Jeorge and junior depart EG ahead of reported move to Nouns

19-12-2023 20:43

The players' departure from Evil Geniuses leaves the organization without a spot in the PGL Major Copenhagen Americas RMR NA closed qualifier.

junior and Jeorge are reportedly headed to Nouns ahead of the new year

Evil Geniuses have bid farewell to Paytyn "⁠junior⁠" Johnson and Jeorge "⁠Jeorge⁠" Endicott on the heels of a report by Dust2.us that links the pair with a move to Nouns.

junior and Jeorge's departure leaves Evil Geniuses with just two players on their roster after Jadan "⁠HexT⁠" Postma previously departed for NRG at the end of November.

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The changes mean that EG will lose their spot in the PGL Major Copenhagen RMR NA closed qualifier due to losing their core, with Wildcard next in line in Valve's rankings to replace them.

Additionally, Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta told HLTV that his contract with EG ends in January and he intends to take a "short 1-3 month break from competing" so he can give his next team his best.

All of the moves come barely a month after a report by Richard Lewis stated EG are set to drop their CS2 team and exit Counter-Strike, with the organization also recently completing the sale of their BLAST Premier spot to Cloud9.

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Jeorge and junior will reportedly replace Brendan "⁠Bwills⁠" Williams and David "⁠cynic⁠" Polster on Nouns, bolstering the roster's firepower after they fell flat in their recent results. The team attended ESL Challenger Jönköping and narrowly beat Eternal Fire in their opening game, but couldn't convert that into a playoff berth and exited the tournament in 5-6th place.

Nouns also failed to qualify for ESL Pro League Season 19 after suffering losses to BOSS and Party Astronauts in the playoffs of ESL Challenger League, and have fallen behind domestically to M80, who currently reign supreme in the region.

The reported move would give Nouns plenty of time to get practice in with their new roster as they secured an invite to the PGL Major Copenhagen Americas RMR closed qualifier, which will run from January 12-14.

If the move comes to fruition, Nouns will be:

Carson "⁠nosraC⁠" O'Reilly
Christopher "⁠cJ dA K1nG⁠" Jones
Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado
Paytyn "⁠junior⁠" Johnson
Jeorge "⁠Jeorge⁠" Endicott

Kory "⁠SEMPHIS⁠" Friesen (coach)

well now

2023-12-19 20:43

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NA cs has been a disaster since Boston Major

2023-12-19 22:13

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I think since 2020 when it was all online however Liquid still made some grand finals aparences

2023-12-20 01:32

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I miss the good ole days of SK and Immortals

2023-12-20 01:37

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Me too man :.)

2023-12-20 01:39

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Lmao EG is literally in shambles that players are leaving to play under bedroom orgs....

2023-12-20 03:34

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GOAT Junior is about to make his way like ZywOo did from tier 4 to beat everyone from tier 1 and surpass the actual top 1 in the next year, in this case ZywOo

2023-12-20 03:43

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Based

2023-12-21 07:31

Actually complexity and liquid did pretty well in their last events

2023-12-20 07:41

NA next hope

2023-12-19 20:44

Gorge and Yunior whoo??

2023-12-20 11:55

oh nooooooooo not EG!!

Hurry up and shutdown ffs. And get rid of your ESL partner spot while you're at it

c9 bught it

2023-12-19 21:55

only the BLAST spot. No one knows what'll become of the ESL spot.

2023-12-19 21:56

right, my bad

jeorge > jks

ngl that roster looks pretty promising for NA

2023-12-19 20:45

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Yeah, decent moves for sure.

2023-12-19 21:01

MrNorwood I've been wondering, where are you on the Norwood scale?

2023-12-19 21:05

I do not fall on the scale, as I still have all of my hair.

2023-12-19 21:08

Are you related to the Norwood Reaper by any chance?

2023-12-21 01:29

No, but I might hang out with him sometime...

2023-12-21 16:36

Gotta agree on this

2023-12-19 23:11

Jeorge will shine

2023-12-19 20:46

I hope so! He was great in the original lineup

2023-12-19 23:21

Jeorge will make nouns great again

2023-12-19 20:48

Jeorge, Junior and MarKE are a solid core. And cJ has been playing out of his mind recently.

2023-12-19 20:49

Eg is officially dead

2023-12-19 20:50

What the fuck

2023-12-19 20:51

Junior too good for NA, -broky +junior

2023-12-19 20:53

whos going to igl now?

Carson has been IGL for the last while

Carson will take it back from cynic

2023-12-20 00:11

goatior is back in action

2023-12-19 20:55

semphis goat

2023-12-19 21:00

Looks like a good move to me.

2023-12-19 21:02

semphis coaching wtf, I thought he was done with cs long time ago

2023-12-19 21:17

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He has been the coach for this team since before they got signed to Nouns

2023-12-19 21:41

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why does he look like hulk?

2023-12-19 22:02

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Because hes jacked. Don't be jealous

2023-12-19 22:27

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Is he a bodybuilder now?

2023-12-19 22:30

He has always looked like that. I was referring to the common meme.

2023-12-19 22:38

What do you mean?

2023-12-19 22:41

He is still wearing fresh clothes. Honestly, the guy could be a millitary instructor.

2023-12-19 23:10

dude, he was fat and nerdy, now he's built like a refrigerator. Is he the American keev?

2023-12-19 23:14

The american tentpole

2023-12-19 23:17

same thing

2023-12-19 23:24

I mean. It is like blamef, he becomes bigger and bigger. Konfig was pretty small too.

