Team Liquid chief operating officer Mike Milanov shows off the new Alienware Training Facility.
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Inside Team Liquid’s high-end esports training facility

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I took a tour of a very different kind of place in Santa Monica, California. It is still under construction, but it will be known as the Alienware Training Facility for Team Liquid.

We got an early look at an 8,000-square-feet facility that is being refashioned into a state-of-the-art esports training location for multiple teams under the Team Liquid umbrella. This is the kind of place where Team Liquid hopes to breed stars in the young industry of esports, which is expected to grow to $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion by 2020. If esports grows as expected, you’ll see a lot more of these kinds of state-of-the-art training facilities for pro players who stare at screens all day.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.