SAW transfer-list ewjerkz, sign Shr

4-12-2024 18:29

The organization's statement said the rifler wants "to explore new opportunities on the international stage."

ewjerkz was SAW's highest-rated player over 2024

Update 19:04 : SAW have announced the addition of José "⁠Shr⁠" Gil as their fifth. The 23-year-old played for SAW Youngsters back in 2021, and has since featured for a raft of Portuguese sides, his most-recent team being GTZ.

SAW have announced that Michel "⁠ewjerkz⁠" Pinto has been moved to the transfer list, saying in their statement that the decision was made "taking the player's wishes into strong consideration."

"Recently, ewjerkz revealed a strong interest in seeking a challenge abroad, in order to strengthen his growth as a Counter-Strike professional, as well as his eagerness to explore new opportunities on the international stage."

The move comes as a serious blow to SAW, who benched their other star rifler, Rafael "⁠arrozdoce⁠" Wing, in October in similar circumstances. They also parted ways with coach Danny "⁠BERRY⁠" Krüger a mere day later, who led the team to top-four at IEM Cologne earlier this year.

SAW bench arrozdoce, sign Ag1l

ewjerkz joined SAW mid-way through 2022, and quickly established himself as the team's star. He continued to be a key part of SAW's lineup as they rose to international relevance over 2024, forming the firepower trio of the team alongside arrozdoce and João "⁠story⁠" Vieira.

The 24-year-old posted a team-leading rating of 1.13 across the year as SAW qualified for their first Major, PGL Major Copenhagen, climbed into the top 10 of the world ranking for the first time, and made a surprise run to the semi-finals of IEM Cologne.

ewjerkz regularly impressed during SAW's international outings, such as during the aforementioned IEM Cologne campaign, regularly sitting atop the scoreboard whilst taking the majority of the team's opening duels.

With ewjerkz's departure, SAW are:

Christopher "⁠MUTiRiS⁠" Fernandes
Ricardo "⁠roman⁠" Oliveira
João "⁠story⁠" Vieira
André "⁠Ag1l⁠" Gil

Maikil "⁠Golden⁠" Selim (coach)

Rafael "⁠arrozdoce⁠" Wing (benched)
Michel "⁠ewjerkz⁠" Pinto (transfer-listed)

Lol saw disband soon

2024-12-04 18:30

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Yeah, they legit lost their 2 best players

2024-12-04 18:50

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EZ for shR

2024-12-04 19:21

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shr is really good so this isn't even that bad still though imagine what saw could've been with arrozdoce, ewjerkz, and shr

2024-12-04 20:42

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Imagine they kick roman or ag1l and put shr

2024-12-05 01:14

what in the world are they doing? got rid of ewjerkz AND arrozdoce?

2024-12-05 01:37

If a player wanted to leave the team and look for opportunities, what would he do? It's not that simple

2024-12-05 10:21

RIP SAW

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xddddd

dougbuck must be punching the air witnessing saw's downfall

hes banned from using computer! Its me adema`s cousin! I can confirm that hes crying about SAw`s downfall

2024-12-04 18:46

he's free

Rip Portugal

2024-12-04 18:31

Faze??? Fnatic???? COL???? Hope he gets a big offer! Maybe even mouz if they are forced to rebuild.

If he joins coL I will actually cream myself

2024-12-04 22:41

Damn. I liked SAW.

SAW very nice org not corrupt at all

he could be useful to lots of teams

disband at this point

Actually so sad to see SAW fall apart like this, I will always cheer for national teams

2024-12-04 18:32

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Nah. It was their decision to commit suicide. That was a clear dead-end after kicking their 2nd best player and coach. But they can be happy with Ag1l and Golden now. Congratz!

2024-12-04 18:53

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They didn't kick arrozdoce lmao

2024-12-04 19:00

braindead take....this has nothing to do with arrozdoce or berry...this was literally inevitable, in the entire history of CS there hasnt been a smaller org that doesnt get their best players poached after having a dream run at a T1 tournament, why would SAW be the 1st?

2024-12-04 19:01

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Bro, you literally have MOUZ and GamerLegion that stand apart from this. Even when someone was poached from their roster, they managed to rebuild. There's also Spirit.

2024-12-04 19:04

i dont know how that has anything to do with what i said but sure.....awesome sauce

2024-12-04 19:06

MOUZ, Spirit, GamerLegion are not poor orgs at all

2024-12-04 19:08

Plus, being international and russian they have a pool of talent incomparable to the portuguese scene

2024-12-04 19:18

He said "smaller orgs" - these teams were Tier 2 just a few years ago...

