Krepo parts ways with Evil Geniuses

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Mitch "Krepo" Voorspoels announced today that he will no longer be a part of the North American team Evil Geniuses. This marks the first roster change that EG will be conducting in the off-season and Krepo's departure officially closes the European Chapter of Evil Geniuses.

Krepo goes in depth about his departure from his team in a long Facebook post, where states that there were issues that were not handled well by the team's management. Extracts from the post follow:

In no way is this blog/vlog meant to single out persons but there were just so many things that could have went different. Our team owner Brian Cordry is an incredibly nice guy with his heart in the right place and a passion for e-sports. However he just didn't have what it takes to be a manager when it came to maintaining a healthy social atmosphere or guiding a competitive e-sports roster. He's incredibly talented at organising scrims/taking care of groceries or making sure the house stayed tidy, for that I would like to commend him. But for every area he excelled he was too inexperienced in others and it lead to an incredibly unhealthy and at times depressing in-house environment.

From my experience, managing a competitive 5 man team-game is like defusing a bomb. Wrong moves can only make it worse. We tried to not let shine through but it did affect us all. Because of the late switch, Pete still ended up living in the house (as well as Stephen later), and both ended up doing so for pretty much the entire split, in their own rooms forcing starters to share rooms (or in Altecs case, sleep at the bottom of a stairwell in the open entry area for about 2 months).

He also states that he was partly to blame as he was unable to step up when needed

tried to step as a leader for the team as well as trying my hardest on support. It's incredibly hard to combine leadership and playing at the highest level cause you're constantly trying to help others solve their problems. Mainly in communication. A lot of our scrims would start of by me asking "Hey guys what're we doing, what's the plan?" Hoping for a response. And this is where I feel the younger players can improve, and i've told them so and I really hope they take the advice. It's really disrespectful to be watching Anime/on skype/not paying attention while there's someone trying to improve the team atmosphere and communication.

It's impossible to lead if you don't have the respect from the people you're trying to help, and there I failed. I don't think i've ever had the full respect from the team, and then what's the point. I'm not perfect, I had bad weeks, bad streaks, some personal shit to deal with, but I tried.

But then when a teammate tells you " Yo it feels like these scrims are 2v5 this entire week" or I have to ask Altec if he remembers when the last time was he asked me to play duoQ, only to be met with " Uhm, I don't know". Well I knew, it was well over 2 months. I don't even recall him telling me "good job" in any of those last 3 months in-game. That's when you know you're no longer a team but just some guys playing together till the season is over. After every scrim near the end there would be a 10 minute long discussion in Korean between Pobelter and Helios of which we'd get perhaps a 30 second translation if we'd ask. There's about 20 other things that went wrong/could've gone better but it's no point dwelling on the past. Point is, the social atmoshpere wasn't healthy and it just wasn't fun anymore.

Ironically my best performance came when I said "fuck it, I don't care about the team anymore" and I went in to superweek wanting to prove myself rather than EG. We ended up going 4-0 after losing every scrim except 3 matches that week.. It was rather surreal.

Krepo first joined Evil Geniuses in 2013 after he and his team departed Counter Logic Gaming Europe to compete in the European LCS. In 2014 He moved to North America to continue playing for the brand after Evil Geniuses Europe was split into Alliance and Evil Geniuses North America.

Krepo stated that he would love to continue playing professionally in a Reddit post.

Before this spirals out of control a few words.

Playing is still my main focus/option, it's where my passion lies and it will always be there. I'll be trying hard to find an option that suits me careerwise as a player.

If that's not possible then i'll have to explore other avenues. I'm very fortunate that I have multiple options and I try not to forget that. But sometimes it's rather overwhelming.I'm 100% sure I can compete on the top western level when it comes to support but I also have to think about my longterm career. It'll all be clearer in a few weeks, for now i'll be looking at all possible offers.

Thank you for all the support.

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