Victor Goossens is the founder and manager of , one of the oldest and most respected StarCraft teams outside of Korea.

What does it mean to be a professional gaming team manager? Is this your day job?I think at the basis of running the team lays recruitment. Although we have a solid team right now and recruitment has a lower activity than before, you still always have to look at possibilities. A team needs good or popular players, and without that it is nothing, just like any other sports team. For me this means following the top competitions and players enough to have a good enough sense of the scene to make decisions.

Then added to that there are a lot of various things, such as arranging travel for tournaments, preparing for tournament matches, working on the promotion of the team, and just generally working to keep a good team atmosphere. Now that we have the team established, we are going to put in a lot of effort reaching out to sponsors that are possibly interested in sponsoring Liquid. I consider running the team and running my main job, but I still have a few other things going on--most of them involve poker in some way.

How did Team Liquid start out? When did you realize that it was going to be a big deal?Team Liquid as a team started out as a fun team of top players to hang out with and feel connected to. Although it has always been at the top of the foreigner scene, it was never a pro team until SC2 was released. Most of the Team Liquid members from StarCraft: Brood War had Team Liquid as their fun clan and another team that actually sponsored them.

After we started with this fun group, the team and its name became more known, and a few years after starting the team I just became more and more annoyed with all the BW sites around. The quality of the very biggest sites was just so bad that I thought this community deserved more. That is when we started teamliquid.net and focused on our news section and our forum. I definitely felt like it was going to be the biggest BW site in the non-Korean scene, but those days being the largest non-Korean site wasn't that big of a goal, as everything was much smaller than it is now. I never would have imagined it could get to the point we're at right now.