The ESL Challenger League Season 43 champions shake up their teaching employees following their abysmal RMR marketing campaign
SAW has introduced on Twitter that Omar “arki” Chakkor has left the staff. Arki, who initially signed for the Portuguese outfit as a participant, had been part of the SAW setup for 3 years. Daniel “NABOWOW” Brito can be taking up as coach on an interim foundation till the tip of the season.
arki performed on SAW for 850 days and coached them for 283 days.
Sadly with the Portuguese facet going 0-3 on the RMR one thing needed to change.
arki and his time on SAW can be written in historical past all through the Iberian scene. https://t.co/iQUtuXNOrt
— Josh Nathan (@DwegCSGO) April 10, 2023
The choice means Omar “arki” Chakkor can be competing with out Ricardo “roman” Oliveira and Christopher “MUTiRiS” Fernandes for the primary time since 2018 and 2019, respectively, after they performed collectively beneath the Giants identify earlier than switching to SAW.
Throughout arki’s nine-month teaching stint, the Portuguese staff reached their highest-ever rank of No. 20 on the HLTV leaderboard. SAW received quite a few regional tournaments, together with Elisa Invitational Fall 2022, ESL Challenger League Season 43 Europe, ESL Masters Spain Season 12 Finals, and Grasp League Portugal X Finals, beneath archi’s supervision.
After dropping to FTW within the Grasp League Portugal IX Finals, SAW made sweeping adjustments to their lineup, with arki being appointed as coach in July 2022. Though the 33-year-old helped SAW qualify for the Regional Main Rating occasions for each the IEM Rio and BLAST Paris Majors, the staff was unable to qualify for the finals on each events.
“Right now we are saying goodbye to arki. The warrior leaves, as of at the moment, the place of coach of the CS:GO staff,” SAW mentioned of their official assertion. “With the intention to attempt to discover a new course and obtain the progress we’re in search of a lot, we unanimously and really thoughtfully determined to reorganize the technical staff.”
SAW will begin life with out arki with an ESL Challenger League Season 45 assembly with both HEET or Into the Bin on April 19.
SAW Present Lineup
Christopher “MUTiRiS” Fernandes (Portugal)
Ricardo “roman” Oliveira (Portugal)
Tiago “JUST” Moura (Portugal)
João “story” Vieira (Portugal)
Michel “ewjerkz” Pinto (Portugal)
Daniel “NABOWOW” Brito ( Portugal, Coach)