Liquid replace Evil Geniuses at IEM Global Challenge

30-11-2020 18:32

Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz's team has skipped another event due to COVID-19-related travel restrictions.

Evil Geniuses have decided to withdraw from IEM Global Challenge, with Liquid being invited to replace them as the next North American team in line according to ESL's World Ranking, the organizers have announced.

The $500,000 tournament is the second EG have decided to pass up on as a result of "COVID-19 related restrictions" within the past week, after they also skipped the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown at the last minute for the same reason.

Liquid will extend their stay in Europe

Evil Geniuses' withdrawal from the tournament means that they have nothing left in the calendar until the beginning of 2021, with their next showing set to be at the BLAST Premier Global Finals on January 18-24. They last attended IEM Beijing-Haidan in North America, where they placed third-fourth after a loss to Chaos in the semi-finals.

Meanwhile, Liquid will prolong their stay in Europe until the end of the year. So far, their campaign in the Old Continent saw them go out in the semi-finals of BLAST Premier Fall Showdown at the hands of FURIA and fail to qualify for the Finals.

At the moment, Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip and company are competing in DreamHack Masters Winter, in which the North American side is currently playing against MOUZ in Group B's upper bracket quarter-finals.

IEM Global Challenge is set to run from December 15-20 with eight teams in attendance, including the world's top four sides according to HLTV.org's ranking — Vitality, HEROIC, Natus Vincere, and Astralis — as well as FURIA, Complexity, and Chaos.

NA garbage

2020-11-30 18:32

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2020-11-30 18:33

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why Liquid? just invite any tier 2-3 EU team and they can do better

2020-11-30 19:01

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I even understand your point of putting a European team to be better, but EG came from the NA ranking and the second team was Liquid

2020-11-30 19:16

EG got automatically invited from ESL rankings and TL is the team under them so that's why

2020-12-01 06:24

UK fan lol. UK has like one pro player usa is better then your region nt mens 0/8. UK worst region

2020-12-01 11:52

disband inc

2020-11-30 18:34

they need good AWP, naf just uses it bcz he is forced to

2020-11-30 18:35

yes but still NA > Whole Asia + Africa + Oceania + Middle East so cry

2020-11-30 18:37

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you gotta remeber that recently 2 out of the 4 best NA teams have not been from NA (if we add new mibr then 3/5)

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2020-11-30 19:18

yeah first comment and u write the most stupidest thing? not ashamed a bit? :)

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2020-12-01 00:51

doesn't matter if its not on LAN

tarik kick incoming

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+1 he's been playing a lot of valorant recently

2020-11-30 18:50

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i think that may be more because he enjoys it. as much as i like tarik i can’t see him meshing well with ethan brehze and cerq and he’s by far the weakest mechanically

2020-11-30 18:59

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who's support on EG? is it supposed to be tarik?

2020-11-30 19:00

Ethan has been playing this glorified support role since like Star Series last year he did an interview about it

2020-11-30 19:39

Everyone knows you gotta put the person with the worst hair on support I.e (Xyp9x)

2020-12-01 06:26

i'm not saying he wants to leave for valorant (if he gets kicked it'll be because he's the worst player or bad attitude) but if he gets kicked it would be easier for him to get picked up there than in cs i doubt it's relationship with the team though. he's played with them for a long time now and he's good friends with cerq

2020-11-30 19:04

ya ik what you mean i feel like tariks role of a lan hype man is irrelevant now that zews is on the team

2020-11-30 20:26

true tarik's entry needs to get better tbh. i like tarik and his content but he has been playing terribly as of late

2020-12-04 22:12

Tarik is a solid player with good mechanics. He is playing very well as a support. If he needs to he can frag. I dont see any good player in Na than would be better than him.

2020-11-30 19:50

tarik could switch to be an IGL and join a diff NA or even international team (FaZe maybe, would also kinda fit FaZe's style)

2020-12-01 02:02

turok in faze ekekekkeekekkekekekekek keep that garbage confined to na , liquid best suited

2020-12-01 08:07

Major MVP baby!

2020-12-01 15:59

Disband inc

EG disband?

NA DEAD

lol nuts

undeserved

Eg is traumatized

Who cars about IEM 🤡nline challenge

2020-11-30 18:39

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It seems that EG's decision to go back for IEM Beijing NA, was their worst ever decision.

Why not VP?

LULquid

2020-11-30 18:36

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Who gives a F about them traveling to EU...ofc they won't easy paychecks no pracc nothing all the teams that they have to play against there (decent one that you can actually do something/learn) are in EU. Just an excuse to extend the holiday ;) What you expect from Tarik and co

2020-12-01 08:05

they lost to Triumph lol

2020-11-30 18:38

Chaos wont be able to come aswell i think :((

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why not?

