Evil Geniuses’ re-entry into professionalCounter Strike International Offensive in 2019 was some of the celebrated information tales locally. Following up with clutch wins in 2020 bode nicely for the workforce to rise again to its former standing. Nonetheless, not too long ago the roster’s efficiency has been fairly lackluster, to place it within the easiest method attainable.
The North American CS: GO scene as an entire appears to be in a relentless decline in viewership, whereas gamers are leaving for different FPS titles like Valorant. The Canadian primarily based group plans to resolve each these points with what they’re calling “The Blueprint.”
This was the announcement for the venture by way of Twitter:
“Let’s attempt one thing completely different, we could? #CSGOESEVIL
@autimaticTV @Brehze @cerq @RUSH @Stewie @ChopCS @clasiaLp @HexTCSGO @walco_tv @wiz_cs @ben1337cs @djaycs
@JonjiJlc @therealpwnalone @viz_cs
#LiveEvil”
Evil Geniuses signed each Carpe Diem and Social gathering Astronauts that are “academy” CS GO groups who’ve competed on the B-tier of a number of main league occasions. The overall variety of gamers within the Counter Strike part of EG now quantities to a complete of 15.
The explanation acknowledged for why they signed so {many professional} gamers is that the corporate goals to create a “fluid” 15-man roster by the beginning of subsequent 12 months. EG’s administration has listed a number of causes behind their determination, however in abstract, that is executed to lower the fatigue of gamers and be sure that they all the time put their greatest gameplay ahead in any respect occasions wanted.
The general “primary” workforce with Stewie2K, will proceed competing on the top-tier degree occasions, with the brand new groups representing EG in different minor competitions.
All of the assigned groups will follow collectively, whereas younger gamers from the newly-signed sides will stand to affix the principle roster at any time when its members should not acting at their true peak potential.
The match cycle in CS GO is famously everlasting, so the true concept right here is that the group can prioritize vital occasions over others by selectively selecting to ship completely different workforce compositions and likewise having two or three sides to compete in the identical match. The newcomers can even be hosted on the org’s headquarters in Seattle to handle one other aim of the “Blueprint” plan,which is to offer a greater follow atmosphere for all gamers.
The Director of Gaming Excellence at EG, mentioned this by way of social media:
“With the follow atmosphere in North America not being on par, we mainly take the infrastructure in-house and make investments plenty of sources to verify our follow permits us to meet up with the European counterparts.”
This setup is just not fully new for Evil Geniuses, as the same plan has labored fairly nicely with their League of Legends roster, with two academy gamers promoted to the principle workforce fairly quick, which went on to win the LCS season in NA. With IEM Rio in a number of months time, the stage is about for the neighborhood to see how Evil Geniuses’ plan works out in CS GO.
