SAW bench arki, add story

6-9-2021 22:05

The newcomer will take over AWPing duties in the Portuguese squad.

SAW have announced they are parting ways with Omar "⁠arki⁠" Chakkor, who had been part of the team's longstanding core with Christopher "⁠MUTiRiS⁠" Fernandes and Ricardo "⁠roman⁠" Oliveira dating all the way back to when all three of them played in Giants in 2018 and 2019.

The Spaniard will no longer start for SAW

The 31-year-old made the jump to SAW after he and his teammates parted ways with Giants and Ricardo "⁠fox⁠" Pacheco in early 2020, and despite a slow start the squad made steady progress and even became a top 30 team by the end of the year, peaking as high up as No. 21.

But the beginning of 2021 has not been easy for the Portuguese team, as they dipped back out of the top 30, struggling in ESEA Premier and in open qualifiers, ending in arki’s last event with the team being a 16-18th place finish at Pinnacle Fall Series 1.

The story of SAW, the team carrying the Portuguese flag high

Taking the place of arki will be a very different player in João "⁠story⁠" Vieira, a 19-year-old AWPer that played mostly at the local level in FTW. To make way for him, Renato "⁠stadodo⁠" Gonçalves will give up the big green and take up rifling duties in what will no doubt be an adjustment period for the squad as roles are swapped to accommodate the newcomer.

"This was one of the most difficult decisions to make in my coaching career," Ricardo "⁠AIm⁠" Almeida said, "arki has been with us since day one and together we have traveled a fantastic and unparalleled path. Putting him on the bench was a very tough decision, however, right now the team is going through some difficulties and we need to find our bearings again.

"Despite these changes, arki will always be a part of SAW, no matter what the future holds. To the great warrior arki, my eternal thanks for being part of this amazing journey inside the server, but most of all, for everything you gave us outside the game, the friendship and camaraderie. Hasta pronto Omar!"

SAW’s new lineup is:

Christopher "⁠MUTiRiS⁠" Fernandes
Ricardo "⁠roman⁠" Oliveira
Renato "⁠stadodo⁠" Gonçalves
Tiago "⁠JUST⁠" Moura
João "⁠story⁠" Vieira

Ricardo "⁠AIm⁠" Almeida (coach)

Omar "⁠arki⁠" Chakkor (benched)

what???

2021-09-06 22:06

6 replies

unexpected

2021-09-06 22:15

3 replies

0/8

2021-09-06 22:32

2 replies

cool story bro

2021-09-06 23:12

1 reply

cool story arki

2021-09-07 09:25

GAME CHANGING NEWS

COOL STORY BRO

2021-09-07 01:32

OMG

BREAKING NEWS

Rip Saw

Cool story bro

kkkkkkkkkk

2021-09-07 00:41

That's what I immediately thought too))

2021-09-07 01:25

Wooooooooooow thats huge

finnaly young player

2021-09-06 22:07

Stadodo was once so good, what happened?

he became bad

2021-09-08 11:21

Itsnt a good news for for SAW

2021-09-06 22:08

Another AWPer??? Hmmm doesn't look good

Will probably play as a main awper and stadodo will play secondary awp. Not much of a big deal since stadodo is pretty good on rifles anyway.

2021-09-06 22:10

Idk

stadodo is not a "natural" awper. In his past teams he wasnt an awper

2021-09-06 22:28

he is hybrid

2021-09-06 22:35

stadodo is a rifler that was adapted to awper because the team needed

2021-09-06 22:36

Oh i didn't know that Ty for the info

2021-09-06 22:49

Which story

This story

2021-09-07 08:04

I dont get it either(

2021-09-07 14:17

2021-09-06 22:09

they needed changes but +story is so weird move, why do they create an academy if they don't promote players?

Yes Rafax is ready for SAW

2021-09-06 22:13

The academy team doesnt even have a month and new changes wouldn't be good for the academy team

2021-09-06 22:14

2021-09-07 02:32

best awper PT

Lest go SAW! Thursday let's get through the qualifier!!

2021-09-06 22:11

Noooo my boy arki :(

Sadge :(

Two Awpers? Weird

5 replies

Stadodo was adapted to being an awper, he was a Riffler before, that's why he was on the team with Fox.

2021-09-07 00:52

4 replies

he never played with fox before... and he is a og awper

2021-09-07 01:14

#121 but Stadodo was indeed adapted

2021-09-07 01:19

he never played with fox

2021-09-07 01:16

Sry Im retarded I was thinking about Rmn lol

gg wp

2021-09-06 22:12

Not arki :/ Where can he go?

7 replies

i was thinking offset. i dont know if its to crazy but -rizz +arki doesnt look bad to me.

2021-09-07 00:25

Massive step down for him though.. But offset could definitely use better players.

2021-09-07 16:48

kinda is, but there's no available team, unless you kick dav1g maybe? or he could go international

2021-09-07 18:39

I didnt like them signing davig either, he is not a particularly good player.. Was hoping they were getting sausol in his place, I think with that move, movistar riders would be able to put Spanish cs on the map. Then maybe arki and davig could both join offset, I know I said davig wasnt good, but on a team like offset, he would be good xD

2021-09-07 18:58

between dav1g and those we have already i prefer the team to stay as it is. about sausol, i dont see mad lions letting him go, but if it happens would only be good.

