maLeK to depart Evil Geniuses

11-5-2022 02:00

The North American organization will be looking for new coaching staff.

After just over five months with Evil Geniuses, Damien "⁠maLeK⁠" Marcel is set to leave his position as head coach, the organization announced on Tuesday. While the 36-year-old Frenchman remains contracted to the team and will be exploring further options, other members of the coaching staff Paolo "⁠EVY⁠" Berbudeau and Juan "Hepa" Borges have been released.

Despite overhauling their CS:GO lineup at the start of the year, Evil Geniuses was not able to improve upon their poor performances during 2021. The final nail in the coffin for this lineup was their failure to qualify for the PGL Antwerp 2022 Major, with failures to qualify for IEM Dallas and the BLAST Spring finals coming shortly after.

maLeK will return to the drawing board

After serving as the head coach of G2 for three years, maLeK found himself eventually departing the team during the post-PGL Stockholm roster shuffle as ex-Vitality coach Rémy "⁠XTQZZZ⁠" Quoniam came in to replace him. He joined up with Evil Geniuses in December with the aim of helping them to rebuild their roster following their failures at the end of last year.

As for the assisting staff, EVY had also previously worked with maLeK in G2 while Hepa had been working as an analyst for Liquid in the latter half of 2021, but departed that squad pending their own roster overhaul. In their statement, Evil Geniuses promised additional information regarding the future of the team in the coming weeks.

Here is Evil Geniuses:

Vincent "⁠Brehze⁠" Cayonte
Tsvetelin "⁠CeRq⁠" Dimitrov
Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip
Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta
William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba

Damien "⁠maLeK⁠" Marcel (Inactive coach)

welp gg eg

2022-05-11 02:00

24 replies

well that didnt take long

2022-05-11 02:02

23 replies

probably had to also do with the coach bug thing really hope we see like 2-3 changes in EG soon

2022-05-11 02:03

22 replies

Imagine kicking Malek and keeping shit players like Stew, Autimatic and Rush

2022-05-11 02:27

17 replies

u aint watching those games if u think rush and auti are shit stew has been very underwhelming same with cerq and brehze just isnt hitting his stride

2022-05-11 02:32

16 replies

autimatic is their best player

2022-05-11 02:38

1 reply

+1 but we knew that would happen. I really was hoping for breeze and cerq to be monsters again

2022-05-11 03:08

2022-05-11 03:54

6/8 i agree with most of this except brehze has been slowly finding his form again. He currently has a better rating than autimatic and has rly good aim.

2022-05-11 05:10

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Hey guys I’m Thorin 2.0 and think kicking a guy who carried his team alone for 2 years. Same for NA. Please watch the streams. 3rd veto is electronic and automatic. For regional, perfecto. Hey buddy. Your logic means you get kicked if you’re 4th “best” bye friend 😘

2022-05-11 07:16

10 replies

idk what im reading

2022-05-11 07:18

2 replies

Same, pure mystery

2022-05-11 09:27

Time to make it a copypasta

2022-05-11 12:10

This is an international site, please write your comment in English. Comments in another language will be deleted.

2022-05-11 07:56

what the hell did you smoked? Perhaps sharing please?

2022-05-11 09:51

the most schizo comment ive read on HLTV this year, congratulations

2022-05-11 10:43

Can I get some of what you're smoking?

2022-05-11 11:11

+1 u nailed it bro + can I get some weed of yours pls ? For a friend

2022-05-11 11:27

U ok bro?

2022-05-20 14:11

brehze is doing all right

2022-05-11 15:16

At least those players arent bug abusing cheaters

2022-05-11 03:29

Neither are the coaches that were just banned. It's a massive sham.

2022-05-11 15:27

+1 esic has completely lost their minds with some of the bans

2022-05-11 19:35

Auti and rush haven’t been awful but tbh they haven’t been good, they just look better compared to the rest of the team.

2022-05-11 04:18

not first

2022-05-11 02:01

Eg destroyed malek

2022-05-11 02:43

2022-05-11 11:23

goodbye malek just one step of many to dismantle this pathetic EG roster

In absolute no way should that be the first step tho. Just get rid of the ones stealing huge paychecks first.

