VALORANT - VCT Kickoff - Americas 03/02 22:00 - Evil Geniuses v LOUD 1-2
VALORANT - VCT Kickoff - Americas 02/24 22:00 - G2 Esports v Evil Geniuses 0-2
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 12/08 01:00 69 Party Astronauts v Evil Geniuses 2-1
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 12/07 01:00 73 Evil Geniuses v Badass 2-1
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 12/06 01:00 71 Evil Geniuses v Nouns 0-2
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 11/22 01:00 - BOSS v Evil Geniuses 2-1
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 11/22 01:00 - ex-Wildcard v Evil Geniuses 2-1
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 11/18 01:00 - M80 v Evil Geniuses 2-0
CS2 - ESL Challenger Atlanta NA Quals 11/17 01:40 1 Evil Geniuses v M80 0-2
CS2 - ESL Challenger Atlanta NA Quals 11/16 01:15 63 Evil Geniuses v Party Astronauts 2-0
CS2 - ESL Challenger Atlanta NA Quals 11/15 20:30 67 Wildcard v Evil Geniuses 1-2
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 11/15 02:00 - Reason v Evil Geniuses 0-2
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 11/13 01:00 - Evil Geniuses v Eros White 2-0
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 11/09 01:00 - Take Flyte v Evil Geniuses 0-2
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 11/08 01:00 - Rocket v Evil Geniuses 0-2
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 11/02 00:00 - Badass v Evil Geniuses 0-2
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 11/01 00:00 - Party Astronauts v Evil Geniuses 0-2
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 10/26 00:00 - Evil Geniuses v FLUFFY AIMERS 2-1
DOTA2 - The International 10/21 19:25 81 Evil Geniuses v Gaimin Gladiators 0-2
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 10/20 00:00 - Mythic v Evil Geniuses 0-2
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 10/19 00:00 - Evil Geniuses v Unjustified 0-2
CS2 - ESL Challenger League NA 10/18 00:00 - Evil Geniuses v Nouns 0-2
DOTA2 - The International 10/14 21:45 8 Team Liquid v Evil Geniuses 2-0
DOTA2 - The International 10/14 00:15 1 Team SMG v Evil Geniuses 0-2
DOTA2 - The International 10/13 21:45 1 Evil Geniuses v 9Pandas 1-1
DOTA2 - The International 10/13 17:00 1 Team Spirit v Evil Geniuses 2-0
DOTA2 - The International 10/12 23:10 1 Evil Geniuses v Team SMG 1-1
DOTA2 - The International 10/12 17:00 1 Evil Geniuses v Entity 0-2
CS2 - ESL Challenger Jonkoping NA Closed Quals 10/12 00:00 1 Nouns v Evil Geniuses 2-1
CS2 - ESL Challenger Jonkoping NA Closed Quals 10/11 19:30 65 Evil Geniuses v Forsaken 2-0

Wikipedia - Evil Geniuses

Evil Geniuses (EG) is an American esports organization based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1999, the organization has fielded players in various fighting games, Call of Duty, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, Fortnite Battle Royale, Halo, League of Legends, Valorant, StarCraft II, Rocket League, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, and World of Warcraft.

In May 2019, EG was acquired by PEAK6 Investments LLC, a Chicago-based investment company. While independently owned at the time of the acquisition, it was formerly a subsidiary of GoodGame Agency, which in turn was owned by Amazon.com through its division Twitch.

EG's Dota 2 team won The International 2015, receiving the largest prize payout in esports history at the time. Their Call of Duty: WWII team won the 2018 Call of Duty Championship. Their Valorant team won the 2023 Valorant Champions.

History

Evil Geniuses was founded as a Quake clan in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1997. Playing from the first cyber cafe in Victoria, the Underground Onramp, the original roster included Dakine, MikeJ, Killboy, Zakath, Muppetman, Jello and the EG girls featured in Wired Magazine, Jasp and Mystique. The Onramp and the EG clan were very popular in the emerging gaming circuit, being on the West Coast and having access to a T1 internet connection while the rest of the world was still on dial-up.

