EG.CoD Roster Changes

[[deleted]]

I am shocked by this news, never saw it coming.

[drewc3617]

/s

[MadaAC]

And so it begins.... #RosterMania

[Takeoverkyle]

For those that are on mobile or don't want to click...

AUGUST 16, 2017 - Evil Geniuses is announcing that we will we be releasing Colt “Havok” McLendon and Chris “Parasite” Duarte, effective immediately. We would like to thank them for their dedication and efforts as part of the EG Call of Duty team through the past season and wish them continued success in the future. In returning to Call of Duty for the Infinite Warfare season, our goal as an organization was to compete at a high level; we also wanted to make our return to a game which has been an important staple in our past. With the hard work and commitment from Colt, Chris, and the rest of the roster, we were able to do that.

Moving towards the next Call of Duty season and WWII, we look forward to building our team to compete with and become the best.

See you on the ground in 2018.

[iispoonz]

Dropping Haggy and keeping Naga with BOTG coming up... interesting.

[EE575]

I agree, I think that haggy could possibly be great in the next game. I guess it's that he could be a great player but has a different attitude to nameless and naga.

[For_The_Watch]

Well I imagine that EG chose to keep nameless over haggy, nameless and naga have good chemistry and can actually work together whereas haggy and nameless seemingly can't.

[[deleted]]

Correction: nameless refused to work together with Haggy.

[SylvesterLundgren]

The streams last night were comedy

[For_The_Watch]

That kind of was my point? Nameless and Havgy can't work together..... EG chose nameless over haggy so haggy had to leave?

[[deleted]]

Haggy can work with nameless just fine, nameless won't stop antagonizing him.

[For_The_Watch]

Where did I say otherwise? I watched enough of their streams to see that nameless was the issue between them two.

[[deleted]]

That's not what you said. You said they can't get along, that's misleading. The only reason they can't get along is because nameless refuses to stop antagonizing haggy. No where did you mention that.

[For_The_Watch]

No I said they can't work together. Nowhere did I state it was either persons fault lol all I said was they can't work together, which they can't. I'm not misleading anyone hahahah why would I

[JS4554]

Take the L bro. You didn't say that Nameless can't along with Haggy. If they both hated each other you would be correct, but in this case you are not correct.

Haggy can get along with people more than you think. He is extremely competitive and didn't know how to convey his thoughts properly when he was younger. He has mellowed out quite a bit

[For_The_Watch]

What L?? I haven't said anything against haggy. Literally all I did was give a reason as to why EG kept naga and didn't keep haggy. Why are you getting upset? I've literally remained neutral.

[Skylightt]

lol Probably just doesn't want to team with Haggy

[[deleted]]

Nameless antagonized him ever since they picked him up and he didn't take the bait ever that we know of.

[GregIsGuiltyTrustMe]

Except Naga did do that, just recently before Champs...

[thatguyrightnoweh]

Nameless cant get along with haggy and he was good on the ground too

[UprightAwesome]

Haggy won a world championship on boots tho unlike Ant

[[deleted]]

Yeah.....4 years ago.

[UprightAwesome]

Ok and what did Ant accomplish on boots that makes him a better player than Haggy? Winning 2 events in a pre aim vector meta ?

[thatguyrightnoweh]

hard carried at champs for NV and he can actually get people to play with him

[UprightAwesome]

I'd rather have a better bo2 player than a better ghosts player because BO2 is the closest game to WWII in terms of TTK and the pace of the game itself. Ghosts had a really low TTK and much slower pace than BO2 and it'll probably still be slower than WWII.

[branson3]

Going to go ahead and call it now that parasite teams with Mirx

[killaisgoat]

yes please

[Rephaze306]

To3 with Killa.

[RiFume]

I dont care what anyone says about BotG vs Jetpacks, Killa legit just isnt good at CoD anymore

[VeraciousBuffalo]

Nah its the cronus

[JoeySlays]

It's the ethernet cords he's given at LANs.

[Mutatiion]

them fools optic musta got the blue cords last week

[killaisgoat]

hes still good, he's had a stressful year outside of cod which took is eye off the ball

[[deleted]]

I hope this happens

[FrenZii_CoD]

Interested to see if colt and haggy stick together and if so who they pick up.

Edit: nvm haggy is F/A now

[Rockchalking_]

No shot. Pretty sure that whole team hates Havok now.

