Despite retiring for a period of nearly two years, Jacky “Stewie2K” Yip is still one of the most talented CS2 players in the world.
At the upcoming IEM Dallas 2024, he will stand in for G2 Esports. Rasmus “HooXi” Nielsen will not attend the event, which means that Stewie2K will have a great opportunity to play in an S-tier event after more than two years.
Stewie2K’s Streaming Prowess And Schedule
In addition to being a great CS2 player, Stewie2K is also a very entertaining streamer with more than 1.4 million Twitch followers. He streams quite frequently and you can check the exact schedule on his Twitch account.
Now that Stewie2K is a Tradeit streamer, you will probably have the chance to watch him outplaying his opponents even more regularly, and possibly learn about some of the best skins in CS2.
Stewie2K’s CS2 Career
His career started back in 2015. However, it took him almost a year to be noticed by a top esports organization. After being signed by Cloud9, he only needed around six months to start having a big impact. In June and July 2016, C9 finished 5th – 6th at Esports Championship Series Season 1 Finals and 5th – 8th at ELEAGUE Season 1.
Numerous good results followed, including Grand Finals in A-tier and S-tier tournaments such as Norther Arena 2016 Toronto and DreamHack Open Bucharest 2016. The first big moment for C9 came at ESL Pro League Season 4, where they defeated SK Gaming in the Grand Final and won $200.000.
In 2017, Cloud9 played in a lot of B-tier, A-tier, and S-tier tournaments, finishing 9th – 11th at PGL Major Krakow and 2nd at ESL One Cologne. These results, and many more, gave them the confidence to persevere.
Stewie2K’s biggest achievement to date came in January 2018, at ELEAGUE Major Boston, where Cloud9 gave American fans a truly inspirational experience. The team probably wouldn’t have won without the massive support of the crowd, who cheered for them and made them play the best CS of their lives.
Everyone on that roster excelled when it mattered most. Some of the teams defeated by Stewie2K in this tournament were Astralis, G2 Esports, SK Gaming, and FaZe Clan. The Grand Final had three maps and ended with a 19 – 22 score on the third. Words cannot describe how epic it was.
Just several months later, Stewie2K left Cloud and joined SK Gaming, which later became MIBR. The results were not as good as expected but they weren’t terrible either.
His next org was Team Liquid. He joined at the end of the 2018 season and the team quickly started to win tournament after tournament. 2019 ended up being one of Liquid’s best years ever in Counter-Strike.
The most important trophies won by them that year came at iBUYPOWER Masters IV, IEM Sydney, DreamHack Masters Dallas, ESL Pro League S9 Finals, ESL Cologne, BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles, and IEM Chicago. Liquid also played plenty of lost Grand Finals that year.
After two more seasons, Stewie2K joined Evil Geniuses. The team struggled, partly because of the global pandemic and the psychological effect it had on professional players. In July 2022, he decided to become a streamer for EG and now, almost two years later, he started streaming for Tradeit.gg.
Header image credit: Cloud9
