French Zerg master Ilyes 'Stephano' Satouri will end his career as a StarCraft 2 progamer on August 15 to resume the academic career he halted two years ago. He is the second member of Evil Geniuses to announce their retirement in the past week.
Following his dismissal from the StarCraft 2 team Evil Geniuses Greg ‘IdrA’ Fields has decided to retire from competitive play.
Speaking with JP “itmeJP" McDaniel in a new episode of Real Talk, Greg Fields told the host that “I am not going to continue as a competitive player" because “it’s just got to the point where competition isn’t enjoyable for me anymore."
StarCraft 2 pro-gamer and divisive community figure Greg ‘IdrA’ Fields has been relieved of his position in top team Evil Geniuses after insulting fans in a forum discussion earlier this week.
The Evil Geniuses League of Legends squad is currently ranked second in the European division of the LCS, close behind Fnatic following their victory over EG last Saturday. They are easily one of the top teams in the LCS’ European or American divisions, and next week they’ll be tested against many of the world’s best at the IEM World Championship in Hanover. We recently had a chance to talk to EG’s team captain, Stephen “Snoopeh" Ellis about the team’s plans for improving this year, why it’s become so much stronger since the Season 2 playoffs, and the tension between being a successful competitive team and being a successful business.Our Spotlight units plug content our journalists have made, that our advertisers want to promote. Sometimes the promotion is paid for, but the content they go to is always independent with no client oversight or approval.
Evil Geniuses CEO Alex Garfield wasn’t posturing when he talked about his disinterest in taking the Evil Geniuses eSports team into League of Legends. He was so unengaged with League that when he received an email from Stephen “Snoopeh" Ellis last summer, he didn’t really know who Ellis was, or why Evil Geniuses should be interested in his League of Legends team.
A few minutes with Google not only told Garfield that Ellis was the squad captain for one of the best and most prominent western League of Legends teams, but that suddenly he had a “very attractive opportunity" to bring EG into League on terms he could be happy with.
The first GSL StarCraft 2 tournament of 2013 begins tomorrow at 11 AM GMT / 5 AM Eastern with Group A of the Up & Down round to determine which players will make it into Code S and thus be in contention for this season and who will be relegated to Code A. You can watch it live on GOMTV if you have a pass.
Tonight, the second round of the SK Planet Proleague Season 1 continues with the combined Evil Geniuses-Team Liquid Proleague team trying its luck for a second time against KT Rolster, a Korean eSports Association progaming team with deep roots in Brood War. The last time these two teams met in round 1, EG-Liquid were beaten badly 4-0. You can watch them play again tonight at 3 AM GMT / 10 PM Eastern on Twitch, starting with a game between Revival and Flash.
The Evil Geniuses eSports team has been conspicuously absent from the League of Legends competitive scene, and CEO Alex Garfield told us in December about some of the reasons he has hesitated to move his team in LoL. Now it sounds like Evil Geniuses may be preparing to make its move into pro League of Legends by recruiting the former CLG.EU team, according to a report from GameSpot.
Evil Geniuses are sometimes described as the New York Yankees of eSports, a backhanded sort of compliment that both grants that EG consistently field one of the strongest, most star-studded lineups around, but also that they owe their reputation to their deep pockets. It also suggests that the team’s results are not quite in line with its roster, the old sports morality tale of money being able to buy talent, but not success.
Team CEO Alex Garfield is hardly the kind of owner-tycoon you’d expect to find managing a team of star players and eSports celebrities. He’s reserved and softspoken, seemingly better suited to a graduate seminar room than the dubstep-blasted arenas that eSports call home. He doesn’t aggressively chase media, and he doesn't brag about results or publicly push EG players about their performance. While Forbes recently named the 27-year-old to their “30 under 30" list for “Games and Apps", he’s generally content to work in the background, quietly building the sponsor relationships with companies like Intel and Monster (among many others) that allow Evil Geniuses to pay top dollar for top-shelf talent.
What a final. The Dreamhack Winter Dota 2 final was easily comparable to The International and Dreamhacks Summer counterpart. Three days of five on five glorious action came down to those last three matches. Both EG and No Tidehunter gave it their all, but only one managed to make the crowd roar with ecstasy. It was a stunning match.
No Tidehunter is my new favorite Dota 2 team. Here’s how they won Dreamhack Winter 2012.
Evil Genius' French Starcraft 2 player Ilyes “Stephano" Sattorui has been suspended without pay till the end of the month after he said "I abused a child yesterday" on a publicly streaming game on Twitch.tv. He claims it was a "private joke" between him and Team Dignitas’ Samayan “BlinG" Kay.
Overnight, prominent members of the eSports community accused Riot games of pushing to make teams pick between League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth and Dota 2. 
Second only to LGD in terms of the sheer strength of their lineup and their performance so far, Invictus Gaming came out of Group B with a single loss to their name, and thirteen lovely wins. Evil Geniuses, on the other hand, weren’t quite so indomitable, instead emerging out of Group A with a respectable eight wins to six losses. 
Starcraft 2 progamer team Millennium have announced that Ilyes "Stephano" Satouri, North American Star League Season 3 Champion, has declined to renew his contract come September. Rumours, sources, whispers, and tapped phone calls suggest he is to sign with the Evil Geniuses, who are said to have outbid Millennium's renewal offer.
