❌ Evil Geniuses has begun to wind down its operations ahead of a November 2 closure, CEO Chris DeAppolonio has announced. The organization has roots as far back as Counter-Strike 1.6, when it was under the control of Alexander Garfield and fielded players like Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert (2008-2012), Matt "Warden" Dickens (2008-2009) and Danny "fRoD" Montaner (2008-2011). The team left CS in 2012, and it was not until the brand was acquired by PEAK6 seven years later that EG re-entered CS by signing the NRG lineup, then ranked number four in the world. That squad went on to win ESL New York 2019 and StarSeries Season 8, and reach number one on the HLTV ranking during the pandemic in September 2020. In the following years, Evil Geniuses would lose Ethan "Ethan" Arnold to VALORANT and fail to replicate that success. They fell out of the top 30 in September 2021.