Evil Geniuses

Evil Geniuses
Evil Geniuses
Team Information
Org Location	; United States
Region	NANorth America
Head Coach	John "Revan" Boble
Sponsor	Monster Energy ; SteelSeries ; Xfinity ; AMD ; Scuf Gaming ; Aorus ; Twitch
History
Created (1)	Organization: 1999-??-?? ; COD Division: 2014-05-06
Disbanded (1)	COD Division: 2014 2014-11-14
Created (2)	COD Division: 2016-11-21
Social Media & Links
Current Roster

A checked version of this page, approved on 29 June 2019, was based on this revision.

Overview

Tournament Results

Schedule History

Founded in 1999, Evil Geniuses is a North American eSports organization and one of the oldest in the world, that has had a collection of players/teams over a multitude of games such as: Counter Strike 1.6, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Call of Duty, Dota 2, League of Legends, Quake Live, StarCraft II, Super Street Fighter IV, World of Warcraft, Rocket League, and Super Smash Melee.

History[]

Call of Duty: Ghosts[]

Evil Geniuses acquired the compLexity Gaming's roster on May 6, 2014 following the team's win at UGC Niagara. The entire roster was transferred over and continued their play in Ghosts Season 2. The team has been maintaining first place in the league and was the first team to clinch a spot in the Championship bracket at MLG Anaheim. Their first LAN event was at the MLG X Games Invitational. The team had the number 1 seed going into the event due to their win at the 2014 Call of Duty Championship. This left them in the group with Team Kaliber, Strictly Business and OpTic Nation. The team got off to a quick start with a victory against Strictly Business. Their next match was against Team Kaliber which would secure them the number 1 seed in their group. Unfortunately Team Kaliber pulled off the improbable upset defeating them 3-1 and knocking the team into losers forcing them to win one more game to stay alive. They faced off against Strictly Business once more but defeated them rather easily with a 3-0 sweep to ensure their spot in the Medal Rounds. By defeating Strictly Business they secured the 2nd seed in their group setting up a match up against OpTic Gaming in the Semifinals. The team got off to a quick start winning map one on Freight, Domination however it went downhill from there. OpTic Gaming was able to pull out 3 map wins in a row to win the match and knock Evil Geniuses down to the Bronze Medal Game. Here they met Team EnVyUs who had lost to tK in the other Semifinal. They beat EnVyUs taking the bronze medal at the first ever MLG event at X Games. This was the first event the team had lost on Ghosts, besides the loss against sB at the U.S. Regional Finals which was technically a qualifier.

Following the bronze placement, the team found new motivation to assert their reign as the best team in the game. At MLG Anaheim, they were able to ride their way through the Winners bracket without much trouble never dropping more than one map in any series. In the winners bracket final, they met up with OpTic Gaming again. The team came out with even more focus as they were able to win the series 3-0 and book their ticket in the final. OG won their match in the losers bracket setting up a rematch in the final. Rather than continuing the series, they were set up to play 2 Best-of-5 series' with EG only having to win one. OpTic came out strong and took the first series 3-1 sending it to a 2nd series. However, Evil Geniuses proved to be too strong in the second series, taking the series 3-1 to take the event win at MLG Anaheim. After the win at MLG Anaheim, the next event was going to be Gfinity 3 which was over a month away, at the start of August. The event was not a good one for the team with them placing in the 5th-8th spots, out of the money. It was the lowest placing for ACHES, TeePee and Crimsix since before the beginning of Black Ops II. They had previously placed Top 4 in every event since Frag Cup IV in December 2012.

Evil Geniuses did not attend UMG Dallas in August 2014. 2 days after Dallas, Karma announced that he wanted to leave and a day later he was be benched. With Karma leaving to go to FaZe Clan and Dedo coming to Evil Geniuses, the team now consisted of ACHES, TeePee, Crimsix, and Dedo. This new look EG squad would be looking to start their career ahead with Dedo with a win, but that was not to be at UMG Nashville with the team finishing a disappointing 13th-16th after being knocked out in round 2 of the losers bracket by Team EnVyUs and going 2-2 on the weekend. The team failed to qualify for the MLG CoD League Season 3 Playoffs of the MLG CoD League. As the defending champions, the team travelled to France to compete at ESWC 2014. With rumours about the squad parting ways, they were not expected to place well. However, they went out with a bang as they beat TCM Gaming 3-1 in the Grand Final.