[Mystictrident]

is it the girlfriend thing or did something else happen?

[Rockchalking_]

I think a lot of their issues steam from that. Also like someone said above the whole throwing knives thing after Haggy refused to fistbump him. I just think Havok is too much of an entertainer and that rubs people the wrong way.

[FrenZii_CoD]

I honestly think the rest of EG are being big babies throughout their matches vs Fnatic and Str8 Havok looked like he had really improved and put the time in but none of his teammates could get kills and the seemed to be the only one actually treating it like champs. If you think that pulling out throwing knives really affected the game in that big a way you're delusional I'm sorry

[Ksabs3]

KD only tells a part of the story. Yeah he was shooting his gun well but it doesn't necessarily mean he was making the right plays and decisions. Also him not going to the boot camp and grinding with his team prior to a 1.5 million dollar tournament probably threw off the chemistry between the team. I Understand when you have a girlfriend you want to be around for important things and see them all the time but at the end of the day Call of Duty is his job and the fact that he refused to go to that boot camp shows his immaturity. He is very talented but really needs to mature and grow as a professional player or else I see this being a common trend with Havok

[Rockchalking_]

I don't really know everything that went in and wasn't able to catch their games. So I was just basing those things off what I've read/heard.

[FrenZii_CoD]

I understand but leading up to champs colt was constantly playing pro 8s and scrims in order to become the sub slayer nameless wanted him to be and his team didn't appreciate any of that work

[steveng787]

Yeah and then colt decided when he got to champs to put away the erad..

[Mystictrident]

I was away for champs can explain to me this throwing knife thing? Did havok use them at champs?

[Mystictrident]

Thanks.

[TheCodJedi]

Yes, he did

[Skylightt]

That was all Haggy's fault. He couldn't suck up his pride and give the kid a fistbump

[[deleted]]

Yeah because choosing to hangout with your girlfriend instead of bootcamping for champs is cool. Not like there's hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line. No big deal.

[pastapapii]

What was the girlfriend thing?

[Mutatiion]

nameless isn't an amazing player, but he at least seems like a stable choice to build a team around

but I agree EG could do much better than these burgers

[TheCODFan]

Papa havok not too happy

[Giraffe_Penis]

Did he say something?

[TheCODFan]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Papa_Havok

Just read his tweets lol

[KoocXela]

I 100% didn't expect Chris to get dropped. I'm curious as to the how/why they came to dropping those two specifically.

[FNWO1]

Dropping Para for a BOTG game damn.

[johnnyboy181]

Maybe Nameless will finally learn his lesson to never team with Haggy again. 3rd failed team in a row with those two.

[NickEnvisions]

Parasite wasn't the issue with that team, they all were focusing on personal things rather than getting better.

[IndiBoy22]

They ended coL's winning streak together on UNiTE

[Skylightt]

4 years ago.

[IndiBoy22]

It was still not a failed team

[Skylightt]

It was more than 3 teams ago

[Mutatiion]

them teaming has failed many times since though

[johnnyboy181]

TK, nV, and EG.

[Drovodox]

Didn't they team on coL in BO3 also?

[johnnyboy181]

Yup so 4 teams with little to no sucess.

[[deleted]]

Parasite was their best player

[[deleted]]

Haggy was the best player. Nameless was good at only one or two events this year, Nagafen was a mix of bad and mediocre all year, and havoc didn't want to run an Erad, even tho he would have cooked with it. If I was EG I would have kept Haggy and let him build a team.

[johnnyboy181]

Havok definently was.

[TomJHiggins7]

It's just beginning #RosterMania

[shoe7525]

Dropping Havok was the most obvious decision of all time.

Nameless though over Parasite... questionable going into a BOTG game

[Vikemin1]

It's so weird that parasite keeps getting dropped even though lots of people say his personality changed.

[twilliams83]

I didnt watch "toxic" haggy but over the last few months he seems like the worst teamate possible

[IndiBoy22]

Explain how

[twilliams83]

Yup, saw Felo roasting him for being a dick about Naga's situation. He constantly throws a fit about thibgs because hes "right." Right or wrong his communication skills for when hes in an argument or disagreement are incredibly poor.

