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Big developments in the North American Counter-Strike community today as two of America's most successful teams reach agreement on a contract trade, engineering changes to their rosters in the wake of the ESWC 2008 World Finals.

The most profound of these movements centers around Shaun "Hostile" Catron, a longtime CS veteran and notably outspoken competitor. Today marked the obtainment of Catron's contract by EG.usa from his home for the majority of the 2008 year, MoB Gaming.

The choice to remove Ryan "Ninespot" Bell came from team leader Nazar "steno" Vynnytsky. Evil Geniuses organizational head Alex Garfield went into further detail.

"Steno is the leader of our team, both inside and outside of the game, and this is a decision he wanted to make. He has an extremely calculated approach to the teams he builds, and he wanted five players all capable of playing at an extremely fast pace while making quick decisions. Ryan is a fantastic player. He played extremely well for us on LAN and was also a very consistent presence overall, but Steno simply felt that in order to get to the play style he wanted, this change was necessary."

When questioned regarding if the availability of Catron lead to the dismissal of Bell, Garfield explained that, "the decision with Shaun didn't really happen before or after the decision with Ryan; as is always the case with roster changes in Counter-Strike, the two were essentially interconnected".

In exchange for Catron, MoB Gaming gained control of Scott "Evolution" Cavallero. The East coast player was most recently involved in what many saw as a suprise development, as Vynnytsky benched Cavallero in favor of new pick-up Fadil "Nepo" Canovic, whos relatively unknown status brought upon the doubt of many.

In tandem with their new talent, MoB has moved Matt "Lim" Beahan up to the starting rotation to fill a spot formally occupied by Thomas "thoMz" Garcia who recently went inactive for an undetermined amount of time.

EG.usa Roster

United States

Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert
United States

Michael "chE" Guevara
United States

Nazar "steno" Vynnytsky
United States

Fadil "Nepo" Canovic
United States

Shaun "Hostile" Catron

MoB Gaming Roster

United States

Joe "perez" Perez
United States

Ryan "Pham" Pham
United States

Noah "Striker" Alvarado
United States

Scott "evolution" Cavallero
United States

Matt "Lim" Beahan

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Good luck Ryan & Scott. We will miss you both.

big changes!!

This comment was edited at 09/05/2008 10:54 PM

Good luck to both teams

#rt #remnant

MoB!!!!!

now go home and get your fucking shinebox!

so breaking the new

._.

lol alot of people on the forums were anticipating this so im not that suprised! looking forward to see Evolution do some sick things :D

Play hard, go on my team.

omg that is hugeeeeee!

never saw this coming :p

eg better hope naz knows what hes doin cause its looking iffy o.O

This comment was edited at 09/05/2008 11:03 PM

#1 shaGuar fanboy

Holy poop!

http://steamcommunity.com/id/thefunk350

Damn i checked gotfrag on a good day, zet to SK now this lol

How far you've come scott, from playing with you in F[L]^ rofl, to playing against you in cal so many times, now your one of the top american players, maybe i shouldnt have quit :p

This comment was edited at 09/05/2008 11:01 PM

#covenant cal-premier

smoke weed everyday

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. Mark Twain

oh and chibsquad lets get an EG Canadian roster that is actually competitive like the glory days of shaGuar stevenson lari blackpanther LiN

#11 i like you

ninespot instead of che... makes sense.

I fart when I pee, how bout you?

i guess i don't like eg anymore lets go MOB and evo

http://www.speedtest.net/result/316887784.png

... ninespot instead of nepo?

thought for sure thomz would join with hostile or something. evo to MoB. Nepo blows and is only gonna keep EG back.

because naz is really that goood...

che is still on eg and nepo l0l lets go GUARDIANS!