2022-05-11 02:13

9 replies

stewie2k has been stealing paychecks for years now!

2022-05-11 02:25

8 replies

Reported, cry for him. He is the best player there along with autimatic. Stew2k, JKS, Autimatic, Brehze or awp, Good igl

2022-05-11 04:01

6 replies

cerq>>>>>>stewie2k

2022-05-11 04:15

3 replies

Stewie is not bad as long as he isn't solo igl, he does a decent job on calling midrounds and plays entry pretty well. They just need to drop cerq, brehze and maybe rush because they also need an igl and stew can play support and entry either way, while rush is mostly support

2022-05-11 04:21

I have no clue why anyone isnt picking up AZR or just any IGL

2022-05-11 04:28

+1 I've been telling this since a long time, picking up azr, maybe Jks if he wants to and w0nderful/smooya it would make for a great international team core, probably what EG is trying to do

2022-05-11 04:31

imagine thinking rush should be kicked

2022-05-11 04:17

and kept stewie he should apply for eg kekw

2022-05-11 05:52

-stewie +lekr0, idk why they would bench maLek stew is the prob

2022-05-11 04:16

Lel

RIP

One down one to go

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there has to be more than one that has to be benched lmao

2022-05-11 02:21

rip KelaM

2022-05-11 03:14

Three or four to go lmaoo

2022-05-11 04:20

Five to go*

2022-05-11 04:33

Pathetic from EG

finally now waiting for disband

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

F. Best clapper in the scene

eg has no reason to be this bad

expected

Come to Brazil legend Case Esports l Malek

To Spain...do u speaking about....kkk

2022-05-11 04:12

Come to Bernabeu

2022-05-11 04:14

Damn thats rough

Dead team

Awful org + awful coach

Def not an awful coach

2022-05-11 02:04

14 replies

Awful coach.

12 replies

Awful take

A coach who take no timeout on crucial moments, accused of cheating and prove to be pretty useless. He is not a good coach. G2 choked so many times with him. At some point, he is part of their failures.

0/8

It is a not bait. If he was a god-tier coach, why it is only EG who choose him ? He had no authority in G2 or in EG. The old G2 or EG didn't play super tight cs.

2022-05-11 02:30

G2, got xtqzzz= better, vitality got zonic, also better. Other intl lineups already had coaches they liked (atleast for the moment) Not too surprising that he didn't go to a really good intl team

2022-05-11 02:36

I mean. EG was a shit hole and he probably deserves a bit better, but he is not a t1 coach by any mean.

2022-05-11 03:28

Why so? I don't think he's bad, but certainly not the best

2022-05-11 16:25

Liquid could have used a new coach tho, adren is kinda not working for them anymore

2022-05-11 04:25

adren is literally their bitch

2022-05-11 16:24

Malek should join liquid imo

2022-05-11 10:48

both are paycheck stealers. No, don't give Malek a job

2022-05-11 15:31

EG has money. That's why.

2022-05-11 15:28

Not awful but he got an ESIC ban recently so it would be hard for them to keep him

2022-05-11 04:23

Flag doesn’t check out

2022-05-11 02:12

7 replies

French scene knows his real value. He had no authority in any teams.

2022-05-11 02:31

Not only he never won anything, he has no respect from any player he ever worked with. Why G2 was better on LAN compared to online "Because he couldnt talk as much".

2022-05-11 02:34

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Yo le noob, We only know of the situation what Seb wants us to know, the situation must not be as one-sided as that.

2022-05-11 12:02

Il n'a pas l'air très tight. Malek n'a pas d'autorité. Niko contrôlait tout et Stewie ne respectait pas plus Malek. Il a l'air d'un "fraud".

2022-05-11 15:36

Oh I agree with you, he clearly doesn't seem to be the most impactful and tactical coach, but judging him on the basis of hearsay isn't fair.

2022-05-11 18:23

true. It just ppl say Stewie didn't listen to him and stuff like that. Sure Stewie is stubborn, but he never did that to Adren or even Moses. He is probably acting like a life coach more than a real tactical coach.

2022-05-11 18:34

+1 We've only heard what seb has said, and nothing else.

