zews steps down from Evil Geniuses - Report

2-6-2021 00:07

The Brazilian coach is leaving the team after 14 months in charge.

Wilton "⁠zews⁠" Prado will not be continuing in his coaching role with Evil Geniuses, HLTV.org has learned. The Brazilian has left his position by mutual consent over a difference of opinion regarding the team's direction, and he will not be behind the players during their upcoming tournaments in Europe.

zews joined Evil Geniuses in April 2020 following the departure of Chet "⁠Chet⁠" Singh and oversaw three regional titles during his first four months in charge. However, the team hit a run of poor results after travelling to Europe in October and skipped their last three events of the year, including the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown and IEM Global Challenge, because of COVID-19-related travel restrictions.

zews has been in charge of EG's team since April 2020

Less than two months into 2021, Evil Geniuses parted ways with Ethan "⁠Ethan⁠" Arnold, who decided to continue his career in VALORANT, and signed ex-Complexity player Owen "⁠oBo⁠" Schlatter to fill the vacant spot on the roster. Just six weeks later, another change was made as EG picked up former Virtus.pro and Envy member Michał "⁠MICHU⁠" Müller to replace Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik, who was moved to the bench.

Positive results have remained elusive for Evil Geniuses, who exited their last two tournaments, FunSpark ULTI Europe Final and cs_summit 8, without winning a single match. They have been outside the top 20 in the world rankings since late April, dropping to 38th following the latest ranking update.

The North American team will return to action on Thursday in IEM Summer, in which they will face Spirit in the opening round. They are also slated to compete in the BLAST Premier Spring Final and in the IEM Cologne 2021 Play-In before the summer break.

Sad

2021-06-02 00:08

18 replies

How

2021-06-02 00:09

3 replies

Stanislaw OMEGALUL

2021-06-02 00:19

2 replies

who???

2021-06-02 08:59

snakeslaw . the worst igl ever.

2021-06-02 09:45

BR CS>>NA CS

both have one team tier-1 and many low tiers both trash rn

2021-06-02 00:15

Is Pain the tier 1 team?

2021-06-02 03:39

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Wtf no, after they get to semis of any s tier tournament you can say they r t1

Finally, -stanis and get eg back to a top 10-15 team

2021-06-02 00:10

how is that better than 2019 EG with stanislaw?

2021-06-02 00:37

Well its a better move than having 2020-2021 stanislaw

2021-06-02 00:56

Stan was good 2019, that doesnt make him good today. Every eg match is super easy to anti strat, cuz they only do defaults to both sites every game

2021-06-02 08:52

wtf is going on today

2021-06-02 01:09

4 replies

inevitable roster changes after shitty RMR performances

2021-06-02 02:20

I don't think changing the coach is a relevant roster change, but could be wrong

2021-06-02 04:24

he stepped down he didn't get changed. him leaving EG was inevitable after those shitty results, team's ranked #38 currently btw. faze getting a roster change was also inevitable, they probably wouldn't have made it to the major anyway.

2021-06-02 06:59

but the coach isn't part of the roster

2021-06-03 01:46

FaZe zews confirmed omg

2021-06-02 03:35

Nice

Zews and coldzera project soon. U heard here first😉😉😉😉

2021-06-02 06:34

prolly

2021-06-02 11:37

Expected. Rip EG

They had some good moments, but I think they are done for now

2021-06-02 00:50

Disband obv

not unexpected

cold to liquid, zews to follow? :o

19 replies

aaand liquid is dead again

2021-06-02 00:32

No dead manager

2021-06-02 01:11

they just signed adren so i doubt it. maybe cold to liquid tho

12 replies

What are y'all saying? Cold to liquid are you kidding me?

2021-06-02 01:15

11 replies

#YOLO

2021-06-02 01:16

Lmao

2021-06-02 01:50

depends on if cold wants to play with fallen again and what his buyout is. i could see -grim +cold working well for liquid tho

2021-06-02 03:03

8 replies

Grim has been solid imo, why remove him?

2021-06-02 03:10

5 replies

versus top10 he was underperforming a lot

2021-06-02 03:19

because he was put into all the shit positions after they kicked Twistzz, signing Grim when they already had Elige as their hardcarry/main refragger was not the right call, now he wastes his talent in shit roles and ppl only see bad stats.

