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Team Information
Location: USA United States
Coaches: Yong "Coach Park" Woon Park
Sung "TrOt" Jin Park
Manager: Cody "evoli" Conners
Team Captain: Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson
Website: Evil Geniuses
Sponsor: RaidCall
Razer
Intel Extreme Boards
Monster Energy
Kingston HyperX
IN WIN
SPLIT REASON
Astro Gaming
TLPD: Evil Geniuses Korean
Evil Geniuses International
Twitter: EvilGeniuses
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:

13

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History
Created: 1999 – Organization founding
2009-04-12 – StarCraft division
Recent Player Trades: 2013-05-09 - Idra released


To read about Evil Geniuses's activities in StarCraft: Brood War, see Evil Geniuses. For the team's activities in Dota 2, see Evil Geniuses.


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[edit] Overview

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 have teams for the following games:

  • Dota 2
  • StarCraft II
  • Quake Live
  • Super Street Fighter IV
  • World of WarCraft
  • League of Legends

[edit] History

[edit] 2009

  • On April 12, 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 II beta was released and the StarCraft team gradually shifted towards StarCraft II. Team members began practicing the new game from day one.[2][3]
  • In April, the team won its first notable StarCraft II clan war by beating Team Liquid 3-2.[4]
  • In July, the team signed former top American WarCraft III 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 4, Evil Geniuses signed British StarCraft II player DeMusliM.[6]
  • In February, the team released the American Protoss player iNkA.
  • On March 31, the team parted ways with Dutch player Grubby and American manager Tasteless.[7]
  • On April 21, the team announced an exclusive sponsorship with Monster Energy for 2011.[8]
  • On April 30, the team announced the $10,000 Evil Geniuses Master's Cup Series V Team League.[9]
  • On July 21, 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 26, 2011, Evil Geniuses CEO Alex Garfield announced that PuMa had been signed by the team.[11]
  • On July 31, it was announced that the team was opening its own training house in Arizona.[12]
  • On August 17, HuK joined the team.[13]
  • On October 17, Evil Geniuses created another obscure hype page, indicating an announcement to come. This hype was clarified on October 21 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 30, the team announced the acquisition of South Korean Protoss JYP.[16]

[edit] 2012

[edit] 2013

  • February 4, Razer partners with Evil Geniuses.[29] LzGaMeR parts ways with Evil Geniuses.[30]
  • March 13, Evil Geniuses recruit Former SK Telecom T1 coach, Yong Woon Park, as their new Head Coach.[31]
  • March 15, Evil Geniuses release PuMa from the team.[32]
  • March 28, Evil Geniuses sign former Fnatic players aLive and Oz.[33]
  • May 9, Evil Geniuses release IdrA from the team[34]

[edit] Player Roster

[edit] Active

Best Yearly Result:

ID Name 2010 2011 2012 2013
krSouth Korea TTicon small.png aLive Han Lee Seok D2Ro32 GOMTV Global StarCraft II League A8Sicon.png Ro8 GOMTV Global StarCraft II League A1st IGN ProLeague A8aPremier League Ro8 World Championship Series
GBUnited Kingdom TTicon small.png DeMusliM Benjamin Baker A8Ro8 Intel Extreme Masters A33rd Intel Extreme Masters A8Ro8 Intel Extreme Masters North American Star League KC4aChallenger League Ro24 World Championship Series
CanadaCanada PPicon small.png HuK Chris Loranger A11st MLG A11st DreamHack MLG A33rd MLG B313 - 16th DreamHack
USAUSA PPicon small.png iNcontroL (Captain.png) Geoff Robinson B313th MLG A44th MLG D2Ro32 HomeStory Cup Y-
krSouth Korea zZicon small.png Jaedong Lee Jae Dong Y- Y- D2Sicon.png Ro32 GOMTV Global StarCraft II League A33 - 4th DreamHack
KoreaSouth Korea PPicon small.png JYP Park Jin Young Y- LA8Aicon.png Ro8 GOMTV Global StarCraft II League Intel Extreme Masters A33rd HomeStory Cup G4Ro64 DreamHack
USAUSA ZZicon small.png Machine Bryce Bates A66th MLG B515th MLG E949+  IGN ProLeague Y-
krSouth Korea PPicon small.png Oz Kim Hak Soo Y- LA2Aicon.png 2nd GOMTV Global StarCraft II League A33 - 4th MLG D2Premier League Ro32 World Championship Series DreamHack
KoreaSouth Korea ZZicon small.png Revival Kim Dong Hyun Y- A8Ro8 Intel Extreme Masters A8Ro8 MLGIntel Extreme Masters A8aPremier League Ro8 World Championship Series
FrFrance ZZicon small.png Stephano Ilyes Satouri Y- A11st IGN ProLeague Electronic Sports World Cup A11st North American Star League World Championship Series A8aPremier League Ro8 World Championship Series Iron Squid
USAUSA ZZicon small.png Suppy Conan Liu Y- E949+  MLG A8Ro8 World Championship Series B6Premier League Ro16 World Championship Series 
seSweden TTicon small.png ThorZaIN Marcus Sebastian Eklöf D2Ro32 DreamHack A11st Team Liquid Starleague A11st DreamHack B6Premier League Ro16 World Championship Series

