Game On: How Esports Giant Team Liquid is Leveling Up its Data Storage With Walrus

For fans, esports are all about clutch wins, amazing plays, and the beauty of watching the very best players in the world flex their skills in front of a massive audience. But that’s only part of the picture.

Behind the scenes, esports organizations generate staggering volumes of data. But preserving that history—and keeping it usable—is harder than it sounds. For Team Liquid, one of the most successful organizations in esports history, that data can include anything from years of match footage, behind-the-scenes content, and brand assets. Today, it’s all collectively grown into a staggering archive amounting to hundreds of terabytes, spread across physical drives and locations worldwide.

Sharing, accessing, and keeping tabs on such a vast amount of content brings more than a little friction to the table. For Team Liquid, that meant files were siloed, access was inconsistent, and the risk of data loss grew as the archive expanded.

Enter Walrus—a decentralized data layer capable of handling these challenging enterprise-scale needs. Working with Team Liquid, some 250TB of the team’s content library was migrated to a decentralized data layer designed for performance, durability, and long-term flexibility.

Why esports archives matter

Esports, like traditional sports media, produce massive amounts of video, metadata, and content that must be managed, indexed, and reused across global teams and platforms.

“Team Liquid is a global organization and we frequently have multiple people around the world producing content,” said Claire Hungate, Team Liquid President and Chief Operating Officer. “This presents challenges in managing massive amounts of data that is siloed on physical drives across our facilities and teams.”

The migration itself represents the largest single dataset ever entrusted to Walrus—and has delivered immediate operational benefits, according to Team Liquid. Internal teams can find and access footage faster. Collaboration is no longer limited by geography, and single points of failure are removed from the equation.

“The utility is massive,” said Hungate, noting that as the migration progresses, Team Liquid’s global teams “will be able to access and search our entire history.”

Just as importantly, the archive is no longer a static repository. By moving content onto Walrus, Team Liquid’s data becomes onchain-compatible, opening the door to new use cases without requiring another costly migration down the line. It also means that the data isn’t locked in isolated systems. Instead, it can interface with blockchain environments where records are verifiable, auditable, and tamper-resistant.

Turning archives into usable assets

For Team Liquid, the goal went beyond mere preservation. “This partnership tells the story of what’s possible with data beyond storage,” Rebecca Simmonds, Managing Executive of the Walrus Foundation, said.

The data can integrate with the broader Sui Stack, enabling new access models, controlled sharing, or novel ways to surface previously unseen content. Better yet, these possibilities exist without locking the organization into a rigid infrastructure that could limit future transformation, Walrus noted.

“Working with Walrus represents the next phase of our integration into the Sui tech stack,” Hungate said. “Because it’s built on Sui, we have the ecosystem, utility, security and speed needed to eventually turn this content into new, interactive experiences for our fans.”

“We started by building our fan loyalty platform, MyBlue, on Sui,” she added, “and now we’re excited about the possibilities Walrus can bring to turn our content into usable assets.”

Esports content takes in everything from documentaries and brand campaigns, to fan engagement and future monetization. With creators and teams operating around the world, physical storage created bottlenecks that slowed production and increased risk.

Now, the Walrus migration replaces that complexity with a platform designed to scale alongside the organization itself. Having this data securely stored, verifiable, and easily shareable, will provide many opportunities for the future, Simmonds explained.

Smarter access with AI-driven tooling

The migration is being executed through Zarklab, which provides specialized UX and UI tools on top of Walrus. Features such as AI-powered metadata tagging allow Team Liquid’s teams to search and retrieve files across drives and locations more efficiently.

By making content easier to find and manage, Team Liquid can unlock its archive for future projects while maintaining granular access controls across departments and partners.

“Walrus gives Team Liquid that data foundation that’s fast and hyper resilient today, while also being flexible enough to support new ways of using and monetising content in the future,” Simmonds said.

The future

For Team Liquid, the move to Walrus is a foundational upgrade rather than a short-term fix. Team Liquid’s 250TB migration pushes total data stored on the protocol to new highs, underscoring Walrus’ performance and reliability claims at enterprise scale.

Today, the organization’s most valuable footage and brand history are now preserved on infrastructure designed to last, while remaining flexible enough to support whatever comes next.

For Walrus, the partnership reflects a broader shift in how large organizations think about data, from storage to performance at scale, resilience over time, and the ability to turn data into something actively useful.

“This critical infrastructure upgrade ensures our most valuable footage and memories are preserved,” Hungate said, adding that the migration gives the esports giant “the technical platform to explore new ways to engage our most important stakeholders: the fans.”