autimatic returns to CS:GO in Evil Geniuses

19/1/2022 - 19:04

The 25-year-old makes his return to the king of shooters after a year in VALORANT.

Evil Geniuses have officially announced the much anticipated signing of Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta, who is teaming back up with Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip and, reportedly although not yet official, William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba, reuniting the Cloud9 trio that won the ELEAGUE Boston Major.

This signing marks autimatic's return to CS:GO following a year in VALORANT, which he decided to try out after unsuccessful stints in Cloud9's post-Major winning roster, which went through a litany of fruitless lineups, and Gen.G's short-lived foray into Counter-Strike.

autimatic is one of the high-profile players returning to CS:GO

Before making the switch to Riot's FPS game, autimatic was one of the most decorated North American players in CS:GO, with an MVP award from his ESL Pro League Season 4 championship run with Cloud9, as well as the aforementioned Major trophy and victories at DreamHack Open Denver 2017 and iBUYPOWER Masters 2017. Individually, he was named the 17th best player in the world in 2018.

autimatic will join not only his two former teammates, but also Evil Geniuses' only two members left standing from the previous roster, Vincent "⁠Brehze⁠" Cayonte and Tsvetelin "⁠CeRq⁠" Dimitrov, as well as the team's new skipper, Damien "⁠maLeK⁠" Marcel.

Known as a hybrid player during the years before he switched to VALORANT, autimatic will not have to worry with AWPing duties this time around — at least not primarily — as it will be in the hands of his Bulgarian teammate CeRq, and in-game leadership has fallen in Stewie2K's hands, so the 25-year-old will be able to put his full focus on getting back up to speed with how the game has changed in his absence.

These nostalgia tinged high-profile signings are Evil Geniuses' bid to help revive the North American scene while trying to bring the organization back to the top echelons of the game after a vastly underwhelming 2021, a year in which the team went from being a top 10 contender to sitting well outside of the top 30 and included an embarrassing 0-3 showing at the PGL Major in Stockholm.

With one announcement left to be made, Evil Geniuses are:

Vincent "⁠Brehze⁠" Cayonte
Tsvetelin "⁠CeRq⁠" Dimitrov
Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip
Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta

Damien "⁠maLeK⁠" Marcel (coach)

TIM!!!!!!

2022-01-19 19:05

5 replies

"King of shooters" - Obama meme xD Jokes aside, really glad to have autimatic back! All the best to him and EG <3

2022-01-19 19:06

2 replies

YESSS MY KING I LOVE HIM

2022-01-19 19:37

king of shooters referring to csgo

2022-01-19 19:47

Im happy now

2022-01-19 19:10

the tatman

Pog

11 replies

Damn, Autimatic is back<3

2022-01-19 19:23

10 replies

NA recovering

2022-01-19 19:51

Already 3 solid teams.

2022-01-19 19:56

We doing alright. Only thing that’s worrisome is the fact CSGO isn’t a big game here anymore. Need a much stronger t2/3 scene But yeah, we got a few teams now.

2022-01-19 22:24

Just sad they have jerk stew so the team is unlikable :-(

2022-01-19 23:30

6 replies

you dont like pro with personalities?

2022-01-20 06:58

3 replies

Smack talk is fine, but so many players seems to have no clue how to do it properly. Look at the master of the art, JW or Taz for example. It has to be done in a way that you can tell there is some tongue in cheek (no ill intent). While you have the new schoolers like Stew or K0nfig that have no feeling and just come across as cringy jerks with banter of the level “but you mum is uglier”. It’s sad.

2022-01-20 13:51

i rather have that instead of pro not having any personality at all and just says cliche stuff boring af. We need some spice in the csgo scene. And i dont agree with you i think stew is funny guy and he dont deserved all the hate hes getting.

2022-01-20 19:48

1 reply

Fair enough. I’m probably to old for this childish no class “smack talk” of some younger players. When you are used to the masters of smack like JW and Taz it’s hard to appreciate this cringy version. His hate is probably from several reasons, one being the one I held above. Another could be that he is generally not playing at a very high level but still talks/act like he is simple. And an other could be his smoke pushing play style. I can see why ppl dislike that since it’s very luck based and just a straight up guess (however educated) and sort of undeserved when it works tbh. It can also cause hate from fans when it repeatedly fails and loses the team rounds.

2022-01-21 16:45

what do you mean? Stewie is the best

2022-01-20 11:16

Best at cringy attempt of smack talk, yes.