[edit] Former

ID Name New Team
USAUSA ZZicon small.png IdrA Greg Fields Retirement
KoreaSouth Korea TTicon small.png PuMa Lee Ho Joon
USAUSA ZZicon small.png LzGaMeR Jacob Winstead
USAUSA PPicon small.png Axslav Nick Ranish InfintySevenlogo std.png Infinity Seven
USAUSA ZZicon small.png StrifeCro Cong Shu Teamlegionlogo std.png Team Legion
USAUSA TTicon small.png Louder David Fells N/A
USAUSA PPicon small.png iNkA Kelby Williams Lazarus-Gaming.png Lazarus Gaming
NLNetherlands PPicon small.png Grubby Manuel Schenkhuizen Grubbylogo std.pngPersonal Sponsorship[35]
USAUSA PPicon small.png Tasteless Nicolas Plott N/A

[edit] Organization

ID Name Position
USA evoli Cody Conners Manager
USA ottersareneat Alex Garfield Executive Director
USA Colbi Lucas Bigham Editor-in-Chief
South Korea Coach Park Yong Woon Park Korean Head Coach
South Korea TrOt Sung Jin Park Assistant Coach
South Korea Hwanni Seong Hwan Kim Korean Operations Director
USA uNcontroLable Anna Prosser Facility Operations Manager
Canada Azael Isaac Cummings Bentley EGMC Caster

[edit] League Performance

Round Record Terran Record Protoss Record Zerg Record 4th Man Record
GCPL 11 R1 5-2 Terran DeMusliM 1-1 Protoss Axslav 8-3 Zerg IdrA 3-2 Protoss iNcontroL 2-3
EGMC S5 4-3 Terran DeMusliM 5-7 Protoss Axslav 5-8 Zerg IdrA 17-6 Zerg StrifeCro 2-4

[edit] Team Achievements

Date League Result
2012-11-07 Bronze.png IGN Pro Team League Eglogo std.png EG 1 : 5 IMlogo std.png Incredible Miracle
2011-11-13 Silver.png GosuCoaching Premiere League Season 2 Eglogo std.png EG 2 : 3 Empirelogo std.png Team Empire
2011-10-30 Copper.png Evil Geniuses Master's Cup Series VI Eglogo std.png EG 1 : 3 Empirelogo std.png Team Empire
2011-10 Silver.png ESEA Season 9 Eglogo std.png EG 0 : W Checksixlogo std.png CheckSix Gaming
2011-05 Silver.png ESEA Season 8 Eglogo std.png EG 1 : 3 Complexitylogo std.png compLexity Gaming
2011-03-20 Bronze.png GosuCoaching Premiere League Season 1 Eglogo std.png EG 3 : 2 Liquidlogo std.png Team Liquid
  • Evil Geniuses won a clanwar against Team Liquid during the beta with a total score of 3-2.[4]