Every Villain is Lemons

people always rag on chE, but I think he fits their style, which is quite aggressive

Nepo- on the other hand has much to learn and being on a team as good as this should make him learn quick or get cut :]

hostile:WE'RE NOT GOIN HOME!

just use ryennn's, he UNLEASHES usp bullets in mehLer

even though hostile is good at cs, i think he is the biggest nerd/loser in counter-strike.

naz seems to be bringing this team down. first off hes not as skilled as ninespot, evolution, n0thing, or hostile. second, he stubbornly insists on keeping che and picking up nepo just because hes friends with them. and now hes wasting n0thing and hostile's talent on a team that will go nowhere.

This comment was edited at 09/05/2008 11:49 PM

#19 not being able to kill shouldnt fit any team's style.

gl shaun :) hope everything works out for ya.

you haters really dont understand how CS works.. you just look at stats and judge, you have no idea at all what leaders or the players themselves are thinking

probably a buncha nubs that say pick it up to their teammates when they have a bad score for a half, clueless nobodies.

#20 well said

thoMz gl in your life outside of cs but hope you come back to shreddin heads soon!

LOL EG sucks how do you cut ninespot over nepo? That ass, there is some favoritism bs which will just put their team further and further behind.

yeash

Really if you retards think ninespot being cut over nepo was good you are just dumb and should /endlife now really.

evo retired .. back wTf ?

WTF... Nepo and chE need to go back to CALm

watt

was sap brahs

HAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHHA!!!!@!@!@!YG@YAGE...

steno just kick their probaly best player(ninespot,with evo)and now evo get out of team,eauHehueAYEYG!!!!
what eg gonna win now with this rooster?n0thing!hahahahhaa

wtf thomz. REPLACE SOMEONE IN EG RIGHT NAO.

the new mob roster just looks more deadly while the new EG roster just looks more blehhh

#26

I kind of agree... Nepo fits with what steno is trying to do much better then when Ninespot was on the team BUT if teams can slow down EG there is no way Nepo can hold his own on the international competition. Ninespot on the other hand probably could.

Ninespot is definatly a more overall skilled player than Nepo but at the same time he is better at what EG is trying to accomplish.
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But yea... I think Steno is a crazy mother fuc ker for thinking this will work but hey, he is Ukrainian!

This comment was edited at 09/06/2008 12:17 AM

EG is going downhill, next theyre gonna cut n0thing

#1 why are you keeping Nepo- on the team. Ninespot was better then Nepo. thoMz hurry up and replace someone on EG and start playing again. #31 i agree.

EG.usa; Yes, our roster changes are that devastating.

xenoc!de

#30 is retarded.

And I'm not talking anything CS related, lmfao.

the fans speak and the pros listen... awesome

Quad 6600 2.40GHz - EVGA 9600 GT - SB Audigy ZS - 4GB OCZ Ram

well i would say steno knows his team better than every single one of us nerds posting in this thread, so lets not judge until after we see this lineup in action, thanks

shiny penny

Until EG addresses what I'm going to call "The Che dilemma", they are going to fail internationally. If n0thing bails they have nobody that can carry them, and at best will be a mid-level cevo-p team.

I roll kids in Missile Command.

n0thing run from there!!! And EG.us can go to cevo-m .. so they are on the same lvl as EG.ca

lol @ cutting evo and ninespot.. x3o is the only american hope now

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MoB lineup looking very strong.

This comment was edited at 09/06/2008 1:06 AM

why would mob want to let go of hostile? their best player.

nah PHA-m is their best or thomz but guardians is still the Best in teh USA cause of aZn

mob > eg now

mob > eg forever

w a f f l e s.

interesting, i didnt expect this

Get water flavored water! Just add water!

If anything they should of removed nepo instead of ninespot. I've never once questioned the pick up of nepo but removing ninespot.. come on.. he was a huge factor for that team. The only reason why nepo hasn't been removed yet is because of his friendship with steno.. Clearly shows. Good pick up for MoB and a good pick up for EG.. but they dropped someone huge and left a slacker on their team..Its going to hurt their team in a huge way and it's heart breaking :[

This comment was edited at 09/06/2008 1:44 AM

looks like both teams got a downgrade

every team could use some more PH@M

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