2022-05-11 16:26

+1 Someone who knows his real value.

Toxic Stew once again

100% he is behind this. cant get along with any IGL or coach because he has idiotic views on how to play the game. nitr0, adren, moses, fallen. stewie2k is a toxic player with subpar aim and a terrible IGL. he is the problem, always has been.

+100

2022-05-11 05:13

2022-05-11 05:53

+1 stewie is an arrogant bot

2022-05-11 06:12

+1111 the problem with stew is that he has this NA savior complex, that c9 major+liquid IGS run really just inflated this complex insanely since he had the idea of him being the only NA player to achieve such a feat.

2022-05-11 06:58

TRUEING that C9 major run was such a flook

2022-05-11 10:28

2022-05-11 11:00

Good. Everything about this team sucks including Malek If you need proof of that watch an EG T side.

*watch any side of any map

2022-05-11 09:17

expected tbh

they are trash talking him so hard in the announcement (for an official org) like if their team can win a shit

2022-05-11 02:05

was going to happen even if EG wanted to keep him or not. MaleK was in free-roam coach bug. He'll be banned for 2 years.

2022-05-11 02:06

here we go..

Man maLek deserves a better team to coach

Not a bad idea, but still that'll be impossible.

2022-05-12 02:50

come OG -ruggah

2022-05-11 02:07

Bench the roster as well.

2022-05-11 02:08

Are the players using him as a scapegoat, or are we going to get a roster change as well?

2022-05-11 02:09

100% scapegoat. stewie2k seems to be good at convincing management anyone but him is the issue. like liquid getting rid of twistzz, nitr0, and adren. then wanting them back after they realized it was a mistake.

2022-05-11 02:22

+1 had they not kicked twistzz just imagine how good they could've been

2022-05-11 05:26

Twistzz wanted to play in eu and left no?

2022-05-11 07:10

Yes he wanted to leave because of Stewie. Notice how none of Stewies former teammates aside from c9 really interact with him anymore.

2022-05-11 21:15

He was willing to stay with Liquid, but only if they were willing to commit to playing in EU more in order to practice and play against the best. Liquid wasn't willing/able to make this accommodation for the team, whether it was players didn't want to do it, or the org itself I'm not sure. But that was the big reason Twistzz went to FaZe.

2022-05-11 21:29

W malek is free from NACS

pls disband

2022-05-11 02:10

won't matter tbh

the roster is pathetic and they are thinking they will be able to beat the bests.

2022-05-11 02:11

XD!

Malek will be better off on a better team anyways. Seems crazy that he went from coaching a major finalist team to coaching that EG team lol.

Eh, he sucks and also is banned due to the coaching bug. Fluke coach with G2 and literally never contributed on EG.

2022-05-11 04:58

just release the whole roster already

2022-05-11 02:17

Poor Malek fell for the bait

2022-05-11 02:18

He was picked up and stole paychecks with EG until now. He is probably really happy EG picked him up because nobody else was going to.

2022-05-11 04:59

Do you think no European team will hire him?? I'm pretty sure he will be the coach of a much better team soon

2022-05-11 06:04

this eg project really showed me that he can't get things done

2022-05-11 02:19

THE PROBLEM ISN'T THE COACH ITS BOT2K WTF

2022-05-11 02:20

Okay, Malek confirmed using Coach bug! KEKW

They just need 6 months and it’s will be a good team. I guess an american coach will be better idk. But eg results are logical currently cause they create a new roster. Is not because u won major with 3 of them, u can have t1 gameplan on 1 month.

maybe 1.5 years.... and they will be in a grand final

2022-05-11 02:41

All the players individually are not Tier 1 material, at least not anymore.

2022-05-11 06:19

Maybe brehze and cerq will recover from their slump. Brehze more likely, cerq doesn't seems happy in NA or this team

2022-05-11 09:22

Mate their slump has been for about 1.5 years now, and their team has gone through alot of roster iterations with coaching changes as well yet both are far away from their former selves. I love Cerq but both are literally washed now and I have lost hope.

