Evil Geniuses ease past Cloud9; qualify for ECS S8 Finals

18-10-2019 00:57

Evil Geniuses took down Cloud9 in the grand final of ECS Season 8 NA Week 3 with a 2-0 scoreline, qualifying for the LAN Finals in November.

The final series of the week started on Train, Cloud9's map pick, with Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele's men starting on the offense. Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik opened up the fragging with a double and set his team up for success, and Evil Geniuses built on that to go 6-0 up, despite Cloud9 getting quite a few bombs planted. Tsvetelin "⁠CeRq⁠" Dimitrov ensured the streak continued with an AWP quad kill, roaming around on the A bombsite, which saw Evil Geniuses only looking stronger as the half progressed.

Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta's four frags finally got Cloud9 on the board after being 11-0 down, and they followed that up with a B contact play that was also successful. Unfortunately for Cloud9, that was all they managed to put together as Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz and co. bounced back, finished the half 13-2 up, added a successful Ivy rush in the pistol and concluded the map 16-2.

Evil Geniuses will be competing in Texas later this year

The action then moved to Inferno, where rounds were frantically traded-back and forth as both teams found success on force-buys. The score was 3-3 when Evil Geniuses started to stabilize on the CT side, with CeRq leading the fragging for his side as they took a 7-3 lead. Kenneth "⁠koosta⁠" Suen did the majority of the work as Cloud9 added their forth following a successful 2v2 clutch on B. Evil Geniuses didn't falter, though, continuing with aggression that got them entry kills and big advantages shortly into the round.

Cloud9 finished the half 11-4 down, secured their first pistol after the switch, but faltered against a force buy which forced them on the back foot again. It was 14-5 before Cloud9 afforded their first full buy on the CT side of Inferno, giving them limited rounds to work with. daps and co. brought it back to 15-9, but eventually faltered to a B split and Evil Geniuses claimed the series, 2-0.

ECS Season 8 North America Week 3Best of 3

Cloud9

Matchpage

17th October 2019

Evil Geniuses

Train

Inferno

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	26 - 35	-9	71.2	53.5%	0.82
Kenneth 'koosta' Suen koosta	21 - 37	-16	58.0	53.5%	0.68
Damian 'daps' Steele daps	22 - 39	-17	57.1	60.5%	0.63
Tyson 'TenZ' Ngo TenZ	16 - 36	-20	53.6	46.5%	0.59
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas mixwell	17 - 38	-21	51.0	44.2%	0.51

Evil Geniuses	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov CeRq	43 - 26	+17	102.5	90.7%	1.60
Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte Brehze	43 - 18	+25	97.0	86.0%	1.57
Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold Ethan	34 - 19	+15	88.4	90.7%	1.42
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	35 - 19	+16	80.6	90.7%	1.39
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz stanislaw	30 - 21	+9	78.4	74.4%	1.18

With Evil Geniuses joining the team list, half of the participants for ECS Season 8 Finals are now known:

AVANGAR

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Week #4 winner

Week #5 winner

Sharks

Evil Geniuses

Week #4 winner

Week #5 winner

2019-10-18 00:58

C9 is back and by that I mean back to crying at being a C9 fan. Feelsbadman

2019-10-18 00:59

12 replies

can't even qual from NA

11 replies

i mean they did just play the number 3 team in the world what did you expect?

2019-10-18 01:02

10 replies

+Wardell when?

2019-10-18 01:06

8 replies

Lucky EG :)

2019-10-18 01:10

7 replies

Seriously c9 have to kick daps. His igl is trash af. No strat depth at all. Top secret how EG became tier 1 team? Kicking daps.

2019-10-18 02:36

6 replies

Totally agree. I havent watch too many NRG games, but I saw that brehze cerq are totally legit. People say daps cant frag but I didnt expect him to be this bad. I watch c9 games.. and the way he hold site... jeez

2019-10-18 04:40

4 replies

xaaxax cerq legit only online

2019-10-18 08:11

3 replies

M16R isn't legit, whether online or LAN

2019-10-18 10:42

2 replies

xaaaxax noone cares

2019-10-18 10:43

1 reply

Furia is real mibr huehuehue

2019-10-19 21:27

True but NA don't have too many replacements for daps

2019-10-18 10:25

Probably for them to get more than 11 rounds

2019-10-18 05:26

GG!

