Official: Evil Geniuses sign MICHU; tarik steps down

15-4-2021 22:03

The Polish rifler is days away from his debut for the North American organization.

Michał "⁠MICHU⁠" Müller has joined Evil Geniuses, the organization announced on Thursday, replacing Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik on the active roster. The American player will "focus on streaming and content creation" while exploring the next step in his career.

MICHU will debut for the team in the FunSpark ULTI 2020 Europe Final which starts on April 19, with Evil Geniuses Director of Esports Greg Kim describing the new signing as "a player who is hungry to compete" against the best teams in the world. "We look forward to seeing him integrate with the team and for our CS:GO team’s continued growth and success."

Evil Geniuses have unveiled their new player

MICHU has spent the majority of his career competing in domestic squads, representing organizations such as ESC, G2, CSGL and Kinguin from 2014-2018. As one of the most promising Poles outside of the Virtus.pro squad, his callup to join Janusz "⁠Snax⁠" Pogorzelski and co. was inevitable, but came too late.

Following internal turmoil and underwhelming results, Virtus.pro cut ties with the Polish team and MICHU at the end of 2019, seeing him move to Envy in 2020. Over the 74 maps for the North American organization, MICHU averaged a 1.09 rating, slightly below his 2019 average of 1.10.

tarik's exit from the lineup he was a part of since March 2019 comes as a result of differences in opinions on Evil Geniuses' issues, he explains in Twitlonger. "Our results as a team have been lackluster and led to the decision of me benching myself," the 25-year-old wrote. "By no means do I think I was playing well throughout the hardships but I believe that even with our new lineup underlying issues still existed. Ultimately, I had a different approach to our issues and the team didn’t agree with my views. "

Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz and co. will be hoping that the addition of the Polish rifler will reinvigorate the team that has won just two of their last seven games, and is currently ranked 15th in the world.

Evil Geniuses are now:

Vincent "⁠Brehze⁠" Cayonte
Tsvetelin "⁠CeRq⁠" Dimitrov
Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz
Owen "⁠oBo⁠" Schlatter
Michał "⁠MICHU⁠" Müller

Wilton "⁠zews⁠" Prado (coach)
Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik (benched)

Extremely unlucky for tarik. Those Reddit bullies need to be banned!

2021-04-15 22:04

23 replies

you act like HLTV is any nicer to players than reddit is

2021-04-15 22:12

11 replies

Sad day.

2021-04-15 22:14

4 replies

Tarik 200qi pretending to be kicked by tier 3 NA org to be picked up by FURIA and win the next major Bem vindo (welcome) cabeça de melancia (watermelon head)

2021-04-15 23:44

2 replies

No one gona pick him he sucks

2021-04-16 07:39

That's actually the best response ever cus Junior is a bum. Tarik would actually make the difference for that squad although they would then need Art to dedicate awp which could be bad. +1 to you sir.

2021-04-16 14:19

name checks out

2021-04-16 07:34

At least you can turn it off, not like you can do the same with reddit. 🥴🥴🥴

1 reply

or just don't use reddit? 🥴

2021-04-16 02:55

+1 lol hltv users are way more toxic

2021-04-16 02:43

I just take everything in HLTV as shitpost unless it's from Brazilians. BR people are the only that you can have a good discussion with, I thank them everyday for being a part of this website.

2021-04-16 16:30

I r8 the b8 m8

2021-04-18 18:26

I r8 the b8 8/8 m8

2021-04-22 03:30

NO WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I dont think luck and reedit comments have nothing to do with his lackluster performances.

reddit = hltv nowadays

2021-04-15 22:18

is it me or there isn't a #1 comment?

2021-04-15 22:24

Comments can get deleted and the numbers don't change

2021-04-15 22:34

Yea very sad but he will get better soon with his new teammates in Valorant. Good luck to him

2021-04-15 23:35

Yes, new salary 100k per week

2021-04-16 05:13

“unlucky” clips.twitch.tv/AthleticResoluteSalsifyM.. lol

2021-04-16 09:51

3 replies

I thought the same :D

2021-04-16 10:29

wow

2021-04-16 14:07

tarik just unlucky mans

2021-04-16 14:45

sad

rip Tarik

no sadge :(

Good move

Noes

2021-04-15 22:35

what the fuck does that mean and why you think so?

