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With the rosters locking just hours ago for the current season of ESEA Invite, Paul "pauLy" Guerboyan has left Evil Geniuses to join up with Ultimax Gaming USA.
There had been plenty of rumours about a possibly change in the North American community as Guerboyan had been seen practicing often with UMX.US in the recent weeks as a ringer.
Guerboyan joined Evil Geniuses during the summer along with Jeff "hero" Mettetal to replace Danny "fRoD" Montaner and Tyler "Storm" Wood who ended up creating the current Check Six roster.
As the rosters have already been locked for the current season, EG who are currently sitting at a 5-5 record, will be forced to try to qualify for the LAN finals and attend with the following roster unless they choose to forfeit the current season.
Evil Geniuses:
Derek "dboorN" Boorn
Andrew "Irukandji" Timmerman
Dimitri "Kluluz" Primaky
Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert
Thomas "thoMz" Garcia
Primaky's most recent stint as a starter in ESEA Invite division was during season six when he played for Ruins before ultimately being replaced prior to the finals. He has not been a member of a team since, despite actively playing for fun.
UMX recently lost Ric "iNERTiA" Bundy to retirement and Ricky "sLip" Cohen to a lower level ESEA team. The team also lost its ZOWIE sponsorship for 2012, but still remains a part of the UMX organization.
Ultimax Gaming USA:
Kyle "flowsicK" Mendez
Daniel "impsta" Whaley
Paul "pauLy" Guerboyan
Nazar "steno" Vynnytsky
Chris "TRULS" Navratil
ESEA Invite Season 10 finals have been announced to take place on March 2-4 in Dallas, TX with a prize purse of $19,600, of which $10,000 will go to the winner of the event.
This move also makes it more likely for EG to skip over the IEM6 Global Challenge Kiev event, giving mousesports and Natus Vincere hope of making it to the event as the number one and two backup teams.
Post edited 2012-01-02 03:37:58
Dunno if thats true
I doubt pauLy wasn't up front about leaving EG, and even if he didn't say everything, he was practicing with UMX, so it was obvious to everyone.
Thus we can assume the players left on EG had no real interest in filling his role so do not care how their team does for the rest of the season, as rosters now are locked.
pauLy was the only player on EG with any motivation to play, so I'm glad to see he joined another one before EG entirely implodes.
Look at the showmatch where they lost to a bunch of 1.6 european players when the Americans themselves were major css players at a time.
Anyway GL in UMX pauly.
Post edited 2012-01-02 04:02:13
but yeah he basically just roster rides
but he will be just a stand-in for the ESEA Invite, right?
dboorn
sgares
semphis
swag
1 TIME GOGOGO
>:\
Maybe n0thing, trace, swag, -INSERTIGLHERE-, and friis. Would be kinda cool to see something like that imo. DoA :D
regardless, i think it's too bad things haven't worked out quite as well as perhaps he deserves.
in fact, he has cgs to thank for getting his first chance with the top teams in the nation, regardless of his talent.
i like jordan and i feel bad for him but he much like everyone else on eg have made their choices, this is just the path they took :).
i guess this sentence tell us more about u then about them...
edit: for example theres like 4 teams now in esea-i that have no players i've ever heard of at all, talking to semphis he tells me about players i've never heard of daily. just because they're invite doesn't make them known.
Post edited 2012-01-03 21:03:33
fRoD
n0thing
Storm
steno
Pauly
the moving to another continent part is a lot harder to justify than learning a new language, especially with how little cs 1.6 seems to have left - moving to another continent isn't something most people take lightly.
Post edited 2012-01-02 16:28:36
Post edited 2012-01-02 05:51:19
CGS and DirectTV, at that point, had some great visions, and Valve was in their pocket. Probably the best shot eSport has ever had, trying to professionalize it all.
Only bad thing was, that Valve would't allow CS 1.6 to be shown in TV, only Source. And a lot of things didnt work out, their league system, and the draft system, like in NFL and NHL. They tried to much to americanize the scene, and that was what killed it all, and you know it.
Post edited 2012-01-02 18:31:25
North American CS has ALWAYS been far from European top level, even during coL days it was only one team, and they struggled domestically vs 3D and had some weak placings as well (17-32 @ CPL Winter 2006, 9-12 @ CPL Winter 2005 etc).
coL did win ESWC 2005 though so can't take anything away from them there, we never achieved anything that big in 2009-2010.
NoA doesn't count as an American team to me seeing as I think XeqtR/element/Naikon were far more important to the team than shaGuar and method.
But lets leave it here, since you probably "won" this discussion fair and square :).
More likely they didn't care, since they haven't put any work into this season so far.
if they dont get storm and/or at least frod back
they should seriously forget the cs squad
they should kick irukandji thomz and dboorn and pick up storm xp3 frod and dizza or maybe warden if he gets back in shape :D
Post edited 2012-01-02 07:10:42
I mean, it took just a high level igl like you to change completely a team and get alot better at international events. It seems that the lack of talent it's not the problem and that's sad because they have all the potencial, but for some reason they never get to that next level like top Euro teams, you know what I mean?
I'm sorry I'm bothering you, but you're the one who can give us a more insightful thought of what's going on with CS scene in general over NA.
Thanks
lack of good leaders and motivation overall, there aren't motivated leaders to keep teams together and work on things and if they don't get trips abroad instantly etc they lose motivation.
back2back doesn't have either problem so i hope they can win this upcoming esea season and possibly go to some tournies soon
1. anyone can learn a language if they immerse themselves in that culture for 2-3 months.. especially n0thing. he's one of the smartest players in cs, and would easily adapt to culture, language, euro nuisances.
2. who doesn't speak english?
3. cs speaks in it's own language... despite verbal language barriers
4. it's probably a bit late in teh game for n0thing to make such a dedicated move, career change... but if anyone in the US can follow in method/shag's footsteps, he can.
2. euros won't speak english because as good as n0thing is, he isn't out of this world so it wouldn't be worth it for any team to have 4 players switch to another language. communication makes the biggest difference in cs and it actually isn't that easy to comm everything lightning fast without thinking about it
3. negative, to be a really good team you need insane communication which requires you to speak the same language, i'm sure you can pug without any language though, since you don't really even need to talk (e.g. esea)
4. method/shag never moved abroad, noa just bootcamped for a week or two before events in the us/brazil/sweden and attended it, so it's not the same at all. and yes, unless cs 1.6 magically gets more popular it is a bit too late.
GL to n0thing, I always love him, and I think he deserved to play in some European team =)
sad
EG.dboorN
EG.fRoD
EG.Storm
EG.hero
<333
gogo UMX.
All best teams have excellent IGL and none of american teams now have one.
but it's certainly great to see pauLy going to UMX, they are potential and full of motivation.
cheer for anyone! :D
EG.n0thing
+3
true story
EG.lurppis
EG.Storm
EG.fRoD
EG.n0thing
EG.GoodForNothing
gl guys!
Post edited 2012-01-02 17:54:07
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship_Gaming_S..
EG n0thing
EG dizzaman
EG storm
EG irukandji
:)
Sad for them.
I already knew ... when "slip" UMX left, I knew a
EG player would join the UMX, EG is coming to an end
gradually losing player for player.
And if they play this tourney and lose the excuse will be
pauly have left the team to occur near the tourney


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