2020-11-30 18:52

cause of those travel restrictions no? But I really hope they make it

2020-11-30 21:30

as far as i know the only restriction in California is a 14 day quarantine when they come back. 2 week quarantine is unpleasant but worth it for the biggest tournament they’ve ever qualified for. i don’t think covid restrictions are the only reason keeping EG in the US

2020-12-01 00:24

Maybe some low-key depression in the team. They probably need time to stay home and chill and not need to worry.

2020-12-01 06:29

true. burnout and exhaustion are definitely possibilities and traveling during Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years sucks

2020-12-01 19:28

Spirit would be better

It's regarding the Ranks in NA. EG were the best team not yet qualified in NA, but because they can't come, it goes to the second one, which happens to be Liquid. I really think some other teams would be better, but this is how the tournament put, so... Let's just hope they play at least good enough in order not to make me cringe...

2020-11-30 19:27

I know that it’s because of NA But they are all weak

2020-11-30 22:00

Yeah... Teams in NA right now are playing in a lower level than teams in EU. I guess they just need to hope it gets better as these tournaments happen and NA teams go to EU.

2020-11-30 22:01

and so much more fun to watch

2020-12-01 08:09

bootcamp time

tbh none these events matter for NA for rest of the year whether they in EU or not.

Mousesports or G2 were more than deserved than this team. Anyway good for liquid.

2020-11-30 18:42

Just disband already

They do not really deserve it, but it makes me happy as Liquid fan

2020-11-30 18:43

+1 happy to see them there as a fan but eg doesn’t deserve the spot either and they’re the biggest betas ever for dodging eu

2020-11-30 18:58

Woah man call down. What if one of them or their family members got covid.

2020-12-01 19:42

Liquid seems kinda undeserved

WASTED SPOT

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Why tf EG went back to NA when they could qualify for IEM being the #1 NA ranked .

2020-11-30 18:46

Quarantine depression? They probably need time off on the holidays to regain their confidence from losing to chaos and getting smashed in EU.

2020-12-01 19:44

EG disband lol tarik only plays valorant finally cerq gonna join a complexity -poizon +cerq

2020-11-30 18:47

yes please

Well IEM is not going as planned huh?Sad tbh.Atleast we'll have NaVi v Vitality again(hopefully).

Why doesnt TL have the same restrictions? Doesnt make sense...

I'm pretty sure cus they're already in Europe

They travelled to Europe when EG said they couldnt... so whats your point?

EG can't right now, both teams travelled to Europe when restrictions loosened, EG went back home but Liquid didn't so now Liquid are stuck in Europe and EG stuck in NA cus restrictions have tightened

2020-11-30 19:24

Ok but TL travelled to EU the same day EG announced they won't attend.. so why could TL travel and EG couldnt a week or two weeks ago?

Probably has something to do with pre-travel restrictions. Liquid had planned to travel to EU around the time EG did. But EG made the mistake of coming back and now they are unable to go back.

2020-11-30 20:14

cya liquid not even going outta playoffs

2020-11-30 18:48

SERIOUS QUESTION how did Liquid get into EU and how will Chaos get into EU if EG can't?

2020-11-30 18:49

maybe cause EG was in europe before going back to US. so you maybe cant travel back to europe? or maybe its the 14days lockdown in the country you arrive making issues?

2020-11-30 23:04

The first makes the most sense, while the second makes no sense, because you could just travel to a different country or just play in quarantine

2020-11-30 23:14

depends of the quarantine... depends of the country, maybe youre lockdown in a special place with no internet :D

2020-12-01 00:21

wasted spot

Typical ESL cozies up with a brand-name team to get viewers. They can totally invite a better and more deserving team to join.

2020-11-30 18:56

eg scared of eu lmao

eg so much better than chokequid

eg so good they dodged eu you right eg goes home without a single series win in eu, liquid >>>>>>> eg

na bro liquid ass after they kicked adren sorry bro just facts

still better than trash geniuses, sorry not sorry eg even postponed their games for blm, biggest betas ever. liquid only did because of cringe chaos

you saying blm is cringe racist bitch chaos could easily beat liquid after LIQUID LOST TO TRIUMPH LUL AT LEAST EG LOST TO A GOOD TEAM

diversion from the real news

2020-11-30 19:08

bruh , Team Chokequid will lose their first match

Why Liquid? They are bots

2020-11-30 19:41

Imagine going to EU to just lose 2 games and don’t play any other matches at all. Lol EG’s manager is a braindead for making the team go back to US play a shitty tier 5 tournament

2020-11-30 20:16

Liquid is showing potential, I'm happy that we will see them at this event. Sad that EG can't atted, It would be interesting to see them aswell.

2020-11-30 20:30

wasted spot give it to Mibr

2020-11-30 20:31

EG manager should be definitely fired over this. What is this awful planning. They were in EU already... just wait a couple of weeks and play the biggest 2-3 tournaments of the year in EU. Why go back to NA at all??

2020-11-30 22:12