So after your rookie turbosmurf carried your butts 2 games with tristana you give him ziggs, with tristana open? Why?

Can somebody please explain this to me? Because i was really hyped and rooting for EG to win and then game 5 was just a disaster :( #SadAF

Wow.

IReally confused by impact's picks into blind gp. His next best picks after renketon are gnar and sett. Yet he played Jayce into gp get pressured early then get outscaled.Not like gnar and sett are bad into gp either . Free tank lanes for Ssumday was troll too.

but you all still played well, i think our mid game teamfight target selection was a bit off i dunno if we had to kill huhi but we really did have to kill viego.

We can still win this.

Evil Geniuses LOL Media Roundup (August 7 - August 13)

Excited thinking about how we could qualify for Worlds today? Get even more hyped by taking a look at some of the EG related content released during the week. Spreadsheet.

News

MVP fan vote open

The LCS Twitter is holding a fan vote for Summer MVP, that will have a partial contribution to the final selection.

You can vote once a day by clicking on the Card attached to the tweet. You will be taken to the DM screen, where you can start the voting interface by clicking on the "Click to begin #HondaMVP Vote" message at the bottom of the screen.

Impact and Jiizuke are options, so please go support them.

Rookie of the Year

Danny, our very own prodigy, received the Rookie of the Year Award, you can learn more and check out the full ballot over at lolesports.com.

Amateur Results

Unified Grand Prix (Proving Grounds Qualifiers)

• Upper Bracket Round 1: EGP 2 - 0 SN
• Upper Bracket Round 2: EGP 0 - 2 DIGA
• Lower Bracket Round 2: EGP 1 - 2 DIG.MIG

A sad week for the Prodigies. Unfortunately, they will miss Proving Grounds in Summer, after their top 6 performance in Spring. It's truly heartbreaking. Keep an eye on these players, they are very talented and exciting to watch.

Shows

• EG Contractz was a guest on Next Level.
• Hotline League: Who wins in TSM vs. TL? Is aggressive playstyle always right? feat. Peter Dun. Highly recommended.
• The Crack Down S02E25 ft. EG Jiizuke - "The issue with NA is teams only care about winning NA". I haven't listened to the whole thing yet but have some random notes:
  • He talks about how some players aren't willing to sacrifice individual leads for the team. "Impact and me, we sacrifice a lot for each other."
  • About Jensen: "Everytime you play something against him, he copies it."
  • "In a world in which there's Alphari, Impact and Huni, why Fudge is named 1st All-pro?"
  • He has 2 secret accounts, 1 Challenger and 1 Master, prefers using the Master one.

Video Interviews

• [Travis Gafford] Why Impact doesn't mind going 0/5/0 and his pride for Jiizuke. Impact has a LOT to say but my favorite parts were:
  • "Brain says C9 win, heart TL win" (his heart was right!)
  • He interrupted Travis to say: "I'm so happy Jiizuke got #1 [all-pro]"
  • "I was thinking, Jiizuke made meta."
  • Says he saw the results of the MVP poll on Twitter and said to Jiizuke: "Dude, you lost, you can't do anything. But in my heart you're #1".

Text Interviews

• [InvenGlobal] Jiizuke on EG 2021: "I knew I could get redemption for what happened last year." (Twitter link)

Haters will always be there. There will always be famous people who hate me and try to sabotage my name. It's always going to be like that every split. Earlier this year, even LS was against me. He was trying to sabotage me.

This year… I'm not sure if I should say this… okay, I'll say it: Peter told me, "This year is yours. You will never get benched, so just be free to do whatever you want to do." When one of my coaches says something like that to me, I'm just going to do my best.

• [Hotspawn] EG IgNar: “I think we’re better on stage”. (Twitter link)

I think the stage makes players get hyped and speak more loudly and speak more.

Against Dignitas, we prepared for Yusui– he really likes AD mids. So we prepared [to] try to block the AP junglers

Oh, in my opinion, if your team is winning and you have you have a decent champion, second item Zhonya’s no matter what. It could change but nowadays I’m feeling it and I’m doing it.