After their victory at ESWC 2014, it was very clear that the roster would not stick together heading into the Advanced Warfare season. On November 14, 2014, it was revealed that all 5 players' contracts were bought out by the OpTic Gaming organization, enabling ACHES, TeePee, Crimsix, Dedo, and Karma to join any team organization they'd please. In the end, ACHES went to FaZe Clan and Dedo headed to Team FeaR. TeePee, Crimsix, and Karma were all picked up by the OpTic Gaming organization, with TeePee and Karma going to OpTic Nation, whereas Crimsix went to OpTic Gaming. This effectively marked the end of one of the most dominant dynasties in competitive Call of Duty history.

Infinite Warfare[]

After a 3 year hiatus, Evil Geniuses returned to the Call of Duty Scene for the start of the Infinite Warfare Season. Picking up NAMELESS (as captain) and StuDyy from Luminosity, Havok from compLexity, and Nagafen from Elevate. The team had moderate placings at the first events of the year, placing top 8 at both the 2017 CWL Las Vegas Open and the 2017 CWL Paris Open, as well as a disappointing 17-20th placing at CWL Atlanta. However the team had shown promise in a number of matches against top opposition, and their patience paid off at CWL Dallas, where they managed to qualify for Stage 1 of the LAN league, by beating out their closest competition for the final spot, GosuCrew. The team fell in the next round to Red Reserve EU, but qualification for the league was their ultimate goal.

At the 2017 CWL Global Pro League Stage 1 the team got off to a slow start in the group stage falling to 0-2 after the first day. At the start of the second day of matches the team was in last place with only 4 matches remaining. Starting with a shocking 3-0 over FaZe Clan they went on to win four straight matches finishing at 4-2 in the group stage and taking first place in the group above FaZe Clan, Rise Nation, and Fnatic and qualifying for playoffs as well as stage 2 and CoD Champs. Heading into the 2017 CWL Global Pro League Stage 1 Playoffs they hoped to continue this dominate streak but after falling 0-3 to the eventual stage 1 champions Splyce and then 1-3 to eUnited they were eliminated from the competition taking home 7-8th. Study was released three days later on may 31 and Parasite joined on trial for Anaheim .

Their run of good play continued now with Parasite in the line up over Study into the MLG GameBattles 2K Series NA 2017-06-04 and the 2017 CWL Anaheim Open taking home 2nd and 5/6th respectively. At the 2017 CWL Global Pro League Stage 2 they looked to make another playoff appearance, however, they were not able to overcome a 0-2 start this time falling to 2-4 placing 3rd in group A missing out on the playoffs. At the 2017 Call of Duty World League Championship they were placed into group F along with former teammate Study who now played for Str8 Rippin. They did not win a match in pools going 0-3 including a loss to the player they had dropped just months prior in Study and placed an abysmal 25-32nd to end their Infinite Warfare season.

Timeline[]

2019
2018
2017
2016
2014

January 27, GodRx joins as Pro League 2019 substitute. ^[1]
March 5, Faccento retires.^[2]
March 8, Attach joins on loan from FaZe Clan.^[3]
April 18, Apathy rejoins.^[4]
April 19, Royalty leaves.^[5]
April 20, GodRx leaves as substitute.^[6]
April 22, Goonjar leaves. FeLo moves to substitute. JKap joins. Phantomz joins on loan from FC Black.^[7]
June 20, Phantomz leaves.^[8]
June 21, Accuracy joins.^[9]

April 10, NAMELESS becomes inactive.^[10]
April 11, Enable becomes inactive.^[11]
April 12, Assault and SiLLY join. ^[12]
April 14, Enable leaves.^[13]
April 15, Bevils joins as coach.^[14]
April 25, NAMELESS leaves.^[15]
September 22, ACHES, Apathy, Assault, SiLLY and Bevils are sold to Team Envy. ^[16]
October 11, FeLo, Goonjar, Lacefield, Royalty and Saints join. ^[17]
November 15, Lacefield leaves.^[18] Xotic joins. ^[19]
December 1, Revan joins as coach. ^[20]
December 30, Saints leaves. Faccento joins.^[21]

May 31, StuDyy is released. ^[22]
June 5, Parasite joins on trial. ^[23]
August 16, Parasite and Havok leave. ^[24]
September 4, Nagafen leaves. ^[25]
September 21, ACHES, Enable and Apathy join. Towey joins as team manager. ^[26]

November 21, Evil Geniuses re-enter Call of Duty. NAMELESS, StuDyy, Havok, and Nagafen join. ^[27]

May 6, Evil Geniuses sign former compLexity Gaming roster. Aches, Teepee, Crimsix, and Karma join.

