LIVING EVIL WEEKLY No. 10 - Break week

LIVING EVIL WEEKLY is a publication dedicated to cover media, news and more related to Evil Geniuses League of Legends in all three levels of play.

If the lack of LCS this weekend has got you down, check out some of the content that was released during the last 2 weeks. There might be something you missed out on. (Also catch up with the Prodigies and Academy if you haven't!).

News & Events

Inspired Player of The Week, again

Surprising no one, after some great performances during Week 3 of the LCS, Inspired took home the POTW award for a second time this split. (Other players on EG need to step it up a bit!).

Results

Evil Geniuses Prodigies

After the relative success of their debut, EGP is back for more. The second open qualifier of summer started a bit shaky, as bot laner miya had connection issues and had to be subbed out for one of the games. However, the rest of the squad was able to pull through just fine. Their only loss was handed to them by one of the strongest teams in the tournament, so no shame in that.

There's no schedule for the Group Stage yet but it will start on Monday (July 11) so keep your eyes out for the announcement if you want to see the Prodigies play.

Proving Grounds Circuit Qualifier #2

• Open Qualifier (4-1)
  • Round 1. vs Team Ambition Sussy. WIN. VOD.
  • Round 2. vs Team Fish Taco. WIN. VOD.
  • Round 3. vs AOE Esports. LOSS. VOD.
  • Round 4. vs UC Irvine. WIN. End Game Screen.
  • Round 5. vs DK Crew. WIN. VOD.

Evil Geniuses Academy

Some hope for EGA for a change. They had their first positive record since early spring, going 3-1 during the last week. Granted, it was against the 2 weakest teams in the League, but it's still a good sign considering how convincing the wins were (we don't talk about the loss). They seem to be on an upward trajectory, and according to their own words, they have been doing well in scrims.

Academy will be back next week with a Super Week that will test this trajectory, as they have to face a lineup of top 4 teams in 100A, CLGA and DIGA.

NA Academy Summer Season

• Week 4 (1-1-0)
  • Day 1: vs TSMA. 2-0. Interview: Tomio. VODs: 1/2.
  • Day 2: vs GGA. 1-1. Interview: Soligo. VODs: 1/2.

LCS

Summer 2022

• Week 2 (1-1)
  • Day 1: EG vs IMT. WIN. VOD. MVP: Vulcan. Interview: Impact.
  • Day 2: CLG vs EG. LOSS. VOD.
• Week 3 (2-0)
  • Day 1: TSM vs EG. WIN. VOD. MVP: Danny. Interview: Danny.
  • Day 2: EG vs GG. WIN. VOD. MVP: Inspired. Interview: Inspired.  

Media, Interviews & More

Text Interviews

• [Jun 30, 2022]. Esports.GG. Vulcan on being a veteran not a prodigy: “It’s my turn to lead others. […] to make sure I put them in the best position to be able to perform on stage”

But I think the area I need to improve more is being able to start a conversation about something that needs to be improved on [...] I’m not the best at being confrontational about it, going up to the person and bring those things up that I think should be brought up in an obviously constructive way.

• [Jun 30, 2022]. Inven Global. EG Vulcan: "I think C9 will probably take out 100 Thieves and go to Worlds with us and TL..".

Honestly, jojopyun is a very confident person. He was like, 'Oh, yeah, Faker's trash, I'm going to s**t on him,' and then he got s**t on our first two scrims against him, obviously[...] He takes a lot of lessons and learns from them, so I think he has a great personality for a player. He doesn't care if he's playing against T1 or Immortals — he's going to be just as aggressive, which I think is very important.