2021-04-15 22:37

It means yes no and if u know then u can add me on steam xD

2021-04-15 22:43

Yes! Finally it’s possible the cheer for EG again, the mage douche is finally gone!

2021-04-16 10:26

let's go michu!

POG MICHU

nice move

Going to va LUL rant

rip tarik

turok

kekw

2021-04-16 03:14

Sadge

:( sad

no way

Liquid Valorant +Tarik -jamppi Jamppi Back to cs

6 replies

yes pls

2021-04-15 22:10

why would he moved to europe to play valorant? A lot of cs players in NA swap to valorant because they don't want to move to europe

2021-04-15 22:11

well, he played with Eg in Europe

2021-04-15 22:17

he bootcamped with EG in Europe. If he wanted to play with Liquid valorant he would have to live there most of the year.

No that’s why they didn’t switch to Valorant lol. Spending a month or a little more in Europe isn’t even that bad considering how much they are getting paid. If you gotta spend a month in Europe for your job due to covid, so be it. A bunch of NA players switched because majority of them were t2/t3 and were washed. Love Hiko but he’s a good example, along with many others. Most teams are 5/5 or 4/5 NA CS pros lol.

2021-04-16 19:43

Let valulrant keep cheater jamppi

good call - massive impact

eg won't be around by 2022 in cs

2021-04-15 22:05

I would honestly be surprised if they were. the entire scene here is in all practicality dead and I really cannot see it recovering.

2021-04-20 22:05

pls no valulrant :(

Good luck to him. Hes their last chance

they are his last chance as well

2021-04-16 14:40

THATS MY BOY

tarik officialy content guy

Major MVP will only be remembered from that spray lmao

Sangal tarik

hahahahahahaa

2021-04-15 23:39

that would actually be awesome his IGL skills could be needed.

2021-04-16 06:48

Can he actually speak turkish?

2021-04-16 08:44

not native level but at least b2

2021-04-16 14:11

Good move for michu

LETS FUCKING GO CYA LATER TARIK

Sad rip TUROK, such a good guy. Don't go to Valarante please Mr. Content

Content king

stan is next

He should've been first

2021-04-16 08:38

I’m very sad to hear this as a huge EG fan, Tarik will be immensely misses and I wish him the best. Welcome Michu, you have some big shoes to fill.

2021-04-15 22:23

he sure does, but Michu's potential is insane

Instantly made the team likable again, like before the Tarik signing. I’m so happy I can finally cheer for and not against them again.

2021-04-16 10:32

Expected

Ez4Michu

botmichu so bad

2021-04-21 02:36

tarik my cake

veery good for EG

Not tarik :(

F tarik do céu

2021-04-15 22:06

rip noshirt_tv

expected but still sad. GL major mvp

LETS GOOO

peanut brain to valulrant

2021-04-16 05:31

Good and now pls -stan +eu igl

bench stanislaw wtf

+111 tarik would at least get kills

yeah even on overpass, with enemies backs turned.

2021-04-16 02:57

LUL

2021-04-16 04:26

+9999

2021-04-19 10:08

NICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BRO

finally

CONTENT LMAO

NOOOOO PLS DONT MAKE CONTENT ON VALULRANT PLS

f tarik da nova geração

I WAS HERE

good

Pog Michu gl <3

EG best polish team rn

2021-04-15 22:07

Content king 👑

fer is better than bot michu

lmao -elige +turok liquid top 9999

I will miss his fails

Stan next please

2021-04-15 22:08

should be -snakeslaw

ahahhhahahahaha

CONTENT KING IS BACK POG

If you can’t beat the EU Teams, become one the Next move for this masterplan will be -Stan +msl Also tarik probably joining a valorant Team before the month ends

-stan +emi/ALEX cuz msl awper and cerq is already there

2021-04-16 06:24

also emi and alex are free

Emi would be nice altho he cannot frag but look at what he have done with fpx while trial, it is promising to get emi

2021-04-16 10:16

MSL said he dont need to awp.