To read about compLexity Gaming history (Late 2012 - May 2014), click here.^[28]

August 27, Karma is benched.
September 5, Dedo joins. Karma leaves. ^[29]
November 14, Evil Geniuses disbands. ACHES, TeePee, Crimsix, and Dedo leave. ^[30]

Player Roster[]

Active[]

ID	Name	Role	Joined
Xotic	John Bruno	2Flex	2018-11-15
Attach	Dillon Price	3Flex	2019-03-08
Apathy	Bryan Zhelyazkov	4SMG Player	2019-04-18
JKap	Jordan Kaplan	5Flex	2019-04-22
Accuracy	Lamar Abedi	6Player	2019-06-21
FeLo	Tyler Johnson	7Substitute	2018-10-11

On Loan[]

C	ID	Name	Role	Loaned From	Duration
	Attach	Dillon Price	67SMG Support	⁠⁠FaZe Clan	Mar 2019 - Present
	Phantomz	Timothy Landis	11Player	⁠⁠FC Black	Apr 2019 - Jun 2019

Former[]

ID	Name	Role	Next Team	Joined	Left
Goonjar	Jevon Gooljar-Lim	72Main AR	⁠⁠Encrypted Gaming	2018-10-112018-10-11	2019-04-222019-04-22
GodRx	Adam Brown	26Substitute	⁠⁠Enigma6 Group	2019-01-272019-01-27	2019-04-202019-04-20
Royalty	Mathew Faithfull	64SMG Slayer	⁠⁠Evil Geniuses	2018-10-112018-10-11	2019-04-192019-04-19
Faccento	Brice Faccento	67SMG Support	⁠⁠Retired	2018-12-302018-12-30	2019-03-052019-03-05
Saints	Renato Forza	11Player	⁠⁠Pittsburgh Knights	2018-10-112018-10-11	2018-12-302018-12-30
Lacefield	Andres Lacefield	11Player	⁠⁠Pittsburgh Knights	2018-10-112018-10-11	2018-11-152018-11-15
ACHES	Patrick Price	77Flex	⁠⁠Team Envy	2017-09-212017-09-21	2018-09-222018-09-22
Apathy	Bryan Zhelyazkov	64SMG Slayer	⁠⁠Team Envy	2017-09-212017-09-21	2018-09-222018-09-22
Assault	Adam Garcia	72Main AR	⁠⁠Team Envy	2018-04-122018-04-12	2018-09-222018-09-22
SiLLY	Justin Fargo-Palmer	67SMG Support	⁠⁠Team Envy	2018-04-122018-04-12	2018-09-222018-09-22
NAMELESS	Anthony Wheeler	62AR Slayer	⁠⁠Retired	2016-11-212016-11-21	2018-04-252018-04-25
Enable	Ian Wyatt	62AR Slayer	⁠⁠Lightning Pandas	2017-09-212017-09-21	2018-04-142018-04-14
Nagafen	Jared Harrell	65Support	⁠⁠Next Threat	2016-11-212016-11-21	2017-09-042017-09-04
Parasite	Christopher Duarte	11Player	⁠⁠Ground Zero	2017-06-052017-06-05	2017-08-162017-08-16
Havok	Colt McLendon	64SMG Slayer	⁠⁠eRa Eternity	2016-11-212016-11-21	2017-08-162017-08-16
StuDyy	Jeremy Astacio	66AR Support	⁠⁠Str8 Rippin	2016-11-212016-11-21	2017-05-312017-05-31
Dedo	Ken Dedo	61Slayer	⁠⁠Team FeaR	2014-09-052014-09-05	2014-11-142014-11-14
Crimsix	Ian Porter	61Slayer	⁠⁠OpTic Gaming	2014-05-062014-05-06	2014-11-142014-11-14
TeePee	Tyler Polchow	75Objective	⁠⁠OpTic Nation	2014-05-062014-05-06	2014-11-142014-11-14
ACHES	Patrick Price	65Support	⁠⁠FaZe Clan	2014-05-062014-05-06	2014-11-142014-11-14
Karma	Damon Barlow	61Slayer	⁠⁠FaZe Clan	2014-05-062014-05-06	2014-09-052014-09-05