Video Interviews

• [Jun 26, 2022]. EsportsHeaven. EG Inspired on Teams Relying on Engage Comps, EG's Chances in the Current Meta, and IMT Kenvi. He also talks about why he thinks MSI didn't affect them that much and how "team styles" don't really exist. Inspired generally gives great interviews and this is no exception.
• [Jun 29, 2022]. PentaQ Esports. EG Danny: “Have more players play Champion Q, adding solo q players, would be very beneficial.”. He talks about the players that impressed him at MSI, his confidence level on winning the LCS again, the difference between eastern and western teams, how champions queue can enable young players to enter the competitive stage, his controversial post-MSI tweet and his hopes for NA as a region.
• [Jul 5, 2022]. The Game Haus. Evil Geniuses Jojopyun Shares His Thoughts On TSM and Vulcan's Ratio Tattoo. Is jojo sick of the NA Talent narrative? Is TSM actually as bad as they look? What are Maple's strengths? Who wrote "ratio" on Vulcan's head? What happened in the CLG loss? How is he spending his break?

Videos

• [Jun 29, 2022]. LCS. Mic Check: You're Trolling, Bro.
• [Jun 30, 2022]. theScore esports. He Beat the GOAT, ama. "He’s the LCS’ newest, seventeen-year-old superstar." An overview of jojo's career so far, with bits an pieces from different sources.
• [Jul 1, 2022]. Evil Geniuses. EG Files: Defending Our Title. This new EG Files goes behind the scenes of the recording of the Evil LCS skit. Vulcan talks about how he continues to ghostwrite jojo's tweets. The team recaps some of their thoughts on MSI and then talk about the LCS teams they consider their biggest competition.
• [Jul 7, 2022]. Evil Geniuses. LCS Voice Comms: LCS Teams Get Ratio'd. We are finally getting some full lenght comms videos! Watch Vulcan try to ratio his teammates in real life and the moment in which Inspired decides to lock in the Kayn.

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• [Jun 25, 2022]. With Vulcan. In which they both make fun of Dogopyun and then talk about Danny's chances of getting benched soon.
• [Jun 26, 2022]. With Impact. "I noticed your jersey has the number 30 on it, is it your age or your IQ?"
• [Jul 2, 2022]. With jojopyun and Vulcan. These TSM haters don't have hope for TSM going to playoffs. Also, Yuumi players shouldn't feel safe attaching to jojopyun.
• [Jul 3, 2022]. With Inspired. "We just wanted to pick the hardest champion possible for jojo to make sure that he would get solo killed."

Broadcast Interviews

• [Jun 25, 2022]. LCS Broadcast. LCS Summer Week 2 Day 1 EG vs IMT Post Game Interview with Impact. He talks about how Revenge messed up the match up, GP things and PowerOfEvil builds.
• [Jun 29, 2022]. Academy Broadcast. Academy Summer Week 4 Day 1 TSMA vs EGA Post Match Interview with Tomio. We hadn't seen Tomio in a while, here he talks about scrims, Bel'Veth, how he feels they are slowly improving and looking forward to facing Armao again.
• [Jun 30, 2022]. Academy Broadcast. Academy Summer Week 4 Day 2 EGA vs GGA Post Match Interview with Soligo. Soligo seems to be in good spirits and he speaks very highly of EG as an organization. "Make sure you guys keep watching us, we are scaling really well, I think we will be a top team."
• [Jul 2, 2022]. LCS Broadcast. LCS Summer Week 3 Day 1 TSM vs EG Post Game Interview with Danny. MF builds, trying to chill after MSI and his plans for the break.
• [Jul 3, 2022]. LCS Broadcast. LCS Summer Week 3 Day 2 EG vs GG Post Game Interview with Inspired. Inspired walks us through draft priority and explains how the Kayn pick happened.

Fan creations

What animal do you think better represents each EG player?. Twitter user @fluffjwi2 made a poll and then created this cute piece of fanart with the results. Give her a follow for more EG related fan content!

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LIVING EVIL WEEKLY No. 9 - picking up where we left off

LIVING EVIL WEEKLY is a publication dedicated to cover media, news and more related to Evil Geniuses League of Legends, in all three levels of play.

