Stewie2K responds to Cloud9\u2019s Jack Etienne claim that he \u201cabandoned\u201d CS:GO team @Stewie \/ TwitterMiBR player Jake \u2018Stewie2K\u2019 Yip has responded to comments made by Cloud9 founder and CEO Jack Etienne, suggesting Stewie and teammate Tarik \u2018tarik\u2019 Celic had \u201cabandoned\u201d the Major winning CS:GO roster. After historic success at the ELEAGUE Boston Major in February 2018, where Cloud9 became the first North American team to win a CS:GO major, things quickly began to go downhill. Stewie2K\u2019s move to SK Gaming was the first domino, and he was later followed by former C9 teammate tarik, after the SK roster was acquired by Made in Brazil (MiBR). After taking months off for personal reasons, the ELEAGUE Boston MVP Tyler \u2018Skadoodle\u2019 Latham announced his retirement from competing, leaving only two members \u2013 Timothy \u2018autimatic\u2019 Ta and Will \u2018RUSH\u2019 Weirzba \u2013 from the major winning lineup. Following the official signing of French veteran Fabien \u2018KioShiMa\u2019 Fiey on November 17, Cloud9 became a predominantly European roster for the first time, with Swedish duo Maikil \u2018Golden\u2019 Selim and Robin \u2018flusha\u2019 R\u00f6nnquist having already joined from Fnatic. The transition to an EU team disappointed some NA fans, and their disappointment was perhaps confounded by news that coach Soham \u2018valens\u2019 Chowdhury would be stepping in for Golden at the ongoing ECS Season 6 finals. A concerned fan sent a message to Etienne on Twitter, laying blame at his feet for the team\u2019s struggles, specifically the loss of tarik and Stewie2K, to which the C9 founder responded \u201cYou do know they abandoned us because they wanted to right?\u201d You do know that they abandoned us because they wanted to right? Hold tight, we will rebuild and we will be strong again. \u2014 Jack Etienne (@JackEtienne) November 22, 2018 Stewie2K saw the interaction and the accusation of abandonment, and disputed the use of the word to describe his departure. \u201cCmon Jack, we both know abandonment is not the right term\u201d he writes, hinting that there is perhaps more to the story than is public knowledge, but that Etienne would of course know the bigger picture. Cmon Jack, we both know abandonment is not the right term :neutral_face: \u2014 Jake (@Stewie) November 22, 2018 Stewie\u2019s teammate tarik didn\u2019t respond, although he left Cloud9 some months after Stewie2K, so it is possible that the circumstances surrounding his departure were different. At the time, tarik said of his decision to leave C9: \u201cThe sole reason I want to make this change is simple\u2026 I want to win, and I will do anything in my power to make that happen.\u201d Regardless, Etienne remains confident that Cloud9 CS:GO can \u201crebuild\u201d, although with valens stepping in for the ECS Season 6 finals, they are not best equipped to do so currently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stewie2K responds to Cloud9\u2019s Jack Etienne claim that he \u201cabandoned\u201d CS:GO team @Stewie \/ TwitterMiBR player Jake \u2018Stewie2K\u2019 Yip has responded to comments made by Cloud9 founder and CEO Jack Etienne, suggesting Stewie and teammate Tarik \u2018tarik\u2019 Celic had \u201cabandoned\u201d the Major winning CS:GO roster. After historic success at the ELEAGUE Boston Major in February […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}