Epitácio "TACO" de Melo has left SK Gaming, the player announced on Twitter Thursday.

27 meses e hoje, finalmente a despedida [PT-EN]



Read: https://t.co/uUTfDrqPWE — Epitácio (@TACOCS) March 22, 2018

TACO has been with SK since July 2016, and has played alongside team captain Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo since November 2015, when he joined Luminosity Gaming. It is unclear if TACO was kicked off the team or left of his own volition, but said in a TwitLonger statement that he has been "unhappy" and felt "pressure" from outside the team.

"A few weeks ago, I noticed I wasn’t happy anymore," he said. "A few days ago, I decided to look for that same happiness I used to feel before playing, and I wasn’t feeling that anymore, even though it’d cost me the decision of leaving the team I helped succeed and turn into one of the best teams to play this game."

TACO has since tweeted that he will divulging more details about his future in the next few days and then begin looking at offers from other teams.

I'll give you details about my future in the next few days. Right now I'm feeling really happy. More than I've been in the last few months. I'm motivated as if I started playing CS yesterday.



I'll take a few days to rest and probably analyze the offers that will come.



Thank you — Epitácio (@TACOCS) March 22, 2018

HLTV previously reported that SK were in talks with Natus Vincere players Aleksandr "S1mple" Kostyliev and Egor "flamie" Vasilyev to replace TACO and Ricardo "boltz" Prass. However, Na`Vi CEO Yevhen Zolotarov has since denied this.

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While with Luminosity and SK, TACO won two CS:GO Majors and more than a dozen other CS:GO tournaments.

"None of this would’ve have been possible without my teammates, whom I had the pleasure of learning and playing together," TACO wrote. "None of this would’ve been possible without our fans, who cheer, accompany and support us in every step of the way, hard or not – but you were also there with us in many happy moments we had."

Daniel Rosen is a news editor for theScore esports. You can follow him on Twitter.