Evil Geniuses
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| Team Information | |
| Coaches: | N/A |
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| Manager: | Cody "evoli" Conners |
| Team Captain: | Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson |
| Website: | Evil Geniuses |
| Sponsor: | Intel SteelSeries Monster Energy Kingston HyperX Beyond Gaming Sapphire Technology Six Pool Gaming IN WIN Bigfoot Networks Intel Extreme Team GUNNAR Optiks SLAPPA SPLIT REASON |
| TLPD: | Evil Geniuses Korean Evil Geniuses International |
| Twitter: | EvilGeniuses |
| Player Breakdown | |
| Number of Players: |
9 |
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| History | |
| Created: | 2009-04-12 |
| Recent Player Trades: | 2012-05-09 - Acquired ThorZaIN 2011-12-30 - Acquired JYP 2012-01-18 Axslav leaves |
To read about the Evil Geniuses' StarCraft: Brood War team, click here.
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[edit] Overview
The team Evil Geniuses is one of the oldest North American sponsored multigaming clans with a long history in gaming. They are mostly known for their Counter Strike 1.6 team and StarCraft II players. They currently play the following games:
- Dota 2
- StarCraft II
- Quake Live
- Super Street Fighter IV
- World of Warcraft
[edit] History
[edit] 2009
- On April 12th, the team Evil Geniuses officially announced a StarCraft division.[1] The initial roster consisted of iNcontroL, Nyoken, Machine, LzGaMeR, and G5.
- In May, Louder joined Evil Geniuses immediately following his World Cyber Games (WCG) US Invite in New York.
- In June/July, G5 unofficially left the Evil Geniuses roster after internal problems. He remained under contract for the rest of 2009.
- In August, Evil Geniuses signed iNkA.
[edit] 2010
- In January, Evil Geniuses re-signed its respective contracts with iNcontroL, Nyoken, Machine, LzGaMeR, Louder and iNkA.
- In January, G5 officially left the StarCraft division of the team.
- In January, former manager Colbi stepped down from active duty as team manager due to personal reasons.
- In January, the "EG House," a progaming house, was formed. Its initial members consisted of Machine, Nyoken, and iNkA, as well as player and caster Psyonic_Reaver. The goal was to create an atmosphere similar to Korean pro-team houses.
- In February, the StarCraft 2 Beta was released and the StarCraft team gradually shifted towards StarCraft 2. Team members began practicing the new game from day one.[2][3]
- In April, the team won its first notable StarCraft 2 clan war by beating Team Liquid 3-2.[4]
- In July, the team signed former top American WarCraft 3 players Axslav and StrifeCro.
- In September, the team made its first investments in the Korean scene, signing IdrA and Tasteless.[5]
[edit] 2011
- On January 4th, Evil Geniuses signed British StarCraft II player DeMusliM.[6]
- In February, the team released the American Protoss player iNkA.
- On March 31st, the team parted ways with Dutch player Grubby and American manager Tasteless.[7]
- On April 21st, the team announced an exclusive sponsorship with Monster Energy for 2011.[8]
- On April 30th, the team announced the $10,000 Evil Geniuses Master's Cup Series V Team League.[9]
- On July 21st, Team SCV Life announced that PuMa planned to join Evil Geniuses. The conditions of his transfer were controversial, given that the Team SCV Life manager was not informed of EG's intentions.[10] However, on July 26th, 2011, Evil Geniuses CEO Alex Garfield announced that PuMa had been signed by the team.[11]
- On July 31st, it was announced that the team was opening its own training house in Arizona.[12]
- On August 17th, HuK joined the team.[13]
- On October 17th, Evil Geniuses created another obscure hype page, indicating an announcement to come. This hype was clarified on October 21st when the team announced an official training partnership between SlayerS and EG.[14] This partnership gave HuK and PuMa the chance to reside permanently at the SlayerS team house, while also permitting IdrA and DeMusliM to reside in a non-permanent way while they compete in the GSL.[15] and Code A respectively.[14]
- On December 30th, the team announced the acquisition of South Korean Protoss JYP. [16]
[edit] 2012
- On January 18th, Axslav and StrifeCro parted ways with Evil Geniuses.[17]
- On March 3rd, orb moved into the EG Lair.[18]
- March 8, following controversy over language, EG fired orb. [19]
- May 8th, Evil Geniuses recruits ThorZaIN.[20]
[edit] Player Roster
[edit] Active
Best Yearly Result:
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DeMusliM | Benjamin Baker | Ro8 
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IdrA | Greg Fields | 1st 
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Ro20  
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iNcontroL ( )
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Geoff Robinson | 13th
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4th
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Ro32 
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JYP | Park Jin Young | - |  Ro8 
