SK confirm Stewie2K addition

31-3-2018 21:42

SK have confirmed the addition of Jake "Stewie2K" Yip, revealing that he has become the team's temporary fifth player.

SK's players had announced the addition of Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip on Friday, although the organization did not comment on the move up until now. Saturday's announcement by SK reveals that the former Cloud9 member comes in as a temporary fifth player.

In the announcement, Managing Director Alexander Müller provided a quote, in which he commented on the team's unsatisfying results in 2018, stressing that "changes had to be made".

Stewie2K will make his debut for SK on Wednesday

Stewie2K will make his debut for the organization on Wednesday, April 4, in ESL Pro League Season 7, in which SK are currently sitting in 11th place with nine points from 10 matches.

"2018 hasn't been kind to us so far and as a team that strives to be number #1, changes had to be made," the SK director said.

"It's very important for us to bring back the missing stability in our roster and despite that adding a non-Brazilian player presents new challenges for the squad, we believe Stewie is the right man to help us stop the streak of poor results and start our climb back up the rankings.

"Playing in a new kind of environment will be an additional boost for the team to practice harder than ever and the results will surely follow very soon"

SK's squad now features the following players:

Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo
Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David
Fernando "⁠fer⁠" Alvarenga
Ricardo "⁠boltz⁠" Prass (on loan from Immortals)
Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip

expected

2018-03-31 21:43

20 replies

Expected!

9 replies

nostradamus?

2018-03-31 21:44

4 replies

Internet Explorer

2018-03-31 21:45

2 replies

how many article will they make about this jeez

2018-03-31 21:50

1 reply

37 more comming

2018-03-31 21:51

lel

2018-04-01 15:55

why yung stew? whyyyyyy

He knew c9 would never achieve anything ever again. He jumped off a sinking ship

2018-04-01 02:31

+1 omegalul rip c9

2018-04-01 08:36

Expected!!

2018-03-31 21:49

Temporary joins SK ? Why not permanent ?

2018-03-31 21:47

6 replies

because they will go to MIBR

2018-03-31 21:54

coz Noah is the one who actually pay for him..**

2018-03-31 21:57

This might sound stupid but who dafq is noah

2018-03-31 22:05

SKs contracts run out in 2 months...so if they wanna change org and keep stewie he cant be bound by an contract when and if they decide to leave SK

2018-03-31 22:07

Immortals are the ones who bought him and then loaned him to SK

2018-03-31 23:55

2018-04-01 06:27

what a twist!!!!!!

2018-03-31 23:38

-boltZ + S1mple

2018-04-01 07:42

how i block this spamming retarded kiddo.

2018-04-01 11:21

Why would you repeat wt f

Eyyy

Only 3rd confirmation left

HLTV in 2018

2018-03-31 22:24

Expected

Snake2K

3 replies

Stewie2faced

Hahahah dead

2018-04-01 06:10

Unexpected.

-1

...for the third time in this week

xd lul

needs -boltz + autimatic to be perfect lineup

2018-03-31 21:58

i heard autimatic refused SK

2018-03-31 22:25

2018-03-31 22:38

2018-03-31 23:56

-boltz +NAF ez top 1

2018-04-01 01:56

Yes

2018-04-01 02:03

boltz just went dog shit out of nowhere, if he brings his form back he will be nutty. Not so long ago he was an insane rifler.

2018-04-01 08:58

in swags stream, a chat head of steam popped up. autimatic said that if stew wants to go to SK stew must, but he will stay in c9. swag tried to hide the chat but failed

2018-04-01 09:01

ok thx for info i've heard a thing like that but was not sure, sad because it would be sick lineup

2018-04-01 14:15

expected! rank 1 EZ

lul

HLTV confirmed

noic

rip

Totally unexpected.

wttff

cool

Temporary?

temporary in SK. they're going to mibr

2018-03-31 22:19

rip sk LUL

one more thread pls xD

rip br scene

confirmed from hltv it's over c9

18 replies

He's C9's fourth best player. They can recover from this they just need to bring the right people in. Kind of wish Optic hadn't snapped up Stan and Shazam. Really wish Liquid hadn't picked up NAF. Despite that there is actually a ton of young talent in NA. I think Xizt and JDM will essentially try out for a few months. If that doesn't work they'll raid NRG me thinks.

