MIBR to trade Stewie2K for TACO and zews with Liquid - Report
MIBR are set to trade Jake "Stewie2K" Yip to Liquid in return for Epitacio "TACO" de Melo and coach Wilton "zews" Prado, according to a report from ESPN.
The report states that MIBR are looking to return to a fully Brazilian roster, which puts Tarik "tarik" Celik on the chopping block, as well, with the organization searching for a new home for the American player.
If the move comes to fruition, TACO will reunite with three of his former Luminosity and SK teammates, Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo, Fernando "fer" Alvarenga, and Marcelo "coldzera" David, after a seven-month spell with Liquid, as will zews, who left the core in July 2016 to join up with Immortals as a player before transitioning back into a coaching role in Liquid by the end of the year.
TACO and zews are reportedly on their way back to FalleN's team
After zews left SK, FalleN's squad did not field a coach for the next two years until they joined forces with renowned analyst Janko "YNk" Paunović in August. What will happen to the Serbian following the move is uncertain, but he is expected to be on his way out of the organization.
The report comes days after MIBR's stunning loss to Liquid in the semi-finals of ESL Pro League Season 8 Finals, as the team continued to struggle competing for titles after a series of mixed results with Stewie2K and tarik.
Liquid, on the other hand, have arguably had their best year in 2018, as they reached six big-event finals and won two smaller titles at cs_summit 2 and SuperNova CS:GO Malta, alongside deep runs at several more events.
The changes will not affect MIBR's lineup for BLAST Pro Series Lisbon, where Braxton "swag" Pierce is set to stand-in for fer. The Portuguese tournament could turn out to be Stewie2K's and tarik's last appearance under the MIBR banner.
MIBR's incomplete roster upon the change would look as follows:
Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo
Tarik "tarik" Celik (transfer listed)
Liquid's new team for the next year would be:
Keith "NAF" Markovic
Marcelo 'coldzera' David
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.20
Maps played:
949
KPR:
0.80
DPR:
0.60
APR:
0.12
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.95
Maps played:
835
KPR:
0.62
DPR:
0.64
APR:
0.12
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.07
Maps played:
986
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.69
APR:
0.16
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
1013
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.67
APR:
0.15
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.09
Maps played:
995
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.59
APR:
0.11
Tarik 'tarik' Celik
Age:
22
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
1014
KPR:
0.74
DPR:
0.67
APR:
0.15
Wilton 'zews' Prado
Age:
31
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
0.83
Maps played:
121
KPR:
0.55
DPR:
0.68
APR:
0.13
Janko 'YNk' Paunović
Age:
26
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
0.98
Maps played:
108
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.70
APR:
0.13
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.10
Maps played:
986
KPR:
0.76
DPR:
0.68
APR:
0.16
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken
Age:
19
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.14
Maps played:
733
KPR:
0.76
DPR:
0.63
APR:
0.12
Why destroy the best NA team in history 😭😭😭 I really liked this Liquid lineup 😥
NA+BR CS is a mess at the moment, i guess this means 1 more year of EU domination 😎👍
Brazilians i hope you regret hating on Taco now, he was never the problem 🤠
liqiud tired of being second LUL
Now they gonna be 4th at best haha
TARIK IS BEST IGL IN NA. dont worry he will get a real team like Space Soldiers
Kkkkkkk
TARIK NEVER POOR HES RICH AF
Tarik to SS
Time will tell
He can ct AWP pretty well. I doubt this team does much without zews. Unless they get ynk
Unless they get Sean
that would be hype
TL being 4th was where they belonged anyways. Liquid SHOULD not make the move unless TACO wanted to do it.
+1 even s1mple endorses this fact, how Liquid management helped him in his early days.
+fnx please
Kscerato is a joke, isn’t even near to tier 4 level.