Meh

12 replies

respect the great wall of china

2022-01-19 20:12

Autimatic, koosta, bntet would be a good wall

2022-01-19 23:08

Wdym? BnTeT POLISH PRIDE

2022-01-19 23:21

8 replies

chinese-polish

2022-01-20 01:49

Still, he's the polish hero

2022-01-20 05:51

chinese-polish hero

2022-01-20 14:43

Good

2022-01-20 16:14

wdym polish hes indonesian men

2022-01-20 02:23

wdym indonesian ? he indian men

2022-01-20 04:00

bruh stress man LMFAO just see in google tf

2022-02-01 05:43

25 comments Hmmm

stewie-autimatic is called the great wall of china

Lesss goooo NA is alive between this and coool

What a shock

LETS GOOO

who??

major winner

2022-01-19 19:24

devilwalk??

2022-01-20 07:43

XDD

2022-01-20 16:47

2022-01-19 20:15

whos mans dis?

2022-01-19 21:02

2022-01-19 21:49

2022-01-19 22:49

the best rifler in na

A major winner that has your national blood

2022-01-20 00:21

LOL, but true

2022-01-20 00:57

major champion

2022-01-20 02:29

hungary>NA but i love tim

central/east euro woman > every other in the world

2022-01-19 19:42

7 replies

true

2022-01-19 20:20

If ur looking for a bargain or your boiler repairing sure.

2022-01-19 20:39

xaxa

2022-01-20 05:34

imagine being that insecure to downgrade other nations women

2022-01-20 08:29

what do you expect from brexits?

2022-01-20 16:50

How can a brazilian say this

2022-01-21 13:04

brazilians are nice, dont get me wrong, but euro girls are more baby-face, doll-like, which I prefer

2022-01-22 16:39

good luck!

Why no ambitions? Tier-2 veteran stack =/

Like they picked the worst available players. Even JKS would have been a lot better.

2022-01-19 19:45

With him not joking yet, you’d hope something better is going to happen

2022-01-20 01:29

Nice

hype

wow

unexpected!

Why LucasAM baiting? Cloud9 never won any major, as well as Stewie2K,autimatic & RUSH

True Kappa

2022-01-19 19:08

flair

2022-01-19 19:14

Flair doesn't have anything together with facts,stated in #18

2022-01-19 19:20

4 replies

Claims facts, proceeds to say something wrong that is well known in cs history

2022-01-20 00:24

Yes,everyone know what NiKo,rain,GuardiaN,olofmeister & karrigan won ELEAGUE Major 2018

2022-01-20 01:31

Yea ok dumb troll

2022-01-21 01:34

Speaking truth = trolling Expected for 21 century

2022-01-21 02:26

hltv is so slow wtf

Well, it was expected

Let's go autimatic and welcome back to the main game 👋

2022-01-19 19:07

Hope he's motivated.

NA last dance?

Let's go

is he still always high while playing?

Welcome back

nice

wb mens!

POG. THE RETURN OF THE BEST RIFLER IN NA

automalchik back in business

POGGERS

king of shooters kinda true

TIMOTHY FUCKING TA

LAST DANCE C9 version

rush coming

As long as auti doesnt awp , it a great move. he has good mech, exp and and can help stew with calling

also cutest in na

Twistzz

2022-01-19 19:11

Nice hair but idk why he always looked childish to me

2022-01-19 19:12

Ocean

no igl no party

2022-01-19 19:09

Stew

2022-01-19 23:42

bad idea, proven already

2022-01-20 17:15

Nice, and not awping most important

LETS FUCKUING GOOOOOO

I WAS HERE

unexpected

Another washed players returns

Nip Flair talking

Well nip is an average T2 team but, Prove me wrong about the washed na player.

2022-01-20 19:42

2022-01-19 19:13

LETS GOOOOOOOO GLHF

LETSGO

NA BACK BABY

Jks >>>Autimatic

But autimatic won 1 major , jks 0

2022-01-19 19:17

But Last Dance 2 majors Navi 1 Major

Good luck

dead team,sad to see brehze and cerq to suffer bzc waheed up NA players

2022-01-19 19:15

Cerq & brehze Are washed as well lol Autimatic at least looked good before he went to valarante child gaem

2022-01-19 19:19

they had better days,but they would be solid addition for some other teams like brehze for col and brehze for some bulgarian team idk xD

2022-01-19 19:28

Vrehze so good plays for both col and bulgaria in the same time leggoooooo

FUCK YES MY DICK PIERCED THE DESK ONCE I SAW IT

2022-01-19 19:16

Yeah like; EG, just fucking announce the whole roster together, everybody knows it already anyway and you even leaked it yourself It won’t change the fact that you‘ll barely be #3 NA for most of the time

Harsh truth😂

2022-01-19 19:18

so whos nr5 in this ?

