Evil Geniuses has signed Kazakhstani in-game leader Sanjar “neaLaN” İshakov to replace Jake “Stewie2K” Yip on its main CS:GO team and brought on former Copenhagen Flames head coach and esports director Daniel Vorborg to be in charge of that lineup.
The arrivals of neaLaN and vorborg had already been reported prior to the official announcement. Vitality rifler Kévin “misutaaa” Rabier was also expected to join EG’s main lineup to replace William “RUSH” Wierzba, but according to HLTV, the deal fell through at the last minute because the organization wanted to retain a North American core of three players to keep competing in NA’s Regional Major Ranking (RMR) event, rather than playing in the European one, which is much more competitive nowadays.