The Smoke-Pushing Sh*t-Talker Who Saved a Dying Region: The Story of Stewie2K 2.0

he's the most successful player north american counter-strike has ever seen they're flying by the seat of their pants and stewie's here to take advantage of it he's blind but that doesn't matter the chosen one given the task of bringing glory to an entire region stewie he's come for the knife he's gonna go for it he does it stewie he might find this clutch and he goes again for more it's trading back and forth for stewie and within his first year of competitive play stewie took cloud nine to the top of the world stewie's on his own but look at the time look at the time there's seven seconds they're trying to build pyramids but there's no more play stewie but after making history and earning any of their first major title he turned his sights to a new challenge definitely after the major win he's a player you have to look at and say he's very adaptable very versatile as a player i mean he's just climbed like that you click your fingers he's on a stage like this he was supposed to be the one to come in with the experience of winning the major and be able to get them over that hump so now this is gonna be a test nitro is ready damage done can't quite find enough though it's a double kill the stewie2k this is the story of how na superstar developed as a versatile leader and made history once again [Applause] in 2018 stewie2k became one of the most prolific american counter-strike players in history when he won the boston major with cloud9 and then just two months later he left to join sk gaming a roster filled with some of the best players counter-strike has ever seen and it turned out to be his biggest challenge yet sk has always been a top team we've always looked up to them i've always watched their demos we copy a lot from them so i think they know what they're doing and following has always been pictured as a great igl one of the best and cold one of the best players in the world if not the best so now i think the next step in my career to learn more is just learning from them on the team but joining this team meant that stewie would have to become more of a support player something that he hadn't really been known for in the past from copy commits to that despite being blind stewie moving in he's actually finding some decent impact here terexil's position on the side too what is this one stewie just picking these players off one by one right now oh my god another one now onto next two leggy he's the last hope here in a 1v1 no stewie single-handedly aces against big on c9 stewie had been a leader but sk already had a legendary igl and that left many wondering why he was opting to become a role player what kind of like bottles my mind is that he chose to join a sk where you're you're not going to be a star player on this game you're not gonna be more impact than fur you're not gonna be more impact than cold zero if he actually does the role player role like if he does it right they're gonna be unstoppable absolutely coming in stewie's the only one in there and he's got an mp9 he's gonna get flashed in he's gonna just go for it he's gonna go for it oh my god stewie but despite some wins at tier two events the roster didn't live up to expectations they just couldn't perform when it mattered most we've seen him do magical things with smokes he's gonna get tagged over the top of it and up close nothing's there to find him fur 14 hp doesn't expect the wrap round sonny drops him and mouse sports they're gonna do it they close out this series in june of 2018 immortals acquired the sk gaming roster and rebranded it under the legendary made in brazil name but regardless of the banner he played under stewie continued to push himself in order to help the team succeed and he further built his reputation as a versatile star he doesn't really care what his role is going to be within the team if it's going to be what the team needs and is going to help the team i think a lot of people would be surprised to hear stu was a pretty selfless player and and it is i mean it surprised me a lot because when he joined the team we were kind of his inauguration and like his first pro team and i was kind of wondering myself how long it was going to take him to to really come into his own but probably even our first international land he started picking up comms and doing a little bit more than some of my teammates that i've been with for a couple years and played at the level so um i started noticing that with sku and then surely enough our first big win when we won epl in brazil him and tim were a big part of it in spite of stewie's willingness to be a team player sk continued to struggle and it came to a head when they bombed out of the group stage at esl one cologne mibr taking their time to commit they've got plenty of it but they've still got so many aggressive positions scott b wins his fight but low and ammo a reloads needed he does have the cross fire from tizian and the fighting the kills are firing in tizian's done it it's just one man left up and coldzera can't find the final kills it's big are going to the playoffs and mib are eliminated in group stages it was obviously time for a change at this point and following their disappointing run in germany a familiar face joined the mibr roster stewie's friend and former teammate tarik replaced bolts in the hopes of improving the team's communication issues the change brought optimism that one of the most star-studded rosters in cs go's history might finally be able to compete with the likes of astralis stewie also has a friend now on the team