2024-12-04 21:38

MOUZ is not a small organization, literally on the Louvre Agreement. Spirit is full of money, you think sh1ro was bought for peanuts? And GamerLegion got their 2 most valuable players at the Paris Major poached from NaVi and MOUZ (one of your small orgs btw) and they have now bounced back, let me check, with completely different players from that Major.

2024-12-04 19:58

Spirit Won 2 TI they have ton of money

2024-12-04 20:44

tldr: instead of accepting the inevitability of losing players after major they've decided to lose sticker money and VRS points also. Dumb org, dumb result. First of all, flag. I'm talking about them being enough arrogant to bench arrozdoce just before the major once he said that he won't prolongue his contract with SAW. It was clear that they WON'T qualify for a major with stand-in. But then they had benched BERRY for a reason. And after that clownfiesta and losing RMRs they've lost ewjerkz, sticker money and probably will lost many positions in VRS.

2024-12-04 19:37

ty for ruining a promising national roster

rip portuguese cs

2024-12-04 18:33

WHAT

lol their 2 best players leave the team, kinda sad they were fun to watch tbh

BACK TO TIER 3 ;(

2024-12-04 18:35

@AdemarCounter @AdemarFather @AdemarHater Wtf are these alts

2024-12-04 18:36

its me ademars cousin !

2024-12-04 18:44

Interesting...

2024-12-04 18:48

Hello, i'am Ademar's Father. Wishing ewjerkz all the best, I dont like my son.

2024-12-04 18:54

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+2 xddddddd

I love ademarFather

2024-12-04 19:22

Uncle pls dont let ademar on the computer !

2024-12-04 19:43

lmao

2024-12-04 19:47

problem?

2024-12-05 01:21

F Portugal

Fnatic please do something good for once in your life. If Krimz doesn’t want to continue you could do: BlameF Ewjerkz/Matys Arrozdoce +AWP (S1mple/SunPayus) +IGL (ZTR?)

2024-12-04 18:42

I like this, they should get this duo

No fnatic should take a chance on 1eer

2024-12-11 16:30

faze -rain??

i think so too

Nooooooo rip Portugal

frauds are finished, ruined cologne playoffs for this

2024-12-04 18:47

Metizport 2.0

2024-12-04 18:49

this guy is really good would be upgrade for a few tier1 teams

2024-12-04 18:56

dude wtf

2024-12-04 18:57

ok this team is completely dead now

Surprised that Ademar wasn't at the top of the thread with +3 upvotes from alts.

2024-12-04 18:58

Saw will recover, knowing the PT counter-strike scene, this was already expected to happen, especially after arrozdoce left, and they have some good options to choose from. Rhyno just recently disbanded, so the most likely option will be +Krazy. Although shr from GTZ is also a banger of an option.

2024-12-04 18:59

Shr confirmed just now. Think this will be a decent change tbh

People forget that portugal is producing insane talents lately. We're the new Brazil

2024-12-04 19:23

Lol cope, nice tag btw

2024-12-05 02:25

So many comments from people who dont know PT scene.. SAW will substitute ewjerkz with Shr. He's very very good player, can do 2nd awper and rifler very well. SAW will continue to compete very good against good opponents.

2024-12-04 19:02

with -ewjerkz its time for shr to step into saw

2024-12-04 19:10

sad but excited for shr

2024-12-04 19:09

saw really managed to make the wrong decision at every point after finally getting a relevant roster i hope they bounce back, but i am doubtful

I mean it's the players who want to leave, it's not their decision to kick them

2024-12-04 19:11

how is it saw's fault that ewjerkz wanted to leave?

2024-12-04 19:15

referring to benching arrozdoce instead of having him play until his contract expires. maybe they couldve qualified to the major, and maybe ewjerkz wouldnt be looking to leave now. but if they thought agil was better then fair enough

2024-12-04 19:55

so you think it was better for saw as a team to be playing with arrozdoce when his will was to leave the team at the end of the season?

2024-12-04 23:18

yes. unless arrozdoce really didnt want to play the major or the team had massive internal issues with him.

