Evil Geniuses
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| Abbreviation | EG |
| Manager |
 Philip Aram (Chief Gaming Officer)
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| Place of foundation |
 Canada
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| Clan color | Light Blue |
| Main sponsor | u. a. Steelseries , AMD and Monster Energy |
| Homepage | evilgeniuses.gg |
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Evil Geniuses (EC) , also known as Team EG , is an American e-sports - Clan , founded 1999th In 2009 he engaged the former team of compLexity in Counter-Strike and the former MeetYourMakers team around the Dutchman Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen in Warcraft III . EG also had several successful Quake players. EG was one of the G7 members .
In StarCraft II , the team has or had successful players such as B. Lee "Jaedong" Jae-dong , Greg "IdrA" Fields , Ilyes "Stephano" Satouri and Chris "HuK" Loranger under contract. In the MOBA genre, which has been gaining popularity since the 2010s, EG is also represented with teams in League of Legends and Dota 2 . In Gwent: The Witcher Card Game , Lifecoach was briefly under contract with EG.
The Evil Geniuses Dota 2 team won the fifth edition of The International in August 2015, the largest esports event of all time in August 2015 based on prize money.
Important former and active players
Dota 2
The Dota 2 division was launched in 2011. The greatest successes so far have been first place at the Dota 2 Asia Championships 2015 and The International 2015. The players won over seven million US dollars from both tournaments .
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- Player in May 2019
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Sumail "SumaiL" Hassan
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Artour "Arteezy" Babaev
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Andreas "Cr1t" Nielsen
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Gustav "s4" Magnusson
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Valley "Fly" Aizik
- Player from September 2019
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Abed "Abed" Yusop
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Artour "Arteezy" Babaev
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Andreas "Cr1t" Nielsen
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Novel "Ramzes666" Kushnarev
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Valley "Fly" Aizik
Call of Duty
On May 6, 2014 Evil Geniuses bought the Call of Duty team from compLexity for $ 70,000. The compLexity team had previously won the Call of Duty Championship 2014, which is endowed with one million US dollars .
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Anthony "NAMELESS" Wheeler
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Bryan "Apathy" Zhelyazkov
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Ian "Enable" Wyatt
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Patrick "ACHES" Price
Super Smash Bros.
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Kevin "PPMD" Nanney (Melee, since 2014)
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Julian "Zinoto" Carrington (WiiU, since 2017)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
On November 10, 2017, Evil Geniuses announced that they would take over the Rainbow Six Team Continuum.
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Troy "Canadian" Jaroslawski (captain)
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Nathan "nvK" Valenti
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Austin "Yung" Trexler
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Brandon "BC" Carr
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Ammar "Necrox" Albanna
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Jordan "BKN" Soojian (Trainer)
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
In September 2019, the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive switched from NRG Esports to EG. A short time later you could already win the ESL One New York against the favored Danes from Astralis . In the Esports Championship Series Season # 8, they finished 3rd – 4th. Space. At the ESL Pro League Season 10: Finals they reached 5th - 6th place. In December 2019, they climbed to 3rd place in the world rankings, making them the best team outside of Europe. This was followed by the shared 3rd - 4th place at the EPICENTER 2019 tournament. At the IEM Katowice 2020, the shared place 9 - 12 followed.
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Vincent "Brehze" Cayonte
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Cvetelin "CeRq" Dimitrov -
Ethan "Ethan" Arnold
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Tarik "tarik" Celik
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Peter "Stanislaw" Jarguz
League of Legends
Evil Geniuses took over the entire team from CLG.EU in January 2013 , which at that time had already played together for over a year and was considered one of the best teams in Europe with its participation in the semi-finals at the Season 2 World Championship and the victory at DreamHack Summer 2012. Since spring 2013 EG was one of eight professional teams in the European League Championship Series (LCS), but could not win any major tournaments and also missed the qualification for the Season 3 World Championship .
In December 2013 it was announced that three of the five members of the team ( Snoopeh , Yellowpete and Krepo ) would compete with two new team members in the North American LCS under the name Evil Geniuses, while the other two players Wickd and Froggen under the EC Subsidiary Alliance a new team was built that continued to play in the European LCS.
The EG League of Legends team had to rename itself as part of the LCS Sale of Sponsorships Rule introduced in 2015 and has been playing under the new name Winterfox since January 2015 .
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Starcraft II
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Geoff "InConTrol" Robinson (2009-2013)
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Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen (2010–2011; previously in WarCraft III)
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Ilyes "Stephano" Satouri (2012-2013)
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Greg "IdrA" Fields (2010-2013)
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Chris "HuK" Loranger (2011-2017)
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Lee "Jaedong" Jae-dong (2012-2016)
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Adrian "Lifecoach" Koy (previously in Gwent)
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evil Geniuses (Dota 2) wiki.teamliquid.net
- ^ Call of Duty Championship 2014 esportsearnings.com
- ↑ Evil Geniuses. Retrieved November 10, 2017 .
- ↑ By Maximilian Eichgrün: Evil Geniuses make mobile: North American organization brings top CS: GO team and LCS franchise - ESPORTS. In: eSports.com. September 27, 2019, accessed on September 30, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH freaks4u.com: Match: Astralis vs. Evil Geniuses (Sep 29th 2019, 7:55 pm). 99Damage.de, accessed September 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH freaks4u.com: Coverage: Esports Championship Series Season # 8 «99Damage.de - CS: GO. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
- ↑ ESL Pro League Season 10: Finals - Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
- ^ HLTV.org - The home of competitive Counter-Strike. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH freaks4u.com: Coverage: EPICENTER 2019 «99Damage.de - CS: GO. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Evil Geniuses esportspedia.com
- ↑ lolearnings.com: Prize money CLG.EU ( Memento from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Evil Geniuses Comes to America evilgeniuses.gg
- ^ New Sale of Sponsorships Rule lolesports.com
- ↑ Evil Geniuses renaming: Brace yourselves, Winter (fox) is coming! readmore.de
- ↑ Evil Geniuses (SC2) wiki.teamliquid.net
- ↑ Jaedong joins EG teamliquid.net