I agree with all you said, at the sime time I see a different point of view for this. FNX has reportedly never been much of a training or practice guy, they always said he did what he did out of talent for cs. If FNX committed himself in some months of training to get back into shape, he could be a reasonable player for mibr alongside taco and zews. Such a hypothetical rooster could get into decent shape in some 2 or 3 months of hard practice.
So let’s get fnx and wait 3-4 months until he “get good again”, something that isn’t right. Who needs kNgv or chelo?
Well, "training" is much more than just knowing the good spots, a map, or having a good aim, also helps teamwork and other stuff
players on your team are likely to get better if someone better than them train with them and help talking about possible spots, what he does, etc.
Not saying he is, or isnt like that, but for what you said, someone that doesn't cooperate/contribute with the team is way worse than someone that doesnt have a good aim (tarik spray LUL jk.)
yeah now they gonna be 6th
we will see...
They're going back to full BR. They might be good again.
because of kick the BURRITO
QUESEDILLA top 1
i think i would have to agree that the SOFT TORTILLA is top class support player
sorry bro i dont know mire alternatives to taco. good fun though
are restaurants allowed to? then i'ma say VACO BELL.
looks like its some sort of chilli
google.com/search?q=chipotle&rlz=1C1CHBF..
They had a slump, if they had kept full br they would probably had gotten to tier 1 much faster
Man, they got 8 tournaments Last year... I think they weren't bad
thats called bait
That's the taco work on liquid tho
That's a big ass might..
XD they dominanted all in 2017 and are still better than BUG
BIG NEVER LOST TO MIBR
BIG never won a championship.
without bugs, never managed to pass the groups stage
BIG = bug inferno gaming, not simply "bug", write it properly please next time
Yeah because being a tol ten team is TOTALLY a quality of a bad team.
top5. #4 atm
that would just be bad
tarik was much better than him though lol
Maybe -Nitr0 +Tarik
So liquid won’t have their biggest choker and they will have 2-3 decent awpers and 1 good IGL.
emoyi gang 😭😭😭
i like emoyis
yeah ikr. Idk zews was gone for 2 tournaments and nitr0 still held his own during those tournaments as an IGL. I would love to see nitr0 do well. I think he is the best in Liquid because he went from entry to support to IGL to AWP and IGL. He will sacrifice anything for the team. I hope Liquid succeeds but I think MiBR is better off right now.
-nitro
+tarik
Tarik cant support so that'd ruin that team too. Maybe -yay/android for tarik
-yay pls
Tbh nitro can only one thing an that's either igl or fragging
And stew was only at his peak good so I see this lineup on lvl of nrg ( if it would be November this has potential of getting worst transfer of this year (but I guess there are too less games to prove my point to the end of this year
Tarik and w0xic to SS with -ngin -paz is better.
-daps +tarik would be better imo, haven't seen a whole lot of nrg but from what I have seen daps is a bot. If it so happens that fugly is worse then I'll eat my shirt out of respect.
MiBR
-Tarik
-Stewie2k
-YNK
+Taco
+kscerato
+Zews
Liquid
-Taco
-Zews
+stewie2k
+Valens
C9
-Autimatic
-Rush
-Valens
+Cerq
+Cromen
+YNK
NRG
-cerq
-Fugly
-Brehze
+Tarik
+Rush
+Autimatic
Are u ok?
is it a bait? :O
How do you know that?
Ye let's destroy NRG too good idea +tarik to NRG best idea ever I don't like seeing na teams on lans let's destroy them all
Taco was garbage and needed to be kicked a LONG time ago
stoopid
Taco is the most overrated player of all time. Liquid will be better with Stewie and you can quote me on this.