Aw rip C9

This just shows how shitty FURIA is playing lately.

2019-10-18 01:00

Damn..feelsbadman

C9 is done. Either invest to build a solid International team or finally disband the cs go roster

2019-10-18 01:01

How are they done? They lose against the 3rd best team in the world and you say they’re done? They just beat furia so they have some potential

2019-10-18 01:09

5 replies

Imagine thinking your team is decent beating a BR team. Stop.

2019-10-18 01:22

You are right, it was EG, but it's not about this specific match. Where does C9 go from here? Such an org cannot be satisfied with being a #40 team and as it seems now they will never get to the top

2019-10-18 01:39

"They just beat furia" They also lost to coL , eunited , sharks...

2019-10-18 06:26

Exactly. An ocasional win against good teams while constantly losing to tier 2 or tier 3 team is not decent. I don't know why they are still performing so bad since they have some individual talent in this line-up, but the brief international line-up with Flusha and Kioshima was much, much better than this one.

2019-10-18 15:56

That was before they played furia my guy. They most likely reviewed the games they lost and fixed some mistakes

2019-10-18 17:09

BOT Tenz must be get kicked

2019-10-18 01:08

Young lad

Everyone on the team is a bot. When koosta is carrying you in most games there's a problem

Cant accept the fact that koosta is duch a good player? ;)

2019-10-18 01:43

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2019-10-19 09:27

Yeah tenz is the problem :( , koosta is good bro

2019-10-20 04:22

So ez

17-38 I'm like hey what's up hello

After deep dive into csgo team communication, the reason c9 sucks is cause 2 of there players speak Canadian and not english

2019-10-18 01:24

or it's because 3 of the players are actual ass

2019-10-18 01:34

bruh u didn't get the joke xD

2019-10-18 08:47

not hard to ease past team suck ass

2019-10-18 01:33

Why doesn't C9 just quit CS?

cause their too busy fucking furia

2019-10-18 01:53

Oof

2019-10-18 04:47

Savage

2019-10-19 07:59

Lmao

2019-10-19 09:28

I don't think so. C9 is just pure shit

2019-10-19 21:24

Okay tell me when they get a CT side round :D

2019-10-20 06:36

Brutal , Savage, Rekt

2019-10-18 01:35

Autimatic needs another team.

2019-10-18 01:37

This org won a major not that far ago :/

Long ago* far is used when you talk about distances in space not in time :)

2019-10-18 08:59

Im 3rd worlder dont bully me blyat((( P.S: Thx for london school mens)))

2019-10-18 15:07

no bully just london school!

2019-10-18 18:44

Finally decent team qualifying... Here hoping Liquid and astralis will try to qualify next time as they aren't in starseries xd

2019-10-18 01:42

2019-10-18 01:45

In the end it didn't even matter :(

2019-10-18 05:24

2019-10-18 05:27

Pure luck

2019-10-18 05:28

Shit team disband I need dogs

2019-10-18 05:38

16-2 on Train... ouch

2019-10-18 05:43

TenZ biggest overrated onliner

2019-10-18 07:15

OverraTenZ

2019-10-18 07:17

Daps i know u r the one that belived in cerq and gave him chance, belive in poizon as well, save him please! :D

2019-10-18 08:08

Honestly going from Windigo to Cloud9 is a downgrade.

2019-10-18 13:51

have u seen windigo's new roster? OMEGALUL

2019-10-18 14:21

Yeah but Clown9 has only won like a single map in the past six months on lan lmao

2019-10-18 15:19

Brehze top5 2019

2019-10-18 08:17

C9, sign me up. I'd do better than daps, tenz and koosta gathered together .

2019-10-18 10:20

free autimatic

2019-10-18 11:02

Ethan 598 Utility Damage oh my god <3

2019-10-18 12:55

Please save autimatic

2019-10-18 15:29

EG very strong team currently

2019-10-18 16:11

This I think proves that, great leadership combined with great players create a great team. Flat out demolished in all categories. It's a team game and gear leadership is no.1 predictor of success

2019-10-18 16:41