TACO: "We represent both Americas"

18-11-2015 02:53

Our first interview of day two of the RGN Pro Series features Games Academy's Tacio 'TACO' Filho along with team manager Wilton 'zews' Prado helping with translation.

Games Academy took down the sole European team attending the RGN Pro Series, CSGOLounge, and took second seed in Group C after losing to Liquid in a seeding match.

The team have a fruitful history of support from both Brazil and North America, as they currently live in Lancaster, California and are fighting their way up through various online leagues in a bid to seek more recognition for Brazilian Counter-Strike in addition to Luminosity.

We spoke to Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo, who understands English fairly well but felt more comfortable with the help of team manager Wilton 'zews' Prado translating so that he could get his thoughts across in a more conducive manner.

You can find our other interviews from the RGN Pro Series as well as other clips on our Youtube channel here.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

lel

2015-11-18 02:53

go ga

a rare interview with a taco

2015-11-18 02:54

10 replies

we need an interview with burger XD

2015-11-18 02:59

1 reply

There are plenty of interviews with Hiko

2015-11-29 02:19

i prefer kebabs

7 replies

I prefer tapioca

2015-11-18 03:07

6 replies

no, u prefer piroca

2015-11-18 03:12

5 replies

u prefer pirocon

2015-11-18 03:28

lolol

2015-11-18 05:53

2 replies

I prefer vodka

2015-11-18 07:27

You see comrade, when drunk, capitalist not understand what say!

2015-11-19 16:08

So what I like a big piroca and cabeçuda?

2015-11-18 19:44

kappa

sellout

2015-11-18 02:55

no thank you, SA can have LG and GA

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Tells to the fcking ESEA to stop putting USA flag on the LG games. There are no brazilians claimming to be part of this fcking piece of shit called NA. If it was EU at least, but NA... hmmm no, tnks! We rather keep playing sober and without throwing for skins.

3 replies

You are mad? Hahaha

2015-11-18 03:14

damn why so mad? us>br any day

using two fakeflagger accs to reply me? haha what a nerd

2015-11-18 03:32

xD no one want's your ugly fat nigger black ass.

2015-11-21 15:35

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cool

2015-11-21 17:05

Yeah, very cool, back to the ghetto fgt.

2015-11-21 18:24

2015-11-21 23:21

2015-11-22 00:14

ok then, this champ will represent only SA lel

2015-11-28 23:38

they are a SA team so thats who they should represent, don't know why its so hard for people to understand

2015-11-29 09:17

stich, does that microphone extended even more? Kappa

2015-11-18 02:56

Tac0rest

2015-11-18 02:57

#GOGA Argentina with u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TACO > ALL

Zews > zeus

Zues +Jews = Zews

kkkkkkkkkkkk yes

2015-11-18 03:02

did they say that GA is only staying in america for 1 season? if so did they mean fall or a esea season, hope they dont leave, they are making the NA scene more competitive and sound like nice people.

2015-11-18 03:00

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they're planing to stay.. taco said that they hope to close the year and come back 2016 even stronger so they're going to Brazil in end of the year and coming back 2016 jan/feb

2015-11-18 03:08

thank you for the info, they seem like nice guys and they are a good team, hopefully they can get up to pro league soon.

2015-11-18 03:10

taco is the most suportive guy i know he's aways nice with his fans etc zews aswell aways answering questions on stream etc.. for the other 3 idk, i mean they're not as much suportive as taco and zews is but they're nice guys too

2015-11-18 03:19

almost everyone on the team is cocky and full of them selves (zews and show are cool guys), they deserve to be retkered, i still remember taco saying in facebook that they went to US to be top1 (i kekd on this one) and fnx trashtalking his fans taking every troll comment seriously

taco is cool, he's aways kidding so he probably said that kidding i agre that fnx is kinda cocky

2015-11-18 03:38

they will comeback in january to play next season, GA will provide 9 months more..

2015-11-18 03:09

Afaik there will be more golden chance tournaments

2015-11-18 03:20

They didnt find any ORG yet but they will be back next year under GA tag again.

