Team Liquid sign ex-Denial

13-1-2015 19:59

Team Liquid have announced that they have completed the signing of the former Denial squad.

The North American team have established themselves as one of the strongest sides in the region following a series of convincing displays, both online and on LAN.

Last week, Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele's men announced that they were parting ways with Denial, which immediately raised suggestions that big news were in the pipeline, also because Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag decided to quit his job to play CS:GO full-time.

adreN & co join Team Liquid

It has now been announced that the players have been recruited by Team Liquid, one of the most successful multi-gaming organisations in North America, boasting squads in games like Starcraft 2, League of Legends and Hearthstone.

"Our team is extremely excited to announce that we will be joining Team Liquid for all future matches and events!," Damian "daps" Steele said.

"The core of our team has been together for just over 6 months and we have already accomplished a lot with our young and talented roster.

"We feel that being apart of Team Liquid will allow us to take our game to the next level and accomplish even more in the future.

"We would also like to thank Robby and Denial eSports for taking our team into their organization in 2014 and for letting us compete and show what we were capable of at the events that we attended. 2015 is the year of CSGO and our team can't wait to begin competing again in this new year with Team Liquid."

Team Liquid, who were on Monday invited to take part in the FACEIT 2015 League, have the following players:

Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele
Jacob "⁠FugLy⁠" Medina
Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag
Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic
Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella

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expected

2015-01-13 20:01

expected kinda

2015-01-13 20:00

That's nice!

e x p e c t e d b o y s

wow n1

expected with the merger of curse and Team Liquid, but nice either way

nice

-daps +steel would be niceeeeee

5 replies

+1 would be awesome

2 replies

agreed, then moe can focus on his ogl 2v2 ladder

2015-01-13 20:18

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wot?

2015-01-13 20:48

steel is a really bad fit for liquid. they like to think of themselves as gentleman with manners and deep knowledge of their games.

2015-01-13 20:29

hmmm

Nice GL boys!

niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :D

so it begins.

team liquid pls

mouzpaz to TSM IBP to EG

Torqued to CLG?

2015-01-13 21:09

the Orgs are real this is damn good

nice find

oh shet

nice. denial to sign ibp

Denial signed LtK a few days ago

2015-01-13 20:19

very cool, good luck to them. pretty interesting lineup

2015-01-13 20:02

nice, team liquid <3

youtube.com/watch?v=6ekku4LHuSo rekt

lmao

Amazing! Hopefully means they'll attend european tournaments! :D

2015-01-13 20:03

Great news for NA scene. About time the orgs started revealing who is with who.

wow, big organization, Good Luck guys

Wow. Epic.

LIQUID WIKI CS???? :)

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maybe :D

2015-01-13 20:08

that would be really cool. i love their dota wiki

2015-01-13 20:17

We need this! Best esport info ever (SC2 and DotA 2)

2015-01-13 22:50

I love teamliquid, but I wish they had signed a good eu team, such a waste of a legendary tag :(

2015-01-13 20:04

sick!

2015-01-13 20:05

lol

very nice pick up from this org great to see more big orgs step into csgo

Liquid snute

2015-01-13 20:06

Thats so awesome, I love TL!!

Accomplishments: Last place CEVO LAN. Is that all it takes to land a top notch org nowadays. Rofl what a joke.

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They did extremely well at the last ESEA LAN, all things considered.

2015-01-13 20:14

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considering everyone expected them to get rolled twice in a row they did well. In the big picture? No, not really.

They took Titan to OT and a 16 - 12, which isn't terrible(granted, they did have iRoek, but Denial had Anger no-showing). I don't really care for this team(sans adreN, I guess), but people are underselling them. They're probably the 2nd best team domestically at the moment.

2015-01-13 21:02

It was definately progress form CEVO LAN, but i wont overrate their performance too much either.

2015-01-13 21:39

Well, neither would I. They have potential, but that doesn't mean they're realizing it.

2015-01-13 23:02

HATERS GONNA HATE...

2015-01-13 23:20

that's just a big plus, because that means the CS:GO scene has grown so much!

2015-01-14 01:49

Its not as much as them deserving it as much as orgs in NA are finally realizing that csgo is. Game to invest in, so theyre tryin to get the best they can get.

2015-01-14 02:10

Awesome! TL is great

wow great to see liquid in csgo, hope they will pickup a new dota team again aswell!

2015-01-13 20:09

2015-01-13 20:10

cool, gl hf!

i dont know how to feel about this, they have achieved nothing so far, inb4 TL kicks them after 2 months kek

I would expect a great name like Liquid would pick a better team or at least a more established team. Still, hope it works out.

WOW THATS AMAZING

2015-01-13 20:11

2nd best team NA behind new EG imo

soo this means hiko and IBP goes to EG ?

cool

2015-01-13 20:12

Nice! Gl guys!

2015-01-13 20:13

very n1ce)

why did a org like liquid pick up these guys? :S

because they are great representatives for team liquid. a lot of teams are too toxic for a club of fine gentlemen like the liquid guys. adren is basically the most team liquid-ish person in NA cs.

2015-01-13 20:25

wow, good luck ! what next? :D EG picks up MouseSpaz?

2015-01-13 20:15

E P I C GL ADREN, FOR THE GLORY OF KAZAKHSTAN

2015-01-13 20:16

ohhhhh, gl guys :)

sickkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

i bet no one noticed the black guy

What black guy?

