Evil Geniuses tie Liquid in Intel Grand Slam S3 race with New York success

30-9-2019 02:12

Evil Geniuses and Liquid are joint leaders in the race for the $1 million prize from Intel Grand Slam (IGS) Season 3 following the former's title-winning campaign at ESL One New York.

The ex-NRG team reached a new milestone on Sunday as they picked up their first-ever Intel Grand Slam title after defeating Astralis in the best-of-five grand final of ESL One New York - the second IGS event of the season after IEM Chicago.

In winning the event in the Big Apple, Evil Geniuses became the first team other than Astralis or Liquid to claim an Intel Grand Slam title since MOUZ came out on top of ESL One New York 2018, precisely 12 months ago.

The Intel Grand Slam Season 3 will continue next week with DreamHack Masters Malmö, where Liquid and Evil Geniuses will have the opportunity to get ahead in the race for the $1 million prize.

ESL changed the rules for Season 3 to increase the difficulty of the challenge after Liquid won Season 2 inside 63 days. A team can still claim the $1 million prize if they win four IGS-eligible tournaments inside a span of ten events as long as at least one of those trophies came at a Masters level competition (for 2020 these tournaments will be IEM Katowice, ESL One Cologne and any potential Major run by either ESL or DreamHack). Otherwise, teams will require six tournament victories during a window of ten events to collect the cheque.

Below you can find a list with the Season 3 events that are already behind us and the ones that have already been confirmed:

IEM Chicago - Liquid
ESL One New York - Evil Geniuses
DreamHack Masters Malmö - October 1-6
IEM Beijing - November 7-10
ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals - December 3-8
IEM Katowice 2020 - February 25-March 1
ESL One Cologne 2020 - July 6-12

NA era

2019-09-30 02:13

27 replies

Pog

7 replies

Ez for the best team in the world.

2019-09-30 02:18

6 replies

Dreamhack Malmo tomorrow, jet lag incoming

2019-09-30 02:22

5 replies

LUL LAG

2019-09-30 03:26

3 replies

EU WHO

2019-09-30 07:43

2 replies

Na 1 major OMEGALUL

2019-09-30 10:03

EU 20 MAJORS NA 1

2019-09-30 16:56

French flag Megan_Fox?

2019-09-30 09:15

Amateurs Luck

2019-09-30 02:14

11 replies

2019-09-30 02:15

-1 Beat the last major champions/most dominant team in CSGO in a bo3, and then in a bo5 can't be just luck. Congratulations EG, deserved. Ignore the haters!

2019-09-30 02:21

bc FURIA run was all skill lmaooooo

2019-09-30 02:47

4 replies

r8 my name

2019-09-30 02:56

8/8

2019-09-30 03:02

1 reply

tahnks men))))Z

2019-09-30 03:49

10/10

2019-09-30 03:27

5 year contract btw OMEGALUL

2019-09-30 03:12

ArT will be benched almost 5 years))

2019-09-30 06:37

Luck in a bo5 ... good joke favela

2019-09-30 05:26

i told you they were lucky you piece of shit EG sucks

2019-10-02 14:44

+1 Asstralis can win a major but can’t even win ESL New York, very sad indeed. Astralis era was never revived. It ended when liquid became #1

2019-09-30 02:35

at least astralis had era ))

2019-09-30 21:50

Cool i want the old EG mousepad blue 😁

2019-09-30 02:54

How many majors?

2019-09-30 05:33

Iam not against that. Cause been EU era since ever. Like when cs came ou

2019-09-30 06:07

Can NA teams even win outside of NA?

2019-09-30 10:16

AAHHAHHAHAHAH ofc

2019-10-03 14:18

nice

Ez for NA

Wow Tarikkkkkkkkkk k k k k kk. K k k kk kk

You know...I don't think I see Astralis there but my eyes may be failing me idk...

You’ll see them there next week.

LUL

2019-09-30 06:14

They got it on home soil. Analysts casters crowd everyone was against Astralis that whole tournament. Pretty sure it'll be different on denmark

2019-09-30 07:07

Against Astralis? Of course, the home team always has the crowd advantage but that's all secondary. EG simply played better CS and were phenomenal. Could have been a clean 3-0 sweep.

2019-09-30 11:22

Hello EU????.

Lol 15/20 players in top 4 are from EU or have their roots there .. The only Real US is Ethan?

2019-09-30 05:21

Yeah let’s only count Native Americans as players from the US. Nice brain

2019-09-30 05:29

Exactly ;)

who MVP???

Brehze

2019-09-30 02:16

can someone tell me why the major wasnt a notch for the grand slam? no minecraft jokes please

2019-09-30 02:19

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I'm assuming you mean why it wasn't and it wasn't because it wasn't an ESL or Dreamhack big event

ah ok ty

then if esl or dreamhack hold major this year. is that major tournament count as part of grandslam circuit ?