2021-04-16 06:50

Rip

GOGO MCIHU

tarik to valorant?

nice michu, sad that tarik > valorant now

2021-04-15 22:09

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Maybe read the article before saying something, huh? "The American player will "focus on streaming and content creation" while exploring the next step in his career" Most likely he'll become another shroud. But with big difference (tarik was good proplayer and has really big achievements, unlike shroud).

2021-04-15 22:13

kek i have read the article but it's almost obvious he is gonna play valorant, isn't it?

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Why should he? He can make the same money from streaming and content and doesn't care about CS or Valo.

2021-04-15 22:27

The same money lmfao. Seems like you are not following, what is happening. Valo beats cs so much when it comes to salary/money. Soon there will be a roster change in some organization on Valo so after receiving good offer from them he will join instantly.

2021-04-15 22:32

No, it doesn't. CS salaries > Valorant salaries.

2021-04-16 09:45

Not really. American Valorant salaries > CS

2021-04-16 09:49

For one, he said on stream he hasn’t played Valorant in like a month. Two, Valorant won’t be able to maintain their salaries forever. Richard Lewis has talked about their salaries before. Supposedly nitro and sinatraa were getting paid 25k a month, while NA CS pros were getting paid 20k-40k a month. Considering tarik is a big name player especially in NA, guarantee you he’s making more to the 30k-40k range.

2021-04-16 19:56

tarik wasn't that bad. oh well. maybe this will work out better for both parties. I hope tarik gets a fat paycheck for playing teh valorante

yeah, its quite sad that someone drops major champ for someone who couldnt prove himself for last 5 years

2021-04-15 22:25

POOOOOOOOOG

michu strongo

go back to c9

Best german player

bntet best polnische player

2021-04-15 23:55

great addition, MICHU will be a great upgrade

Tarik the only relevant IGL from NA

agree

2021-04-16 16:33

hahahahahahaha still gonna be shit team with stanislaw calls

Sad day my friends :(

Good move, MICHU is a beast :)

Top 10 in the next 3 months

gl michu

Kicked by ex-winstrike

Tarik is terrible, about time. Bound to streaming or Valorant, wonder how he managed to go from major MVP to this

You are a Furia fan, you can't call Tarik "terrible", Furia has literally plagiarised his style of the drunken master

2021-04-15 22:31

NOOOOOOO TUROK, THE WHIFF, VALORANT AWAITS :/

polska gurom

Kick stanislaw add Alex

2021-04-15 22:38

F TUROK PepeHands

I was hoping for removal of Stan. Tarik is fine But whatever....

As if that's going to fix their problems. They need a new igl

TUROK :(

turok no :(

gl in valorant i guess :(

so sad,no more content babeee :(

2021-04-15 22:19

Deserved for MICHU

2021-04-15 22:22

Respect to tarik, he did his best and knew the time was right to step down. The same cant be said about many other CS pro's...

Sad((( I wish Stanislaw got kicked

GL tarik and Michu definetly a upgrade!

free content Pog

gl michu gl turok

Gl Michu <3

MICHU is an amazing entry fragger, as much as it pains me to see tarik go, -stan or -tarik was necessary for EG to become a top team again. GL to EG and MICHU.

val tarik :(

2021-04-15 22:28

that or he does content creation for both games, he's always enjoyed streaming and making content

2021-04-15 22:33

expected

POLAND MOUNTAIN

interesting edit: You cannot post more than 150 replies per day edit 2: wtf how was you able to find me that quickly bomberman?

lol you cant reply back to me. now EG have 1 less bum tho

of course i can reply to you :))

2021-04-15 23:06

wtfrick

2021-04-15 23:17

150 comments restriction based on hours, im free now

hi ghcnvbkn

2021-04-15 22:45

hallo m8

good luck michu

2021-04-15 22:29

lets kurwa go michu

bruh :( hope he finds a team that can pick him up

nice

Now -Botislaw +EU player so EU can carry NA.

