EG announce neaLaN addition, promote HexT to main roster

2-8-2022 20:37

The North American organization partially confirmed the rumors but decided to promote one of their in-house players instead of signing Kévin "⁠misutaaa⁠" Rabier, after all.

Evil Geniuses have announced the signing of Sanzhar "⁠neaLaN⁠" Iskhakov and the promotion of Jadan "⁠HexT⁠" Postma from EG Black to the main roster. Former Copenhagen Flames manager and coach Daniel "⁠Vorborg⁠" Vorborg has been announced as the team's new head coach, as well.

The announcement comes in part as a surprise after reports linked EG with the signing of misutaaa, who is reportedly on the chopping block in Vitality, with the French-Danish squad aiming to buy Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi out of ENCE.

Sources close to the situation tell HLTV.org that the reason why the Frenchman's move fell through at the last minute is that the organization wished to retain a North American core for the upcoming Regional Major Ranking event leading up to the IEM Rio Major in order to avoid utilizing a loophole in the rulebook.

neaLaN joins Evil Geniuses from K23, formerly known as Syman

With the official Major rules saying a team can choose which region to play in if their lineup is split evenly between two regions, EG would have been able to use the European core and still play in the North American RMR by submitting a North American substitute, which would create a 3-3 split between EU and NA. However, this was a solution that Evil Geniuses were not comfortable utilizing, our sources say.

neaLaN and HexT replace William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba and Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip in the roster. The latter player recently announced that he would be stepping away from competitive Counter-Strike and focus on streaming instead, a move that came in the aftermath of the team's series of atrocious results under his leadership.

Meanwhile, Vorborg effectively replaces Damien "⁠maLeK⁠" Marcel in the head coach position. The Frenchman was moved to a non-active role in Evil Geniuses in May, a few weeks after the previous roster played its last match in the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown.

The new lineup is set to debut in a little over two weeks' time, in the BLAST Premier Fall Groups, taking place from August 19-28.

Evil Geniuses now have:

Vincent "⁠Brehze⁠" Cayonte
Tsvetelin "⁠CeRq⁠" Dimitrov
Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta
Sanzhar "⁠neaLaN⁠" Iskhakov
Jadan "⁠HexT⁠" Postma

Daniel "⁠Vorborg⁠" Vorborg (coach)

In hext we trust

2022-08-02 20:38

33 replies

LETS GO HEXT but Nealen??? Wtf

2022-08-02 20:52

28 replies

name a better NA igl

2022-08-02 20:55

13 replies

Nitro

2022-08-02 20:59

11 replies

he meant: name a better NA and available igl

2022-08-02 21:06

7 replies

Steel

2022-08-02 21:25

6 replies

is steel not full committted to valo?

2022-08-02 21:43

5 replies

i think he meant brazilian steel edit: nvm i looked at his flair

2022-08-02 21:53

3 replies

hltv.org/player/8173/steel Clearly he meant Canadian Steel #2

2022-08-02 22:07

2 replies

LOL i think he meant this one hltv.org/player/13937/steel

2022-08-03 01:00

+1 real major winner na talent

2022-08-03 16:32

I don't think he would leave to join a team this bad though. Maybe if he got unbanned he would though.

2022-08-03 04:10

besides nitro, and nitro is kinda debateable too

2022-08-02 21:15

Rush

2022-08-21 23:32

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when was rush igl in his career?

2022-08-21 23:56

thats good for misuta BIG misuta

2022-08-02 21:33

neaLaN is honestly a fairly good igl, it just really sucks that EG couldnt just have secured daps as an igl as I fell as though it would have been the best fit as he also has a good understanding of the NA scene + both cerq and brezhe was imo at their peek when they were under him as an igl

2022-08-02 21:07

12 replies

i still think Stan would still be a better fit

2022-08-02 21:18

10 replies

Stan and daps are having troubling stats vs tier 5 NA opposition. Nealan are literally miles ahead of these guys and much more intune with the current meta

2022-08-02 21:20

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i understand it but its easier to train aimbotz 6h per say than learning how to igl in a different language in the opposite side of the world

2022-08-02 21:28

NiKo seem to have no issue with this.