like an english-speaking friend and you know he's known me for a long time as well you know i love playing with stu i think that we work really well together and i think we're going to bring the heat so you guys got to watch out but weeks later at the e-league cs go premiere in 2018 they went out in groups again picking up one kill on twist i'm not sure why he wanted to fight that whatsoever but um a lot more damage actually coming in right now and taric finding another kill on taco and that's all on turkey almost gets the transfer but not quite 16 10 in favor of team liquid as they pick up the map win 4-0 against mibr at this event and unfortunately for mibr the struggles continue i think they were struggling actually having that same hunger that brought them you know they were they were working hard i don't think anyone was doubting that they're working hard putting in the hours maybe they were maybe the the hard work was a little bit more forced this time and they said oh we we should we should have these results and this should just come and and i i just don't think they were finding that secret sauce and despite a win at the relatively small zotac cup in august of 2018 the roster just wasn't living up to expectations although the team bounced back with a top four showing at the london major a series of up and down results made for a shaky end to the season just joining sk initially i think that was a big task i knew i had you know a lot of pressure on me because you know you're more like the new kid on the block and you're joining a completely different team different culture different philosophy of the game and i think we did really well to begin with and even bringing in tarik i think we did a great job i think we did have a slow start but i wouldn't say we weren't putting up a fight against the top teams i think we were putting up a fight against the top teams mainly against astralis and with dupree caught off guard it falls on to device mibr looking to push this to a third map and they absolutely will they will not go down without a fight but while mipr struggled to find consistency another north american team faced a similar challenge the brazilian superstar taco left sk gaming to join team liquid but just like his former team they consistently fell short to one of the most dominant teams of this era following it another loss to astralis at the esl pro league season 8 finals taka requested a trade back to mipr and in december of 2018 it was official taco and team liquid's coach zeus went to mibr in exchange for stewie mibr got a familiar face while stewie got the chance to once again join a north american team i just want to thank all the fans and the organization and the players for giving us this opportunity we're ending on a good note and we know how it is we know what we signed up for there's really no hard feelings stewie is someone who steps up in those spots and and he's known for becoming a better player when the pressure is on we think it's really important to have someone like that on our roster that can push everyone forward that can improve everyone's performance and it didn't take long for stewie's arrival to have an impact as he helped team liquid kickoff 2019 with a win over the seemingly invincible astralis at eyebuy power masters so he's able to get some cover and he's been great here as long as he can hold tight to the pillar he's gotten the second one nap will fall back into the pit and he'll take a second one as well that's it neff seals the deal there was a slight hope for astralis but it was liquid the late breaking horses the whole way similar to his role with mibr stu plugged in perfectly as a support player drawing plenty of space for the rest of the team to shine but stewie didn't just help push liquid forward he pushed them to the top he's alone he got pushed in before the flames found only one it is available for them to pick up on entry and bro and wants to capitalize but do we find the third but now it's going to be stewie has to get aggressive good find the first one best chance for liquid and it's a one-on-one smoking three but he fires into it and times it perfectly he's got the c-set and he's gone it's all on the jw smoked away and it's done finally finally liquid get their notch on the grand slam stewie has a smoke elise he can smoke on top of the bomb that actually helps him out considering hallo has the off if he touched this now he actually might be able to do it al is running in with the knife going for the splashes here is he connected with it looked like he was completely done for but he's managed to win the round well it's pulled everyone away from stewie he's the only one here first shot is his second shot is his bomb is his as well and he's got another one stewie just tears them all down he's spotting it out he's gonna be flanking master setting up and that's an absolute disaster stewie he may have just done it double for him and alicia on the other side oh my god eminek get a one versus three with 19 seconds unbelievable scenes here ladies and gentlemen team liquid are your season nine pro league champions nails it will he get out definitely does the smoke actually helps him out here ct's or lock off electronic is gonna push through nitro is ready damage done can't quite find enough though it's a double kill for stewie2k bobich knows he has to get much much closer information that he's that long and in the open stewie he taps on azus pistol as well stewie's got another pistol the knife does cost them and liquid take the game in overtime sideway with a flash that's their best hole and stewie's been