Official: zews parts ways with Evil Geniuses; seeks new opportunities in CS:GO

2-6-2021 16:56

The 33-year-old tactician remains dedicated to the game despite the departure from the American organization.

Wilton "⁠zews⁠" Prado's 14-month-long cooperation with Evil Geniuses has come to an end, the coach announced on Wednesday. The Brazilian steps down from the head coach position ahead of the start of IEM Summer 2021, where Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz and co. will compete without him.

The split between zews and the team happened by mutual consent over a difference of opinion regarding the team's direction, HLTV.org has learned, with the coach noting that he intends to stick to Counter-Strike moving forward.

zews is looking for a new project after parting ways with EG

"I love this game and have dedicated my life to it. This is not about to change anytime soon," zews said in a statement. "If you or your organization share my values and need a hungry and hardworking individual, don't be shy to send me a message. I want to hear from you."

zews' accomplishments with Evil Geniuses including climbing to the No. 1 spot in the world ranking in September of 2020 as they won three tournaments in a row during the online era: BLAST Premier Spring Americas Finals, cs_summit 6 NA, and ESL One Cologne NA.

The team started to show cracks soon after that, struggling in European competitions before losing two long-standing members in Ethan "⁠Ethan⁠" Arnold and Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik. The additions of Owen "⁠oBo⁠" Schlatter and Michał "⁠MICHU⁠" Müller didn't help turn around the team's trajectory, as last-place exits from ESL Pro League S13, FunSpark ULTI 2020 Europe Final, and cs_summit 8 saw them crash out of the top 30 in the world for the first time.

"I saw our team reach #1 in the world and lift many trophies, while also facing painful losses," zews wrote in his statement, summing up the turbulent period. "Even though my time here was brief, these are memories that I will not forget."

zews noted that he is still on Evil Geniuses roster and "will be working alongside them to figure out the best next steps for my future in the near future".

Evil Geniuses are now:

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

Sad

2021-06-02 16:56

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sadge

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Coldzera is new EG coach confirmed

2021-06-02 17:17

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Zews works wherever he wants. Great professional.

2021-06-02 17:55

GOOD luck for zews

2021-06-02 17:33

+1 How many people will have to exit EG before they remove stanislaw?

2021-06-02 18:35

All of them

2021-06-02 20:54

RIP

:( poor EG

Godsent.zews

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Godsent aren't bad but realistically Zews deserves a much better team

2021-06-02 17:28

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how about mousesports?

2021-06-02 17:41

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why would mouz downgrade from mithr?

2021-06-02 17:53

Mithr seems to be doing a fine job. The Zews change might be good but it's fairly unnecessary rn.

2021-06-02 18:00

+1 mithR and dexter already have great chemistry from their time in Renegades

2021-06-02 19:48

Mad lions maybe? Peacemelaker left, if I'm not mistaken

2021-06-02 17:43

Oh nvm kuben is their coach

2021-06-02 17:44

but kuben said that the behind of the team is the most important for them, so adding a third coach might be a good idea kappa

2021-06-03 03:07

It's more of a long-term project, two of the newer players have almost 0 experience outside of SA/T2 NA, I think an experienced coach like zews could help a lot improving the 3 upcoming talents

2021-06-02 22:10

Tbh from what I've seen, that team will never be an elite tournament winning team. They just don't have that kind of teamplay or firepower. Top 20-ish, sure, but I just can't see them any hogher than that.

2021-06-03 05:08

They needed an awper, I'd exchange Taco for Fallen any day of the week in that team, +experienced IGL +AWPer

2021-06-03 05:14

Expected!

2021-06-02 16:57

Head coach: Zews Assistant Coach: adreN

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IDK about a massive upgrade but this move does make sense. Apparently zews was the only coach that lasted for a while with fallen so this move would benefit fallen and the team. Adren was never the energetic one so having someone like zews when the team is shutting down could be an upgrade. And we still have adren as the tactical mastermind.

2021-06-02 17:08

+1 million

2021-06-02 17:34

not bad

2021-06-02 19:43

2021-06-03 00:40

Sad but expected.

oh no

wtf estonia flag again?

Useless fake coach. What can he teach? How to drop 0.58 rating and lose the game?

do you even know what a coach does?

2021-06-02 17:12

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Teach players how to frag

2021-06-02 17:14

WTF are u saying?

2021-06-02 17:36

If all players have good rating they can establish an era. Look at prime SK, Astralis, current Gambit. Konstantin Pikiner is good example of great coach. He taught Gambit guys how to frag and made five mad fraggers from mediocre players. Now you can see how Gambit is rekting everyone =)

2021-06-02 17:46

lmao dude players usually get signed to teams BECAUSE of their ability to frag, the coach job is to come up with new strats, watch replays, analize teams that his team is goin to play against and find their weakness and stuff that they usually like to do.