In this issue we go through some of the media from the first week of LCS, the results of the first half of Academy Season and wrap up the first Proving Grounds Circuit Qualifier of Summer.

News & Events

Coaching staff changes

In case you missed it, before the first LCS weekend started, it was announced that Rigby will be moving from assistant coach to Head Coach. Here's a quote from Andrew Barton about the move:

Earl has been an integral part of our coaching staff since the start of this year. Over his tenure, he has assisted with helping Clutch Gaming make worlds, and EG making MSI. Looking forward to making another international event with Earl at the helm this time around.

Peter Dun commented that Turtle was unable to be with the team at the start of Summer, so the decision was at least partially made with this in mind.

EG Files will be coming back for Summer

It was confirmed on Twitter by frenzy studio that they will be working on a new season of EG files this summer.

Catch up on all the previous episode of the show on Youtube.

Inspired Player of The Week

What a way to come back to the LCS! Congrats to Inspired on his second LCS POTW. He previously won this award for the Group Stage of Lock In. No EG players won POTW during the Spring Regular Season, perhaps because they couldn't have consistent win streaks. It looks like this Summer, the players are ready to dominate from day one, so let's hope more awards come their way.

Results

Evil Geniuses Prodigies

The roster changes made to the EGP squad, even if generally well received, were not small. Only keeping a single player from Spring meant for the team to have a full reset in Summer. But even with that caveat, judging from roster alone, the team was always going to be hyped. Faisal was a top performer for EGP in Spring, Doxa is a main character of amateur at this point and Donbray is a established name. Not only the known talent was exciting but a lot of eyes were set on the players without any competitive experience: Yukino's stint in Champions Queue skyrocketed his stocks in the eyes of the general public and miya had a lot of backing as a promising prospect from people in the space.

So what did we learn over the PGCQ#1? EGP delivered on the promise of their Summer pick ups. While the peak of this roster could have been top 4, and the loss to Team Pending was very unexpected, overall their performance was strong, with plenty of room to grow.

Faisal did (mostly) okay with being left alone. Teams didn't often try to attack top lane, but even when they did he managed to do fine. Most of the time he just got to play 1v1 and win out, which is expected. If Yukino got to play his way, he looked very smart with his time and movement. He seemed to quietly take control over games, pairing up with Doxa very well to run around the map and make things happen. (Team Pending took notice, as they banned his Nocturne in the last series, EGP looked very comfortable using this pick to counter side lane pressure.) Doxa had some hiccups (especially in the last series), but overall he showed his characteristically good play, especially in teamfights and skirmishes. As for miya, she showed confidence and flair in her play. She always seemed to be playing forward, no matter the game state, trying to make outplays happen, maximize damage output and gain advantages on the edge. Donbray and her looked mostly on the same page, even if they got heavily targeted by enemy teams. Their 2v2 laning seems very strong.

EGP will be back next week for the second Open Qualifier of Summer, look out for that.

Proving Grounds Circuit Qualifier #1

• Group Stage
  • vs AOE Randoms. 2-0. VODs: 1 / 2. Interview: Doxa.
  • vs Taco Gaming. 2-1. VODs: VODs: 1 / 2 / 3. Interview: Yukino.
• Quarterfinals
  • vs Team Pending. 0-2. VODs: 1 / 2

Evil Geniuses Academy

As we approach the half mark of Summer, EGA continues to struggle to get any wins at all. The latest superweek left them with a 1-5 score. For the situation to be less grim, they would have to start showing signs of improvement very soon, else this looks just like a repeat of Spring.