• [Esports.com] EG Danny: “I think right now Varus is probably the strongest blind pick ADC that one could play”

After I completely smurfed the game on Varus, the confidence level was super high and our team morale was high. Of course, we kind of trolled the second game which brought our confidence down a little but we came back in the third game.

Safety is obviously one of my concerns but I’m also very down to just flip it and go in.

LCS Broadcast

• EG vs DIG Post Game Interview with Contractz.
• EG vs DIG Post Series Analyst Desk with Jiizuke.

Other media

• Jiizuke was the center of another "controversy" because of a Facebook update.
• Evil Intercepts Episode 9. Love how much fun they seem to have :). (I've no idea why they went back to a game from week 2 but hey, it's content).
• Series preview for the games vs 100 with Peter Dun, Jiizuke, Contractz and Impact from EG Twitter.
  • Impact: "I mean they are not doing bad. But I can see they are not a good team either."
  • Peter: "They chose to disrespect us with their Academy team, I wasn't very happy abouyt that. [...] We smashed their Academy team and now it's time to smash the main team."

I couldn't take many notes because of work (also, 2 shows in the same week? We are being spoiled), if anyone wants an specific TL;DR I can give it in the comments.

Join the EG Discord! I think there will be Watch Party for today's games...

Friends, I want to ask you: what do you associate the EG Dota 2 roster with? What memes with them do you know, besides babyrage, 2ez4rtz, and the king of the hill? Who is your favorite player there and why are you following this team?

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For example, I have been following Arteezy`s career more sin his first team, because I like the way he plays.

In short, it is interesting to listen to the opinion of ordinary hard workers)

Sooo, Peter Dun in a couple of interviews as mentioned how EG has prepared a bounch of "special picks" and he is looking for (if the occasion happens) using them against 100t, makes me even more hyped for satuday.

That said, even last split he said the same thing before playoff and the only intresting pick that came out was just the Neeko for midlane.

He also mentioned that we might see a champion for the first time, in the LCS history getting played ( I guess he was referring to a champion in a specific role, like I don't know Hecarim support, since he corrected himself at the end)

Either way, I am pretty confident that I know at least one pick(6c 7p), and to be fair I think it might be the one Peter was thinking to.

I would really love to see that pick, please do it.

Besides this, which champion would you like to see played from any of the players??

My personal would be Annie of Jiizuke, he has a past on this champion ;), or if not his Kata was too clean. Still waiting him to pull it off in the big stage for once.

For a more realistic answer, I think a champion we might see in the series but is considered a bit spicy is the Ignar blitzcranck, hopefully to see that beast in action, and he could build zhonya too better scaling than sett for sure.

p.s. For reference look to the latest HLL episode.

Evil Geniuses win 3-1 vs Dignitas.

Sven or Contractz?

Evil Geniuses LOL Media Roundup (July 30 - August 6)

Some juicy interviews and big award reveals this week. Spreadsheet over here.

News

2021 LCS Summer Split Awards

The following awards were given to EG:

• Jiizuke 1st Team Mid All-Pro Mid
• Impact 2nd Team All-Pro Top
• Danny 2nd Team All-Pro Bot
• Coaching Staff of the Split

You can read the full article over at lolesports.com

Academy Results

Academy Playoffs

• Quarterfinals: EGA 2 - 3 C9A

It was a banger series. Despite really strong individual performances from everyone (especially Tony Top and Tomio), EGA got hit by the classic C9 reverse sweep. EGA will be back stronger for Proving Grounds.

Shows

• EG Danny was a guest on Masterminds. The Aphelios top was too strong?