2021-09-07 19:28

Yo le noob, At this point tho -anyone on Offset +any faceit level 10 would be an upgrade. Tbf this roster never had potential, but the org seems to be cursed: every player who joins it becomes shit from then on :/

2021-09-09 23:40

2021-09-09 23:42

I love stories!

+1 I legit thought that they put up some insta story and was expecting some drama xD

2021-09-06 22:25

ez4story

portugal cs omg

2021-09-06 22:16

they would have picked steelega

2021-09-06 22:17

-arki + SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOYAAAAAAA

No pls

2021-09-07 08:06

MR add arki, he can igl kick dav1g. wait for sausol to come in a free transfer after ML...

We love u ArKING !!!!

2021-09-06 22:18

i always liked arkii even he was very criticized by people. He is very underrated imo and is sad watching him benched

had to happen, he was playing like absolute garbage

2021-09-06 22:58

That's big news holy shit, thanks for everything Arking! Story is an interesting addition, young, but probably SAW would want Nopej if he wasn't tied to Offset. Well anyways I hope Arki finds a good team and I hope Story steps up to the challenge. Let's go SAW!

2021-09-06 22:20

Also HLTV god tier prediction??? imgur.com/a/s0ZzCnl

2021-09-06 22:38

Sad move. we all love Arki, he is a beast

2021-09-06 22:22

+1 for the name

2021-09-06 23:23

kick the spanish guy... Portugal racista

2021-09-06 22:24

Portugal has been kicking spaniards out for 900 years.

2021-09-06 23:01

+1 lmao

2021-09-07 16:40

portugal scene lmao

2021-09-06 22:27

10 replies

turkey scene omegalul

2021-09-06 22:30

atleast it exists

losing to random macedonians...

Nah, losing 16-2 sinners

2021-09-06 23:22

*kurd

2021-09-07 01:43

bro you are eternal fire fan kewk You cant win vs tier 4 teams whit NETXARES

ok ronaldo

2021-09-06 23:29

shut up erdogan

2021-09-07 10:55

hltv.org/matches/2348867/sinners-vs-saw-..

2021-09-06 23:40

turkey scene crying about cheaters because they are bots and lose to nonamers, anlaky

2021-09-07 12:06

Sad :((( GL arki we love you

imagine having a SunPayus free agent 1 mouth ago and sign one nonamer player with no experience lmao rip saw rip portuguese cs

2021-09-06 22:31

-igl +awper nice brain ruski

2021-09-06 22:50

wtf are u talking about

Mut is igl wtf

nice brain weeb

2021-09-06 23:56

Arki :c

So when are you adding the story?

They should have brought the pesky old fox back

2021-09-06 22:34

eg sign this team ?

who cars

2021-09-06 22:39

WTF VINI GOD

2021-09-06 22:42

I car :(

2021-09-07 08:07

We will miss you Markina :'(

2021-09-06 22:40

Finaly but who?

kick heroic, get Saw to major ez 4 ronaldo

2021-09-06 22:57

expected sadly

We love you arki <3 Forever in our hearts as a saw warrior !!!

2021-09-06 23:02

expected

2021-09-06 23:18

no, pls no #bringarkiback

2021-09-06 23:19

foda se, same, i WANT arki back

2021-09-06 23:36

ARKI I FUCKING love you men! gl in the future viva

2021-09-06 23:21

Welcome, make your Story, my Tuga friend

So whats the story about?

2021-09-06 23:24

coldzera to saw

About time. But who tf is story ? Gl btw

2021-09-06 23:30

Gonna miss arki so much. Thank you "best scout PT" :')

2021-09-06 23:31

king de fafe <3

2021-09-06 23:35

The real og

2021-09-07 00:40

rip

2021-09-06 23:32

good story bob

2021-09-06 23:45

rip spanish cs

2021-09-06 23:49

W H O

wow, what a story

2021-09-06 23:53

arki legend

2021-09-06 23:54

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2021-09-07 00:12

Rip

2021-09-07 00:18

its not that i enjoy seeing players get kicked out, but this is a good opportunity for offset, -rizz +Arki. i honestly think its a good change

2021-09-07 00:21

que isooo manito

2021-09-07 00:23

GL Arki

2021-09-07 00:57

Finally major material, that was the change we all waited for!

SAW savage add story about benching someone NICE

2021-09-07 01:35

thanks for everything :'(

2021-09-07 02:02

What story

2021-09-07 02:57

They could do it 2 months ago and sign SunPayus instead but ok ...

2021-09-07 03:21

+1 They could've let sunpayus igl and let Mut go wild if they did that

2021-09-07 04:47

it's a meteoric rise for story he started playing this game seriously in august 2020 1 year was what he needed to reach the biggest time in his country INSANE

2021-09-07 03:25

sad

2021-09-07 05:03

arki was good in 2011

2021-09-07 07:47

Thx for everything arking, King de Fafe, best scout pt ♥️😢

2021-09-07 08:10

finally

2021-09-07 09:09

gL arki

2021-09-07 10:03

Thanks for everything arking!

2021-09-07 20:30

Arking was very good, lots of games he had the best game sense i've ever seen in an iberian team. Very clever, el pistolero and that scout is dangerous. But the team was failing and we needed a move and he was the chosen one, excited to see a new main AWPer

2021-09-07 20:31