Many new members located in Seattle joined the clan and would regularly spar with members of DR including the world's first pro gamer, Thresh.

Members from both the Canadian and American roster were present during the 1997 Gameworks Tournament with access to the gaming lounge. Canadian players were not admitted into the tournament at the time due to the nascent pro gaming circuit, but were allowed to warm up with the contestants.

When the Underground Onramp closed, shortly after the release of modern home broadband internet, most of the Canadian roster went on to new careers, some into game development and still work in the gaming industry to this day. Meanwhile, the American roster flourished and went on to become one of the greatest gaming clans in the history of esports.

Philadelphia native and future CEO Alex Garfield started working for the team in 2004.

Evil Geniuses expanded into World of Warcraft (WoW) Arena by acquiring HukHukHukHukHuk[] in 2007. The roster consisted of many notable players including Abdul "Bokas" Suleiman, Garett "Garett" Llorent, Jesse "Koorban" Ryan, John "Nuvas" Liao, Einar "Spinister" Galilea, Brian "Tyz" Gustafson, Cyrus "Morifen" Foroughi, Anthony "Neia" Krug, and Paul "Zsu" Coats. In 2008, Evil Geniuses later acquired Issac "Azeal" Cummings-Bentley, Conrad "Zyz" Lope, Dan "spoh" Street, Emerson "Woundman" Condon, Charles "Cdew" Dewland, and Tim "Kollektiv" Yen, forming a new 3v3 arena team, as most of the previous team retired from competitive play. Notable accomplishments including winning the 2007 US Arena Championship, placing 3rd at Blizzcon 2007 (World Arena Championship), winning MLG San Diego 2008, placing 4th at Blizzcon 2012, and winning the Intel Extreme Masters IV WoW World Championship (2010).

Evil Geniuses acquired a Defense of the Ancients (Dota) roster on April 12, 2008, made up of players transferring from team eMg. EG entered the StarCraft: Brood War scene on April 25, 2009, with the recruitment of World Cyber Games USA champions Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson, and Dan "Nyoken" Eidson, along with Eric "G5" Rothmuller, Jake "LzGaMeR" Winstead, and Bryce "Machine" Bates. EG saw its North American DotA squad depart on December 3, 2009, following two months of minimal practice and insufficient exposure.

Evil Geniuses expanded into StarCraft II during the game's launch year of 2010 with the recruitment of top American player Gregory "IdrA" Fields as well as the well-known commentator and player Nick "Tasteless" Plott on September 9. In a controversial move, EG acquired the brand of fellow North American gaming organization, Loaded, on October 9, 2010, but the deal only constituted the company sponsors, team owner and their Heroes of Newerth squad.

In 2010, EG expanded into fighting games by signing Justin Wong and Martin "Marn" Phan. Within a year, they expanded their fighting game division with the addition of Ricki Ortiz, Ari "fLoE" Weintraub, and Eduardo "PR Balrog" Perez-Frangie, as well as Japanese players Yusuke Momochi, and Yuka "Chocoblanka" Kusachi. Marn was eventually let go in 2011 at his own request, with the intention to start his own League of Legends team, Team MRN.

On March 31, 2011, long-time member Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen, as well as StarCraft II division manager Nick "Tasteless" Plott departed from the organization. EG lost its Heroes of Newerth squad on July 8 to SK Gaming, due to sponsorship complications. Near the end of that month, the Korean North American Star League champion, Ho Joon "PuMa" Lee, joined up with EG, despite the lack of consultancy with his previous organization. Three weeks later, the top Canadian player, Chris "HuK" Loranger, left his long-time organization of Team Liquid, and joined EG, to compete alongside Fields and Lee in South Korea. On October 21, it was announced that the trio would be moving to stay with the South Korean team SlayerS, in accordance with a correlating partnership established between the organizations. EG saw the return of two former DotA players, Clinton "Fear" Loomis and Jimmy "DeMoN" Ho, with the acquisition of their first Dota 2 squad.