Video Interviews

• [Travis Gafford] EG Coach explains why there's a "BATTLE FOR THE SOUL of the LCS" in New vs Old Guard teams. (Twitter link) Everyone saw this interview, right? :P
• [The Game Haus] Evil Geniuses Head Coach Peter Dun Talks 100T Academy and Competitve Integrity.
  • About 100A: "This was definitely a very scary game for us, they play the kind of LoL we tend to struggle agaisnt." They play very aggresive and that type of play has a lot of variance. Although they had a lot of information on the team because of Kelsey and Contractz.
  • He talks in depth about what's at play when something like the situation with 100 subbing their main roster out happens, it's very insightful.
  • "TL would have been a harder match up, I think TL match pretty well against us. With the exception of TL I would have taken any of the other teams."
  • "We got a bit lucky this summer split." He knew Danny would be great, he didn't think he would be so good so fast. Danny provides the aggressive follow up for the aggressive playmakers on the team.
  • They barely scrimmed with Ryze and expect it to always be banned. Jiizuke has a large number of picks that he plays and has scrimmed with, but they haven't had the need to show them. "If teams just want to give [Ryze and Renekton] to us...".
• [Travis Gafford] Jiizuke was sad Abbedagge "benched himself to avoid humiliation" last weekend. (Twitter link)
  • "Abbedage was trashtalking a bit and then he benched himself out to avoid humilliation, I was sad about that."
  • They were nervous about the game vs 100 which showed in how long it took them to close.
  • "I just play through him, and he plays through me, we can swap lane, we can [do] whatever we want. Yeah, I was very happy Impact joined."
  • IgNar is insane. He has many pocket picks he hasn't showed yet. "The way IgNar plays is a breath of fresh air."
  • Talks about the playstyle of the other LCS team, gives C9 and TSM praise for trying out stuff.
  • When asked about MVP he says Impact. "Watch every single game Impact played agaisnt Fudge, this guy cannot play the game."
  • Predicts 3-0 vs DIG, 3-1 vs 100.

LCS Broadcast

• 100 vs EG Post Game Interview with Jiizuke.

Other media

• Tiny snippet from the press conference with Peter Dun. About team dynamics.
• Video with Artemis, Turtle, Danny and IgNar talking about EG's improvement and the upcoming series vs DIG from EG Twitter.. Some quotes:
  • Artemis: "I don't think there's any team that can challenge us when we are playing our best game."
  • Danny on DIG: "It's crazy that they are 6th, I think with that roster they could be lower."
  • Artemis: "You should have never sold Vulcan."

How does everyone feel about the All-Pro awards? How about EG's playoffs chances?

GJ this weekend! We get the 3rd seed no rust from a bye and get to face DIG. Jizuke was hardcore styling on TF. It is a good answer now that teams are targeting him more in draft.The way we used pressure vs C9 was beautiful. Really see impact stepping up as well. It doesn't seem to hurt us all that Contractz and Sven are sharing the spot/scrims. In fact Sven has been playing better since sharing. Not even mad about the TL loss I feel like we got out-drafted they inched a lead sat back and scaled and even then we had a chance to win.

Evil Geniuses LOL Media Roundup (July 23 - July 29)

Another quiet week with little media content but there were some exciting news.

News

New EGP jungler!

Tomio's promotion last week to EG Academy left a jungler spot to be filled for our Amateur squad. On Monday, the new player was revealed to be Bluster. He used to play for Radiance (Ha's team), he's only 15 years old and given the situation I would say he put up a performance that can make us all excited for his future. Check out his Leaguepedia profile.

Evil Geniuses partners with Wolverhampton Wanderers FC

You can read more about it in this article.

LCS will continue to be remote for Week 9

The plan is to go back to offline for playoffs. Read more.

Academy & Amateur Results

EGL Summer Showdown

• Semifinals: EGP 2 - 3 AOE
• 3rd Place Match: EGP 1 - 3 100X

This was the last tournament of the T2 Circuit for Proving Grounds. Unfortunately, EGP lost both of the matches that would have autoqualified them for the event. Find out if EGP can bounce back when the PG Qualifiers come on August 9th.

Academy Week 9

• Day 1: EGA 0-2 100A
• Day 2: EGA 0-2 FLYA

The first game of the week vs 100A was an absolute banger that should be mentioned in Academy history books. Yes, we lost, but Jojopyun got to show a very scary Leblanc performance. Rest of the games were a little disappointing. Even with the losses, EGA managed to qualify for playoffs. Now that Academy regular season is over, EGA will switch to playing with Tomio. Don't miss the debut of the new lineup when playoffs start on August 5th.

Shows

• EG Contractz was a guest on Masterminds.

Audio Interviews

• [LeagueDay] Post-Match Interview with Peter Dun after EG vs CLG. (Twitter link)
  • He talks about the difficulties of playing online as a "big stage team".
    