Yes. He misses sprays and easy trades and is almost as garbage as Edward. .99 rating does him more than enough justice
he is s1mple fanboy tho. frag is the best, doesnt matter ur team win or not
liquid out of top 5 with no taco and zews, watch this
Wrong
of course fan of simple will think aim is everything
Lmao, so you don't actually have a counter? Just going for the ad hominem. Good luck in middle school
accusing me of ad hominem and coming back with ad hominem? nt buddy
+1
FINALLY
Tarik stewie did mistake leaving cloud 9. Let them suffer
really man ? how the fk can you play with the team when nobody follow your call in the the game, Tarik was IGl, Support. Stewie is a B site player look the way C9 won the major was personal handling situations. Think be for you said, they left MIBR becuz tairk can not a Support for MIBR, becuz it was too hard for him, Fer pushing too fast as Cold rote too fast , how the fk Tarik go to the spot to support them ?
Astralis will dominate on the next major no matter what the condition of the other top tier teams gonna be. They don't gonna lose a tournament unless they are sick of winning or someone find out how to counter strat glaive and they have proved that as they are in the 1st spot in the team ranking ladder since April or May (I am not so sure about that) of 2018. So the European domination will continue over NA...
+Taco +kNgv , -tarik - stewie
YESSSSS! PLEASE, PLEASE!!! OH GOD
I don't understand why Liquid would do this. They have never been better than they are right now and they're the second best team in the world atm. Dropping a great coach and adding Stewie2K won't make them number one. By all rights they should've won more 1st places than they did this year and I'm sure they would win more if they would just keep at it. This feels much akin to what Mouz did with Snax - Mouz had never been better, then they added Snax and fucked everything up.
after bashing their head against a brick wall (astralis) for the better part of a year, they needed to make a change. only time will tell if this is a good change, but they needed to do something if they felt they need to reach the next level.
stew is a solid player, can be really good in the right situation. seems like he still has maturing to do.
+1 if stewie can call for liquid and the calls blend well with his teams playstyle it could be a differencemaker
also sgares coach plz
I can't quite see the logic of what you`re saying. If they would lose to other teams as well on a more regular basis then yes, you could say they should consider a roster change. But to change your roster just because you`ve lost to Astralis once to many times.. oh well, by that logic every team out there should do roster changes because Astralis would wreck them all. I think they should maybe work a bit more on their strats against lesser equipped opponents. I`ve seen them giving away quite a few rounds to upgraded pistols against Astralis and really think it might have changed the outcome of the match.
They have lost to astralis in 6 big tournaments since taco joined, obviously they are doing pretty well against the other teams, but they cant get over the hump with astralis. it feels like a move out of desperation as when teams reach this point, things can stagnate, and morale inevitably drops. maybe liquid decided they need more firepower to go toe-to-toe with astralis. i think they had two options to get over the hump, roster moves or change their map pool a little. i think they need to do both to beat astralis.
If they decided they needed more firepower, they are wrong. In my opinion, it's all about tactics and adjustments. Liquid can wreck Mibr and be wrecked by astralis, while Mibr (despite losing) has put up more of a fight against astralis. really funny stuff isn't it?
thats a totally fair assumption, but i also understand the argument for more fire power. regardless, a changes was needed and this is the route they went down. only time will tell if it actually works.
In the end, I hope it's the best for both teams. I may be brazilian and cheer for brazilian teams, but I really enjoy when there is plenty of great teams creating good games to watch.
+1
I believe that money can be the reason..
stupid move
never 🤠enough 🙈emojis 😂🙊😁😁👍🤔🙊
good aim?
seems like you are lacking a brain since you didn't stop at solid support
Yeah clearly Taco has done great right
na?
no one was american in TL!
polish education lmao
whats wrong with taco? he got kicked from mibr and now he will return? i dont get it.,..
I think that Mibr will add fnx and return to their hold lineup with the idea of returning to communicate in Portuguese and getting closer to astralis
Tarik will be transfer to c9 or something.
Probably this will happen before the major!
I think they want a lurker, so probably not kng, but yeah if not fnx, another Brazilian for sure
+steel
-Taco
+taco
Brilliant styko level move by mibr
+1
+1
This was the worst NA lineup in history... you’re baiting right LOL
true
Stew is overrated as fuck and tarik is a dumb pea brain. Rip ynk
best NA team in history was early 2018 cloud9 roster that won the major
Only idiots said taco was the problem, he always was the main team player, always doing dirty work and sacrificing himself for the team's goal
Of course all br regretted and there isn't shame on admit our own error.