2021-06-02 09:07

0.99 rating this year and playing like shit vs EU teams

2021-06-02 03:28

statistically worst player on the team (especially against top competition) and also doesn't really provide anything for the team. like fallen is awping and igling, stew is entrying, NAF lurks, and elige, well, is elige, while grim is just kinda there. he's not even a set role/support player

2021-06-02 03:31

Nah they got grim entrying some times. I feel like he is just being forced to play roles he is not comfortable with.

2021-06-02 04:09

His contract ends in a couple of months

2021-06-02 03:24

Coldzera said his contract is nearing its end and the way he worded it he already has a offer he is interested in.

2021-06-02 04:35

cold to godsent and zews to follow***

2021-06-02 02:34

That would be fucking amazing.

2021-06-02 02:51

cold criticized felps couple of times so thats not gonna happen. BUT If they remove TACO and bring coldzera as IGL they can improve a lot. Because cold already played as IGL at Faze

2021-06-02 06:54

and said he doesn't want to continue it.

2021-06-02 09:09

Another team destroyed by this fraud

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80 IQ user detected

2021-06-02 00:49

-80 iq

2021-06-02 01:05

he managed to put this team in the top 1 for a few weeks

2021-06-02 00:54

Fraud? Guy helped LG win two majors

2021-06-02 02:02

5 years ago lmao

2021-06-02 09:17

Hahahahahahahahaba Get your shit togheter. Egos destroyed mibr.

2021-06-02 02:52

two majors fraud

2021-06-02 08:09

Wtf you just baited entire population of Brazil

2021-06-02 08:44

I know men ))) Brazilians so easy to be baited

2021-06-02 11:11

deserved, expected /closed

nooo the disband is coming

rip eg

probably

2021-06-02 02:01

sad:(

2021-06-02 05:16

The famous disband

rip

eg disband time

Tarik comeback as a coach

plot twist

2021-06-02 08:10

Sad, but expected. Gl to him and to team.

Now -stan

late

coldzera as an coach I think I would not do it wrong

2021-06-02 00:11

Disband after IEM summer most likely

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100%

2021-06-02 00:13

Sad because i kinda liked them in the past Brehze and Cerq talents wasted by playing with Snakislaw

2021-06-02 00:16

I wouldnt put it all on shitislaw , Brehze nor cerq seem motivaed and both have been playing dogshit recently. Cerqs been really bad recently and brehze has been extremely lack luster to even the start of the year. Its just clear they dont want to play anymore and i expect brehze and cerq to go to valorant to play with their friends in NA

2021-06-02 00:21

Because its hard for them to play basically 4vs5 when stan have -25 every match. They just tired of losing and lost their motivation to play CS. Daps was bot too but at least he was good leader and put players on right roles.

2021-06-02 00:27

Cerq probably going back to Europe adter the disband.

2021-06-02 00:33

And play for who? Hes been extremely mediocre but im sure hes better then the 2 Bulgarian teams that are pretty decent rn.

2021-06-02 01:13

Why does everyone just assume a team is going to disband. This isn’t the change they needed though. I think if they add micks or Elmapuddy would be a good option. But they need to -Stan.

2021-06-02 00:20

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+1 finally an intelligent person here

2021-06-02 02:23

I just don’t know why people think or want them to disband. Doesn’t make any sense to me. The problem is obvious. Brehze and oBo are two insane players to build around.

2021-06-02 04:37

if stanislaw stays, they might as well disband. EG has been sm shit for so long and players are just dropping like flies

2021-06-02 02:59

They haven’t been bad for that long. They were #1 a little under a year ago. Their struggles have only been since earlier this year. I think if you give obo and michu more time, they should be fine. They literally just need to -stan. Tarik should have taken the igl role. They have great players. Brehze is a monster along with obo. Cerq can be a monster or he can be hit or miss. Michu is good too. Just being wanting them to disband or think they will are stupid.

eg loves stan that's why. why remove tarik if he can IGL, why add obo and michu? yes they're good players but they are what stan wants. also michu isn't a player you get if you want to be #1 in the world .eg doesn't want to kick stan and u kick zews cause? zews is one of the best coaches in the world. the reason people want eg to disband is because eg wouldn't remove stan until it's too late. yh but they've been going down since then and it was 2019 iem ny. the top 3 they got was when na waa overrated and they were underestimating furia.