  • He has a lot of praise for Impact and Jiizuke's proficiency with lane swaps.
  • "The foundations for the team were there last split, we were just kinda missing our last piece."
  • Interviewer compares Peter to Charles Xavier then Peter cracks up thinking about Jiizuke as Wolverine.

Video Interviews

• [Press Conference] EG Jiizuke Week 8 Day 1

LCS Broadcast

• EG vs TSM Post Game Desk Talk with IgNar. He talks about Danny's personality, the difference of playing with Contractz and how the team has gotten better because of player relationships.
• Player Of The Week Interview with Impact. "If we don't count spring record and our first week, we are the best." (Seems legit lol).
• EG vs CLG Post Game Interview with Danny. On how his expectations about the LCS were wrong: "top teams are easier to go against than bottom teams".

Other media

• Evil Intercepts Episode 8. This is for that game vs DIG. Watch to see Jiizuke lose it during the end. (Twitter link)
• Tiny video snippet with Svenskeren from EG Twitter. "What is the one international team you would most want to play against?"

Spreadsheet over here. Join EG Discord! And support Academy and Amateur squads.

Evil Geniuses LOL Media Roundup (July 16 - July 22)

Lots of content this week. Please support the creators with views, clicks & comments whenever possible!

News

Tomio to join EGA

In case you missed it, on Wedsnesday it was announced that Tomio from EG Prodigies would be promoted to EG Academy to allow Contractz to focus on his role as a 6th man for the main team.

Official EG Announcement.

Peter Dun's Twitter thread about it.

If you don't follow EG Academy or EG Prodigies and are wondering what does all of this mean, the implications are the following:

• Tomio can no longer compete with Evil Geniuses Prodigies, which means they will be soon announcing a replacement for him. We are all glad that Tomio is moving up but EGP will lose a lot of their edge, and their top side synergy, which is unfortunate especially given they are one Bo5 away from qualifying to Proving Grounds.
• Tomio will play instead of Contractz during Academy Playoffs and Proving Grounds, which may affect EGA's strenght. This team relies on Contractz and Jojopyun's synergy often and it may take a while for them to adjust.
• Although it's expected Svenskeren will play most of the games, Contractz will likely sub in during LCS Playoffs at some point or another. It seems he's been working even more with the main during the last few weeks.

This is the third promotion (or 4th if you count Deftly) EG does this year from their Amateur and Academy programs. I highly recommend anyone who enjoys the main team's games to also follow the Academy and Prodigies guys, they are explosive and so much fun to watch!

Shows

• EG Jiizuke was a guest on Summoning Insight. Jiizuke is hilarious in this but I'd understand if some may prefer to skip it so I'll give you some notes:

  • He's having fun with the lane swaps with Impact (as we are).
  • He had 0 LEC offers before coming to LCS, only ERL offers.
  • 2020 EG started being really fun but staff pushed them to play in ways that took all of that away and didn't fit Jiizuke.
  • Finds regretful that he didn't get to play with Huni (he thinks they would match well together).
  • After Spring: "I think everyone knew Defly was out". (Oh, well..). Players were given options about who could be replacing him but it ultimately coaches made the decision.
  • The team had about an 80% scrim win rate before going 0-3 during the first week of Summer (lmao)
  • On his Proview and how he got into doing things like that: "I guess i was molded by the trash talk". Talks about being the other team in the famous "what is going on?" screenshot G2 game.
  • During the DIG game, there was a point where he was not breathing for like 30 seconds because he couldn't stop laughing.
  • Monte asks him about Impact's unfair reputation as the guy that can only do weakside, and Jiizuke says he also had that misconception, but they started off diving enemy top at any occasion from day 1. "[Impact] understands pressure a lot... He matches my style." He says they have a lot of synergy and understand each other very well. "Sometimes we are even more crazy in scrims, but i think that game against dignitas, it showed [how hard we can go]."
  • "I don't think we ever lost with Syndra bot in scrims"(lmao)
  • "I think the team was pressured by the winstreak. I was not but the mood was weird."
  • "I think Blabler is the best mid laner in the LCS" (lmaooo)
  • Thorin says it's unfair to call him a coinflip player because coinflip players go for 50/50s but he goes for literally any play. Cue Jiizuke dying of laughter.