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Yeah NRG is going to be poached soon but stewie was easily C9s 2nd best player Ska was inconsistent and Tarik is too due to calling. and Rush just doesn't have numbers anywhere close to Stewies nor the impact.

2018-03-31 21:52

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Rush's numbers are close to Stewie's and Tarik is better then him. Where's this narrative that Tarik is bad coming from? Dude is a beast. If the year ended now he'd be on the tail end of the top 20.

2018-03-31 21:56

No way any c9 member would rank besides Tim but i take back what i said about Tarik being inconsistent I underrated him

2018-03-31 22:00

Really the guy with the 1.14 LAN rating who's also an IGL that took an underdog team to a major win doesn't have a chance of ranking? Ok.......

2018-03-31 22:01

No he doesn't and as much as youd like 1 tourney to carry him its not going to especially with weak rankings at others so far. There's multiple NA players who list above him and i can easily name enough others to push him out of the top 20. If you actually think Tarik would rank you're delusional. There's 50+ maybe 100 players with higher LAN rankings than him this year many enough with more tournament success.

2018-03-31 22:10

Would the NRG players leave though? They're doing great online. They might want to stick around and see if this project works out. Will be sad if that ends up being the case.

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Because C9 is a Tier 1 Franchise. People will stupidly argue this but they are. Every kid in NA that wants to play pro CS wants to play for C9 or Liquid. They just do. It's been like that for years now.

2018-03-31 22:02

Yeah, every kid thats like three tiers below them. NRG is right with them. As professionals who have already been in semi top teams (CLG and NRG for NahtE) he might want to see this NRG thing through

2018-03-31 22:04

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Yeah dude you don't get it. Every major LAN this year C9 will be at. They have a Major spot. Past the prestige that's why they would be a destination for those kids. NRG is very good online. None of them have showed anything on LAN which is probably why they won't be immediately picked up.

2018-03-31 22:06

Players have major spots not C9. Stewie rush ska Tarik and Tim hold the spots and you need 3 of them to retain it.

2018-03-31 22:13

Yeah but you know what he means. Since they are still contracted to Cloud9 he said “They have a major spot.”

2018-03-31 23:54

I know what he means if he already has that information but the way he typed it made it look like he means the org not the players.

2018-04-01 04:22

Yeah I get that

2018-04-01 04:36

Depends on pay etc, depends on what they care about but I can tell you right now they dont have a top 5 world roster maybe top 2 NA consistently potentially but if any of them want to be top 5 in the world they're going to eventually need to link up with some established and experienced pros.

2018-03-31 22:16

Right. Which is why the Xizt/JDM move isn't nearly as bad as people say it is. I think the Skadoodle change needed to happen anyway. The kick in the balls is Stewie. Two guys that aren't liabilities that have a ton of major LAN experience. The formation just changes to Tarik taking and Rush taking more pronounced roles. One easy change that could be good for Rush is to move him full time into entries. He was an entry fragger in Optic after all.

2018-03-31 22:40

Yeah Rush will be a pure entry him lurk Tarik sup/star jdm and xizt are obv. So for what they need they're basically getting the best possible players without buyouts besides maybe allu but not that much of a skill diff imo. I think this lineup needs a good AWPer though Tim can't be forced to do anymore than he already is Jdm needs to put frags up

2018-03-31 23:39

twitter.com/seizedwf/status/980133593031.. Niko confirmed to cloud9 it's over FaZe

ahah

NOOOOOOOOO

IE?

Really?

Next game of sk?

ez for young stew

hair wave big enough to put toy surfer under it whooooshhhh

SK now tier 10

addiction* he is used to cocaine

yeah boyyyyyy, GL stew <3

mibr

Yayy <3 atb SK <3

internet explorer hltv

Either SK sells the whole squad to Immortals or they stay. I doubt SK buys out Stewie just to let them walk to Immortals.

Stew is Immortals player brother.. along with the rest of SK roster

He transferred for free. Owner said so himself in a tweet. Stewie asked for the transfer and the owner didn't let him go because Stewie has always been on good terms with c9.