But Astralis is top1 because they have 5 fallen btw. It will be a hard 2019
You are crazy if you dont believe this to be an upgrade for TL.....
i agree with you in all, but we dont destroyed the best temam NA, cloud9 destroyed himself, its just like was the meme, FNATIC era 2 years, LG/SK era 2 years, Cloud9 era 2 weeks lul `-`, they play very good just in the major, after this they broke, but you are right, just idiots sayed taco was the problem because the frags and etc, but the problem is Brazil have so many idiots :), so taco was so much attacked (sorry my bad English :))
Imo the current Liquid line-up with taco is the best NA team ever. C9 was just lucky trash lol
gg fallen noob
+1
MiBR just made the best NA team ever.
Damn so many replies RIP inbox lmao
ok this is epic
ez
history
-tarik +fnx
WTFF
Nt shakeh
mibr fan LUL
FLIP THE COIN BITCH COME GET DESTROYED
im waiting
wtf
Lmfao
lmao
Wtf
WHAT
xpected
Hahahahahahahahaahah
Ok
nt taco
WTFFFXXXSDD
+1 no fnx no major
loooooooooooooooool
MIBR from t5 to t10 now
+ BOT TACO
AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
Yep, 5-8th places.
Useless taco, and thats why LIQUID traded him, nice 1 LIQUID
-taco = 2nd place -> 5th place
xDDDD
baitzera your bait not allowed here.
TACO bot
ez for Astralis more easy now
Everyone have slumps. Dont Remember astralis went out in group of the major b4 creating the godlike team?
Nice excuse
This tarik is in mibr for how long ? Still no improvement
Nt though
+10000
what about no
Olof, not taco
And maybe s1mple over fer? Fer has kinda not been doing too well recently imo, whereas s1mple needs no introduction
the name is made in brazil not made in europe
Who said we were talking about MiBr?
We may have been referring to FaZe Clan 2019
i dont think so..
Olof suck dicks
And taco doesn't?
The fact he just put NiKo in the team "Made in BRAZIL"
The reason I said simple is because no team of mixed nationalities like that, lead by an IGL who historically tends towards the tactical side of calling, will able to be top 1 and overthrow Astralis withouAssome SERIOUS firepower
Expected
WTF UNEXPECTED
Wtfff
ez liquid
ez L
what?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
FUCK OFF MIBR :(
Triple awp setup
thats why they kicked taco? to trade him and get better now?
i still dont get it :D
+1
the question now who is the fith ? kng or fnx
'Can be', I guess mibr is at a Position for they dont wanna risk it/try something new
kNg to MIBR
fnx and Boltz to LG
NEKIZ and yeL to INTZ (-horvy, btw)
HORVY OMEGALUL
The best brazilian player of all times, the one and only... felps
The best move nowadays would be yurih from Furia.
not fnx
kNgV is the key for MIBR. Hope he joins
Loool
expected
pls no
i wonder, what does liquid have to gain from this
The trade is good for MiBR but not for Liquid.
Zews is a great coach and not easily replaced. Stewie2K doesn't play support and won't function ideally on Liquid. To me this seems somewhat similar to Mouz picking up Snax. Stewie won't be as terrible for Liquid as Snax was for Mouz but this won't bring them the number one spot in the world (being a solid second atm)
+1000000
I think they feel that Stewie will add dynamism/unpredictability compared to Taco, and a slightly better ADR. Plus, language will be less a hang-up in tense situations. I think language limitations also is a factor in why MiBR wishes to return to an all-Brazil lineup.