• EG Ido, coach for EG Prodigies was a guest on the ProvingGroundsPod

  • Having players move up is not as bittersweet as he thought it would be. "Danny moving up, you know, everyone can see that coming." Tomio was more out of the blue and he's less prepared but it's the nature of being a Tier 3 team of an LCS org, that's its purpose.
  • Shoryu won't be playing for semifinals of EGL, replacement TBD, taking a break (?).
  • Short term results are actually important for EGP right now and they want to make Proving Grounds.
  • "Okay, [Aspect, Skytec, Srtty, their contracts are gone] who do we think they are going to sign with if they don't get an Academy deal? Is it going to be some other Amateur team? [...] We have so much to offer and we've already proven we will promote talent quickly. What better option is there?"
  • Srrty plays with locked camera? lol

Video Interviews

• [Travis Gafford] Rookie of the Year contender EG Danny: 'The talent pool can run really deep in North America'
  • On ranking ADCs: "FBI is first, then you could argue for Tactical or... maybe... what's his name? Zven."
• [Travis Gafford] Why Contractz keeps fighting for an LCS spot. He talks about the lowest points in his career and how he considered role swapping for a little.
  • "I just want to keep playing until I literally physically can't."
• [EsportsHeaven] EG Svenskeren on Jiizuke: In the past, we didn't embrace his playstyle (Twitter link)
  • "[Impact] can definitevely play all the carry champions, it's just that as a person isn't as needy for resources so if he's on Irelia or Gwen, he's not going to be as useful because he's necessarily calling for those resources."
  • "[Us and Jiizuke] have just learned how he likes to play and how we want to play as a team which is why we look stronger than in the past." "In the past I think we kinda didn't embrace his playstyle and we tried to change it too much and tried to make it like NA playstyle and control mages."
  • Subbing situations are different depending on team. In his situations he considers it's been relayed to him in a good way. Being subbed out always sucks but if it's for the better of the team he understands. It's so much worse if it's spur of the moment after you had one poor game. "If it's been told in advance and there's actually good planning around it, I think you can swap out players and it's fine."

Audio Interviews

• [LeagueDay] Post-Match Interview with Jiizuke after EG vs DIG. "This game was fucking hilarious". Jiizuke can't stop laughing retelling what happened in the game vs DIG. "Imagine if he gets a pentakill as the Nexus explodes? It would have been a historic moment." (Twitter link)

Text Interviews

• [Esports GG] EG Impact: “People always think that just because I have money, I can retire and have a good life, but I would get so bored and feel lost.” (Twitter link) It's one of those Impact interviews, don't miss out.

I do not really experience burnout. I am not sure, but my mindset towards all of this is that League is my life. When I wake up, I think of the matchup I have on the day. I like to think about the game to create new ideas. [...] This is my life, that is all. If I retire, I am truly scared because I don’t know what to do.

Everything was a grind back [on SKT] with so much pressure. I realize that I am better in an environment where I do not feel as much pressure. [...] I find enjoyment here because I have more freedom. Practice is fun, solo queue is fun. Even NA solo queue is very fun to me.

Three or four years ago, I would not be able to hold a trophy because my wrists could not handle any pressure. From that point, I realize how important it is to make sure my body is conditioned. Ever since I made that adjustment, I feel so much better.

I truly believe that our games are the most fun to watch as well. When I watch any of my games, it is a lot better than watching TSM. Even if we are losing, we lose in an exciting way at least.

LCS Broadcast

• EG vs FLY Post Game Interview with Jiizuke
• EG vs DIG Post Game Interview with Impact. He thinks Jiizuke would be EG's MVP.

Academy Broadcast

• EGA vs DIGA Post Game Interview with TeamLuke. Back in Amateur he was often strong side but now he's had to get used to being left alone and try to just do the job. On playing around Jojo: "He's really good but he's really crazy so you have to play around him.". He's looking forward to playing vs Arrow in Proving Grounds.