2022-08-02 21:34

its true. My guy with the awp is like your avg mm teammate picking the awp while playing pit. And the igleading, dont get me Starter on the igleading. My guy only knows lvl 2 strats. Run b or Run a or Run mid

If u have 0.6 rating vs literal nonamers in tier5 NA then a couple hours of hours in Dm is not gonna get them Ready for tier1 Eu opposition. Nealan is a capable igl and player in his own right. I respect EG for taking a chance on him rather than promoting an unfit player like shakezullah, jt, daps, stan and these other bad players of NA who will get humiliated every single time they play eu opposition

2022-08-02 21:44

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bruv i swear i dont know where u get the 0.6 rating. Look at faze. T side karrigan is an absolutely kamikaze. If Stan has good teamates he can play a type of game like karrigan on t side and play normal CT . Dont tell me karrigan aim is 5x better than stan

2022-08-02 21:51

Karrigan plays vs the Best teams in the World and stan is having worse stats vs some incredibly bad opposition. Dont u want EG to have at least a fighting chance if winning some games?

2022-08-02 22:34

yes i guess you are right i think se just have to see how neelan does

2022-08-02 23:01

You sound mad that stanislaw had danish CS completely figured out. When he was T1 and they played danish teams it was always way closer than it should have been given the rosters

2022-08-04 00:38

luckily stan is in the 3rd team so if he performs like the promising young talent he is, he could get promoted to the 2nd or even 1st team

hltv.org/stats/players/matches/8521/daps.. why would EG want him back lol

2022-08-02 21:40

hate because not from NA? *tthhhuuuuuu*

2022-08-03 16:36

+1 my goat been calling this for months. Even before they bought CD

2022-08-02 21:22

2022-08-02 22:06

Poopy2k

2022-08-03 02:53

Solid Summer Cash Cup team

2022-08-03 08:01

Misutaaa saved

2022-08-02 21:26

2022-08-03 17:18

tier 4 strong team

If cerq and brezhe suddenly get back in their prime form, it will be decent team again. I doubt they wont and you will be correct.

Ppl been saying if they get back in prime form for 2 years now won’t happen

You never know how players are feeling. You can just get that spark again.

2022-08-02 21:37

might as well kick brehze and cerq and get gtr and f0rest because if gtr and f0rest get that spark again they can be number 1 in the world

2022-08-02 22:56

mens f0rest always peak form

2022-08-02 23:34

Lol what a comeback xD....btw gtr and f0rest can still beat the shit out of brehze and cerq even without the spark

2022-08-02 23:40

GTR’s peak is an average ADV player now

2022-08-03 01:04

Damn i meant to say they wont get good again.

2022-08-02 21:38

if someone gave me 10 million dollars i would be rich

2022-08-03 01:03

tier 7 team maybe a top 3 contender for cash cups

2022-08-02 21:00

You are underrating them, i think they are at least tier 5 and can be favorites to win ESEA Main

SOLID T3 TEAM FOR NA TURNAMENTS

lets go cph f coach

2022-08-02 20:39

HEXT SEXY BEAST

Shitality spinx believers in shambles lmao

shituta to LDLC - new EU EG

2022-08-02 20:48

wtf

why

not even misutaa lol. but they probably do it to play na qualifers

Did u read the article?

no i only read headlines

2022-08-02 20:54

hext >>>>>>>>>>> misutaaa

2022-08-02 21:42

Nice! let's see what Nealan can do with this roster.

HEXT GOIN HUGE

We love to see it

2022-08-02 21:05

From EG.CDeez Nuts to EG.PayCheckStealers Impressive, very nice.

2022-08-02 21:35

that was really original i bet you sat here giggling as you put all three of your braincells together and typed it

2022-08-03 00:05

Glad they actually promoted a player from one of their other rosters instead of just signing more europeans. Still don't know how well this'll work tho

banger team for cash cups

SMH MY HEAD

shaking my head my head?

2022-08-02 21:36

rip in pieces my dude

tier 5 good luck

*top 5

2022-08-02 20:40

top5 pinnacle cup

top1 pinucle major

2022-08-03 08:50

somehow downgrade from garbage to putrid

haha no misutaaa there so he stays on vitality and also spinx not going anywhere THANK U GOD

2022-08-02 20:41

would be the dream

2022-08-02 20:42

doesn't mean misutaa won't move

Sprount lauNX deal's denial fuck all up, definitely

2022-08-02 20:43

what? misutaaa is 100% benched and spinx is already confirmed to vitality

There is no hope for na

We still have Liquid(barely) but the rest is definitely fucked.