2021-06-02 18:32

prime SK has TACO.... and you really wanna talk about fragging

2021-06-03 02:30

zews one of the best coaches so nt

2021-06-02 17:15

He was always standing like a statue lost for words while his team loses, I can see why EG kicked him

2021-06-02 17:19

Literally one of the best coaches out there Can you tell me what drugs you are taking I really want to see how fucked up your world is

Best coach? He destroyed this team single handedly

2021-06-02 17:20

HAHAHAHAAHHA, Yeah like this team would have ever worked lmao, not a single team with stan on has been any good after the honeymoon period. They will disband anyway since na brain

2021-06-02 17:29

Sad but PLS KICK PENNYSLAW

2021-06-02 16:58

i been saying this

2021-06-02 17:25

same, i said it ever since eg came to europe in late october and even before it

2021-06-02 17:40

lol

didnt we know this already

Zews to Liquid for LAN events, adreN as an analyst/assistant coach.

2021-06-02 16:59

faze zews kek

at a lower salary at that ....dude has not accomplished shit lately. professional sports only care about recent results. he honestly doesn't merit/deserve the "picky-ness" he is showing. he probably quit before being fired for shit results. Stanislaw needs to go too. EG prolly dead though or retreating to tier2/val. sad

2021-06-02 17:01

I really think the "difference of opinion" here is about -stan. Really possible that he wanted Stan out and someone on the org didn't. And we don't know exactly how much of the recent performances lays down on zews or Stan. But the fact is the mid round calls and the performance on the servers by Stan were shit on recent times

Tbh he couldn't be in the server during summit, so this bad result is mainly stan's fault.

Yes, but a coaching job is not defined by what he provides on the server, pretty opposite. His job is to watch demos, work strats and anti strats, study adversaries tendencies and etc. working with the IGL to provide information for better decision making, and that's why we can't be sure what was stan's fault and what was zews's fault. Coaches being a second IGL on the server is an online era thing.

2021-06-02 19:27

Yeah Stan has been a problem lately that is 100% for sure ... just frustrating all around for NA CS

2021-06-02 17:45

Zews = GODSENT

2021-06-02 17:00

Everyone leaves EG but who really should leave is still there, xD

True

2021-06-02 17:05

just like with allu xd

Zews + coldzera incoming?

2021-06-02 17:02

i hope so

2021-06-02 17:07

It would make a lot of sense.

2021-06-03 07:51

The captain jumping from the deck of the Titanic

2021-06-02 17:03

From his interviews, he always looked to be a big advocate of Stanislaw and held his IGLing in high regards. Perhaps the org pushed for replacing Stan but he didn't want to agree with it so he left? Anyway good luck to him. He is a pretty great coach with alot of knowledge. Will find home somewhere.

2021-06-02 17:06

he probably is one of the most decorated coach in the scenario

Dear admins was this rly worth a 2nd newspost?? U could add * to previous and add the tweet/text cmon

I mean, zews is one of the best coaches in the world, so I guess... yes?

its not zonic nt

2021-06-02 17:51

He said one of the best n00b

2021-06-02 18:30

This is how they always do a report vs official announcement...

2021-06-02 17:35

ahahahahahahahaha

2021-06-02 17:09

All coach should be like a brother to their players that should make a team work better

2021-06-02 17:10

O PLANO COLD KNG TRK VSM LEO_DRK TIER 1 TEAM. THATS IT.

+1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1

2021-06-02 18:19

Same news as yesterday

2021-06-02 17:13

luminosity will return

2021-06-02 17:18

unexpected!

Sad for EG

2021-06-02 17:22

-stanislaw +shakezullah or +tarik

zeus would be good in godsent imo

since tarik left EG gone to shit yikes

to o plano

Oplano

2021-06-02 17:57

2021-06-02 19:02

RiP EG june 2021

2021-06-02 19:17

EG what are you doink

2021-06-02 19:19

zews to FaZe!!!!

2021-06-02 19:56

would be great

2021-06-02 20:59

Zews gets passed around more than a white girl on a casting couch

2021-06-02 21:20

The guy coached like 4 teams in 6 years That's not a bad track record at all

2021-06-02 21:40

Nah he gets passed around like a joint at a college party

2021-06-02 22:05

2021-06-02 22:00

Faze + Zews?

2021-06-03 01:01

Stanisnake

2021-06-03 07:47

Well I'm not even surprised by that, he is one of the best coaches this game has ever had, he deserves better than this, I'm sure he will find a much better team in close future, GL Legend.

2021-06-03 13:31