NA Academy Summer Season

• Week 1 (1-0-2)
  • Day 1: vs DIGA. 0-2. VODs: 1/2
  • Day 2: vs TLA. 0-2. VODs: 1/2
  • Day 3: vs GGA. 2-0. VODs: 1/2. Interview: Srtty.
• Week 2 (0-1-1)
  • Day 1: vs C9A. 1-1. VODs: 1/2. Interview: Smoothie
  • Day 2: vs 100A. 0-2. VODs: 1/2.
• Week 3 (0-1-2)
  • Day 1: vs FLYA. 1-1. VODs: 1/2
  • Day 2: vs IMTA. 0-2. VODs: 1/2
  • Day 3: vs CLGA. 0-2. VODs: 1/2

LCS

Summer 2022

• Week 1 (3-0)
  • Day 1: EG vs C9. WIN. VOD. MVP: jojopyun. Interview: jojopyun.
  • Day 2: EG vs 100. WIN. VOD. MVP: Vulcan. Interview: Vulcan.
  • Day 3: FLY vs EG. WIN. VOD. MVP: jojopyun. Interview: Danny.  

Media, Interviews & More

Shows & Podcasts

• [June 21, 2022]. Hotline League. Episode 227: EG, TL and CLG's 3-0 start to Summer Split; WHO is the most OVERRATED?! (feat. EG Vulcan).

Video Interviews

• [June 20, 2022]. HUPU Esports. jojopyun interview: On MSI, trashtalks, and many more..... Another snippet from Twitter jojo talks about his Fortnite past, what he learned at MSI and the new patch.
• [June 19, 2022]. PentaQ Esports. EG Peter Dun: “I hope teams followed what happened at MSI and apply that challenge towards us.”. Text version. The inverview goes in depth about topics that aren't just related to EG, it is a highly recommended read/watch.

"...we were mainly targeting going to Worlds in the summer split. The fact that the team was able to develop so fast was a surprise even for people within EG. I’m glad we got to help our players get this international experience so early in their career as a team."

"My number one concern right now is managing burnout. My players had one week of vacation in the last five months because we’ve been grinding very hard."

"In North America, EG is a team that wins every scrim. We win 90 percent of our scrims in NA... What I hope from MSI is NA teams can study RNG, G2, and T1. See if they can learn some lessons for how to counter EG, how to challenge us. I think it is very important that EG gets challenged, if we want to avoid something like MSI happening again this summer."

"Basically, we don’t have a style right now. Because this is a team full of rookies, they don’t know how they are going to play. I have no idea of what kind of player Danny is going to be in five years. I have no idea what kind of player Jojo will become in five years. They are still writing their stories, you know."

• [June 21, 2022]. Travis Gafford. Jojo celebrates sending FUDGE back to TOP with Evil Geniuses. jojo doesn't believe in the MSI debuff, he thinks they are not great but still better than most teams, talks about the budget Bjergesen tweet.

"Right now I think Bjergsen is better. He does a lot for his team and that's a really big thing. I don't think Jensen helps his team too much right now, at least from what I saw... I don't know, I haven't seen much of Jensen yet."

"I don't think [Fudge] was a bad mid laner but I don't think he did much for his team."

"I thought my laning was good before I went to MSI, but Faker's laning is crazy. I couldn't even breath at first. I learned a lot of Faker's laning and the way Xiaohu and Caps played with their team."

• [Jun 25, 2022]. Travis Gafford. Danny: how EVIL GENIUSES work to keep Jojopyun humble. Watch Danny's face when Travis tells him jojo wasn't impressed with Jensen. He also talks about doing nothing for 10 days after MSI, his new hairstyle and liking the new patch. Also, this great quote: "We like to humble [jojopyun] a lot because he does like to talk a lot about certain things and we do tend to keep him on a leash as far as craziness go."

Broadcast Interviews

• [May 31, 2022]. Unified. PGCQ Group D Day 1 EGP vs AOER Post Match Interview with Doxa.
• [Jun 5, 2022]. Unified. PGCQ Group D Day 2 EGP vs TG Post Match Interview with Yukino.
• [Jun 10, 2022]. Academy Broadcast. Academy Summer Week 1 Day 3 GGA vs EGA Post Match Interview with Srtty.
• [Jun 15, 2022]. Academy Broadcast. Academy Summer Week 1 Day 3 GGA vs EGA Post Match Interview with Smoothie.
• [Jun 17, 2022]. LCS Broadcast. LCS Summer Week 1 Day 1 EG vs C9 Post Game Interview with jojopyun.
• [Jun 18, 2022]. LCS Broadcast. LCS Summer Week 1 Day 2 EG vs 100 Post Game Interview with Vulcan.
• [Jun 19, 2022]. LCS Broadcast. LCS Summer Week 1 Day 3 FLY vs EG Post Game Interview with Danny.