Rush. It’s been known for quite a while, org even leaked it themselves. Roster is laughable at best

2022-01-19 19:21

9 replies

better than any german team has ever been. unlucky really

2022-01-19 19:25

your flame makes no sense since BIG was #1 in the World ?

2022-01-19 19:34

eg consists of 3 major winner (one of which is an intel grand slam winner as well) and 2 players who were top 1 at a point and were dominating on LAN a couple years ago. i just checked tabsens profile and saw that he apparently has only 4 trophies and most of them are irrelevant tier 2 events and most importantly, online events. i think its pretty obvious which team will be better in 3-6 months

2022-01-19 19:40

Flag and name checks out

If you’d have a hltv profile you‘d just qualified for the ‚maddest person on the website‘ trophy my friend I don’t really care what you think of any other team, if you look at it completely neutrally this team just is not likely to be good, no matter what the players did in the past. Do you think the same of washed major winners from other counties? Taco? Pronax? Fallen? Fnx? They won Major they must still be good players 6 years later right?

2022-01-19 19:59

Ur acting like big isnt washed up either, they are not even tier 1 anymore, and also name another relevant german team who is even tier3

2022-01-20 00:27

Thats like, not even the point of the thread, maybe stop distracting and tell me why the hell you think stewie rush CeRq and brehze suddenly start to hit shots again, that’s 4 people you have to worry about in a 5 man roster I know BIG looked terrible last year but at least they are willing to make changes to change that I don’t see that in EG

2022-01-20 07:22

Ok good point, but eg doesnt look bad at all, you are over hating the roster. Stewie is a good player he isnt washed yet, maybe not prime level anymore but he is still a tier1 player, if you say otherwise you are just a hater. Brehze and cerq once were the deadliest combo in EG, it all fell apart when Tarik and Ethan left, with new changes it is not hard to see there is a chance for them to perform again with new changes. The only two controversial players is Rush and Autimatic. Heres the thing, Rush is one of those players who isnt a high chance frag player but he makes up for it for his great support, going for entry plays, great utility (much important than you think), and keeping a team working like a team, kinda like stewie but a much better support. Now for autimatic, its either he will perform good or bad, its not a high chance he will be garbage just because he was away for some period since he occasionally play fpl. He always was a great player, so its ok to believe in him. Not the best roster, thats not what i am saying, but still able to perform high, so i don’t understand the hate. Also for BIG, the biggest mistake ever was to let xantares go, these recent changes are bad

2022-01-21 01:45

i can almost agree with everything you said, what makes me sceptical about this roster is, that there are too many IFs. with stewie, cerq and brehze you have three players that once were amazing individually but recently reached their lowest point of their career with rush you have a solid support player but if worst case none of the three aforementioned players perform individually then you cannot count on rush to step up funnily enough autimatic is the only player i dont really worry about, even though he's switching between games it could work if all the stars align but right now i dont see a reason to believe it, thats all i'm saying --- to briefly touch on BIG: -xantares +gade was bad, true, but with faven they got a huge firepower upgrade again. IMO losing coach tow b was BIGs biggest problem, we'll see if their new coaching+analyst team can keep it up

2022-01-21 07:38

explosive noobster?

Cerq and Brehze just got worse teammates than before LOL imagine receiving washed up players thinking you could be successfull again omg what a waste of talent

Yeah whoever was in charge of rebuilding this roster clearly didn’t know what he was doing, although autimatic is probably still a great player, you got 4 washed up teammates

2022-01-19 19:22

Yeah everyone is washed up but autimatic is good like wtf

2022-01-19 19:31

this roster is a joke

LFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Dead project, EG such a dumb managers

Oooooooh shit! Smells like easy top 50

LETS GO TIM

gl to auti

Welcome back !

POGGGGG

NA cs is rising again??? POG

Welcome back autimatic!

Another lock for the last place on all the partner team only events.

pog

2022-01-19 19:26

Welcome back Tim. Making na cs great again

actually hyped for this lineup

2022-01-19 19:27

i really think valorant is dying -- all these csgo pros coming back ! i love it !!!!!!!

Its actually growing a lot though not a super big boom anymore, a lot of eu players are going pro

2022-01-20 00:32

Is there hope for NA CS?

if you consider SA players living and playing there, fuck yes if you are talking about NA players, fuck no

Sa hasn’t been doing much in the last couple years….

