Evil Geniuses
One of the Dota 2 veterans; Evil Geniuses was founded in October 2011. This makes the team one of the most traditional teams in North America… Nevertheless, the current roster does not quite reflect the team’s old strengths. After all, Arteezy, Suma1L and Cr1t have been committed to EG since 2016, but replacements for the offlane and hard support positions had to be found at the last minute. So s4 and Fly have been strengthening the ranks for 2 months; as usual, the hard support also leads the team as captain and thus this role falls to newcomer Fly.
In terms of ambitions, the team sees itself far ahead and would like to avoid last year’s fiasco at all costs. The team lost extremely clearly against Team Empire and thus “only” took 9th place. We’ll see if Evil Geniuses manages to build on old successes (bronze in TI6) or is wiped out early on.
Greatest success:Â Â Winner of The International 2015, 3rd place The International 2016
Team Roster:
Carry:Â Â Arteezy
Mid:Â Sumal
Offlane:Â s4
Roamer/Support:Â Cr1t-
Hard Support:Â Fly (Captain)
League of Legends explained – LoL for Dummies
The name of probably the most influential eSports title of the last few years – “League of Legends” – has been heard quickly; but what exactly it is all about is rather difficult to grasp, especially for the layman. Therefore, this complex game is broken down here to simple basic elements, understandable for everyone.
League of Legends or “LoL” is a video game published by Riot Games and belongs to the genre (game category) “MOBA”. MOBA is a sub-genre of strategy games and stands for “Multiplayer Online Battle Arena” – so it is an online team game that is played on a closed map that is always the same.
On this map, usually the so-called “Summoner’s Rift”, the teams compete in a five-against-five match with the goal of destroying the enemy base, the winner being the team that destroys the enemy’s main building, the “Nexus”. This usually takes between 25 and 35 minutes, but can also take an hour.
Each player controls one of over 140 available champions. These are selected before the start of each game and matched with the team. Each of these champions has its own skillset – i.e. abilities – and thus differs fundamentally from the others. Therefore, on the one hand it is important to perfect these champions as much as possible, but at the same time to know the skills of all champions in order to be able to compete effectively against them. This is also a long-term task, since new champions are added to the game all the time.