In the 2017 ESL One Cologne tournament, the Brazilian team SK advanced to the playoffs with a 3-2 record in the group stage. In the elimination stage, SK began to show dominance by only losing 1 out of 8 maps against OpTic, FaZe, and Cloud9 (their opponent in the final), while Cloud9 lost the final with a score of 0-3.
SK ultimately defeated Cloud9 3-0 and won a $100,000 championship prize. This team, consisting of TACO , fer , FalleN , felps , and coldzera , also won 7 other championships that year.
In 2016, they also won the ESL One Cologne Major tournament. The only roster change between those two years was felps joining to replace Lincoln Lau | fnx .
This legendary Brazilian team has written a significant chapter in CS history.
