SAW part ways with arki, appoint NABOWOW as interim coach

10-4-2023 23:16

The announcement comes just days after the team crashed out of the RMR in last place.

Omar "⁠arki⁠" Chakkor is no longer part of SAW, the Portuguese organization announced on Twitter. The decision brought an end to a partnership that started all the way back in January 2020, when the 33-year-old joined the team as a player. The position of coach will temporarily be taken by Daniel "⁠NABOWOW⁠" Brito until the end of the season.

This will be the first time arki won't compete alongside Ricardo "⁠roman⁠" Oliveira since 2018 and Christopher "⁠MUTiRiS⁠" Fernandes since 2019, when the trio played under the Giants banner before moving to SAW.

The Spaniard coached the Portuguese lineup over the last nine months, in which they achieved their highest-ever position on the HLTV rankings at the No. 20 spot. SAW claimed victories at Elisa Invitational Fall 2022 and ESL Challenger League Season 43 Europe as well as other regional events such as ESL Masters Spain Season 12 Finals and Master League Portugal X Finals, all with arki at the helm.

arki left SAW after more than three years since his arrival

arki took the step up to the coaching position in July 2022, when SAW announced sweeping changes to their lineup after a defeat to FTW in the domestic championship, Master League Portugal IX Finals, marking the second time they lost to their local rivals in a short period of time. With the Spanish coach, SAW qualified for the Regional Major Ranking events for both the IEM Rio and BLAST Paris Majors, but failed to qualify for either tournament.

SAW and FTW trade two in Portuguese shuffle

"Today we say goodbye to arki. The warrior leaves, as of today, the position of coach of the CS:GO team," read the statement released by the organization. "In order to try to find a new direction and achieve the progress we are looking for so much, we unanimously and very thoughtfully decided to reorganize the technical team."

ESL Challenger League Season 45 Europe will be SAW's first outing with their new skipper and are scheduled to face the winner of the match between Into the Bin and HEET on April 19 at 19:00 .

SAW are now:

Christopher "⁠MUTiRiS⁠" Fernandes
Ricardo "⁠roman⁠" Oliveira
Tiago "⁠JUST⁠" Moura
João "⁠story⁠" Vieira
Michel "⁠ewjerkz⁠" Pinto

Daniel "⁠NABOWOW⁠" Brito (coach)

bruh

2023-04-10 23:16

-story ez fix

2023-04-10 23:17

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when who replaces him?? i suppose it would be a portuguese awper but who? portugal only has stadodo but didnt he left?he aint coming back i think

2023-04-10 23:41

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Whoever says "-story" has no idea of what he's talking about

2023-04-11 00:36

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i kinda agree with that,he plays good online but in lan it seems that the team itselft falls apart,maybe he needs more experience and time but i dont see saw having "time" for a player when 2 of them have like 31yo and a "new game" is upon us

2023-04-11 01:21

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Story and jerkz (jerkz a lot less tho) on lan they fail to take some space and take some initiative sometimes you saw it on ancient vs VP for example, stort heard qikert reloading and instead of swapping to his pistol or shotgun awping he didnt do anything for a few seconds and ended up losing the round because of it They just need time, no lineup changes are needed, the coach change might be nice to get them activated more

2023-04-11 01:30

2023-04-11 01:31

wow such strong argument in favor of story! You must be very knowledgeable indeed

2023-04-11 02:14

2nd worse player from the tournament. Very Inconsistent. Even in games where he has good rating mostly is him failing easy shots and then clutchs 1x3 somehow and ends up with a good score.

2023-04-11 12:58

Avg Zorlakoka wanna be

2023-04-11 12:31

Zorlakoka literally said story shouldnt leave the team...

2023-04-12 19:21

arki <3

2023-04-10 23:18

one more try before last dance with fox?

2023-04-10 23:21

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Portuguese people +zorlak are delusionals to think fox is still able to compete lmao

2023-04-10 23:35

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at this point man, i dont see why not, there are no good awps in iberia, it cant get much worse than this

2023-04-10 23:37

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Shr i guess is the best option out there. They can even just get a brazilian prodigy and make them a star

2023-04-10 23:39

brazil is the saffest bet rn, gtz losing to FTW 2-0 aint the best results

2023-04-10 23:42

fox said a few days ago its still not time to retire so who knows if he spoke with mutt about a last dance in a near future.. thats all i was talking about. if you ask me, his best days are gone for sure but if he had motivation to play and with little practise, he is probably still one of the best pt players. thats how sad our scene is..

last dance with fox is a waste of time of career for the other players

2023-04-11 00:30

maybe you dont understand the concept behind it. no one is wasting their careers at 30+ yo, its about bringing that group back, they made a career together and maybe they want to end it together so they can have some fun. you should respect a little more fox, you must be too young to truly know who he is. also saying shr is the best option for saw made me think you were trolling from the beginning. we just dont have enough quality to do any better than this, thats it.

2023-04-11 14:09

Yo wtf is up with Zelin? He was really good back in the day with JUST.

2023-04-11 07:14

Hasn't played in years.

2023-04-11 13:18

He is not willing to put in the hours necessary to play tier 2. Story might be the weakest link but they have no suitable replacement since they don't want stadodo back. However, i am hopeful Story can improve and eventually become a solid tier 2 support awper

2023-04-11 02:21

pls stop play cs and go to valorant

2023-04-11 02:25

sad day , arki we love u

-story nooooooob

2023-04-10 23:24

lmao imagine thinking arki was the problem... kick story

2023-04-10 23:30

imagine thinking you know more then a pro team that works together for the past years,go back to the matchmaking grind in your room mate

GL arki, we will miss iberian best deag :D

arki <3 Ty for everything LEGEND

bot story

story goat

2023-04-10 23:49

og destroyed them so hard they kicked the coach

2023-04-11 00:31

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True, losing agaisnt this OG team is pretty embarassing

2023-04-11 00:37

2023-04-11 00:41

"Destroy" lmao, nt hanes

2023-04-11 13:37

Gracias Arki GL

2023-04-11 00:39

this is the team one of portugal

peacemaker soon SAW coach for 2,5 months

2023-04-11 02:19

Arki deserves better

2023-04-11 01:20

Thanks for everything arki Would love to see Nabo coaching for a few months before thinking about someone else for the job

stop kicking arki and get rid of story!!!

2023-04-11 01:42

Will never win anything until they make arroz doce main awper, igl, coach and ceo

2023-04-11 01:52

saw not spanish team anymore, damn how could they do this to us

2023-04-11 02:18

its time... ARROZDOCE SAW COACH

2023-04-11 06:06

Good luck Arki, ty for all the work u did for Saw

2023-04-11 08:38

Gl arki

2023-04-11 08:44

Youre a good man Arki Thank you

King of Fafe The Best PT Scout player <3

2023-04-11 13:36

I don't know this coach but it may be better overall have a team of the same nationality the comunication will be better

2023-04-11 14:42

There is a rumour Just is leaving. They keep Roman and kick Just, this is a joke.

2023-04-11 17:29

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Where did you see that rumour?

2023-04-11 20:20

fraglider

2023-04-11 20:26

did they mention any replacements?

2023-04-12 00:24

roman is the best in his role in Portugal, of course he has his moments, but I don't think he is the problem. I don't think Just in the problem either, I guess they just wanted to make changes and he was the chosen

2023-04-12 09:13