2018-03-31 22:43

noice

well

Traitor2K

wow, really?

seresly

Nice, now kick boltz and SK gonna be TOP1 again

soon out of top30

2018-03-31 21:46

They will destroy fnatic, that's for sure

poor stew

youtu.be/4jGRtAyjBBw

holy fucking shit omg ahahahaha

please confirm 1 more time just to be sure

2018-04-01 08:56

Snake2k

-Stewie2k +Taz

Stewie UltraHD

really ? (:

SK Snake2k PogChamp

no shit! I can’t believe it!

jing snake2k toledo and gabriel 2faced yip together omg

It would be lol if sk didnt confirm

StewieSK

Snake2k lmao

Expected from Jake "TwoFaced" Toledo

2018-03-31 21:48

i will laugh if its backfires and there will be no going back to c9 :D still love that little yellow guy tho.

He could probably go back if he wanted to rn c9 doesn't have many options unless they start buying players out left and right. Unless this xizt jdm lineup magically clicks.

2018-03-31 21:55

YUNG STEWW

Stewie understand portuguease?

stupid move

Quite excited to see how this is going to unfold. Stewie has some serious fire power so I'm curious about fallen's decision on where to put him in the team.

Nice but comm?

Most of them speak good English besides Coldzera. They could also teach Stew Portuguese if he wanted

2018-03-31 23:58

Please confirm one more time.

Let's GO SK !!!

"2018 hasn't been kind to us so far and as a team that strives to be number #1, changes had to be made," TACO kiked confirmed

it was not an org kick, they are about to leave SK anyways on a couple of months.. Fallen kicked TACO.. believe what you want but that's the true

SK CONFIRM WORLD TOP 1 SOON

traitor2k

Temporary? I hope that means when July comes, they'll dispose of him and sign s1mple/flamie. I wanna see where Stewie goes.

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Stewie2k might be the first SK team member, as July Fallen's team will move on from SK. SK with American players?

That would be the dumbest shit ever. So he leaves C9 to form his own NA team? With what exactly? If that was just gonna happen, he should have stayed with C9 and built from there.

2018-03-31 21:59

Maybe he knows some intern info that C9 will close its CS GO team...

2018-03-31 22:03

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That would be even worse. C9 is not CLG or Misfits. C9 have plenty of money and a big name to boot

Well, who knows! ...Stewie would not move from C9 just to fool around!

No.. Noah bought Stew for Mibr along with the rest of Fallen's roster.. Stew will be playing under SK's flag just waiting for the core end their contract with them..

That makes sense. But their communications will degrade a lot with this horrible move.

2018-03-31 22:08

idk.. maybe at the start till they have all the positions names and stuff but they are all speaking a very understandable eng already and it shall improve.. This team will look like when they had Felps.. Stew is a aggressive player just like him was.. Mibr CT sides will be fun to watch!

2018-03-31 22:14

Why not Felps?!

well.. it was Felp's choice to leave.. i think he just don't have the nerves to be under pressure like TACO have been for so long, when u are the best its really tough to remain there.. he has the skills but not the right mind set.. He probably will perform better being on the underdog team, felling free to make plays!

2018-03-31 22:28

2018-04-01 08:25

Downgrade btw

Indeed!

SK Ez top One

2018-03-31 21:53

goes from #2 in world to #8. = all about the money not the game.

Yes c9 has definitely been performing like a #2 team, if anything these teams are on the same level with uncertain futures it's not like c9 was a rock of stability and SK is a sinking ship.

SK been losing more matches vs lower tier teams than C9 has been recently.

2018-03-31 23:50

Irrelevant. We're talking about the best teams in the world Tier 1 LANs are what matter.

2018-04-01 04:21

Recently u mean 2 months lul, idiot braindead

2018-04-01 05:19

SK has been shit for more than 2 months. Try to buy out every top player in any top 10 team they can find for the past month haha

2018-04-01 10:54

I'm sensing a flop

I give them four months.

stewie2k is so cute

ok....

alright....

Why would they add a worse cold/fallen on a team with cold and fallen though?

RIP SK Stewie2faced(((

Snaxe2K

gl Stewie <3

snake2k

Next news : Stewie2K confirms SK confirming stewie2k addition. Like seriously, HLTV, this post doesn't bring anything new, just ctrl+c ctrl+v organisation's post, add 2 random sentences, post. RLY.

Like olof?

April fools joke

bad decision by SK.

fuck it, get rid of boltz for EliGE, and zews to SK as well.