Good, now Stanislaw has a fellow comrade on his team

Lmao tariks career ended after that peanut brain flank in overpass

2021-04-15 22:44

PL player KEKW Polish CSGO scene has died long ago, MICHU will be kicked in a few weeks, i am profundly convinced.

2021-04-15 22:47

xaxaxa

2021-04-15 23:08

axaxaxa

2021-04-16 02:54

2021-04-17 14:03

So what flag to use for the team now :p

USA

bye bye snake

Tarik > stanislaw wtf

2021-04-15 22:46

Bad move, michu ain't gonna do shit for eg, they will fall even more

valorant time

2021-04-15 22:54

-cerq +snatchie And you can use the polish flag cause’ of 3 polish players

2021-04-15 22:58

mhl>snatchie

2021-04-16 09:38

LETS GO

2021-04-15 23:01

reason for kick if anyone wondered: youtu.be/_s03flFIT3k

2021-04-15 23:04

michu best igl

hltv gods, pls make tarik,xantares,woxic,calyx,paz/imorr team happen

2021-04-15 23:12

GG Overrated bot instead of fairly rated Bot

2021-04-15 23:16

Na really is the sadest region. Having only 2 top teams in a region with a massive player base is sad. Not even being able to uphold 2 good teams in a region with a massive player base is pathetic. 9 players btw, thats what NA has to offer the cs world.

2021-04-15 23:25

+1 Tarik is a class act hope nothing but the best for him in the future.

2021-04-15 23:29

gl boys i hope you success

2021-04-15 23:30

finally tarik left, see you in valorant... oh wait you were playing Valorant already for a few months with Ethan LUL

2021-04-15 23:34

EG isn't an american team anymore lmao

2021-04-15 23:37

Just Turok things. Leaving cs for Valulrant XDDD

2021-04-15 23:45

WTF is going on on the scene? That's depressing :-(

2021-04-15 23:46

Tarik was depressing. We are seeing a bunch of new stars this year. Aren't you tired of the same old faces dominating? Time for new teams showing their faces. I hope the major will be on another level since all players have been competing online for so long. Let the old retire

2021-04-15 23:52

Hell yeah What is better than see old lan stars being replaced by young blood raised on online era?

2021-04-16 01:15

POLAND MOUNTAIN bloodtrail youtube.com/watch?v=wGeFVtLo1RA

tarik still being selfless even if it means not part of the team. Massive respect

2021-04-15 23:53

tarik hahaahahaha such a horrible player, very happy that EG finally making the right moves

2021-04-16 00:03

Tarik valorant inc

2021-04-16 00:04

feel for turok.

2021-04-16 00:05

SAD

2021-04-16 00:07

Stan is the problem

2021-04-16 00:13

2021-04-16 00:35

fair point

2021-04-16 00:38

pog

2021-04-16 00:23

C9 Confirmed.

2021-04-16 00:34

Im so sad about Tarik, there was a point last year that EG looked like the best team in the world

never bro if u mean in NA they looked JUST OKAY and that NA scene last year was just a rotate of furia, 100t, tl, eg , geng and c9. furia, tl , eg and 100t were the top teams in that group and honestly it was mostly furia and tl for top spot. imo they should've made tarik igl because stanislaw has sm time with this roster and didn't do jack shit like last yr the 1/2 they did something and after june they didn't attend events til this year January and that was enough time with a great coach to make tactics and reinvent yourself and what did they do? nothing they looked like shit and uninspired not surprised they made a roster change but wrong person. stan needs to either get better tactics or get the fuck out. btw stan is supposed to be a really good fragging igl but he's been playing like uttershit making brezhe and cercq carry. yes ik tarik was shit too but he was the entry frag so 🤷🏻

2021-04-16 01:21

Well EG won 3 tourneys on a row between June and August of 2020, after that FURIA dominated the NA scene As for Liquid, they didn’t won anything last year besides EPL on March And EG were looking dominating in that specific stretch , that’s my point I agree about Tarik tho, they did dirty to him. I mean the guy was a fucking major MVP and he’s so team first that he accepted the worst roles possibly to let new talents like CerQ and Brehze shine. Stan is the problem

2021-04-16 06:40

bro that was like 17 months ago. i know time passes fast

2021-04-16 14:09

If he goes to valorant our scene will be hella dead he’s like a figure of na cs

2021-04-16 00:47

dude who cares about na cs? Even EG signed polish player instead of american cause they alredy know..

