Ende 2012 gaben die Spieler des europäischen Lineups von Counter Logic Gaming bekannt, dass sie ihre Verträge mit der Organisation nicht weiter verlängern werden.
Sofort kamen Spekulationen darüber auf, welchem Team sich das bereits für die Season 3 Championship Series qualifizierte Aufgebot anschließen werde. Auch der Name Evil Geniuses wurde dabei mehrmals erwähnt, allerdings blieb ein offizielles Statement bislang aus.
Dieses folgte nunmehr: Das Ex-Lineup des europäischen Counter Logic Gamings wird zukünftig für die amerikanische Organisation auflaufen, die damit ihren Einstieg in die League of Legends-Szene wagt.
+ Statement von Stephen ‚Snoopeh‘ Ellis:
You may question the integrity of this announcement when some may say it has been leaked already – in response to those leaks I would like to add that hiding such announcements, especially ones which have been undergoing negotiations for almost 5 months, is no easy task and near impossible. In large part, this is due to the structure of eSports – word travels through the grape vine and it eventually gets to people who can’t be trusted with the information.
We didn’t want to announce it sooner because we wanted to make the announcement special. Obviously, some of that was lost when it was „leaked“ – but I personally feel like these kind of announcements are much cooler, intriguing and interesting than a speculative article… hopefully I’m not wrong!
I would like to extend my thanks to you guys (the community) for your patience, support and understanding through what’s been a busy couple of months for our team, and I’m glad we can finally move forward onto what promises to be a great year. Our fans are largely the reason we are here today – you have supported us through the many ups and even the downs of 2012 – it was an incredible year. Tuning into the NA League Champion Series qualifiers, followed by IEM Katowice and now the EU qualifiers – I simply cannot wait for the season to kick off. It’s going to be AWESOME!
Update on what our team is doing: we will be moving to Germany on the 1st of February, as we knuckle down for the start of the season on the 9th of February – I found out Yellowpete will no longer be tucking me in at night and it will be a very attractive 20 year old Swedish girl (this was genuinely disappointing news), Krepo is no longer an alcoholic and his diet consists of raw carrots, Wickd is trying to recruit more Danish subs to convert us all into Danes, and Froggen… is a PIMP (I’m not kidding, don’t ask why).
https://www.youtube.com/embed/gXZTs0NvpAA
Lineup Evil Geniuses:
Mike ‚Wickd‚ Petersen
Stephen ‚Snoopeh‚ Ellis
Henrik ‚Froggen‚ Hansen
Peter ‚Yellowpete‚ Wüppen
Mitch ‚Krepo‚ Voorspoels
Homepage: myeg.net
Quelle: reddit.com