2024-12-05 00:03

nah they would've have just had one more leave now and core completelty gone to different team and no invites into 2025 now they still have the core and can get tournaments into 2025 they did the right decision for them to continue operating

2024-12-05 00:46

Shr is awper? so is he going to rifle now?

very likely to take the rifle

2024-12-04 19:16

there's rumours of kicking rmn and story (story idk if he leaves) but shr is really good with riffle too. maybe him or story awp or setup double awp if its needed

Only an extremly deluded person would think that story (and even rmn) was close to being kicked lool

Nice tag bro

2024-12-05 02:27

Nothing to do with the tag, no one sane can believe that saw is kicking story xd

2024-12-05 10:00

He can play both rifle and awp, so no worry about that

2024-12-04 19:34

Lmao saw without ewjerkz is tier 3

best of luck for arrozdoce and jerkz , i feel sad but happy for shr he deserves it <3

2024-12-04 19:17

shr better than ewjerkz if not tilted

-CHELO +EWJERKZ PLEASE

2024-12-04 19:20

back to CCT

is it a money issue or what? why best players & coach leaving

They wanna go international, which is perfectly understandable, besides some coaches, you don't see much of PT player talent outside the country. Sadly arrodoce and barry, for some reason, got on bad terms with the org and team before the major, and didn't do what ewjerkz did and stayed until after the major run, or attempt in this case.

2024-12-05 10:25

back to tier 4 berry was the main reason of their success fosure

I don’t see no downgrade!

whats wrong with this team lmao they literally bench two their best players whats next bench story?

2024-12-04 19:38

maybe because of shr... hes an awper but plays riffle also and hes an entryfragger like ewjerkz so maybe no its confusing this situation because there's more rumours about kicking rmn but idk if its legit or not. what i can say is that shr is a really good player that needed a step up on his career. now im waiting for -rmn +krazy basically rhyno disbanded but kept krazy probably because can get some money with his transfer so maybe saw will pick him to replace rmn

2024-12-04 19:46

so you bench arrozdoce because he wants to explore his option right before the RMR. Then you transfer list ewjerkz after the RMR failure because he wants to explore his options? If you are going to blow up the team at last go in full strength with full squad so you can maybe make the major and then start putting up anyone worth something for sale.

2024-12-04 19:54

is Shr Ag1l's brother? Or is that just a common Portuguese surname?

is common

2024-12-04 21:14

Are Ag1l and Shr brothers? They go by the same surname.

Same family but not brothers.

2024-12-04 20:33

no correlation

2024-12-04 21:15

Lmao just disband atp

2024-12-04 19:59

Arrozdoce and Ewjerkz probably build a Portuguese roster and beat SAW 2-0 3 times, then SAW pays thousands to sign them.

2024-12-04 20:03

I was starting to like saw but after the benching its clearly more apparent that there is something stupid in the heads of management and roman and mutiris. Cant wait for them to be tier 9 again.

2024-12-04 20:12

ag1l still stealing paychecks amazing

2024-12-04 20:16

nice benching arrozdoce and ewjerkz, your best players lol :D

2024-12-04 20:20

Ewjerks, arrozdoce and NABOWOW to FURIA! Keep Fallen, KSCerato and Yuuri.

Nice way to end Furia

2024-12-04 20:37

kicking best coach? check kicking best player? check kicking second best player? check SAW is cooking.......

2024-12-04 20:35

thought the exact same.. instead they keep mutiris and roman.. maybe they bring back fox next

2024-12-04 21:06

they didn´t kick the players wanted to leave

2024-12-04 21:56

Shr actually decent player but not someone who can replace ewjerkz

2024-12-04 20:46

Holy meds, SAW

2024-12-04 21:16

they benched best players of the team, fisrt arozdoce then ewjerkz, where logic... i think this team going worse

2024-12-04 21:36

Are u retarded?

welcome to koi

2024-12-04 22:22

Ahh, SAW taking the Metizport approach and getting rid of all of their best players. Great strategy.

2024-12-04 22:25

Shr can stay if he performs. Ag1l has to step-up or be replaced

2024-12-04 22:36

LOL wtf this org doing, they spend about 2~3 years became top10 team, now broken team just 2 months...

2024-12-04 22:35

Players left. Nothing you can do

ewjerks was your top rated player? I dont understand what the plan is here? to suck more? edit- oh i see he wanted to leave.

2024-12-04 22:40

What is there to understand, the player asked to be transfer listed because he wants to play internationaly. The org can only try and get a replacement for him while also trying to get some profit from the sell otherwise will happen the same as it did with arroz where he is leaving on a free by request

2024-12-04 23:19