2021-04-18 14:44

bro I care and the rest of NA cares this game gonna loose a shit ton of viewership if NA cs dies

2021-04-18 17:49

2021-04-16 01:07

RIP EG, tarik was not the problem, stan is the problem. Good luck tarik on future plans, you're a nice guy.

2021-04-16 01:17

yes

2021-04-16 01:30

Sad but needed

2021-04-16 01:27

This is quite sad. Tarik wasn't the problem, he was the selfless guy of the team entrying first, playing with galil while dropping his teammates. Stan is the root of their hardships, this change won't help them!

2021-04-16 01:40

And they still wont beat OG regardless

2021-04-16 01:44

Expected.

2021-04-16 02:47

Snakislaw strikes against his own boy That’s tuff

true

2021-04-16 03:15

Turok finally gonna help EG

2021-04-16 03:55

gl tarik

2021-04-16 04:02

dont get to OG but i would say he go to better place,

2021-04-16 05:23

Please i just hope it doesn't go to the valorant

2021-04-16 06:11

Itd be a sad day for counter strike if Tarik leaves for val

2021-04-16 07:04

Sad mens))

2021-04-16 07:08

Tarik had his moments other than that he wasn't that great player as his fans thinks, maybe good streamer but not so consistent fragger.

2021-04-16 07:42

Should've benched Stanislaw

2021-04-16 08:35

2021-04-16 08:57

stan first? no? ok bye

2021-04-16 09:01

tarik sucks

2021-04-16 09:04

Sad, F

hes pretty consisten, getting hes kills, not a big game changer but still decent player on any roster, watching his streams he seems very happy, maybe thats his choice

2021-04-16 09:07

Its suck for Tarik that he have such a bad aim. Its seems like have pretty good ideas, but failed to excecute cause of shitty aim. He and Skadoodle is biggest reasons NA have a major.

2021-04-16 09:09

Actually reversed really good player individually but lacks certain mindset

2021-04-16 18:14

LESSSSS GO

2021-04-16 09:11

Xeppa and floppy died for this, why you do this EG T_T You should have picked one of them to save NA CS T-T

2021-04-16 09:27

He's debuting for a event finals for 2020? What?

2021-04-16 09:40

clips.twitch.tv/AthleticResoluteSalsifyM.. deserved.

2021-04-16 09:50

thr0wrik

2021-04-16 10:05

Imagine kicking tarik before kicking stanislaw! EG’s doomed

2021-04-16 10:01

stan is an igl :D

2021-04-16 10:07

Dont you think their igl has been a problem for a while? LOL! Watch them achieve more mediocrity with stan as an igl

2021-04-16 13:40

content?

2021-04-16 12:27

-Stewie2k +Tarik?

2021-04-16 13:02

seems like i won't be watching EG from now on

2021-04-16 14:14

there will be no progress even with michu .... stanislaw brainwashed and bottom fragging same as tarik... stanislaw and boomb14 same shit rn , watch EG have the same problems again and again just less excuse coz of new signing

2021-04-16 14:50

Stupid move ... One tired player for washed up player ... There is no young US talent ?

2021-04-16 14:54

-Stan +Alex

2021-04-16 15:55

wtf? Stanislaw then???? lmao

Great move for EG. Bad for Michu.

2021-04-16 18:30

blyah EG take's this homless me angry as fuck

2021-04-16 19:47

MICHU is a great player, I think he is one of the best Polish players atm. However it's huge surprise that changes to EG are coming so early, they just changed Ethan with oBo and now another change, like I'm not so sure if it wasn't the mistake to not even give a chance to this roster. But who knows, I wish them the best, let's go MICHU.

2021-04-16 19:52

Should have been -stan and tarik IGL. Good thing for tarik to focus on streaming and content creation. Really hope he doesn’t switch to Valorant. Mr. Content

2021-04-16 20:24