2021-06-02 17:08

Well they were #1 at the end of 2019 and were also #1 I think September or October of last year. But yeah Stan needs to go. Zews wasn’t kicked he left. Just the whole thing with Ethan was a mess too. The dude was practicing valorant while on EG and his stats dropped dramatically.

2021-06-02 22:48

when does someone leave in esports be mutual? it's always kicked and stan and zews had beef b4 so tbh i think he was more kicked than anything

2021-06-03 00:15

Stanislaw did it again!! very nice

Sorry for being new in CS, what teams did law transform into garbage?

2021-06-02 03:15

OpTic and Complexity

2021-06-02 14:56

the last dance

2021-06-02 00:12

forgot this guy existed and that he was EG's coach

+m1cks make it happen

Nah. M1cks is probably a better option if they need an analyst

2021-06-02 00:14

WHERE IS "-STAN" ???

lol

thats what happens when you remove GOAT tarik eg disband

can't disagree

They’re not gonna disband but they need to -Stan. It should have been that this entire time and just have Tarik IGL. Dude is just holding them back. I think Elmapuddy and M1cks would make a great choices to be their new coach.

2021-06-02 00:29

and this is how EG falls apart.. rip

-Grim +cold +zews for helping adreN on Liquid

actually sick asf

2021-06-02 01:21

sad to see. he looked very passionate but he was cursed with unmotivated players

looks like cold and zews are grouping up. maybe - grim +cold -botdren + zews

It'd pretty good, but I don't think Grim should be replaced

2021-06-02 00:17

Why would liquid swap adren for zews? When zews left in 2019 liquid imediately started winning

2021-06-02 01:14

good call? or not? /open

For zews yes 100%

Not the tactical change they needed, sad

-Stan Get Elmapuddy as Coach

2021-06-02 00:22

The team calling a parte end they kicked their coach

2021-06-02 00:41

+Elmapuddy?

Would be a great option

2021-06-02 00:18

I don't think they need a quiet coach and only a tactical coach...they looked really depressed while they play. They need a hype coach and players mentality understanding.

2021-06-02 00:25

Thank you for everything legend! good luck with your next stage of life!

2021-06-02 00:26

sadge for michu

EG going in VaLORANT

disband inc ?

snakeislaw

EG was shit anyway :{{

14 months since April 2020 Actual shocking

About time! Moses will come fix this team. They will never miss a smoke again! They will finally fix their CT sides.

moses didnt fix liquid not gonna happen

disband soon

project with cold maybe?

De plano Coach - zews IGL - coldzera Sniping rifle - KennyS Main rifler - NBK Support - Fer Entry fragger - MSL KKKKKKKKKKKK

2021-06-02 10:11

FREE OBO!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

disband inc

Don’t know why everyone just assumed they are gonna disband. So negative nowadays. Sad for Zews but I think Elmapuddy would make a great option or micks maybe.

Is it just me or does he look like a heroin addict? specially in interviews.

Dude, this is so specific! Are you ok?

2021-06-02 01:07

sad for michu, he just joined this team XD and he was their 2nd best player in the cs_summit

2021-06-02 00:23

Wait he was there?

disband is incoming

2021-06-02 00:24

I can tell you he is smart guy

stan just fuck of man eg should not collapse

Dude why do they keep disagreeing with the team’s direction Wtf is stanislaw doing NA Alex?

stan at it once again haha

EG are still shitters

2021-06-02 00:28

And we thought EG were good after beating Astralis in their debut tournament's final or something like that

It want their debut or a final mens

I think EG reached the final of their debut tournament and won it, something like that. Can't remember exactly and won't look it up, ESL NY I think

Oh your talking about that lol yes that was iem ny, I though you where just talking about zews or obo addition

2021-06-02 00:45

this team is dead af.

2021-06-02 00:34

gl in CS!

2021-06-02 00:35

getting beat while theyre down. if eg win spirit now, would be embarassing for spirit

2021-06-02 00:38

2021-06-02 00:39

EG really crumbling since Ethan left

fallen steps down from liquid taco steps down from godsent fnx steps down from paquetá

EG: Pick up upcoming NA team, it's not like you have to pay them ridiculous amounts of money

2021-06-02 00:48

+100000

2021-06-02 01:59

Now this is hard to take... They were TOP1 during pandemic at some point, they never got the LANs, where it would be all different.... Just sad to see. Loved their setup with tarik, Stan, Ethan, Cerq and Brehze... Wish they played EU teams in their peak... Now the world will never know, they strollllled passed FURIA and Liquid at some point in 2020... Kind of what Gambit is right now..