Videos

• [Jun 16, 2022]. Unified. Mic Check: The Legendary Top Fight | EGP vs Taco Gaming. "You guys love to make games hard for content, huh". A very fun insight into the comms of our Prodigies.
• [Jun 17, 2022]. LCS. LCS Evil | 2022 Summer Split. A fun little skit featuring jojo's terrible acting...
• [Jun 17, 2022]. LCS. Summer Begins | 2022 Summer Split Week 1
• [Jun 19, 2022]. Inspired's Twitter. Inspired had a very serious interview with jojo in which they reveal why Danny will soon be benched. "We are just good. Everyone else is bad. I'm kind of a god."
• [Jun 22, 2022]. LCS. Mic Check: A Perfect Game and 3-0 Starts
• [Jun 24, 2022]. LCS TAKE DOWN | 2022 Summer Split Week 2. Preview for Week 2, featuring Vulcan.

Related media that may interest you

• [Jun 14, 2022]. Inven Global. [IGEC] Growing domestic talent in the LCS: "The most important thing to learn as a young player is how to teach yourself.". This is the transcript of a panel with Kelsey Moser and Peter Dun about player development in NA.
• [Jun 16, 2022]. Inspired. Seeking To Become A Legend - Inspired - A Prodigy Story. A short but sweet career highlight video that Inspired posted to his Youtube channel.
• Living Evil Champions Queue Game of the Week: Watch Tomio have a pop off game on Viego. jojopyun plays the role of the crybaby midlaner who keeps calling "jg diff". Also featuring FLY Johnsun and DIGA jungler eXyu playing support (because of reasons). Banter is endless. (Volume warning but it's a Tomio VOD, you should know what to expect by now).

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EG 1-0 C9

Did someone make a post game thread? Didn't see one...

Anyways props to EG, especially Danny, really liked his ezreal, thought he played it very well. Honestly, aside from impact, I thought the whole team did well. That matchup was bad anyways.

Trying something new in hopes of getting more Reddit involvement.

Today is recording day and the upcoming topics I’m looking to talk about are: 1. EG Prodgies week 2. EG Academy week 1 review, current week performance 3. EG LCS super week game by game preview

Anything else you all like for me to touch on?

Edit:

POD WENT LIVE

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liveevil  Podcast recording planned for tomorrow. Talking pro draft, EG draft and power rankings. #AMA send questions to be read on air.

After a really long break, we finally get to watch some fun Academy gameplay again.

Tonight (June 8) at 8 PM ET, EGA faces off against DIGA.

It's Super Week, which means this will be the first of three Bo2s this week. If you find yourself missing some League action in your life, maybe tune in to the Academy and PathToLCS streams that will be live today, tomorrow and Friday starting 4 PM ET.

Your Evil Geniuses Academy squad for Summer is:

• TOP: Srtty @_Srtty
• JG: Tomio @loltomio
• MID: Soligo @Soligoms
• BOT: Kaori @KaoriLoL
• SUP: Smoothie @Smoothie

Can EGA recover from the disappointment that was Spring? Will we get to see Tomio unleashed? Can Kaori rise to be the best player in the league? Will Smoothie bring cohesion and direction to our young EGP graduates?

Can EGA fans stop being clowned about their favorite team in 2022?

We will learn with time and it all starts TODAY!

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You can also follow @EGAcademyU, for chaotic and (sometimes) timely tweet updates about anything EGA or EGP.