Downgrade RIP BR scene

*Wrong reply, sorry

2018-03-31 22:09

gl young stew

2018-03-31 22:12

Not april fools joke... uff... Nice

2018-03-31 22:15

I would like to know what he means by "temporary".

If SK actually signed him to the team his contract was surpass July, when all other members of SK have their contracts expire, which wouldn’t allow him to join mibr if he played well with the SK guys

2018-04-01 00:02

Yeah this is what we suppose, I'm not sure this is what he meant.

2018-04-01 00:20

Well it’s basically the perfect time to trial him. Two months left in the contract so if he plays bad don’t sign him if he plays well they sign him into the new team which makes perfect sense

2018-04-01 01:05

let me tell yall... this is only short-term

sk top1 now go stew

Temporary player?

2018-03-31 22:21

Yeah... I was wondering as well...

2018-03-31 22:36

I think they're just trialing him now cause if the language holds them back they might change to a Brazilian player again, probs fnx

2018-03-31 22:37

That's one possibility. What I could still imagine, is that he only has a temporary contract with SK as there are rumors about switching the lineup to IMT.

2018-03-31 22:39

Let's goooooooooooooo

Haha rip c9

2018-03-31 22:30

Do we need multiple threads about Stewie joining SK every single day? Holy shit, we get it.

2018-03-31 22:31

ACRE NEWS

2018-03-31 22:35

1 day too early

Unexpeted

Wait. So stewie2k leaves C9 to join SK on a slump as a temporary player? I'd understand if he was a permanent, but temporary... holy decision...

2018-03-31 23:51

temporary because Fallen & co will go to mibr in july

2018-04-01 00:38

No one cant be worst than TACO so it's a upgrade. GL Stewie

2018-03-31 22:41

lul sk will regret letting taco go so hard. This new lineup will suck bigtime lmao

why recruiting dinos? as if there are no decent young BRA players out there...look at fitch with gambit, sick of these mix teams btw, xizt c9 etc wtffffffff. fucked up game and scene : )

Can't understand this move by SK... Don't think stewie2k deserves this level.

2018-03-31 22:42

2018-03-31 23:00

Stewie2F

2018-03-31 22:50

welcome stewie2k!!!

2018-03-31 22:58

big mistake! he is overrated and the worst player of c9.

2018-03-31 22:59

Slow day huh

2018-03-31 23:02

Stewie, whyyyyyy? ;-;

2018-03-31 23:03

what team the brasil fans cheering now? we have a international team now here!

2018-03-31 23:08

communication wont be ideal but interested to see how they make it work

2018-03-31 23:11

HAHAHA

2018-03-31 23:16

Kick boltz you guys are fucking dumb for not removing him

2018-03-31 23:23

no sh*t sherlock

2018-03-31 23:40

everybody knows it's an April's fool joke. Stop this bs hltv

2018-03-31 23:43

Wait rlly?

2018-03-31 23:45

why temporary?

no:(

Nice. Please -boltz +Elige Top1 ggwp

none says no to german money.

2018-04-01 00:01

I remember ELIGE wanted to do this and play for brazil as well as i believe he even knows some portugeze so i wonder if he is jelous :)) maybe he is next? Huh?

2018-04-01 00:07

2018-04-01 00:08

RIP SK.

2018-04-01 00:10

Finally <3 😍

2018-04-01 00:22

2018-04-01 00:28

We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2018-04-01 00:45

Lurppis is going to shock the CS world once again. Stewie as a temporary player joining Mibr as one of their players. FalleN at 26y IGL and sniper. Coldzera third. Bolt is as young as Yip at 20y so future-wise both will make results. In general wise move from Tomi. The last one I have no idea. Then again maybe this downfall of SK to rank 8 has been aware? By the players themselves. They have made such happen due to these contracts.

2018-04-01 00:46

"again"?! And how the hell did you forgot fer?

2018-04-01 01:08

fer should be star player in new lineup Stewie2K should be what fer is now boltzz should be what taco was cold should be what boltz was FalleN still FalleN

2018-04-01 12:24

RIP SK THEN LUL

2018-04-01 01:22

Oohh and the first match is against c9 thats what up hahahaha

2018-04-01 01:26

Bold move from stew. It has great potential but going and playing in a team that arent native english speakers and also a team who might use him in a different position to what he is used to trakes some guts

2018-04-01 02:14