Vitality tear EG apart in debut showing at BLAST

30-1-2022 15:52

Not much to write home about from the new Evil Geniuses squad as they found themselves heavily outgunned by the French-Danish project.

Vitality have passed their first test with their new lineup with flying colors, taking down the fresh Evil Geniuses squad in convincing fashion, 16-3 on Inferno, in the opening game of BLAST Premier Spring Group C.

It was very much a team effort as everyone from the French-Danish combination put up solid numbers, but Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire stood out in particular despite not being able to join the team at their bootcamp in Paris due to testing positive for COVID-19.

apEX & co. pass their first test with flying colors

The 28-year-old in-game leader led the way, boasting nearly 150 ADR and nine multikills in the one-sided affair in the highest-rated individual performance of the BLAST Premier event so far at 2.11.

Meanwhile, Evil Geniuses, who are also playing their debut at BLAST following the signings of Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip, Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta, and William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba, had no one step up to the plate to bring them back from a slow start into the map.

Outside of winning two unlikely rounds on B, one with just pistols in hand and the other in a 2v4 scenario, the North American squad barely had a say in their first official map facing off against one of the most highly regarded new teams. Early picks aplenty and some well-timed aggression saw Vitality put together a dominant CT side and quickly close things out after switching to the offense.

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30th January 2022

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Vitality	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	24 - 9	+15	146.5	84.2%	2.11
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut ZywOo	22 - 8	+14	111.7	84.2%	1.89
Emil 'Magisk' Reif Magisk	16 - 8	+8	82.3	89.5%	1.33
Kévin 'misutaaa' Rabier misutaaa	12 - 6	+6	67.3	89.5%	1.25
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	13 - 11	+2	67.3	84.2%	1.08

Evil Geniuses	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov CeRq	11 - 16	-5	61.9	52.6%	0.77
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	12 - 18	-6	67.7	52.6%	0.66
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	7 - 16	-9	50.7	57.9%	0.64
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	8 - 19	-11	66.5	52.6%	0.57
Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte Brehze	4 - 18	-14	53.6	36.8%	0.36

Vitality looking great, hope they win this group

2022-01-30 15:53

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apex 28years old gets 2.11 rating against NA kids

2022-01-30 16:03

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Matches against NA teams should not count for the standings. It is just stats farming.

2022-01-30 16:21

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Agree, as well as NA tournaments should not count for statistics

2022-01-30 16:38

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It is hilarious to see NA players in top20 of the year, when they were just partners in international tournaments and playing NA tournaments for farming

2022-01-30 16:41

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+1 TOs may just move those tournaments to better regions like brazil if they want to keep international stuff competitive

2022-01-30 18:01

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0/8

2022-01-31 02:08

NA, SA, Asia, any of them (regional tournaments) should count for statistics

2022-01-31 15:13

Same for Asia, SA and CIS tournaments, only tournaments that should count for stats are ones with the top 5 teams in the world.

2022-01-30 16:56

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Yes, maybe even top10 teams would be fine, but you can not use the top20 and even top30 teams for stats purposes. Look at this, KSCRATO only played 7 maps in Big events against top10 teams. Nafany played 39 and he didn't even make into the list. KSCERATO was 15 or 16 if I am not wrong.

2022-01-30 17:02

I see Sunpayus fanme happy :)

2022-01-30 16:13

Apex with 150 ADR xDDDD Honestly, players like apex and stewie make the game so fun to watch. There's a method to their unpredictable unstoppable flanks/aggression, unlike arT in Furia (no offence xD). Also, great to see autimatic hit quite a few bangers. Good Luck Vitality. Hopefully, GOATpreeh becomes the first player in CSGO history to win 5 majors <3

2022-01-30 16:14

I thought shox was the worst pick up but then I realized that Stewie exist. Fire management

2022-01-30 16:24

Weird way to spell autimatic

2022-01-31 08:21

Damn daniel What happened to brezhe

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too much valorant

2022-01-30 15:57

couldnt find the spike

2022-01-30 16:05

no agent no frags

2022-01-30 16:34

He was supposed to NA's hope. So sad this is how it ends

2022-01-30 17:10

Yep Ropz ripped liquid as well xD

2022-01-30 17:18

Nice

Wow

ezwhooo

NA fans tears HMMM

Covid apeX new legendary fighter

Apex legend

back to valorant

na cs xd

Holy shit NA so bad

sad

2022-01-30 15:54

Rush 1v9

First post without an NA comment? N1

Its early over here. 9 am where I am, 7 on the West Coast, so probably not many people are up.

2022-01-30 15:56

Expected, EG doomed project, EG = Evading Glory

2022-01-30 15:55

ez for magisk

2.11 rating holy fck thats insane

tbh apart from RUSH who tried to do whatever he could EG didn't show up at all. Let's see if Vitality can keep this up against FaZe lateron.

na superteam?

these EG guys aren't even trying lmao

Expected

apex in goat mode

Eternal Garbage strikes again!!!! LETS GOOOOOOOOO

EG is horrible. On a positive side maybe their spot in Louvre's agreement will become vacant for an actually good team.

Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte 4 - 18 -14 53.6 0.36 who said he has a better peak than elige again

Key word: peak

2022-01-30 16:19

peak brehze: no.8 peak elige: no.4, robbed by group stage farmer s1mple and device

2022-01-30 16:42

Yes, but your first comment didn’t make sense concerning his “peak”

2022-01-30 16:51

Stewie said EG will save NA cs. remember that. kek

2022-01-30 15:58

The worst part is that Liquid look like they don't even care.

Bottom of the scoreboard but already looking better :D

Ez 4 Vitality and goat zywoo

2022-01-30 15:59

honestly, not surprising. This team has to grow a lot, since most of them were out of action for long

2022-01-30 16:06

this EG team is going to be so mediocre. looks doomed from the start. stewie is not a good leader and the rest of the players are washed

2022-01-30 16:10

mediocre is a nice way of putting it

2022-01-30 16:26

Apex forgot to turn off his hacks on his personal PC

EG = Early Grave

2022-01-30 16:20

Apex topfragging lmao.

LEZGO

2022-01-30 16:28

Well played to Zywoo! The real number 1 of 2021, he did an amazing job against the soon to be Top 1 Player of 2022. Let's win the upcoming matches and bring back the NA CS vibes! #GGEZ #autimaticTop1Player2022 #EGTop1Team2022 #NACS>EUCS

2022-01-30 16:30

NA cs so baaad 😂

2022-01-30 16:31

apEX rulez 🙂

2022-01-30 16:35

Man it's seenable that this Vitality team has still plenty of work to do but this debut looked insane, if this lineup gets more time I think they could be maybe even title contenders. Really nice showing. As for EG, I just didn't see any positives. They looked outgun, outstrat even, overall nothing was working, and just as I thought this lineup most likely will be another failure from the EG org.

2022-01-30 16:37