiting to see them on stream as well. Hang out on TL next Monday and Tuesday and read the results as they come in from Seoul. Liquid fighting!

Tyler and TLO to Dreamhack, 26th - 28th Nov 2010

TLAF-Liquid`Tyler and TLAF-Liquid`TLO will be flying to Elmia – Jönköping, Sweden for the Dreamhack Winter 2010 Starcraft 2 tournament.

TLO's return to Europe was announced last week and this will be the first major tournament he will play after going to back to Germany. The 5th place finisher at MLG Dallas, he will be joined by 4th Place TLAF-Liquid`Tyler, and together they'll try their best to dish out domination just like they did in the US. Stay tuned to up coming Liquid Weeklies for more information on Tyler and Dario's trip to Sweden.

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