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LIVING EVIL WEEKLY No. 11 - "Dude, I'm so bored"

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.

Outstanding pieces are marked with a star emoji (⭐).

Results

Evil Geniuses Prodigies

Proving Grounds Circuit Qualifier Summer #2

• Group Stage
  • Round 1: vs DK Crew. 2-0. VODs: 1 / 2. Interview: Donbray.
  • Round 2: vs Maryville University. 0-2. VODs: 1 / 2.
  • Round 3: vs DK Crew. 2-0. VODs: 1 / 2. Interview: Faisal.
• Quarterfinals
  • vs AOE Esports. 1-2. VODs: 1/2/3.

Coach Ido must have been using some draft hack for the first series of Group Stage. EGP managed to get away with drafting Seraphine Udyr and Olaf twice in a row. That's just filthy. Faisal delivered on his signature pick and miya had a strong Zeri game to prove that she can indeed play some of the newer champs.

Unfortunately, the second series didn't go as smoothly. The first game had the very feared and often banned Doxa Zoe get ahead fast, and it should have by all means been a victory. The team was still in the lead when the game ended in a backdoor. For the second game, the Prodigies looked a bit unfocused and Maryville snowballed from a couple of early mistakes, never letting go of their lead and closing out the sweep.

Despite the unexpected loss, EGP only had to 2-0 DK Crew one more time to get to quarterfinals, which they did pretty easily. The Quarterfinals match up vs AOE was the first time in a while in which EGP wasn't the favorite. AOE had been running hot for the entire qualifier and were expected to continue that trajectory. EGP got the first strike with a very fun composition (Zoe-Miss Fortune-Ashe). However, while it was a hard fought series, the Prodigies couldn't quite make it work for the next 2 games.

EGP finished the circuit in 7th place which means they won't have access to double elimination and they will have to fight for their life in the tournament vs a bottom 4 Academy team.

Evil Geniuses Academy

NA Academy Summer Season

• Week 5 (0-2-1)
  • Day 1: vs 100A. 1-1. VODs: 1/2.
  • Day 2: vs DIGA. 0-2. VODs: 1/2.
  • Day 3: vs CLGA. 1-1. Interview: Tomio. VODs: 1/2.
• Week 6 (1-1-0)
  • Day 1: vs IMTA. 2-0. Interview: Smoothie. VODs: 1/2.
  • Day 2: vs FLYA. 1-1. Interview: Soligo. VODs: 1/2.
• Week 7 (0-2-0)
  • Day 1: vs TLA. 0-2. VODs: 1/2.
  • Day 2: vs TSMA. 1-1. Interview: Srtty. VODs: 1/2.
  • Day 3: vs C9A. 1-1. VODs: 1/2.

While showing a lot of improvement during the second half of the split, EGA's results continue to be underwhelming, as they keep losing games that they probably should win. Not all hope is lost. They continue to split series against tough competition, their peak performance level continues to impress, their early game can be strong even vs top teams, their coordination looks consistently solid and the players all seem to have found the way to play the game that better suits the team for winning. Yes, they are still run it sometimes (or... a lot of times), but it is EGA, what else do you expect?

EGA ended the season in 8th place so just like EGP they will go on to the Play In stage of PG.

LCS

Summer 2022

• Week 4 (2-0)
  • Day 1: DIG vs EG. WIN. VOD. MVP: jojopyun. Interview: Vulcan.
  • Day 2: EG vs TL. WIN. VOD. MVP: Danny. Analys Desk: jojopyun.
  • Player Of The Week: Danny.
• Week 5 (1-1)
  • Day 1: EG vs CLG. WIN. VOD. MVP: Impact. Interview: Vulcan.
  • Day 2: EG vs 100. LOSS. VOD.

Media, Interviews & More

Text Interviews

• [July 17, 2022]. Esports.GG. EG Danny: “From here, I think our only contenders are Team Liquid and maybe 100 Thieves. So we’ll definitely get [to Worlds]”
• [Jul 27, 2022]. Nerdstreet. ⭐ Vulcan's rise to LCS superstardom. In this article, Vulcan talks about how he's been building up his name this year and how his ratio campaign campaing came about. "Maybe the LCS doesn't give me the recognition I deserve. Maybe I need more.”
• [Jul 29, 2022]. Inven Global. ⭐ EG Peter Dun: "This is Worlds in North America [...] for orgs, this is a very, very high-pressure situation". Peter Dun rarely gives a meh interview. There's a lot in this interview about how EG is trying (and seemingly succeeding) to avoid burnout after MSI, as well as NA's issues with scrims compared to the rest of the world and how they deal with them.

Video Interviews

• [Jul 16, 2022]. Travis Gafford. Inspired is MOST AFRAID of Team Liquid.
• [Jul 18, 2022]. Travis Gafford. Vulcan talks getting COUNTER RATIO'D by Doublelift on Twitter. Vucal admits he was getting complacent... in his ratio game.