2023-12-19 23:55

He used to do fitness coaching, he would talk about it on stream, hasn't streamed in awhile though so idk if hes still doing that

2023-12-20 17:16

Nouns is finally my 3rd favorite Americas team to cheer for

2023-12-19 21:21

ez for both of them

2023-12-19 21:37

Nouns looking interesting

2023-12-19 21:45

Ok so i was the first who started yappin about this move and when I did everyone called me crazy now everyone likes it Second Nouns just kicked cynic? Instead of CJ? Why? Why was Cynic given back his rifle igl duties, Nosrac could come igl, bwills was shit so good kick but kicking cynic doesn't make sense to me

+1 cynic so underrated in NA its crazy i hope he gets a offer for some better roster... give him a chance for in COL instead of hallzerk for 1 tournament..

2023-12-20 22:48

Was cynic ever the main AWPer for a team? From what I remember he had to move into cadiaN roles on Nouns after they lost their AWPer and IGL, but this is a while ago

2023-12-21 11:21

yes he was IGL + Awper 1 year ago , and pretty good i don´t any other NA player who can do both and still mantain a good level except for nitro but thats the only exception and isn´t around anymore

2023-12-21 23:20

make america great again xD btw hopes na find their way again!

if NA fully stops recycling players and cuts all ties to people like adreN then there’s hope.

2023-12-20 00:24

looks good but they still need a solid igl

2023-12-19 22:53

Wonder where wiz and walco land before the NA qualifier?

2023-12-19 23:04

Why not cynic to rifle/igl? And -CJ

Gonna be a big boost to this Nouns roster, excited to see how they fare against M80 and other teams in that level

2023-12-19 23:05

this noun team would be insane

2023-12-19 23:27

Still need an IGL but this is an upgrade.

2023-12-19 23:32

Pretty sure nosraC has been calling since cynic went on hiatus but I could be wrong

2023-12-19 23:53

I dont think carson is a very good igl to be honest, walco would most likely be better imo or give stewie another shot. Even steel would be hype

2023-12-20 00:15

I don't think Stewie will join an NA team that doesn't have some sort of partnership slot in an S tier event. If he is open to "starting fresh" in CS2, he is likely going to be very picky about which team he joins despite his limited options as is. As for steel, he was playing with Bad News Bears for a while, but joined a mix team with PwnAlone for the recent ESEA Autumn Cash Cup online event. I think steel left BNB and will join PwnAlone or find another team. It would be awesome to see Nouns pickup Stewie2K or steel as their IGL, but I don't think it is very likely.

2023-12-20 00:30

I dont think steel will find an actual team for challenger league, but he will likely keep playing with mixteams in cashcups and mythic cups and the like, and yeah I doubt either will actually join but I just think it could be really hype on paper. I dont know why stewie isnt competing, he is grinding cs daily and still seems very competitive, maybe he is just delusional and thinks he can join a top team or maybe he is taking a break from competition idk

2023-12-20 01:04

I am hopeful too lol. I want to see Stewie2K and steel back in action. I honestly think Stewie2K still has a bit of an ego though, so I'm kind of losing some hope that he'll find a "suitable" team. I wonder if NRG reached out to him because he would've been a decent IGL imo and daps would've made a good coach.

2023-12-20 03:38

I dont think any NA team wants anything to do with Stewie after that EG fiasco. And it's best that they don't. No more recycling the same crap, that was one of the main reasons why NA CS died.

2023-12-20 05:00

Does anyone really need a break after competing for Evil Genius?! The job itself is a permanent break.

2023-12-20 00:25

Playing for EG was probably hell for most people. Management seemed pretty unprofessional and useless at that. The whole "data driven" approach didn't do a damn thing and leadership was lacking within the CS team itself and EG's management team overall. Poor relationships with brands caused some of their sponsorships to back out and then the decision to put the Blue Print Project into action was another nail in their coffin. At least the CS team got free paychecks though for doing nothing and wasting spots at every event they received an invite to.

2023-12-20 00:34

Thank you for your polite and detailed response to my provocative comment. I get it must be frustrating for autimatic to watch all roster changes around him and team getting worse and worse. But at the same time EG has one of the best salaries and they have a lot of time between LANs. I can understand s1mple taking a break but I really struggle to understand an EG player needing 'a break from competing'.

2023-12-20 01:20

I try to be polite, but I admittedly behave poorly sometimes. My goal is to have a mature 'debate' with others on these forums. Yeah, I can imagine autimatic just seeing his career go up in smoke and feeling helpless. s1mple honestly might find another team because it seems like he just didn't like CS2 from the beginning, so he basically benched himself. As for autimatic, I think he is taking a break because he's waiting for the good NA teams to 'fumble the ball' at the first Major's qualifiers and the first Major itself, then change rosters afterwards. No sense in joining a team just for the sake of playing - just my 2 cents. He'll probably find a bottom of the barrel tier 1 NA team, or at least 1 of the better tier 2 teams that can qualify for future Majors and other "big events" (S tier and right below S tier, whatever you call it).

Interesting moves I suppose. Although I have my doubts about Nouns improving much given their lackluster performance so far in 2023.

2023-12-20 00:28

nouns will never be much with carson and cj...FACT

2023-12-20 00:44

not bad

2023-12-20 02:12

junior my goat, good luck

2023-12-20 03:05

junior to C9

2023-12-20 03:57

Junior to Furia, surely nothing can go wrong.....

2023-12-20 08:36

no closed qualifer spot? surely liquid can take iot?

2023-12-20 10:57

Any chance EG withdraw from EPL?

2023-12-20 12:09

yes. Just that no one knows who'll take over the partner spot.

2023-12-21 01:10

I think no one will buy the partner spot cuz the partnership system will be abolished in 2025. EF may join the 4 teams coming from Esl rankings as the 5th team.

2023-12-22 19:10

m8, we had a team willingly buy a spot in BLAST’s closed circuit even tho its useless after 2024. It’ll likely be no different here. I hear that it may be NRG buying the spot from EG.

2023-12-22 19:12