I agree that the loss of Zews is bad for Liquid. They'll have to try to overcome that loss. Very much underrated. However, he's not an IGL, Nitro is and has been, so IGL activities aren't any better or worse in that respect. The bigger deal now is they need to replace Zews with another brain. Zews was the brain behind both SK and Liquid.
For sure. Whenever I watch an interview with coldzera I cringe so hard at how bad his English is.
LOL
-golden +tarik
OMEGALUL
Hello?
lul
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Expect the unexpected
both teams are gonna suffer from this, long term too
Both teams suck right now, so it might be worth the risk
LoL/// "both teams suck"... #2 and #4... suck? Everyone is less than Astralis. That doesn't mean everyone sucks except Astralis.
None of those players are happy with being #2 or #4, dude. They all wanna be st the top and I think it's clear now that neither team will be able to overcome Astralis, so why not take the risk? Do you think Liquid players are happy with always getting 2nd? Let alone mibr players?
Not being happy with #2 and #4 does not equal "sucks". I'm fine with them changing players to see if it works, but I was reacting to you saying they both suck. Pretty much the only team that can say "they suck" about Liquid/MiBR are the players on Astralis.
Ya, "suck" is an exaggeration, but to those players, not being able to win tournaments regularly is pretty much = sucking.
Making it to the play-offs and even finals very often, on the highest level of the game is not sucking. Maybe u need to stop sucking on mamatit for a while
Why did they change then? Liquid made it to 6 finals this year. Lost all of them. If that's fine, why did they change?
Smh my head
"None of those players are happy with being #2 or #4, dude" you're right, everybody wants to be the best
BUT in Liquid's case I'd say it's not worth it at all because they're so far ahead of every team not named Astralis and if they wanted to become #1 -TACO +Stewie2k isn't the move
I guess the change will be good for MIBR since they'll be able to speak Portuguese again but I don't see the dynamic being the same
This move being the solution is a possibility, keeping the same roster surely isn't. Stewie can do everything Taco can or even better, on the worst scenario they'll just keep being as good.
Stewie is 100% the better overall player, but to say he can or would even be willing to play support like TACO does is ludicrous. Who will bait for Twistzz now? This was an essential part of the success.
I was just discussing this with friends, perhaps Twistzz can bait nitr0 in place of TACO and Stewie can AWP, thats a good look in my opinion, but, losing zews is devastating no matter how you spin it
Unfortunate and unexpected.
Bait for twistzz? Well stewie has always been an entry fragger and on MiBR transitioned into a very supportive role hell be fine
that's not rlly true stewie is one of the worst pros in terms of support rounds while Taco is top 5. How is he gonna replace that. Even if they pushed him to support he's not going to want to since its stewie
You mustve replied to the wrong person bc i said exactly what you just said.
yep oops wrong person
All good lol
yeah that's a stretch lmao
just because Liquid are unable to beat the clear #1 team doesn't mean they suck, they're the clear #2 team and have been for a long time
and MIBR started to actually look pretty good especially in their series against Astralis, granted they had some issues against worse teams
I guess we'll have to wait and see but Liquid at least won't be nearly as good as they were that much is clear to me
Read #262
People overrate Taco on SK because apparently Cold used him as bait
But why have a bait if you can have Stewie?
of course this will take time to get used to by Liquid will be better after
Not good enough to challenge Astralis. If they don't make a roster change 2019 will be just like 2018.
As much as I hope that Astralis will continue their dominance, it does seem unlikely. Their steam will run out or the other teams will figure out how to beat them.
Liquid are at their best ever atm. I'm sure they'd win more in 2019 than they have in 2018 if they didn't make the trade.
For MiBR the trade makes sense. Zews is a great coach and TACO plays really well with the trio. As a 5th player they should get felps back too.
