NAF on why Evil Geniuses move fell through: \u201cSome of the worst management I\u2019ve talked to\u201d Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/PGLTeam Liquid CS:GO star Keith \u2018NAF\u2019 Markovich has revealed how he passed up the opportunity to join Evil Geniuses before the 2022 season. The Canadian player engaged in talks with Evil Geniuses at the end of the 2021 season as he weighed up his options after a disappointing year with Team Liquid. In the end, he re-signed with Team Liquid, but for a period of time, he entertained the possibility of a change of scenery. By then, he had been with Liquid for three years, and the team had hit a lull after the dominant run in 2019 that saw them complete the Intel Grand Slam run inside 63 days. Talking about his decision to stay with Liquid on the latest episode of \u2018The Mauisnake Show\u2019, NAF explained that the lineup he wanted to build for EG wasn\u2019t possible because Ethan \u2018Ethan\u2019 Arnold had no desire to come back from Valorant due to CS:GO\u2019s hectic tournament calendar. At the same time, another reason why NAF decided against switching orgs was that he came away unimpressed from his discussions with Evil Geniuses\u2019 management. (Timestamp starts at 02:07:26 for mobile viewers) \u201cThat was probably some of the worst management I think I have ever talked to in my life,\u201d he said. \u201cNot to be too blunt about it. EG surely knows that as well. They\u2019re clearly not handling their team properly at all. \u201cMe talking to them for about an hour changed my mind. I was like, \u2018Liquid is light-years ahead of this organization and I\u2019d be an idiot to go and join this team\u2019. EG is a phenomenal org, they have plenty of history but I think the management and the way they run things are not the way [to do it]. \u201cI talked to them for an hour and I was like, \u2018I\u2019m not joining this disaster\u2019. I came back to Liquid and I was like, \u2018I\u2019m down to make things work, let\u2019s talk about it, and let\u2019s get things going.\u2019\u201d Evil Geniuses have come under intense scrutiny for their handling of the CS:GO team, which has been outside the top 20 in the world rankings since July 2021 (save for one week in November 2022). They have not won a trophy since ESL One Cologne 2020 North America, a tournament that was held online because of the global health crisis. Last week, CS:GO analyst Aleksandar \u2018kassad\u2019 Trifunovi\u0107 offered $1,000 to the team that eliminated Evil Geniuses from the RMR qualifier. LOS + oNe claimed the bounty after beating EG 2-0, meaning that the North American side will miss the upcoming IEM Rio Major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NAF on why Evil Geniuses move fell through: \u201cSome of the worst management I\u2019ve talked to\u201d Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/PGLTeam Liquid CS:GO star Keith \u2018NAF\u2019 Markovich has revealed how he passed up the opportunity to join Evil Geniuses before the 2022 season. The Canadian player engaged in talks with Evil Geniuses at the end of the 2021 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}