2015-11-18 03:22

the 1 season is the minimum, it's like a trial, if they suck balls they get back to brazil, otherwise they stay till find a new ORG, just then fallen will bring another GA.

2015-11-18 04:00

With all the Mexicans in the US, TACO sure as fuck does represent the region.

2015-11-18 03:03

That's funny

2015-11-18 03:04

taco is love taco is life

2015-11-18 03:05

loved the interview stich you did a great job!

taco

2015-11-18 03:06

like dead said in LG interview, they represent NA and SA

It's good to see teams of different countries join on the cs go scene. Good luck GA.

zews should just ask like "how many men u fucked" to taco

UFC interview style lol

nice stitch

Good guy TACO

2015-11-18 03:13

GA brazilian fan here, thank you NA for being so kind with our guys, thank you so much for support their dreams im sure they love NA as much as i did when i expend my vacations there, theres a part of brazilians who's toxic but the biggest part of brazil just want to say thanks to you guys... BR<3NA

2015-11-18 03:16

They need to stay in NA. Still struggling against the top teams, but they have undeniably improved.

2015-11-18 03:17

Yeah when GA arrived they were losing a lot even to t3 na teams. Now they almost beat clg in bo3. With some more time they will get near top 5.

2015-11-18 03:24

It's good for both Americas to have these brazilians teams playing at NA. It raises the level of competitiveness, brings new tactics and makes both NA and SA better in game. I believe thats the way to fight EU teams.

2015-11-18 03:18

I am amazed how Zews's english is perfect

He lived in US till hes 8 years old i guess, or more. He said it on GA stream.

2015-11-18 03:25

Zews english level = GOD

Nice zelin

2015-11-18 03:27

No one wants to be represented by trash

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so why NA represent NA? LMAO

Because they're actually FROM NA? LOL If all you have is trash then you can only pick the least shit to represent you but NA doesn't need any more trash from SA to represent them.

2015-11-18 04:33

our trash is better then yours ... sorry m8 dont get mad

2015-11-18 22:08

How many majors has your trash won again? LOL

2015-11-18 22:10

ESWC 2006 DH 2007, rip fnatic and SK also, the second best BR team in 1.6 won against fnatic too, in nuke also, keyd 16x7 fnatic

2015-11-21 15:44

LOL stfu favela boy. 1.6? really?

2015-11-21 15:52

nothing 2 say muslim?

2015-11-21 16:01

Nothing needed. If you want to talk about the past, we all know who the kings of 1.6 were. The favela teams back then were far better than they are now I'll give u that.

2015-11-21 17:47

n1 taco n zews

2015-11-18 03:31

Nice interview. Will keep the eye in GA!~:-)

2015-11-18 03:44

<3 TACO

2015-11-18 03:46

ooow nice english zews gg taco

2015-11-18 03:51

Amazing english by zews. Better than dead's tbh. Haha they were so nervous =D Gj stich and GA

2015-11-18 03:57

Outstanding english! Very clean and fluent! Sounds like a native speaking!

2015-11-18 12:51

Zews means zeus in brazil? cuz sound similar

yes

2015-11-18 04:01

same sound... but write Zeus too.

2015-11-18 04:03

this makes me want a taco

2015-11-18 04:36

zews' voice is amazing

2015-11-18 04:48

Stitch has got so much swag

2015-11-18 05:46

These guys have the potential to become a mid invite team, maybe even top if they play like they did against c9. Lets hope they stay in NA because I want better competition in the NA scene.

2015-11-18 07:50

I swear Taco said kennyS, but his translator never said it. This whole interview was fake.

2015-11-18 08:36

he didnt said anything about kennyS lmao, calm down, zews translated almost perfectly, just forgot something here and there

2015-11-18 11:24

I hope that guys from GA will learn english language asap.

2015-11-18 08:53

TACO KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK THAT ENGLISH <3

2015-11-18 11:22

nt hiko

2015-11-18 15:59

Every cs player/fan in South and North America need to view the Americas as one. It's hard enough to beat EU, don't bring each other down in the process.

2015-11-18 16:21