2015-01-13 20:36

take a closer look :P

2015-01-13 20:51

2015-01-13 20:52

wowowoowow huuuuuuuuuge

holy shit nice

2015-01-13 20:23

HYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYPE #CSGO2015

2015-01-13 20:24

expected, to be honest

Amazing liquid

2015-01-13 20:30

That is excellent news.

2015-01-13 20:32

This is so fucking great for NA scene and cs:go scene in general

2015-01-13 20:34

2015-01-13 20:37

awsm

Team Liquid in da hizouse.

2015-01-13 20:39

Yesssssssssssssssssssss

2015-01-13 20:44

Btw, and this is very important if we're gonna keep the interest from big NA organisations: We have to expand on the 2 qualifying slots that NA are currently getting. The NA scene is growing in both skill and teams, and they deserve at least 3 or possibly 4 teams now. We've recently had to fill up the last ones with absurd tier 4 teams from all over the world while NA has had more teams that can compete.

2015-01-13 20:47

2015-01-13 20:54

It might seem like the NA teams are getting better, but i think it has more to do with iBP and c9 both dropping down to the other teams level. Now theres 5-6 teams at the top of NA that can all beat each other, and look good while doing it, but all of them would get more or less owned by top euro teams.

2015-01-13 20:55

Edit: I accidentally deleted my answer so I'm just gonna rewrite it quickly. Top euro teams would most likely beat them, but at DHW and the other majors we've had so many tier 2-3-4 teams from around the world that could have been beaten by Mspaz/Liquid/Torqued, etc: Penta, Planetkey, Bravado, CHPW, Flipsid3, ESC, MYXmg, etc.

2015-01-13 21:03

i still think 3 teams is an absolute max. with a proper qualifier close to the actual event to make sure the best teams actually go there.

2015-01-13 21:22

They cant compete with european teams, would only mean less quality in tournaments.

2015-01-13 21:34

LIQUIDDDD COOOL

"I'm gonna show you how great I am" by KaBuM.TD

This is huge. TL is such a great org. GL to everyone.

2015-01-13 20:53

TL <3 <3 <3

Give me TeamLiquid Stickers. NOW.

2015-01-13 20:57

whats is waiting EG to annouced IBP. TSM to Torqued and CLG to mousespaz?

2015-01-13 20:58

IBP is going to MLG as "Wicked Masterminds" team, a play on EG's name

2015-01-14 13:55

Imagine Team Liquid stickers from Katowice? That is, if this years Katowice stickers will have the same style as last years. Ahh, the thought of one of them on a Vulcan is giving me a boner! i.imgur.com/fAMfM1t.png

2015-01-13 21:04

I hope they'll make similar looking stickers with name 'Katowice 2015'

2015-01-13 21:20

Liquid nitr0gen

Nice

2015-01-13 21:21

I quit my job to play full day cs.

2015-01-13 21:32

Deem, best of luck guys!

2015-01-13 21:33

The HYPE! Go adreN!

NA CS:GO is getting bigger than the EU scene soon, orga wise.

2015-01-13 21:42

only in orgas coz murica has more money

2015-01-13 22:00

thats what he said silly

2015-01-13 22:12

Couldn't have gone with a better NA team, in my opinion. Happy to see bigger and better organisations getting into CSGO. ex-mousespazz and ex-ibp up next.

nice. gl boyz. celebrate that shit with some bitches and krokodil.

2015-01-13 21:44

WOOOOOOOOOAHHHH unexpected

2015-01-13 21:55

unexpected :O gl boys

they have potential, and liquid has money. they are going to support them really good. and this is actually very good for the american scene because they don't lack the talent but the international experience. also ex-ibp goes to EG and mousespaz to either nV or iBP

2015-01-13 22:13

Great organisation. Most definitely my favorite NA team now (didn't have one before).

2015-01-13 22:34

expected n1 anyways

2015-01-13 22:45

lol @ sponsors alienware , razer , twitch , need for seat , hyperX , G2A , Nissan , Lolclass , lootcrate gl guys

2015-01-13 23:06

ti nomizes einai oi omades tou LoL? :p

2015-01-14 15:16

e mlkies, ama dn exoun sponsor tin McLaren, NASA, Intel, Samsung, redbull kai google dn kanoun douleia :D axxaxa

2015-01-14 16:24

tha katevasw team me sponsora th sony kai thn coca-cola na tous faw olous :P

2015-01-14 16:47

Easy to like team and organization. Not sure how they will do but Naf and nitr0 are young and adreN will teach them well. GL

2015-01-13 23:08

Hopefully mousespaz gets picked up by a big organization.

2015-01-13 23:17

Surprised they didn't pick up mSpaz, wtf? Even if EG picks up ex-iBP... honestly these guys aren't worth it. Oh well

2015-01-13 23:56

Liquid is just the coolest name

2015-01-14 00:03

I don't have much faith but I'm hoping for the best. gl

2015-01-14 00:11

+1 bizarre choice. I doubt liquid is aware of the teams actual position in NA/their potential. gl to them though

2015-01-14 00:24

dope

2015-01-14 00:27

Super happy about this always been a huge fan of the team liquid community and when i switched from sc2 to csgo in beta, hltv became a bit of a replacement for my everyday site to visit. Props to TL for jumping in and i hope they do well.