Its sad for a whole continent to have 1 decent team only.. A couple of years ago there was several.

2022-08-03 09:20

Huh, so...Misutaaa to French team?

Rush where?

on bench

2022-08-02 20:51

hext lucky day wait how is cerq still on here i thought he was cut LOL

He should be. Has been absolute ASS for 2 almost 2 years.

his contract is running out in a month I think, so who knows maybe it's his last chance to shine

2022-08-02 20:44

and it's not like he's being kept because he is an NA player in order to fill the quotas. They can easily cut him and get a better EU awper

get smooya and they're instantly top 1 NA

2022-08-02 20:57

smooya is a good choice, yeah. Another one would be Wolfy which would enable them to get an EU rifler, but now that they promoted Hext it's pointless

2022-08-02 20:58

smooya wouldn't last based on his roster history + he's too annoying as he screeches, EG aren't filled with retarded teens who go REEEE they are a chill group, smooya is like 22 he's still acts like a retard but give him 2 years and he'll probably mature more, i forget how young he was on BIG.

2022-08-02 21:13

Or just let auti Awp at this point imo

2022-08-03 00:02

Solid team, top 50 material for sure

HexT poggersss

I hope cerq awake this time, if not then eg must sign smooya

mantuu

smooya

Good option as well but smooya is free agent and as good as mantuu

mantuu is much better than smooya

2022-08-02 21:47

iyo. for me there is not so much difference between them

2022-08-02 21:58

mantuu is so much more consistent, smooya can be a god for a while but he can never keep up his top level

2022-08-02 22:09

i dont think they're gonna sign EU awper, would make the team core eu and eg want to avoid that

2022-08-03 12:09

Good luck to neaLaN, hope he does well

WHAT THE FUCK also keeping cerq is kinda meh

2022-08-02 20:45

Misutiny :'(

nothing has changed, still irrelevant roster

2022-08-02 20:46

EG CEO -31 IQ

2022-08-02 20:47

Finally a good player on the roster

Zyphon screaming in the distance

hext to humble s0mple in Blast groups

2022-08-02 20:49

Cerq still playing ...

2022-08-02 20:50

HexT and Vorborg are great but I still don't understand neaLaN. He was nowhere near a standout performer on his old team and if you're gonna import someone from that far away it makes no sense to go with someone who hasn't shown something fantastic.

this very desperate move

These guys could have targeted ALEX or Hooxi and went for neither. Unfortunate.

2022-08-02 21:04

to my understanding they've been in talks with nealan for almost a year now I dunno what they see in him, but I will trust their judgement until it doesn't work.

bro what? hes a support + igl. hes not supposed to be a "standout performer", hes a very solid player for his roles

2022-08-02 21:49

I know his roles but if he was mediocre in tier two then he'll get stomped in better tournaments. He's not a bad fit in terms of roles, but it's just not what this team needs IMO I like this team especially if Cerq can turn up and I hope I'm wrong but I think he'll be a liability. If I'm EG and I'm literally willing to get someone from the opposite side of the planet it means you have options from countries all over the world. Why neaLaN?

2022-08-02 22:23

because nealan is one of the few IGLs that plays support, which they will need when RUSH is gone. also, hes affordable and has experience playing with some really good players (perfecto, norbert, mou, sanji, etc)

2022-08-02 22:40

Ls after Ls

should have just gotten misutaa instead of nealan. i dont really get this squad anymore

misutaaa cant igl

2022-08-02 21:52

Just drop the whole project and spend money on one good team Autimatic Mantuu Alexsib Jackz Rush

rush? jackz? really?

2022-08-02 20:56

Better then what they have right now Jackz entry Rush good support

jackz and rush LMAO

NA brain moment

2022-08-02 21:21

rush good support

lol

2022-08-02 21:14

Now, the only thing missing is -bot cerq

would have been CLASIA but his attitude cost him regardless gl neaLaN and HexT

congrats to Hext ! Nealeen is an odd choice though...