2022-01-19 21:12

Plz change your username to delusional brazilian because you are a big comedian

2022-01-20 00:33

flair for being a comedian checks out

this lineup wont work, people are happy with the return of Tim and Stew together, but lets face it they are all washed up players

Indian cs ok

2022-01-19 19:35

cs fans are everywhere you dumb shit

2022-01-20 07:07

bodied that neek

2022-01-20 07:12

how so? ur hyping ur brother for jack shit

2022-01-20 09:34

TIM IS BACK LETS GOOOO

valorant already died xDDDDDDD

american goat

-1 that is stew

2022-01-19 19:43

Floppy’s return > auti’s return

zzzzzzzzzz just announce everything!! But gg this might be fun to watch if they actually care to put in the effort

Respect! Make American cs great again!

>csgo major happens >turncoats jump back to cs because valorant will never deliver the same hype expected but still pog

2022-01-19 19:44

+rush -cerq +skadoodle -brehze +tarik ez major

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO

2022-01-19 19:46

this thread is weird EU is defending an American while most Americans are being toxic

EU realized the importance of a healthy NA scene. Anddddd NA just being toxic fuckers as usual.

2022-01-19 22:25

Yeah I love autimatic he is my favorite CS player so im hyped

2022-01-19 22:27

Since EU has been on top for besically for ever and CIS started being reborn back in 2020 I do believe the last scene that needs to be fixed is the NA one, something needs to happen that's why we Europeans are happy about NA roster changes while Americans don't really care as it seems

2022-01-20 05:27

Fuck yeah! Welcome back Tim! We missed ya

2022-01-19 19:50

yes.

2022-01-19 19:53

No need to “rush”… so when is rush gonna be announced in the eg roster :)

all the idiots thinking malek is going to put up with a washed roster lmao these fuckers will be kicked back into form or they’ll be benched

King of shooters

2022-01-19 19:54

kinda Last dance NA version.

2022-01-19 19:57

Woah. Didn't expect that. I wonder who the 5th will be!?!??!??! Maybe Rush??????????!????

2022-01-19 19:58

Always knew this shit would happen good for auti, one most talented na players

1 more ? +BnTeT

2022-01-19 20:00

It's rush but hopefully they cut rush and replace him with bntet soon enough

2022-01-19 20:38

why would they lmao

2022-01-20 02:06

Rush is a bot that keeps getting bailed out by the "shitty roles" excuse. I hope he can find his form but it's unlikely.

2022-01-20 02:22

Lmao, he is a very good support player, by far better than that tier3 random guy

2022-01-20 16:26

Rush was good back in optic days, played decent for the Boston major in c9 and then just turned a complete bot that somehow forgot how to play the game

2022-01-20 05:24

I think he was really good in col too

He had a less than 1.0 rating most of the time in coL, the thing is that that team was decent by it self so it didn't really matter if your support player couldn't frag out since the rest of the team could and had really good synergy together

2022-01-20 17:56

great team

2022-01-19 20:05

The love Criminal Pog

2022-01-19 20:06

Asian duo finally back, wew lads

lessssssssssssssssssgooooooooooo

2022-01-19 20:07

autimatic and rush really isnt exciting at all..

2022-01-19 20:16

top 10 coolest players in the scene in my books

2022-01-19 20:25

no IGL pog

2022-01-19 20:29

Lets gooo

Damn RUSH Remains only to be signed

2022-01-19 20:31

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK TRASH PLAYER AND TRASH TEAM

2022-01-19 20:32

godsent fan XD

2022-01-19 20:41

better than evil geniuses KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

2022-01-20 00:31

youtube.com/watch?v=iCMcSx1as3c&ab_chann..

2022-01-19 20:34

LETS FUCKIN GO

nice gl

2022-01-19 20:36

GODIMATIC IS BACK BABY WOOOO

might be the only serious player in the roster afterall. gl

2022-01-19 20:40

deserved

Valorant e-sports dead what a surprise

2022-01-19 20:48

Let's gooo!

2022-01-19 20:51

2022-01-19 20:52

2022-01-19 20:56

-cerq +skadoodle -brehze +tarik

2022-01-19 20:59

Funny how they all keep returning after a year in Valorant. I just can not cheer for them as i used to.

2022-01-19 21:04

Bntet next?

2022-01-19 21:06

auTIM ATic TIM TA this dudes clever

2022-01-19 21:09

yey

Good to see you again auti

2022-01-19 21:14

NA Recovery era??

