Jake Yip

Jake "Stewie2k" Yip (born January 7, 1998) is a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) player from the United States. He has played for SapphireKelownaDotCom, ex-eLevate, Splyce, Cloud9, SK Gaming, MIBR and is currently on the roster for Team Liquid.

Yip was born in 1998 and raised in San Francisco. He picked up Counter-Strike 1.6 from his older brother, Jason. Yip grew up with his brother and sister. His parents were often on business trips in China. Yip described his parents as the stereotypical Asian parents who disapproved of video games.

Yip stopped playing Counter-Strike 1.6 for a time in favor of other games such as RuneScape, MapleStory, League of Legends and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He eventually picked up Counter-Strike 1.6 again, but would only play surf maps and mods. Yip began playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in the summer of 2014 after a friend gifted him a copy. He was inspired by videos of Cloud9 and would play many hours of the day affecting his schoolwork and relationship with his parents. He played matchmaking for 5 months before making the switch to ESEA. During this time Yip was falsely accused of cheating by several players further motivating him to pursue a professional CS:GO career.

Yip had garnered attention for his competitive PUG performance and flew out to Los Angeles at the age of 17. After Sean Gares announced he was leaving Cloud9, the team decided to pick up Yip with Gares' personal recommendation. Yip joined Cloud9 on January 11, 2016 as a Team Leader. His addition was met with criticism from some veteran players. Esports journalist, Duncan "Thorin" Shields, questioned Yip's addition to the Cloud9 roster as well as Yip's abilities.

Yip played for 2 years with Cloud9 and won several tournaments with the team including ESL Pro League Season 4, DreamHack Open Denver 2017 and iBUYPOWER Masters 2017. Yip won his first major with Cloud9 in January 2018 at the ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018. At the end of March, Yip left Cloud9 for SK Gaming. He tried out to replace Epitacio "TACO" de Melo's spot on SK Gaming's active lineup. After a three month period, Made in Brazil (MIBR) signed the SK Gaming roster to play under MIBR's name.

MIBR traded Yip to Team Liquid for Epitácio "TACO" de Melo and head coach Wilton "zews" Prado in December 2018.

In December 2019, Yip became the first North American CS:GO player to earn over $1,000,000 in tournament prize money after finishing runner up to Astralis in the ECS Season 8 Finals. Team Liquid's CS:GO team earned $2.31 million in 2019.