Welcome AWTF Brazil! Liquid comes to São Paulo

Welcome AWTF Brazil! Liquid comes to São Paulo

Time Stamp: May 2, 2023 11:09 AM

Welcome AWTF Brazil! Liquid comes to São Paulo

It’s time for a new chapter — this time, in Portuguese! We’re thrilled to share that our third Alienware Training Facility opens today, in São Paulo, Brazil. That means Liquid has home bases in North America, Europe, and now South America too. For Liquid, Brazil not only hosts our athletes in Rainbow 6, Valorant, StarCraft, and Fortnite — Brazil is also home for many of our talented staff and so many of our most passionate fans. With an AWTF facility in São Paulo, now Liquid too can truly call Brazil, “home.”

Our AWTFs around the world have been praised for taking the concept of an esports facility to a whole new level. Now, we’re taking it even further with our Brazil-based facility. Team Liquid has taken over a 13-story building in São Paulo and renovated it entirely to be the ideal home base for all of our employees and athletes in the area, so they can work, train, and even live there. Boasting floor space of more than 3000 square meters — twice the size of the Los Angeles and Utrecht AWTFs — and equipped with state of the art technology and amenities, AWTF Brazil will be the biggest esports facility in the world.

“Brazil is a priority in Team Liquid’s plans, and the new facility is yet another symbol of our investments in local talent and fans,” said Rafael “Rafa” Queiroz, general manager of Team Liquid in Brazil. “Since the beginning of last year, we’ve announced Liquid’s first female line-up worldwide, brought the Liquid Store and the Liquid+ platform to the country, launched collabs with Marvel, Fortnite and Naruto, and participated in major events, such as [The Brazil Game Show] and [Comic Con Experience]. We are and will remain very close to the Cavalry community, and the launch of this facility reflects the importance of the country within the organization’s global strategy.”

But why not rent existing space? Why go to all this trouble in making our own facility? The advantage of creating our own esports facility is that we can calibrate everything precisely to the needs of our organization. Within both player and employee spaces, there will be dedicated areas for physical and mental health, such as a gym, pilates studio, performance laboratory, and decompression space. Players will have access to a floor dedicated entirely to player training, equipped with Alienware Aurora R15 desktop PCs. There will also be streaming rooms and review rooms to meet all our athletes’ and staff’s needs.

That said, none of this would be possible without Alienware. Liquid and Alienware have been partners for over a decade and this partnership has been the cornerstone in not only creating our facilities but making sure that they’re state of the art. We’re proud to have built a legacy together with Alienware — and to extend that legacy even further.

“At Alienware, we are excited to take another leap forward in our long partnership with Team Liquid by delivering our 3rd state-of-the-art facility to reinforce our commitment to professionalize esports training around the globe,” said João Duarte, marketing director for Dell Technologies in Brazil. “We worked with Team Liquid to deliver a technological project that starts with Dell Technologies’ IT infrastructure that will support everything, from the organization’s administration to the very high-performance Alienware equipment that will boost the talent of these and next generations of players in the squads headquartered in Brazil.”

If you’re a local fan, we want you to know that the AWTF is for you too! The building’s entrance houses the Fan Zone, an area that will act as a gathering place for fans to attend official events, cheer for Team Liquid, and build community. We’re also opening the first ever physical Team Liquid store in the world at AWTF Brazil, so you can shop for your favorite Team Liquid merch in person.

We’ve been working hard on our new home in São Paulo — AWTF Brazil — for the past year, and we’re so excited to finally share it with everyone in the Liquid family. We hope to see you there!

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