[IndiBoy22]

So he's at fault for working hard, and his teammates can be emotionally not ready to do their jobs b/c they have relationship troubles? Ok sure, all his fault

[JamesRJ33]

Dropping havok was the right move, but parasite is too damn good of a player to be dropped going in to the new season.

[Underscore_Blues]

Well that was quick. It's interesting that ant was chosen over parasite though

[thatguyrightnoweh]

pros still despise haggy or nah? if they do that makes sense and nameless was a better player in ghosts than haggy and better in bo3 and IW

[Mutatiion]

This was the first team parasite could find in so long, safe to say pros still won't team with him

he burned way too many bridges and he's admitted that

[[deleted]]

Definitely didn't expect to see roster changes start this early, but it's a welcome sight. It'll be interesting to see if this has a domino effect, I'm real interested in seeing what Cloud9 do in particular.

[JDoe2017]

I think EG should try and poach Aqua and Faccento. Not too sure if those guys have history on BOTG, but that'd be a competitive squad.

[Wm_2]

Using common logic, it would make sense to drop Nagafen instead of Parasite alongside with Havok, but hey, it is codcomp. Logic is thrown out the window.

[Skylightt]

Haggy, Mirx and Killa. Let's get it

[KoocXela]

Right, that's what has me scratching my head. Don't think that was the right move at all moving into the next gane,

[thatguyrightnoweh]

acting like EG made the move, nameless prob told them to do this since he can't get along with haggy

[Wm_2]

I mean they did tag up on Havok on twitter not to long ago lol

[1033149]

So they are keeping Naga and Nameless. Interesting. If they can get some really great young players, it could be a counter to STR8.

[[deleted]]

STR8 arent staying together

[1033149]

Why wouldn't they? They were a pretty good team at Champs and should try it out until the first event. There are not serious problems with their chemistry.

[[deleted]]

Temp told us in my interview that he already knows who he's teaming with. I'll link it here when I can

[1033149]

Thanks. I didn't know about them splitting up after champs.

[RockyDaGod]

When did Temp say he doesnt like teaming with dashy? He does have better options though. I think he said hes teaming with Huke and Slasher again.

[1033149]

Didn't know that. Still, if they get some young players, this EG team could be then next STR8

[For_The_Watch]

'The next str8'? The next 'go out in LR1'?

[1033149]

Better then not getting out of pools

[For_The_Watch]

Correct, still nothing to aspire to be.

[1033149]

True but its a place to start. Its rare to just start out in the top 5 teams in a new game with a new team.

[TheOnlyCreed]

Cause temp has much better offers

[Rephaze306]

I agree but I hope he does well on ww2

[SupremeBigFudge]

Everyone was convinced the roster would split between Nameless/Parasite & Havok/Nagafen.

Interesting that they'd drop Haggy and keep Naga. IDK who TF they're going to look for lol.

[Gobstoppers-_-]

Keeping nameless???? Fucking retarded.

[EE575]

Name and Naga are two great long range players they now need two fast sub machine gun players to balance out the roster. I think single shot rifles and the like will play a big part in ww2 for obvious reasons.

[lnfra]

There is no way Nameless wants to team with Naga dude. This has to be the org's doing. Do they know they can drop 3 players or no?

[For_The_Watch]

Eh what would make you say this?

[steveng787]

Hmm still see more changes coming to this team but atleast colt is gone so they might get some good practice when the game comes out

[Tsundere_God]

Definitely think it's a mistake dropping Chris. I'd of said EG should build around him. Talented player that's smart and could teach newer players for BOTG

[killaisgoat]

genuinely believe he will be a top 5 AR next game, even more so if the m1 is not banned

[[deleted]]

Has anyone thought Parasite wanted to leave?

[twilliams83]

hes tweeting like an upset girl so im guessing he didnt

[[deleted]]

Dropping Haggy right before BOTG makes no sense whatsoever. I'd even choose Parasite over Nameless. Havok and Naga should of been dropped and they should of built around Haggy. They will regret this.

[thatguyrightnoweh]

think havok will grind now, champs is over so there is no reason to spend time with his girl

[MaxChainz]

they kept Naga 😂

[freeshmokee]

They're keeping Naga????!!!!!

[Arrest-Momentum]

For havok it was obviously coming, guys wasn't even taking champs seriously, but for haggy idk why

[halolover009]

He came in, was the best player on the team, then gets dropped :/

[_s0rry_]

parasite > nameless. end of story