Agreed even when fnatic and NIP were invincible and SK were pretty dominant, noone can hold onto no.1 forever simply because other teams will fully watch astralis games and theres only a certain amount of evolving possible
Hahahahahaha
Don't understand why Liquid would do this lol. They need to beat Astralis, but Taco wasn't the problem. They should have traded nitr0 for Fallen if anything lol
TACO left because he wanted my friend . not kicked
that is not what happened
Are u stupid or what ? Do u think liquid would ever kick taco for stew ? Lmao and zews aswell.dont talk shit
It was a trade, this wasn't a kick. And read Taco's tweet, he is clearly upset about it
Unless there's a new tweet or something. The first one looked sad lol
zews and TACO both wanted to go back playing with fallen.obvs zews would never let taco go.it was theirs decisions.they talked with both tarik and stew but ultimately went with stewie
just check taco's twitter
nitr0 awping is the problem
yes I agree. He isn't a bad igl, but they need an awp. They shouldn't -support to +awp tho. Taco has been doing well.
TACO wanted to leave and play with cold again. He wasn't given the boot, he voluntarily left (so twitter says lmao)
NAF is a decent awper and stewie can make up for the lost rifleing power when NAF awps, and stew could also secondary awp
They should get autimatic then. He may not be a star awper but a more consistent awper overall with strong rifling skills.
Hope not,Stewie is not a good a good awper
and nitr0 is?
I know that's likely, but that's not my issue. Taco is support, and he is a good support. The team is super strong but does need an awp. Nitr0 is a good IGL but not that great an awp, while FalleN is a good IGL AND a good awp. That'd be the best upgrade, so they don't lose their stable support that plays all the bitch roles
WTF
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
HOLY SHIT NOW THIS IS A FUCKIN ROSTER MOVE RIGHT HERE
Wutface
Now they will be stronger
stop overrating Taco
he's good but he's just a ok support
if he was great he'd be like a xypex
lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
****Crab rave song****
YNK to Liquid?
lol
RIP Liquid
unexpected
WE WANT VITO KING GIUSEPPE TOO
hahahahahahaha
FNX4SURE the last spot
MIBR
Rip tarik lmfao
bra71l wont comeback to the scene anyway,liquid still top 2
shit move
why tf are you laughing
no they wont
there is no more contenders for the top 2 spot
navi=shit
mibr=do you remember fnatic when they made godsent swap and then they reunited?it didnt worked out,same here
faze=shit
1 fluke win,T2 tournament and blast,nice tournaments tho,surely better than liquid
AHAHAHAHAH nice englando,ebaniy hohol
Navi path to the final:BIG,MIBR
Astralis path to the final:Faze,Liquid
Tvoi navi ebanay pomoika,bb,daun
don't speak your retarded language here product of samagon !!!
what you doesn't understand in second place in major ?
flamie is totaly lost in this team ( can't even awp correctly for help s1mple in second awp role )
electronic make a good match one time in 3 month......
so easy way to understand what to do after February !!!
take the 2 russky and send it back to Moscow
Because Taco or Zews?
cause taco ain't that great js
let's gooo
-nitr0 +tarik and liquid top2
unexpected
AW SHIT
LOOOOL
Make MIBR great again!
downgrade to liquid, meh
Still won't be able to take any extra map against Astralis.
Yes (MIBR 0)
I mean if these changes are made to compete against Astralis a BO5 wont end 3-2.
unexpected
MILLENIUM LIL
ahahhah finally, nice <3 taco
Tarik cucked lvl master
Signed with luminosity
ty
Ez for Vito Giuseppe
RIP LIQUID ROFL 😎👌
Gotta be honest didn't see this one coming
Expected
At first I didn't like it, but I would trade Stew for Taco any day, no disrespect towards brazilian tho, he played great lately.
I just wonder why TACO wants to join them back.
As much as people shittalk Taco, you can't deny he's a winner. He has won 2 majors and 9 big tournaments throughout his career, so getting 2nd all the time is not enough for someone with that curriculum. He probably sees on a new full br line up with Zews the chance to go back to winning tournaments. Something that Liquid apparently cant do :/
Great post actually, totally agree. Hopefully they can stop this danish domination.
