Team Liquid - Wait, what?
Yes, it’s still weird saying it. It’s also been hard explaining it to my family & friends without comparing it to every boys goal in my hometown wanting to play for their favorite soccer team when they were young. I never had that dream. But when I got into gaming & esports I started to understand how that feeling must have been like for my friends back in the day. There were a few organizations who I immediately connected to and Team Liquid was always right up there.
And now I’m working with them. Crazy right?
Granted, I’m not like a full-time or part-time employee or anything like that (yet), but for the next two months I am allowed to tell stories for them.
So where am I, what am I doing and how did this happen?
To answer the first question: South Korea. More specifically as I’m writing this I’m on a bus heading from our quarantine hotel to our actual hotel where we will be staying for the next 9 weeks.
Ok next question. What am I doing?
Filming, taking pictures, editing, sort of a bit of everything. And for whom? Team Liquid!!!! Yeah, I know, I said that already. But let me give a little bit more information:
I’m here with their PUBG Team for the PGI.S tournament. It’s not only the first LAN event in a very long time in PUBG, it also has the best teams from all over the world and a prize pool of 3,5 Million Dollars. Yes, also crazy right?
How did this happen?
I guess pretty much how everything so far in my time in esports happened. Not through applications or hundreds of emails, but through being friends with different people. Just like Tanner. While I edited a PUBG montage for his then teammate Bahawaka (back in 2017, I think), we didn’t really connect until my time with the Pittsburgh Knights in the PEL in 2019. For some odd fucking reason he remembered the montage and we started to get along (especially partying at Matrix). After I went back to university that summer, we didn’t really hear from each other until he messaged me last October. I still remember everything about the call where he pitched this project. And the first thing that came to my head was: „This is too crazy to say no“.
So I said yes. And now I’m here. On a bus. Somewhere in Korea. Starting what might be my biggest project yet. I can’t wait for it all, and I can’t wait to make some noise.
P.S It still feels so surreal seeing my name on a Team Liquid jersey and its probably gonna take some time for me to get used to that.