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3rd
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HuK | Chris Loranger | 1st
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1st 
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3rd
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LzGaMeR | Jacob Winstead | 17-24th
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25th
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Machine | Bryce Bates | 6th
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15th
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PuMa | Lee Ho Joon | - | 1st 
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2nd
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ThorZaIN | Marcus Sebastian Eklöf | Ro32
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1st 
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1st
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[edit] Former
| ID | Name | New Team | ||
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Axslav | Nick Ranish |  Reign
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StrifeCro | Cong Shu |  Team Legion
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Louder | David Fells | N/A |
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iNkA | Kelby Williams |  Lazarus Gaming
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Grubby | Manuel Schenkhuizen | Solo Sponsorship[21] |
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Tasteless | Nicolas Plott | N/A |
[edit] Organization
| ID | Name | Position | ||
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SirScoots | Scott Smith | Managing Director | |
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evoli | Cody Conners | Manager | |
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Alex Garfield | Executive Director | ||
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Colbi | Lucas Bigham | Editor-in-Chief |
[edit] League Performance
| Round | Record | Terran | Record | Protoss | Record | Zerg | Record | 4th Man | Record |
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| GCPL 11 R1 | 5-2 |  DeMusliM |
1-1 |  Axslav |
8-3 |  IdrA |
3-2 | iNcontroL |
2-3 |
| EGMC S5 | 4-3 | DeMusliM |
5-7 | Axslav |
5-8 | IdrA |
17-6 | StrifeCro |
2-4 |
[edit] Team Achievements
| Date | League | Result | |
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| 2011-11-13 | 
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GosuCoaching Premiere League Season 2 |  Evil Geniuses 2 : 3  Team Empire
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| 2011-10-30 | 
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Evil Geniuses Master's Cup Series VI | Evil Geniuses 1 : 3 Team Empire
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| 2011 October |
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ESEA Season 9 | Evil Geniuses 0 : W  CheckSix Gaming
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| 2011 May |
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ESEA Season 8 | Evil Geniuses 1 : 3  coL
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| 2011-03-20 | 
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GosuCoaching Premiere League Season 1 | Evil Geniuses 3 : 2  Team Liquid
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- Evil Geniuses won a clanwar against Team Liquid during the beta with a total score of 3-2.[4]
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[edit] References
- ↑ "Team EG Announces StarCraft Division" MyEG.net. April 12th 2009. Thread on TeamLiquid.net
- ↑ "StarCraft 2 Beta release!" MyEG.net. February 18th 2010.
- ↑ "SC House update" MyEG.net. April 5th 2010.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "(SC2B) Liquid vs EG Clanwar - Aftermath" TeamLiquid.net. April 18th 2010.
- ↑ "IdrA and Tasteless join EG" SK-Gaming.com. September 9th 2010. Thread on TeamLiquid.net
- ↑ "Team EG acquire DeMusliM" January 4th 2011. Thread on TeamLiquid.net
- ↑ "Team EG and Grubby Part Ways" MyEG.net. March 31st 2011. Thread on TeamLiquid.net
- ↑ "Monster Energy Sponsors Team EG" MyEG.net April 21st 2011. Thread on TeamLiquid.net
- ↑ "EG launch $10,000 Master's Cup Series League" TeamLiquid.net. May 2nd 2011.
- ↑ "Puma leaves TSL for EG" TeamLiquid.net. July 21st 2011.
- ↑ "EG signs PuMa, responds to criticism" TeamLiquid.net. July 26th 2011.
- ↑ "Team EG announce Training House" MyEG.net. July 31st 2011. Thread on TeamLiquid.net.
- ↑ "Farewell, Liquid`HuK" TeamLiquid.net. August 17th 2011.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Team Evil Geniuses announces training camp partnership with SlayerS" MyEG.net. October 21st 2011.
- ↑ "Prepare Yourselves: IdrA is Back in Code S" MyEG.net. December 14th 2011.
- ↑ "EG announces addition of Park "JYP" Jin Young" MyEG.net. December 30th 2011. Thread on TeamLiquid.net
- ↑ "Evil Geniuses part ways with Axslav and StrifeCro". myEG.net. January 18th 2012. TeamLiquid.net Forum thread
- ↑ D-eSports.com article
- ↑ TeamLiquid.net thread
- ↑ ThorZaIN to Evil Geniuses
- ↑ "SteelSeries sponsoring Grubby" SK-Gaming.com. April 3rd 2011.
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