2022-01-19 21:17

Missed you timmy ta

2022-01-19 21:27

so many players already came back from valarante i've lost the count

2022-01-19 21:40

Nun sind die zwei schlitzaugen endlich wieder vereint 🤣

2022-01-19 21:42

Good move imo, this guy has talent and he can grind back to his old level I'm sure of It, unlike Rush

2022-01-19 22:02

autimatic one of the biggest wastes of talent

2022-01-19 22:30

Agreed. But glad he's back

2022-01-19 23:18

Team Liquid x Complexity x Evil Geniuses NA CSGO is back boys!!!!!!! I believe in 6 months, all of those 3 teams will be in top 15. Copium

2022-01-19 23:17

All but liquid yeah 👍

2022-01-19 23:25

Liquid can be top 15 if -shox +Any other rifler that is not a washed bot (Lots of options jks,BnTeT etc)

2022-01-20 05:21

I'm happy to see Auti rifling. Also this team have potential, I believe they can be solid under Malek couching

2022-01-19 23:48

Washed up, no surprise he left for Valorant. Also not surprised with his return to CS after no success in Valorant too. Gotta earn them easy paychecks, especially in a territory with almost no scene

autimatic is a GOD ! lets gro brother

2022-01-20 00:40

Welcome back brotha

2022-01-20 00:42

DADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2022-01-20 00:51

Waiting on Ska to switch back and Tarik to return

2022-01-20 01:03

Isn't ska streaming for T1 rn? Or is he still on their active roster

2022-01-20 05:19

I have no clue, honestly the last time I was checking on roster changes they had a long period without a full team, idk what ended up happening.

2022-01-22 19:42

"KING OF SHOOTERS" > valOMEGALULrant Ez

2022-01-20 01:05

Excited to see him in EG :) The Great Wall of China is back!

2022-01-20 01:07

will never break into top 15 tbh but lets see

2022-01-20 01:10

the asian duo is back Pog

2022-01-20 01:27

POG

2022-01-20 01:38

Stewie and auti They were such a great duo

2022-01-20 01:39

valorant lol

2022-01-20 01:46

it would've been shocking if Shroud comes back to NA CSGO Pro scene again and joins EG... it's possible now, there's a lot of "retired" players now coming back to PRO scenes...

2022-01-20 02:53

Damn autimatic washed in all games now :/

2022-01-20 03:33

VAL0RANT < CSGOD

2022-01-20 04:57

This won't even be a top 1 na team but I am looking forward to them nonetheless, let's see if friendship will make the players have more motivation and not play bad.

2022-01-20 05:17

this tweeter poem thing is cringe af.

haha I love good or bad puns

2022-01-20 05:31

2022-01-20 05:28

"We're putting together an explosive roster" ??? with autimatic? LOL. OK.

2022-01-20 05:45

With autimatic >>> with Boombl4

2022-01-20 11:21

Sure. Compare IGL to a rifler who was good 3 years ago, lol. Get a life, kid.

2022-01-20 14:39

surprise surprise

damn EG top5 for sure

2022-01-20 06:06

whats the bet they use NA brain and pick up NBK KEKW

2022-01-20 06:44

autimatic continues to surprise with his character moves. Could have left c9 before it sank but chose not to, could have left for valorant when everyone else in na did but chose not to. What will he do next? Maybe he will become politician

2022-01-20 08:23

YES YES!! 💪💪 the king is back

2022-01-20 09:25

Man I wish they snuck brehze to liquid somehow

2022-01-20 10:04

this lineup already smashes more than LULquid

2022-01-20 13:49

I guess we will see. I strongly disagree with you...I think rush/auti/cerq are way too far past their prime and stew as igl is meh.

2022-01-21 19:08

let's watch the show that is NA

2022-01-22 16:47

this no emrican team is asia team

2022-01-20 11:24

bntet the last

2022-01-20 12:02

This EG lineup could actually be somewhat of a threat if they would have a decent IGL......

2022-01-20 12:46

all they need now is shroud

2022-01-20 13:48

"News coming soon, no need to >>>>>>>>>>>>>Rush<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<" "I know you all want roster news to come >>>>>>>>>>>>>Autimatically<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<" Rush 5th Call me Sherlock

2022-01-20 14:18

Hello Sherlock

2022-01-20 14:41

25 already vvovv

2022-01-20 14:40

I'm actually excited for this team! And for NA CS! But although I really like RUSH, I feel like they could've gotten someone else as the fifth..

2022-01-20 14:54

washed

2022-01-20 16:02

So happy that this happened :)

2022-01-20 18:59

tier 3 team.

2022-01-20 19:06

i just hope these valorant bobs will get owned so hard in cs

2022-01-20 19:24

I feel like Stewie is gonna bring his ego and destroy this group, high on himself, "I just came from a better team" mentality, im the king here and just fuck them

2022-01-21 01:12

pogga

2022-02-01 05:49