That’s ur opinion. My is csgo is like bike. So if they won major they should recover their t1 form

2022-05-11 09:53

They won that major 4 years ago, there have been huge overhauls in the meta of CS, and they just haven't adapted with it. Now, with Covid and Valorant, NA CS is just so far behind.

2022-05-11 11:35

NA CS have great players but they are placed in the wrong formation.

2022-05-11 02:29

Now -Stewie -Cerq +smooya +MSL and Daps to coach

imagine insistently holding Valulrant2k in the roster and waiting for success, omegalul.

2022-05-11 02:33

But stewie is the most succesful NA player, 1 mamajor and 1 grandslam

2022-05-11 10:51

well bye bye EG

What? Already?

more roster moves incoming for EG, looking like theyre gonna revamp a ton of stuff

2022-05-11 02:42

maybe og?

2022-05-11 02:46

disband incoming

2022-05-11 02:50

new esic victim?

2022-05-11 02:54

Expected

2022-05-11 03:03

ez for Stew2Goat

2022-05-11 03:04

malek was not the problem

He is not a solution in any teams either.

2022-05-11 03:32

SAVED

2022-05-11 03:09

the cheerleader is available again.

Man. Show some respect, he is more a life coach with powerful charkas.

2022-05-11 03:31

sad

2022-05-11 03:35

legit didnt see malek say a single word at all every time eg played wont make a damn difference

understandable

2022-05-11 03:59

Who Cars?

2022-05-11 04:02

Tesla

2022-05-11 15:15

Tf is EG doing

2022-05-11 04:04

I bet this is because of the coaching bug stuff. He is one of the known characters involved. Not saying he is guilty, but his name is being mentioned a lot in that stuff.

2022-05-11 04:11

He literally is guilty though lol.

2022-05-11 05:00

Just disband... autimatic retire while you still have some dignity

Disband later

2022-05-11 04:32

Poor Malek, we love you! pls come to Case

2022-05-11 04:34

Looks like EG to Valorant then +tarik

can you blame him

2022-05-11 05:02

eg was bound to fail, one of the worst cs investments of all time. we'll see what they do to try and turn things around

2022-05-11 05:16

This is the part where we pretend to be shocked. Malek really didn't look invested into this project did he? :( Also, please sign AZR. PLEASE!

2022-05-11 05:50

Waste of time for AZR... they need to sign someone for him

2022-05-11 07:45

Biggest issue for sure.

malek has been busy playing wingman, forgive him (played wingman with him on train like a week ago)

2022-05-11 06:56

prove it or... 🔪

2022-05-11 08:06

Imagine proving something to an Indian, don't believe - gtfo

2022-05-11 10:26

woah :O you're english is better than me given you're 5 years old

2022-05-11 12:11

Thanks. And what did you imply by this message? Being 5 years old is something bad?

2022-05-11 12:15

sure, no hope in EG

2022-05-11 07:00

why pick the word depart? there are better words like escape,flee,extract etc.

2022-05-11 07:33

who actually thinks malek was the problem in EG ??

2022-05-11 07:27

malek is a cool dude

2022-05-11 07:41

Nah... Just bench everyone apart from Auti... rest is washed or not good enough for T1

2022-05-11 07:44

use EG players to make a few academy teams, honestly better use of any of them (except auti + maybe maybe brehze)

2022-05-11 08:05

Still hopeles

2022-05-11 08:09

MaLeK is a good coach, if u set him with a good igl. when he wa sback in g2 he was good

2022-05-11 08:14

Imagine how stupid this team is if they think that they are losin only cause malek kekw. This team is rostet of washed players, paycheck stealers.

2022-05-11 08:30

Malek was overqualified for the job, eg should add ocean

2022-05-11 08:50

This is extremely cringe, blaming the coaches and not the players? Wtf EG?

2022-05-11 08:53

Well... Question : who would want to join this team, knowing that you are gonna be made responsible for the players failures?

2022-05-11 08:56

Tier 5 coaches maybe who got nothing to lose.. Or coaches who cant find jobs anyway

2022-05-11 09:05

2022-05-11 08:57

Right decision

2022-05-11 09:09

KEKW

2022-05-11 09:19

Good for malek, gl finding a stewieless team. It'll be an upgrade regardless.

