America’s best and baddest team calls competition ‘hippies, hoodies and just no’

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In League of Legends, there is a changing of the guard in the USA in 2022. The previously dominant teams like TSM and Cloud9 are weakening – the team “Evil Geniuses” is now at the helm. They make a clear declaration of war against the competition. The exciting thing: Evil Geniuses relies on trash talk and young talent from North America.

That’s the situation with LoL in the US:

  • For years, the “Team SoloMid” was dominant in the USA, they won 7 championships. Other strong teams were Cloud9 (4 championships) and Team Liquid (4 championships). Other teams than these 3 hardly played a role in the race for the championship title of the LCS.
  • But since 2021 there has been a changing of the guard: Suddenly the teams 100 Thieves, who rely heavily on Merchanidse, and Evil Geniuses are at the top and each won a championship title. Even now, in the summer of 2022, both teams have fought again at the top of the league.
  • The “Evil Geniuses” add spice and innovation: they rely on US talent and love trash talk.

    • Also a friend of trash talk, Tyler1:

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    For years, LCS was considered a league for legionnaires and discarded professionals

    This was the problem of the LCS for a long time: For years, the leading US teams were heavily influenced by European legionnaires, who played a dominant role in the North American LCS league:

  • Above all, Scandinavian players like the Danes Bjergsen, Jensen or Zven seemed to decide who becomes champion
  • Disused veterans from Korea, who had played a strong season there years ago, like Huni or Impact, still played with top teams in the USA for years.
  • The world champion criticized from China: In the USA there is no pressure from young talents to perform on the well-fed professionals – old players would be allowed to play too long because they sell merchandise

    • For years, the LCS was seen as a league of legionnaires and “old players” that offered too little room for North American talent. This meant that the US teams were eliminated year after year without a chance at international tournaments and the fans complained and complained extensively: Things couldn’t go on like this, something had to change.

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    This is the special way of Evil Geniuses: But Evil Geniuses is now finding success with precisely these talents from North America. Key players are:

    Both players are young and still have room for improvement:

  • In spring 2022, Evil Geniuses only played 9-9 in the league, but thanks to outstanding playffofs they still became champions
  • In the summer of 2022, the team now seems much more dominant: They are at the top of the LCS with 8-1

    • This is unusual, because “young teams” are actually considered unstable. But Evil Geniuses have some experience on the team alongside the two young talents, with 23-year-old support player Vulcan and 27-year-old veteran Impact.

    “The old ways are dead”

    Here’s how Evil Geniuses performs: Her appearance on social media is as interesting as her squad.

    In a February 5 video, “The Old Ways are dead,” Evil Geniuses CEO Nicole L. Jameson was seen declaring war with two content creators:

    The video begins with a dig at Jack Etienne, the head of Cloud9: she doesn’t even answer his call.

    Then the big competitors are dealt with: FlyQuests are hippies, 100 Thieves only rely on “hoodies”, i.e. merchandise, and TSM says: “They just don’t work” and tears up their plan with relish.

    In the video, the team shows that you go your own way with 4 players from North America and don’t rely on legionnaires. With Impact (South Korea) and Inspired (Poland) you actually have two people in the squad who don’t come from North America. But top laner Impact has been playing in the US for so long that he’s no longer considered a legionnaire.

    The other team in the list of 4 North Americans is simply removed from the list with a snap of your fingers.

    It can also be seen as a sign of the “new ways” that 3 women make this fight statement for Evil Geniuses.

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    With the trash talk and big announcements, Evil Geniuses brings much needed fire into the LCS again. EG has already received a few slaps in the face internationally. Because after winning the championship title in spring 2022, the young North Americans said: They would easily take on Europe.

    At MSI they then played 4 times against the European representatives G2 and lost every single game:

    LoL: Young US team promises to finish Europe – hits the boss in the 1st match and he is Danish

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