- ethan - tarik - zews. Who's next?

- EG

2021-06-02 00:52

eg disband soon?

Cs day? Wtf, 7128272 links

Good job!! He always look like he don't wanna coach anymore within those last 5 tournaments that EG attended. He doesn't even bring hype or motivate the team to go further when they are losing rounds. EG needs a new coach and fking replace Stanislaw!

How the mighty have fallen. This time last year, EG was practically unbeatable.

Very unfortunate but rather expected

PEACEMAKER 2.0

EG should disband and go EU, the few good NA players are already locked in teams sad to see an org that big falling apart in CS:GO

this have something with coldzera trust me

2021-06-02 00:59

cold and zews to FURIA?

2021-06-02 01:00

God, no, not zews. Cold on the other hand sounds like a great idea.

2021-06-02 01:17

cold and zews to form a new brazilian team?

2021-06-02 01:01

They need to see if they can poach Chet back, that guy did good stuff for EG until Stanislaw annoyed him

2021-06-02 01:04

I swear, someone must be paying Stanislaw some extra cash to sabotage all NA teams.

2021-06-02 01:57

-stanislaw

disband or get a better igl pls

Is it brazilian coach day at hltv?

wtfffffffffffffff

2021-06-02 01:12

Expected, he did such an awful job in EG

csgo coach cannot coach soon-Valorant players

more like their players are mediocre and are also secretely playing Valorant just in case. SMH.

2021-06-02 01:56

This should have happened months ago.

maldislaw attacking again

2021-06-02 01:22

AUTISLAW strikes again

2021-06-02 01:55

big f

2021-06-02 01:27

Expected from Stanislaw "TwoFaced" Toledo xD

2021-06-02 01:28

lmao

2021-06-02 02:14

It was a joke but I love this meme :D

2021-06-02 10:12

RIP EG

2021-06-02 01:36

Stanislaw must enjoy ruining teams

2021-06-02 01:45

eg disband =(

2021-06-02 01:51

Snakelaw ruining yet another team and getting to rob some sweet paychecks, that's my maaannn. ;D

2021-06-02 01:53

Save Michu!

nooooooooooooooo

Mata eles Zelao

2021-06-02 02:03

This is the gift Stanislaw brings to every team... the gift of failure.

2021-06-02 02:04

SK LAST DANCE ?

2021-06-02 02:05

EG Sucks nowadays idk what to say about this team their roster makes no sense

2021-06-02 02:06

The witch is free ( a bruxa esta solta) in cs pro scene today, lul

2021-06-02 02:12

Ethan was a key player for the team. The decline has been sad to watch. Honestly this team was at their peak when they still had daps. Rip

he wasn't, he was just OKAY, the decline was since iem ny 2019 and than only did good in NA and shit in EU.

2021-06-02 03:02

Daps >>> stanislul

2021-06-02 02:21

+1 you spelled snakeislaw wrong

2021-06-02 03:06

Tarik was the canary in the coal mine, RIP EG

2021-06-02 02:31

Yikes, we’ll time to switch to G2 flare

2021-06-02 02:36

Expected, disband incoming.

2021-06-02 02:42

Zews - coach Alex - igl Cold - star Es3tag - lurker ChrisJ - support Espiranto - entry This will be a decent team maybe top 10. They can play hybrid awper Cold alex es3tag can share the awp role

I doubt they will make it into top 10

2021-06-02 12:01

the last dance?

sad to see this teams slow destruction

2021-06-02 03:41

kick_stanislaw_ffs

2021-06-02 03:45

it was a nice ride, ups, downs, cs is hard and i know you tried your best. good luck on your future zews!

2021-06-02 04:18

2021-06-02 04:19

it's falling over

2021-06-02 04:23

-oBo +anyone

2021-06-02 04:32

i mean, after tarik and ethan were both such unprofessionals and disrespectful players towards their fans, game and org , EG should either create a new roster or leave cs go.

2021-06-02 04:34