Look, genuinely, we’re very sad to see Evil Geniuses blow up their Counter-Strike department.

It’s been a phenomenal source of content for us, and it’s going to be so much harder to take the mickey out of teams that aren’t Evil Geniuses. Who are we supposed to mock now? NIP? fnatic?

Actually, that might work.

Evil Geniuses bought the NRG team back in 2019, and things were all rosey. Instant success and lots of love from the American fans fell upon them, and it must have felt like they could do no wrong.

Four years later, we’ve seen their three superstars from back then go different ways. Ethan went to VALORANT, and EG probably wish CeRq and Brehze did too. Both fell off inexplicably, and neither seemed to come close to finding their form ever again.

EG dished out big contracts even as players fell off, and consistently soiled the sheets at big events. They were so bad that they had to request one of the tournament organisers to ask their talent to stop mocking them live on air.

Think about how insane that has to be.

The Blueprint Project was an unmitigated disaster; one can only assume the blueprints EG were working off were of the Titanic, or Chelsea’s rebuild. It was a baffling decision at the time, that we were all told would make more sense in time.

If anything, history has been even more unkind. It makes less sense now than it did then, and it made zero sense in the first place.

It’s a terrible thing for North America for EG to give up on NACS, in many senses, and an organisation with such a name and prestige leaving is never ideal - but we’d be hard pushed to say we’re that arsed.

They’ve mismanaged a team so badly to the point that the org who sold the team are coming back to CS in a better position than the team who signed them.

Game over, Evil Geniuses.

Roster move round up

Ankara mezii! apEX must be delighted as Vitality completed the signing of mezii from fnatic this week. We’re on record as saying we quite like this move, but don’t get too cocky, English people.

The zoomer power rangers have re-cast a member. 1WIN star deko has replaced lattykk on Aurora, officially ending the RGB hair era. hooch also joins the team filling the coach vacancy. We’re going to miss the coloured hair bandits.

14 teams later, it’s joever. NaToSaphiX has retired from competitive play after running the gamut of CS teams. Take him out of your cadiaN replacement sweepstakes.