With Evil Geniuses discovering itself working on only a skeleton crew of workers in accordance with these which have been laid off by the group, administration is reportedly seeking to proceed discount.
Per a report from long-time esports reporter Richard Lewis, Evil Geniuses is planning to finally half methods with each its males’s and girls’s Counter-Strike divisions, and administration is prioritizing a sale of the LCS slot through a deal that’s reportedly “within the works” however not completed but.
Lewis studies that the sale of the Evil Geniuses’ LCS slot “has been shopped round behind the scenes for a while,” and that the “probably purchaser at this stage, offered quite a lot of checks and agreements are met underneath the supervision of Riot Video games, can be Fanatic Gaming, the guardian firm behind the esports model Luminosity Gaming.”
In accordance with Lewis’ sources, the deal is “fairly far alongside within the course of and Fanatic is at the moment the popular purchaser.”
This report doesn’t verify, nevertheless, that Evil Geniuses will completely depart the aggressive League of Legends scene, as one supply said to Lewis that the group plans “to simply keep in Riot titles,” which suggests it will “preserve the boys’s [CS2] crew till December [2023] and can possible lower the ladies’s groups earlier than that.”
Theoretically, because of this EG may go ahead with simply League and VALORANT divisions, however there are severe query marks about these potential targets. If the crew is promoting its LCS slot, then it will possible have to maneuver to a brand new area, similar to what TSM has done with its move to China.
For each its League and VALORANT divisions there are questions on rosters as properly. A number of members of the EG League roster have already reportedly agreed to deals with other teams, and with its world championship VALORANT gamers reportedly in contract jail, there’s no assure that any of the gamers that lifted the Champions 2023 trophy will return for the VCT 2024 season.