2019-09-30 02:59

Yes it will

then it will be good if major is held by other organizer outside of esl and dreamhack, so we can have more tournament that way. even though it such a waste because esl and dreamhack major production always superb

2019-09-30 05:11

Players can barely handle their schedules as they are right now. Adding more tournaments will just create a shit pro scene. Blast has already proved that.

2019-09-30 05:38

Yea for real. The fact that ESL NY ends on a Sunday and Malmo starts two days later is pretty insane

2019-09-30 06:15

creeper aw man

2019-09-30 02:17

NA fights for money, EU fights for major titles, lul

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One of those things actually means something

2019-09-30 02:23

Lmao

2019-09-30 02:30

Meanwhile CIS... lol

2019-09-30 02:44

They got a major tho (._.') But so does NA, so what he said makes no sense.

2019-09-30 03:10

CIS had one major as well as NA

2019-09-30 06:58

CIS scene fights for online quals

2019-09-30 02:48

Funny because its correct :) American sports are all about money and entertainment

2019-09-30 05:35

C9 League of Legends proves that one

2019-09-30 06:16

When dk won against USA in icehockey it was proven

2019-09-30 07:27

USA icehockey is horrendous honestly. Losing to the same team every year. Just like the men's world cup team

2019-09-30 08:11

We have like 25 -35 fulltime pros and beat US to a WC - makes no sense

2019-09-30 08:39

Unlucky

2019-09-30 16:04

Haha and weired

2019-09-30 18:52

LETS GO

lulquid lul

Vitality is the next Champion

2019-09-30 02:49

NA on top, how expected NA > EU

2019-09-30 02:55

Only One NA player in top4? Agree that the organisations are American but not the players ..

what are u on about????

Only the low guy from EG has NA patents?

2019-09-30 08:41

Huh? 8 out of 10 are NA. Cerq and Kenny only top 10 for the event that aren't NA

2019-09-30 06:18

Nah:)

2019-09-30 07:25

I think he was talking about the top20 for this year

2019-09-30 10:35

The Inernational CS:GO is coming!

2019-09-30 03:11

This team is going to have a bright future

2019-09-30 03:14

Expected.

2019-09-30 03:21

Dh malmo fantasy?

2019-09-30 03:23

Great! DH Malmo in a couple days too lezzgo

2019-09-30 03:38

XD!

2019-09-30 03:43

NA ERA

2019-09-30 03:57

With distance the Best US team ever :) Maybe even better than astralis on neutral Ground - looking so much forward to Malmö?

2019-09-30 04:42

Yes, very much looking forward to Malmö. I want to see if EG can continue their success and if Astralis will grow out of their premier slump. They always fall at premier/minor tournaments. Majors is their playground. Saying Evil Geniuses is still so surreal, and they won their first tournament couple days after signing. It's crazy.

2019-09-30 04:52

Tbh NRG played so good CS at the major as well :) i think they Can be a real no 1 contender, also at a scene with consolidated and competitive teams

2019-09-30 05:00

Agreed. Really excited for the team and the brand. Must be nice having a top team in every single major eSport.

2019-09-30 05:06

No League team for EG though

2019-09-30 13:30

100 thieves should've made a deal with NRG and jumped into the band waggen, feelsbadman its to late now

YEAH! NOW WE DONT HAVE TOP-1 TEAM OF THE WORLD. we have 3 mega-teams: astralis, liquid, eg.

2019-09-30 05:43

Wow, congrats EG!

2019-09-30 05:53

I am so confused how do they get gran slam. isn't this their first win?

2019-09-30 06:08

The article is poorly written. They did not get the Intel grand slam title, they an Intel grand slam eligible title :)

2019-09-30 07:26

yes gg NA

2019-09-30 07:21

Ok time for EG to kick someone now

2019-09-30 08:00

Stanislaw good

2019-09-30 09:14

Blast not included in this list? fuck :(

2019-09-30 10:04

Nice choke EG, lost my 3-0 bet

2019-09-30 10:07

LOOK HOW CAN NAVI HAVE CHANCE IEM AND ESL NEVER HAVE NAVI SAD,, NAVI ONLY PLAY ON IEM KATOWICE LAST MAJOR

2019-09-30 10:24

"after edging out Astralis" edging out? Lost 1-3, stomped on 2 maps (Inferno and Nuke). The only map Astralis won took 2 overtimes to finish

2019-09-30 10:25

Tarik and Stewie were the problem in MIBR Kappa

2019-09-30 10:41

i think eg is home area no more

2019-09-30 10:57

NA era is here

2019-09-30 11:20

astralis will win this in the end anyway

2019-09-30 11:33

>NA era >1 major PepeLaugh

2019-09-30 11:35

The rule changes are interesting. It's definitely less likely that someone will win it now. Not sure they were entirely necessary though, yes Liquid dominated for a few months there but that doesn't happen often, especially at a time that makes winning the Grand Slam possible.

2019-09-30 12:52