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Who does EG.CD pick up now on their academy side? They've lost CLASIA and HexT, now what?

find anyone that's not toxic with a salary they will be more hungry to improve. I use to play with a known toxic/meme player in 1.6 and but i didn't like how he treated people so i cut ties even though he was never toxic to me. Then into CSGO i would read about him being toxic/bad/baits and became a meme despite having to many opportunities in t1 orgs he kept staying toxic, until nobody wanted him anymore. Unfortunately some people can't change, people being toxic runs deep in NA in general. Even a player like clasia who has been orgless? for years and finally gets a chance to play on EG a fucking legendary org he is still toxic, just like that he'll probably never find an org again, a decade of playing just to throw it all away.

Why HexT instead of someone on .PA or someone else on .CD? Is it just roles? Don't really follow tier 2 NA CS..

hext is promising and a dedicated entry fragger

2022-08-02 21:10

yea I'm surprised they didn't get jonji or djay

2022-08-02 22:16

HEXT XDDDDDDDDD

How is NealaN as an IGL? Pretty solid? I never watched any k23 games …

2022-08-02 21:01

He’s better than NA IGLs so it will be a matter of his culture mixing with NAs hope it works

He is quite solid. They had a very good run at the beginning of the year, got into top 20 and looked like a new breakthrough team from CIS before missed out on major and fell apart.

2022-08-03 03:32

its ok now, danish coach and cis igl, theres hope tbh (and obviously they're maintaining 3 NA players core for the rmr 🤭)

They knew they were going to play in EU open qualificaions and RMR if they add one more EU player and cut misutaa off in the end to have some chances in NA quals kekW

2022-08-02 21:03

Thank god they didn’t get misutaa lol

We back to being NA again!

we all know they switched misutaa cus if they don't play NA qualify they won't get to the major

Thank god the 15 man fluid roster is finally useful

t15

2022-08-02 21:12

Looking better, hope Brehze & Cerq step it up.

how tf cerq is still in he literally showed nothing past 2 years

save autimatic please is he gonna IGL? It's very exciting

nealan is igl

2022-08-02 21:17

Really? your sauce?

2022-08-02 21:30

He was k23 IGL, it’s the only reason they signed him

BRING STAN TO MAIN ROSTER AND EZ TOP 10

*100

2022-08-02 21:50

This is an even bigger clownfiesta now. I guess misutaa didn't want to ruin his career, smart move

Ok, where i can bet that this team not gonna work ?

What is this shit

Evil Geniuses

Since when have EG had main roster

2022-08-02 21:19

Worst CS org management?

2022-08-02 21:24

Big news tbh good to see someone new

misutaaa got saved the last second thx god

Definitely, totally saved from being benched and no one will buy him. He won't even be able to play for teams like heat or ldlc. Everyone knows orgs will tear theirs shirts for misutaa.

Striker striked again "atrocious leadership" well roasted

cerq should be walking on a tightrope, in 3 months if there isnt improvement he needs to go next

junior's a free agent now hehehe

2022-08-02 21:46

SO TRUE BESTIE

2022-08-03 04:51

HAahaahaahAH, every time it gets worse and worse EG in 1 year: golden, sanji, farlig, tizian, misuta

2022-08-02 21:31

wtf? I swear I just heard about some girl named clussia getting kicked and stanislaw stepping in

that's EG.CD

2022-08-02 22:28

Good for EG and misutaa !

🤣 this is so they don't have to play in the EU RMRs

thank god godsutaaa saved from NA cs

#138

excellent top 50-60 team, gl hf

From winning ESL NY and StarSeries to this...wow

2022-08-02 21:45

nice to play americas RMR

WhoxT I mean at least they’re exposing potential new NA talent now But this roster still looks shit

>NA talent EU fucks us in the ass with the talent game, unfortunately. Not one new NA player is good.

2022-08-02 22:04

Brehze should’ve Done as twistzz did, preferably even before him.

2022-08-02 21:48

No misutaaa????

Read the article

future ESEA Main champions

good luck vorborg!

GLGL

i still cant believe how after what.. 2 years? Cerq is still getting paid thousands of dollars a month just to play like that... i bet that he couldn't even get to Global Elite even with CSGO's new ranking system lmfao

2022-08-02 21:54

WTF is this shit

2022-08-02 21:56

thank god misutaaa wont be wasting away here

Who is their IGL?

