It’s the end of a (very poorly run) era.

After the legendary NA team returned to the scene in 2019, EG won 5 trophies and held the #1 spot on HLTV’s rankings for 3 weeks, dominating in COVID-era CS.

This could’ve been it, they could’ve continued to be a successful NA team, signing the top talents from the region. Unfortunately, the org was mismanaged by a CEO whose incompetence can only be described as cartoonish, putting an end to what could’ve been.

You have to give them some credit for taking a risk on oBo after his time on Complexity, but this move must’ve given EG a crazy craving for more. Kinda like discovering MSG.

Not too long after, they begun signing all the NA talent they could. Hogging every young player in the scene to form three (!) rosters that couldn’t even compete in the same events.

Somehow they held onto this fiendish desire to hoard all the way until the end, ruining many possible careers with rosters that had no present or future.

On this past Friday it ended its natural conclusion. EG has pulled out of CS entirely but “hope to engage” again sometime in the future.

We’ll miss EG, in part because of what they used to be, and in part because we could always rely on them for easy content.

Rest easy, friend.