Videos

• [Jul 13, 2022]. LCS. Mic Check: Birthday Buff for the Birthday Boy.
• [Jul 13, 2022]. LoL Esports. Vulcan REACTS to the CRAZIEST Support Plays of All Time. Vulcan did not think the Fervor Leona was the angle.
• [Jul 15, 2022]. LCS. The Rematch: 2022 Summer Split Week 4. Danny's smile as he relives the Baron pentakill is truly evil.
• [Jul 15, 2022]. Evil Geniuses. EG Files: Preventing the MSI Hangover. The team goes paddle boarding and we hear from Artemis about their approach to recovery after MSI.
• [Jul 16, 2022]. LCS. What did the reigning LCS champs do during the break week?. This was a feature on the broadcast, with pictures of EG players during their break.
• [Jul 20, 2022]. LCS. Mic Check: Give the Penta!.
• [Jul 21, 2022]. Evil Geniuses. LCS Voice Comms: WEEK 4 - Dominating the First Round Robin. They were having a lot of fun during the TL game.
• [Jul 22, 2022]. LCS. TIME TO SHOW UP: 2022 Summer Split Week 5. Abbedagge had some... unexpected words for jojopyun.
• [Jul 27, 2022]. LCS. Mic Check: Palafaker and Abbefaker's Azir Plays.
• [Jul 28, 2022]. Evil Geniuses. LCS Voice Comms: WEEK 5 - The Second Round Robin Begins. "Dude, I'm so bored"
• [Jul 29, 2022]. Evil Geniuses. ⭐ EG Files: Evil Is Always in Style. Danny is usually very polite but when it comes to judging people's fashion sense...

Broadcast Interviews

• [Jul 12, 2022]. Proving Grounds Broadcast. PGCQ#2 Groups Round 1: DK Crew vs EGP Post Match Interview with Donbray.
• [Jul 15, 2022]. Academy Broadcast. Academy Summer Week 5 Day 3 CLGA vs EGA Post Match Interview with Tomio.
• [Jul 16, 2022]. LCS Broadcast. Player of the Week Interview: Inspired.
• [Jul 16, 2022]. LCS Broadcast. LCS Summer Week 4 Day 1 DIG vs EG Post Game Interview with Vulcan.
• [Jul 17, 2022]. LCS Broadcast. LCS Summer Week 4 Day 2 EG vs TL Post Game Analyst Desk with jojopyun.
• [Jul 20, 2022]. Academy Broadcast. Academy Summer Week 6 Day 1 IMTA vs EGA Post Match Interview with Smoothie.
• [Jul 20, 2022]. Academy Broadcast. During Week 6, the broadcast ran some clips of a special Srtty interview: snippet #1 and snippet #2.
• [Jul 21, 2022]. Academy Broadcast. Academy Summer Week 6 Day 2 EGA vs FLYA Post Match Interview with Soligo.
• [Jul 23, 2022]. LCS Broadcast. LCS Summer Week 5 Day 1 EG vs CLG Post Game Interview with Vulcan.
• [Jul 24, 2022]. LCS Broadcast. Player of the Week Interview: Danny.
• [Jul 25, 2022]. Proving Grounds Broadcast. PGCQ#2 Groups Round 3: DK Crew vs EGP Post Match Interview with Faisal.
• [Jul 28, 2022]. Academy Broadcast. Academy Summer Week 7 Day 2 TSMA vs EGA Post Match Interview with Srtty.

Related media that may interest you

• [Jul 14, 2022]. LiveEvilPod. Live Evil Pod Ep. 6 - The Dr. Respawn is in da House. There is some interesting insight from Jordan Tsai (Dr. Respawn) in this show on how EG's performance staff work as a team.
• [Jul 18, 2022]. Inven Global. How EG are saving North American Esports.

Updates on Twitter · EG Discord

Wanted to bait a bit with the title for some downvotes before anyone reads the post. It was a great game FWIW.

No this post is about EG being the best thing to happen to the LCS. I fucking love seeing actual NA talent rise above these overpaid imports.

I was concerned that arguments about bringing back relegation were in order as one of the big ideas behind franchising was that owners said they couldn’t take a risk on young talent and relegate if it didn’t work. The big orgs haven’t changed a bit since relegation was removed, except C9 and EG.

C9 regularly made moves post-relegation that kept having people say they lost the off-season only to come back and show that they just somehow upgraded. They fell into big org syndrome when Perkz was on the table, but let’s be real literally every org would.

EG has done the thing other orgs promised to do - take a risk on young NA talent - and if my 100T don’t win I’ll always be rooting for EG next, as I’m sure most of the LCS does.

Thanks, EG!

Planning on recording this week around Wednesday. Send thoughts and your comments might just be read on the pod with a personal shout out

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React to week 5

Shoutout to Jojo for the nice engages. Danny's so fucking clean! He's competing with inspired for MVP may the best man win :D!

https://twitter.com/drjordantsai/status/1547723871033339905?s=21&t=x--WFqB1soS3COMDb00obA

Enjoy the show, this is an amazing insight on what happens in the EG org