2022-08-02 22:01

nealan

2022-08-02 22:03

I mean good for hext but seriously?

Weird they chose to promote someone from EG.CD instead of someone from Party astronauts, especially since they have viz who is relatively young and has more experience, but fuck it its EG. so at this point whatever works works i guess

2022-08-02 22:12

+1 viz jonji or djay...

2022-08-02 22:17

Shroud 2 lfg

2022-08-02 22:14

EG Please get some new management.

2022-08-02 22:15

This lineup is as random as it could be

Keep rush, remove BOT cerq instead L organization

2022-08-02 22:21

ong cerq has been a bot for a long time now

2022-08-02 22:31

Nealaaaaaaaan

2022-08-02 22:22

EG needs a new management.

Could have tried for AleksiB or ALEX. Not NA IGLs, but at least guaranteed to be good.

What is this lineup lmao

2022-08-02 22:26

GL HEXT!

that #CSGOESEVIL had me tripping for a while

EG.CD destroyed :(

2022-08-02 22:38

Nealan? unexpected, tbh he seems like a good hard working guy

2022-08-02 22:48

Canadian buff

2022-08-02 22:52

TF is EG doing

2022-08-02 23:02

Already 3 times better then the last roster

2022-08-02 23:05

Thank god they didn’t sign misutaa, they still kept the biggest problem on the roster tho. CerQ needs to prove he deserves this 3rd chance.

2022-08-02 23:09

Glad they are giving Hext a shot. Hopefully he can develop into a good player. He has some promise

2022-08-02 23:15

they should get Wolfy thats eu player in disguise

2022-08-02 23:23

Khazak and visa problems haha

2022-08-03 00:14

Kazakh* and we have no visa problems with USA mate

2022-08-03 08:55

No worries. many believe that you're a province of russia.

2022-08-03 13:51

They are probably retarded or stuck in 20 century then

2022-08-03 18:07

Lol what is that

2022-08-03 01:11

2022-08-03 01:44

Bot cerq still in team = no hope anyway

2022-08-03 02:06

i thought stewie was bad but they managed to replace him with someone worse. great

2022-08-03 02:58

Hopefully better than misutaaa at any rate

2022-08-03 05:20

Cerq survive another roster change

2022-08-03 05:28

Survive until the next rmr. They keep the core of 3 players to skip the qualifier.

2022-08-03 13:50

Tbf all this team need is Cerq and Brehze to wake tf up. No matter how much roster change they do, if their star player cant perform, they're the problem.

2022-08-03 05:42

BLYA NEALAN KRACAV4IK

2022-08-03 07:26

why pickup noobs lul!

2022-08-03 07:47

Decent team for pinnacle cup, could do some damage there

2022-08-03 07:51

lmao noobs wanted a free ticket to major.

2022-08-03 08:22

nealan makes sense. no igl talent in NA. im glad they didnt go with misutaa

Misutaa over hext would be solid

2022-08-03 18:00

Let's see what they can do

2022-08-03 11:42

tier 18.3

2022-08-03 12:15

hext good?

2022-08-03 12:22

LUL

2022-08-03 13:19

Looks good on paper i think this team has potential, hext is hard worker , gl to them!

2022-08-03 14:10

why hext bot

2022-08-03 14:29

Jesus...

2022-08-03 15:52

So Aleksib to fnatic?

2022-08-03 19:20

ben1337 best NA IGL also Stamina not bad

2022-08-03 22:47

imho they really need to get rid of Brehze and Cerq., like wtf why are they waiting till there contract ends? sell them to some valorant team and be done with them, and make some money in the process., instead of waiting till there contract ends and letting them go free.

2022-08-03 22:53

I have no idea if I am just stoned 24/7 or this shit is real -neaLaN in such org (remember him stuck in some tier 3 kazahk teams) -s1mple won a major -Faze with karrigan won the major -polish scene still irrelevant (wait it is actually not that weird) -fnx playing with FalleN -ruski cloud9 -Boombl4 starting raping career WTF IS EVEN HAPPENING

2022-08-04 08:22

Great journalistic integrity from 1pv... Are they going to post an erratum?

2022-08-04 14:41