EG: Yeah we need to make a roster change Benches the only player in the lineup with consistent results over 2021 instead of delusional IGL.

2022-05-11 09:25

finally malek is exposed as a fraud

2022-05-11 09:47

Bench = bug coach !!!!

2022-05-11 09:55

+Malek -xtqzzz

-EG would make more sense

2022-05-11 09:56

Any man who believed in this team deserve to be fired :D

Not surprised Good lineup on paper, but no results whatsoever :(

2022-05-11 10:37

EG sucks big time.

2022-05-11 10:40

next up -stewie +daps/spellan/ben1337/TMB/walco (TMB would be the best fit, but unlikely)

2022-05-11 10:49

- malek + bulba

2022-05-11 10:52

stewie good for one year suck forever

2022-05-11 11:03

Ofc their bad results have nothing to do with their roster being trash

2022-05-11 11:20

That'll fix EG LMAO

2022-05-11 11:22

Ffs its not MaleK who's the problem here. Get your team right, getting together three people who won the major 4 years ago isn't gonna make you a top team. Get out of NA & shift to EU if you really want to get better.

2022-05-11 11:24

remove staff when players are the problem :/

2022-05-11 11:25

before i went to bed, i was thinking about possible EG solutions... Malek to depart was 1st thing on my list.. i wake up,, and see this.. wtf?? :D

2022-05-11 11:33

How is this gonna help exactly? I agree, he probably wasn't doing much for the team, but NA coaches have never been hands on.

2022-05-11 11:38

communication issues - solved they are trying to give 2d life to na scene - havig FR coach is nonsense Young players have to work o basics - Malek is a high level coach which should not waste time o explaining basics to players. there are more thigs to consider, but those 3 are basics.

2022-05-11 11:41

Malek was probably the good part of the roster.

2022-05-11 11:55

Hear me out... what if Imperial get him now that peacemaker is banned from stuff?

2022-05-11 11:58

Good luck finding a coach that is "aligned with the EG goals and system" of consistently losing, lol

2022-05-11 12:12

maLeK wasn't the problem :(

2022-05-11 12:22

Haha ez escape from ISIC and trying to mask using the Coaching bug... pathetic

2022-05-11 13:26

The problem surely is the coach lmfao

2022-05-11 14:02

yes Malek was the problem OMEGALUL

2022-05-11 14:14

isnt malek who use coach bug and are on list to ban by esic?

2022-05-11 14:26

"use" is a strong word, recent ban wave addresses coaches who happened to get into that bug by sheer accident. Cause you can get into it by accident

2022-05-11 15:22

yes, but i read somewhere that he used to use it actively

2022-05-11 15:24

I don't have that info, would rather wait to see what ESIC says. But other recent bans are about bs "offences" where real offender is valve allowing this to happen. Cause to my knowledge, you could bug out simply by watching a player at the moment he dies. That's it. There's at least 100 deaths in every match, way more on average, it's not really hard to bug out and end up on thsi list. But yeah, I don't know about his case specifically so I am just projecting what happened to Spirit coach - guy got banned for encountering a bug and disconnecting and re-connecting after round was done.

2022-05-11 15:29

the coach wasn't the problem

2022-05-11 14:43

Bye bye cheater

2022-05-11 15:05

EG is evolving, just backwards. malek is probably the best piece they have if they want to be relevant, 2k is a selfish egomaniac, cerq is a mechanical god who has no understanding of positioning of timing, autimatic is underwhelming alongside brheze... Rush is arguably their best piece cause he understands team play, others just roam like headless flies. Well, another squad with stew2k falls apart real fast, surprise surprise.

maLeK is a joke, stop giving him more opportunities ffs

2022-05-11 16:34

Eg was the problem not maLeK

2022-05-11 17:01

+1 Noob2k and Washed Cerq are bots and need to be kicked ASAP

2022-05-12 18:29

pls find good team damdam

2022-05-11 23:42

maLeK >>> roster EG

2022-05-12 02:10

thank god eg is trash these players just take enormous salary and they are not even trying to win anything, they just play the game like they are bored of it but they play it only because of their salary

2022-05-31 00:19