Victor "Nazgul" Goossens (Dutch: vIktɔʁ 'xosəns born 3 May 1983) is a Dutch retired professional '' StarCraft: Brood War'' player. He is the founder and co-owner of the multiregional professional esports organization

Team Liquid Team Liquid is a multi-regional professional esports organization based in the Netherlands that was founded in 2000. With the release of '' StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty'', Team Liquid signed their first professional players. In 2012, Team Liq ...

Career

Goossens began playing ''StarCraft'' in 1998 soon after release. At the age of 17, he founded Team Liquid's original website as dedicated fandom to ''StarCraft'' with no business intention in mind. After finishing high school he moved to

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with the intent of becoming a professional ''StarCraft'' player. He struggled financially with many tournaments paying only $50 to $100. He returned to the Netherlands and supported himself through poker. Between 2002 and 2012, the website grew to a company which became one of esports biggest franchises. Team Liquid is estimated by ''

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'' to be worth $200 million. Goossens expanded Team Liquid to other games including

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, a game which he supported since 2015. Goossens announced that Team Liquid was disbanding their Dota 2 team in 2019, the same team which won The International 7 in 2017.

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