WHAT
+1
Excuse me what the fuck
Tarik back to C9 lol
WHATTTTTTTTTTTT LUL
Now we want Vitinho "KiNgV-" Giuseppe
OH SHITTTTTTTTTT
LUL
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
POGCHAMP
mibr top 1 again
like p1mple top 1 in 2018
-DAPS +TARIK LETS FUCKING GO
Zews leaving will hurt Liquid, but hopefully Stewie added will help. Maybe if Yanko comes over to coach it'll be a wash.
Counter logic gaming from Mibr 😂😂
?
Press F for mibr
botaco finally gone
Finally they can win something without BOTaco
Hmmm a good move for me. SK was a case of too many cooks. Cold and Stewie are both stars. One was always going to suffer and be playing a role they don't excel at. Taco on the other hand. Is a great support player. He has refound that form that he has lost when he left SK. SK will be stronger for this. Liquid, I'm not so sure. They needed the extra firepower sure. But not at the expense of such a good support player, I will be interested to see how it works out for Liquid.
What an actual clown fiesta xD
Finally
Poggers
Not the best time to drop this information but ok
tarik vitality
Ah more claims about stewie with absolutely no evidence to support them
Clearly misguided views then. In what ways is he overrated and where are links to these tantrums?
Lol doesnt mention a single thing about him being overrated. Then says there is "tons of proof if you search for it" about his toxicity but would have to "dig up past links" to find that proof. Seems like you have no actual points as to why he is what you say he is and are just a hater.
I don't need to mention a single thing about him being overrated, you should realize this by yourself if you actually follow their games. He has been hyped up as a fucking prodigy ever since he made his break into the scene, yet he was nothing more than mediocre for his entire run in mibr. Literally all you need to do is watch their past matches on stream, read his twitter and analyze his overall demeanour and you'll reach the same conclusions as I did.
Also do you really expect me to go through fucking vods to find specific timestamps in order to support my claim? I don't give a fuck about you or this conversation. I am however quite fond of Liquid, and I'd hate for this move to actually happen.
KngV will join MiBR for sure.
w8 WTFFF?
stewie3killed teams
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Lol sk soon back
HAHAHA
NO FNX pls
he using 4:3 he bad
feel bad for tarik and yanko
Really bad for liquid but good for mibr i guess.
Good decisions for both teams :)))))))))
WELL WELL WELL TIME TO CHANGE MY FAVORITE TEAM
kNgV pls ffs
Dude, what is TACO doing? Downgrade for him and for Liquid
Nooo, please noo. Just keep mibr in their shits and Liquid good
RIP the NA dream.
Wowwww unexpected🤭🤭🤭
LETS FUCKING GO BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
COLDZERA IS BACK
no baitzera
finally a fucking team that i was a fan of
good for both teams!
not at all. This trade make sesne only for mibr, not for Liquid
now liquid has chance to beat astralis
Like stew has firepower, but they lost one of the best coaches so idk
nt
you mean liquid top 1 since there will be no bot taco to bottom frag and make liquid lose
lol what
I think it's very good move for both and mibr can comeback to speak Portuguese
ITS HAPPENING
espn.com.br/esports/artigo/_/id/5073692/.. olha isso mano
Downgrade for both mr yip and taco
espn.com.br/esports/artigo/_/id/5073692/.. knG or kscerato
"HMMM WERE #2 AND #4 in the WORLD AND WORKED REALLY HARD TO GET IT I HAVE AN IDEA LETS MAKE A CHANGES"
Great fucking job...
:(
I'm still gonna look to it with some optimism cause this is probably one of the most stacked fucking rosters in terms of individual skill but Liquid was a team built on teamplay.
I hope this is like the situation where TACO replaced Steel because it didn't change the team a whole lot but made them slightly better since they put them in the same roles.
Stewie is a very good solo bombsite anchor, better than TACO I would say so maybe their Dust2 improves from this.
