Evil Geniuses recruit ex-compLexity Counter-Strike players

With the demise of the Championship Gaming Series and subsequent layoffs (for lack of a better word) of the players in the league, freelance gaming organizations have been stepping up their recruitment game. This weekend, while most of North America tried to sleep in, Evil Geniuses snaked nearly the entire compLexity Counter-Strike roster.

Danny “fRoD” Montaner, Tyler “Storm” Wood, Matt “Warden” Dickens and Corey “hanes” Hanes will join Jordan “n0thing” Gilbert as the new lineup of EG 2009. It’s notable that Ron “Rambo” Kim, who left 3D to play with compLexity many moons ago, will not be part of the new lineup.

As EG is sponsored by Intel and has the financial means to send its players to tournaments, the news shouldn’t have been a complete surprise, though messageboards worldwide are on fire.

coL manager Jason Lake was appreciably disgusted by the turn of events, however, and in a public statement called Alex Garfield, the owner and manager of EG, a traitor.

Human drama notwithstanding, it’s unclear where coL as a brand would fit into the post-CGS e-Sports world, if at all. The team brand was sold to CGS prior to the launch of the league and its ownership status is murky at best. 

coL may just be another e-Sports dream wrecked by the death of the CGS, which won’t fly for the players who still hold out hope of making a living from gaming, even in a poor economy. 

GotFrag has a couple of interviews up with fRoD and n0thing now.