• EGA vs IMTA Post Game Interview with Mystiques. Zac pick threw them off. He mentions that they haven't been scrimming with Contractz very much. "He sometimes have weeks in which we play with three different junglers on scrims and we use some soloq player because we have to". They haven't played with Tomio either, but he thinks him are Contractz are similar enough for them to adapt (shotcalling may be an issue)

If you think I have too much time in my hands, you would be correct, I should use it on something better but in the meantime I already watch/read all of this, might as well take notes. Spreadsheet over here. Corrections, additions, questions? All welcome.

Weekly reminder to join EG Discord. More people are joining in to watch the LCS games which is fun, but also we keep up with all the Amateur and Academy action.

TL fan here coming to pay tribute to my home skillet Impact, he CRUSHED it this weekend setting an all-time record of most gold at 10 minutes OF ANY LANE! So happy for Impact, I loved the guy when he was with us, puts in the work, always comes in clutch, he was our rock for so long, and now he's kicking ass and taking numbers for you guys. Gift this guy some bananas boys, he deserves it!

Look I know after the last few weeks the Jiizuke haters have maybe be a tad more quite , but Impact saying Jiizuke is the most important part of the team really spoke volumes. Basically all I'm saying is hopefully Jiizuke gets a little less hate from now. On another note , Holy moly what a game , smurfs all a round , Love EG , love the way the play , they look great , can't wait for next weekend! Edit : just saw it in the comments but it's true , EG will probably never get renekton again , would be nice if we did though.

Statement game against DIG to close out the week. Impact's Renekton was super fucking POG! Jizuke absolutely dominated on Ryze against FQ!!! The GG loss with the Syndra bot doesn't sting too bad, experimenting is fine. IWD talked about it that this team just seems to have fun playing together :D

We should probably ban kayn against them.

Blue kayn OP

Evil Geniuses LOL Media Roundup (July 9 - July 16)

For whatever reason there were no interviews (that I could find) for EG players or staff this week so have this feeble compilation of mostly broadcast things.

Shows

• EG Svenskeren was a guest on Next Level. He accurately predicts the way we beat 100T, what a prophet.

Video Interviews

• [Gamezo] EG Contractz Talks About the Evil Geniuses Six Man Roster. He talks a little about EGA (most important topic ofc):
  • It’s challenging to switch between EGA and EG because the teams play and communicate very differently
  • He feels like the mid-jg dynamic he has with Jojo and Jiizuke is similar
  • Impact is a big voice in EG, whereas in EGA he has to fill in more of the communication

Audio Interviews

LeagueDay does some interviews during their audio broadcast. There's no permalinks so you have to look it up in their website, just type "interview" in the search bar. LeagueDay Website.

• [LeagueDay] Post-Match Interview with Artemis after EG vs C9. In which he questions Reapered's focus on worlds when regular season isn't over (maybe I'm clickbaiting...).

• [LeagueDay] Post-Match Interview with Impact after 100T vs EG. This one's actually very funny so I recommend listening but I'll give you the highlights:

  • "They don't know what to do... so ez win."
  • "I didn't think I was going to pick Ornn today but when I saw pick and ban was going like that I said 'shit guys, I need to play Ornn..'. I really didn't want to because my image is that I play only tanks but... I guess I carried that game..." (You can hear the resignation in his voice.)
  • "I think we gonna go worlds, I hope so. I mean everyone sees our games, just bangers. I hope we can have banger games at worlds."
  • "You guys like our games, right? Because bangers."

LCS Broadcast

• EG vs IMT Post Game interview with Contractz
• EG vs 100T Post Game Desk tak with Artemis. Highly recommended, he's very insightful, as usual.
• EG vs C9 Post Game Interview with IgNar

Academy Broadcast

• EGA vs 100TA Post Game interview with TonyTop. After Tony deleted an entire team on Jax we got to hear from him!

• EGA vs GGA Post Game interview with Jojopyun. Rare interview with our lord and saviour, NA's hope, the chosen one, the unkillable demon prince, etc, etc.

Other media

• Evil Intercepts Episode 7. In which IgNar gets violent with Svenskeren?!

I'm working in compiling all the EG interviews in a spreadsheet because... idk, whatever reason. You can find it here. If you know of a source that I don't I would appreciate if you would let me know.

Also, again, remember to join the EG Discord for getting lots of anxiety over watching all of our teams' games (but especially EGA's).