Edit:
Ok I have calmed down, let's go STEWIE
xaxaxa
But still Tarik ? i mean, stewie was pretty good tbh, if taco back, they must bring back some brazilian player, or trade tarike as well
This is a really bad move from Liquid. They keep getting second place, they should be happy, it was a matter of time before they could break Astralis, you could actually see that on the first map of the last BO5 they played. In no way they played bad, the final was awesome to watch.
On the other hand, I didn't feel like that +Stewie +tarik would do well so it was somewhat expected they would be kicked or leave.
+1 :(
Still though, Stewie was not the worst move.
TACO was put to anchor a site a lot, and Stewie is still a great bombsite anchor but he also is arguably a better individual player. If he's willing to be put in TACO's position, after some time, this might really be the team to beat Astralis.
This move won't work no matter how you look at it. Stewie is by no means a bad player, but tell me who is willing to sacrifice his role to be put in TACO's position ? He literally plays all the crucial positions. Look at bondik's interview, that says a lot. They have 4 frag machines in the name of EliGE, NAF, Twistzzz, Stewie now...
Maybe they will sacrifice nitr0 again, but if they are willing to do stupid moves like that, it's just a matter of time before they kick nitr0 which isn't fair.
I mean the reason why the move could work os that TACO plays the exact same positions Stewie plays on CT side, and Liquid's CT side hold on Dust2 was the reason they choked ESL One New York.
Also there is no longer a language barrier. Of course TACO can speak English, but its still not a super comfortable language for him as seen evidently in interviews.
Stewie didn't feel hapoy to play with Brazilians on his team that werent as comfortable with English, and thr Brazilians wanted to play with peoplr that coukd speak Portuguese.
The reason why I dont see this working out as bad as the snax move is because Snax could barely speak English, and Snax was a totally different player on CT side thsn Snax, while Stewie plays the exsct same bombsites as TACO while being more reliable as an anchor.
Another reasin why this could work out because Stewie is better thsn anyone else on the Liquid roster with the awo, so they could be moving nitr0 who was known to be really good with rifles to a support position where he's always playing with rifles. They probably want stewie to awp because EliGE is already a great entry fragger and if anyone on the team is really willing to awp full time its stewie.
I still think they should have given more time to the original roster, but when the players themselves want to leave the team.. what can you do?
YES YES YES !
why not trade for tarik?
he can awp and igl. stew is a bot atm.
god bless finally mibr going full brazilian
wonder who their 5th is gona be, im hoping they go back to felps or are they still in bad terms? I'm sure felps will stop whining after playing in t4 teams for months lol
really exciting news for CS in general but it hurts as an NA fan :(
fnx
You underestimate stew, m8. I think he will feel home again on Liquid and will go back to his good days.
Could be decent. Makes it that elige can play a less aggressive role which leaves him alive later in the round. Stewie can entry now
fnx with zews sit at ECS :)
mibr felt wrong, you could see it in results, the way ynk and fallen interacted and the way it happened after C9 have there biggest win baffles me. Zews is the biggest transfer win for Mibr. watch out for mibr to be no.2 in the world
good move from mibr, not sure about liquid
mibr should have stayed full br from the start lol
Rip liquid I guess
MiBR going back to the roots, I like it, but they've been better lately, so I'm unsure as to whether this move is justified.
Meanwhile Liquid are kind of taking the C9 approach, not sure I enjoy them breaking apart some of the teams structure for additional firepower, but it could go really well, that is, if this move comes through.
-golden +tarik on c9???
thank god niko didnt go to MIBR
You meant S1mple and flamie.
+kNg or bring fnx / felps / boltz back.
where were you when Liquid was kill
I was home and drinking brain fluid when my brother ring
'Liquid trades TACO and zews for Stewie2k'
'no'
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and you?????????????????????
Okay, this is epic.
430 comments in 20 minutes wtff
yeah tbh I genuinely thought stewie was going to c9 but liquid wtf I did not expect it