[edit] Highlight Videos

[edit] Interviews

[edit] 2012

[edit] 2011

[edit] Links

[edit] References

  1. ↑ "Team EG Announces StarCraft Division". Archived from the original on MyEG.net, 12 April 2009. Thread on TeamLiquid.net
  2. ↑ "StarCraft 2 Beta release!". Archived from the original on MyEG.net, 18 February 2010.
  3. ↑ "SC House update". Archived from the original on MyEG.net, 5 April 2010.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "(SC2B) Liquid vs EG Clanwar - Aftermath". TeamLiquid.net, 18 April 2010.
  5. ↑ "IdrA and Tasteless join EG". SK-Gaming.com, 9 September 2010. Thread on TeamLiquid.net
  6. ↑ "Team EG acquire DeMusliM". MyEG.net, 4 January 2011. Thread on TeamLiquid.net
  7. ↑ "Team EG and Grubby Part Ways". MyEG.net, 31 March 2011. Thread on TeamLiquid.net
  8. ↑ "Monster Energy Sponsors Team EG". MyEG.net, 21 April 2011. Thread on TeamLiquid.net
  9. ↑ "EG launch $10,000 Master's Cup Series League". TeamLiquid.net, 2 May 2011.
  10. ↑ "Puma leaves TSL for EG". TeamLiquid.net, 21 July 2011.
  11. ↑ "EG signs PuMa, responds to criticism". TeamLiquid.net, 26 July 2011.
  12. ↑ "Team EG announce Training House". MyEG.net, 31 July 2011. Thread on TeamLiquid.net
  13. ↑ "Farewell, Liquid`HuK". TeamLiquid.net, 17 August 2011.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Team Evil Geniuses announces training camp partnership with SlayerS". MyEG.net, 21 October 2011.
  15. ↑ "Prepare Yourselves: IdrA is Back in Code S". MyEG.net, 14 December 2011.
  16. ↑ "EG announces addition of Park "JYP" Jin Young". MyEG.net, 30 December 2011. Thread on TeamLiquid.net
  17. ↑ "Evil Geniuses part ways with Axslav and StrifeCro". MyEG.net, 18 January 2012. TeamLiquid.net Forum thread
  18. ↑ "Orb Moves In To The EG Lair". D-eSports.com, 3 March 2012.
  19. ↑ "Orb Dismissed from Evil Geniuses Broadcasts". TeamLiquid.net, 8 March 2012.
  20. ↑ "Thor is here". EvilGeniuses.net, 8 May 2012.
  21. ↑ "GSTL Season 2: oGs out, EG+Slayers, LG-IM+SK in". TeamLiquid.net, 17 May 2012.
  22. ↑ "Evil Geniuses Welcome Conan “Suppy” Liu". EvilGeniuses.net, 24 July 2012.
  23. ↑ Evil Geniuses and SlayerS Clan End Partnership
  24. ↑ Stephano Confirmed to EG
  25. ↑ [1]
  26. ↑ "A New Era Has Come". evilgeniuses.net. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  27. ↑ Liquid`Nazgul (2012-12-04). "Unholy Alliance". TeamLiquid.net. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  28. ↑ "Calling for a Revival". evilgeniuses.net. 10 December 2012.
  29. ↑ Clare4 (2013-02-04). "Razer sponsors Evil Geniuses". TeamLiquid.net.
  30. ↑ LzGaMeR (2013-02-04). twitter.com. https://twitter.com/LzGaMeR/status/298656876143452160.
  31. ↑ "EG-Liquid names Coach Park as new Head Coach". evilgeniuses.net. 13 March 2013.
  32. ↑ Alex Garfield (15 March 2013). "EG releases Ho Joon “PuMa” Lee". evilgeniuses.net.
  33. ↑ Alex Garfield (28 March 2013). "Team EG welcomes aLive and Oz". evilgeniuses.gg.
  34. ↑ {{cite web|url=http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=411840%7Ctitle=IdrA released from EG|author=Alex Garfield|date=9 May 2013
  35. ↑ "SteelSeries sponsoring Grubby". SK-Gaming.com, 3 April 2011.


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