caught but knight shows there they didn't get stewie how did she get away on 14. it's one thing for nitro to trade it's another to save his friend friend his teammate and get the round all at once smoke on his right tap on the bomb spray through eight hp and alex is forced to move forced to get away and the smoke still down at least no he's nowhere else he has to be there he's so smart he clears everything three steps ahead and he gets championship point for liquid that should do it there we go it's team liquid and that's what it means to them they've taken it in the fourth map the favorites coming into the tournament have just unlocked the intel grand slam at afl one colon under the belt and a million dollar bonus unreal the fashion they did it they never wanted season one they were so close so many times it got to the point where no one thought they could they brought in that guy stewie they brought in a trend and they changed everything but this legacy is permanent they have done what no one might ever do again until grand slam team liquid in a matter of 63 days stewie had helped transform team liquid into the best team in the world by becoming only the second team ever to win the intel grand slam even after becoming the first north american team to complete the grand slam stewie and liquid continued to look unstoppable they ended the summer on a terror winning the blast pro series los angeles and i am chicago with ease what an incredible show from liquid they have become hands down nobody can doubt it the best team in the world but finally in september of 2019 the team had a rough patch astralis were returning to power and the danish dynasty was back in full force at the berlin major they took down stewie and team liquid 2-0 in the quarter-finals and went on to win the major to become four-time major champions they have just re-established dominance forget the hiccup that was team liquid astralis seems back in a big way berlin was a turning point for stewie liquid couldn't recapture the magic after that loss and they closed out the year without even winning another event stewie and his team were once again living in the shadow of astralis but even as they struggled into 2020 the coven 19 pandemic changed everything for counter-strike forcing us into an online era of gaming further challenges arose when long-standing member nitro decided to leave the team in august to pursue a career in valorant i think losing nitro actually hurt us more than we expected just losing him he was a big he was a glue for our team he was a big part of you know being friends with everybody and you know he was like the middle man the team keeping the team together and he played a big leadership role as well and losing him we lost like a key player of our team that pretty much understood the foundation of our game and you know the philosophy that we play losing nitro meant that stewie would have to take on the role of igl something he hadn't done since his time with cloud9 and in december of 2020 team liquid lost yet another core member in twists i actually have a an announcement to make oh so on the back of ending 2020 on a very uh good final it was a matchup that i could have hoped for um that was actually my last games with team liquid and that could be exciting to to some people or very bad news for a lot of team liquid fans but i just wanted them to hear it from me the team has since made roster changes but stu's motivation has never wavered he's got a lot of flack i know on liquid nowadays for maybe some of his performances but i think stu has always been someone who's willing to play whatever gap that needs to be filled by a team and i think it's super underrated and more recently stewie has been reunited with his old teammate fallen his brazilian friend has now taken the role of igl allowing stewie to focus more on his own game so far the change has been positive with team liquid beginning to look more like their former selves fallen side of the smoke that flash is meant for nap to come out he challenges successfully now all the no scope and fallen not able to close just yet but it's close and now it's over a 16-9 on inferno from team liquid at the time we thought fallen was perfect fit i played with him in the past he's never toxic he always has good things to say um if anything bad to say about him i think he's a little too nice i think he's a selfless teammate and he he's just gonna bring in this different style that you know liquid needs and we're gonna have to put that together at only 23 years old stewie is still hungry to be the best he knows what it takes to win at the highest possible level and like always he won't rest until he does it again i think it's gotten to the point for our team that we had to manage our expectations that we weren't what we used to be but we definitely can be what we used to be if not better once you get that taste of being the best team in the world when you're when you were there you're going to want it back and that's the biggest drive for us he runs on in with the opener sweet on the tray but he's got very wide with a flashbang luckily they're blinded off of it and the pistol is out for perfecto running him down stewie with the pistol no ammo and either gun and it's all stewie2k thanks for watching if you want more content like this hit the sub button and ring that notification bell for unique bite size videos you won't find anywhere else hit up our instagram twitter and facebook pages

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Length: 16min 40sec (1000 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 06 2021