On day 2 of the 2021 Summer Season, it was announced that Alphari would be benched for Jenkins. They won the Lock-In tournament, and placed 2nd in the Spring Season with Armao as a jungle stand-in for Santorin, who was not playing due to health issues. This is where they placed 9-12th with a 3-3 record in their group, which would be the best performance of an NA team this year.įor the 2021 season, Santorin and Alphari joined the roster, replacing Broxah and Impact. Thanks to this third place, Team Liquid qualified for Worlds 2020. Team Liquid stuck together with Broxah in the jungle and Tactical in the botlane, which resulted in them placing first in the regular season before losing 2-3 against FlyQuest and TSM to place third in playoffs. Ahead of 2020 Summer Split, Doublelift announced his departure from Team Liquid, he would join TSM for the upcoming split. Despite Broxah returning, Team Liquid placed 9th in the split. Halfway through the Spring Split, Doublelift was benched due to motivational issues, with Tactical receiving a promotion to the main roster. Unfortunately, the Dane struggled with visa issues, which resulted in Shernfire taking over the jungle for the first couple of weeks. In Spring 2020, Team Liquid acquired Broxah. Team Liquid won the Summer split too, but they once again fell short at Worlds, placing 9-12th. This best of 5 between Team Liquid and G2 was the quickest best of 5 ever at the time. At MSI 2019, Team Liquid beat Invictus Gaming 3-1 in the semi-finals, before falling against G2 Esports in the finals. In 2019, Jensen and CoreJJ replaced Pobelter and Olleh, this team would once again dominate the league, securing the Spring Championship. This team would however fall short at international tournaments, placing 5th at MSI 2018 and 9-12th at Worlds 2018. This team would go on to become one of the best teams the LCS has ever seen, winning both the Spring 2018 and Summer 2018 splits. Team Liquid completely rebuilt their team, signing Impact from Cloud9, Doublelift from TSM and Xmithie, Pobelter and Olleh from Immortals. The LCS became a franchised league in 2018, with Team Liquid being one of the 10 partner teams. They beat Phoenix1 3-2 to qualify for Spring 2018. This resulted in them being a bottom team, with them not getting further than a 4-14 record and once again having to go through the promotion tournament. Team Liquid revealed a roster of Lourlo, Dardoch, Mickey, Piglet and Matt for the Summer Season. They managed to stay in the LCS by beating Gold Coin United 3-2 in the Promotion Tournament. With various roster changes through the season, Team Liquid could not get further than 9th place in the regular season. This went on throughout the split, with Doublelift also joining on loan from TSM. Heading into Spring 2017, Team Liquid made various changes to their team. At the end of 2016, Team Liquid and HTC Gaming published a documentary called Breaking Point, showing the struggles within the team. They then lost 0-3 against Team EnvyUs in the Regional Finals, resulting in another missed World Championship. In Summer, the roster would once again go through various changes during the split, resulting in Team Liquid placing 5-6th in Summer. This roster would lose 2-3 against Counter Logic Gaming and 0-3 against Immortals in Spring 2016, resulting in a 4th place finish. Heading into 2016, Lourlo joined as the new toplaner, Smoothie joined as the new support, with the likes of Dardoch and Matt joining as substitute players. Team Liquid qualified as the first seed for the Regional Finals, but lost 1-3 against Cloud9 and failed to qualify for Worlds. This roster would finish third in both the Spring and Summer split. Quas, IWillDominate, FeniX, Piglet and Xpecial became the first roster representing Team Liquid in the NA LCS. In 2015, Team Liquid acquired Curse Gaming to enter League of Legends.
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