On January 7, 2012, EG announced the dismissal of its long-standing Counter-Strike squad, though star player Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert initially stayed on to produce content related to the game. In September 2012, Bulba and xHobbzeEx left the Dota 2 team due to personal issues and were replaced by Jio "Jeyo" Madayag and Robert "bdiz" Tinnes. On December 5, 2012, EG signed the successful StarCraft: Brood War Zerg player Lee Jae-Dong. On January 25, 2013, EG announced their expansion into League of Legends with the signing of the former Counter Logic Gaming European division – in negotiations that reportedly spanned three months, however the team would later disband due to extremely poor results.

On April 4, 2014, EG announced that they had signed fighting game player Kenneth "K-Brad" Bradley. Prior to this, Ari "fLoE" Weintraub had been let go from the team.

On October 27, 2014, it was announced that three players from the Evil Geniuses Call of Duty squad, Patrick "Aches" Price, Ian "Crimsix" Porter, and Ken Dedo, had left the organisation, later joining OpTic Gaming. The CEO of EG, Alex Garfield confirmed via reddit that he had indeed let three of the players go to OpTic.

On November 21, 2014, Evil Geniuses announced the launch of its first Halo squad, consisting of the twins Jason "Lunchbox" Brown and Justin "Roy" Brown, the 2014 Halo 4 World Championship finalist Justin "iGotUrPistola" Deese and the Eric "Snip3down" Wrona, who is reckoned among the best slayers in the world. The team competed in the Halo Championship Series Season 1 and won 3 online cups to this point. On December 21 iGotUrPistola left the squad due to an injury. He was replaced by Tony "LxthuL" Campbell transferring from the BTH.

On December 9, 2014, Evil Geniuses' parent organisation, GoodGame Agency announced that it had been acquired by Twitch.

On December 16, 2014, Evil Geniuses' Yusuke Momochi won the 2014 Capcom Cup tournament. Momochi has qualified for the event by winning South East Asia Major 2014 in Singapore. This win automatically granted him entry into Capcom Cup 2015. On July 19, 2015, Yusuke Momochi won Evolution 2015, taking the win from AVerMedia's Bruce "Gamerbee" Hsiang in a controversial Grand Finals set that saw Momochi suffer from hardware failure with his Razer arcade stick.

On December 12, 2016, Evil Geniuses along with Alliance became player-owned organizations. It was later confirmed that American Dota 2 player Peter "ppd" Dager was named CEO of Evil Geniuses.

At the beginning of 2017, ppd announced lineup switches for the fighting game and StarCraft II divisions. PR Balrog, Justin Wong, Momochi, and ChocoBlanka would depart from the FGC division; Ricki Ortiz, PPMD, and K-Brad would be kept while adding NYChrisG to the team. In addition, ppd announced that their SC2 division would be disbanding as InControL and HuK.

On March 24, 2017, Evil Geniuses entered into the Smash Bros. for Wii U scene by acquiring Julian "Zinoto" Carrington.

On November 10, 2017, Evil Geniuses announced that the organization had entered Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege by signing the former Continuum roster.

On April 12, 2019, Evil Geniuses entered Fortnite Battle Royale by signing Jordan "JTruth" Clouse and Chance "MoNsTcR" Duncan.

In late August 2019, Peter Chau, Troy "Canadian" Jaroslawski, and Aaron "Gotcha" Chung all left the Evil Geniuses Rainbow Six Siege division. Morquis "Modigga" Hribar joined the team as a player.

On September 26, 2019, the team confirmed their return to Counter-Strike, signing the roster of NRG Esports. The Evil Geniuses would shock the Counter Strike: Global Offensive scene by winning their first big event together, ESL One New York 2019.

On April 15, 2020, Evil Geniuses released their Rainbow Six Siege team and exited the scene.

On March 30, 2021, Evil Geniuses partnered with American apparel company POINT3.

In April 2021, Evil Geniuses partnered with cryptocurrency company Coinbase.

On May 23 2023, Evil Geniuses partnered with crypto casino Thunderpick.