Evil Geniuses will have to without their head coach, Damien “maLeK” Marcel in the group stage at ESL Pro League Season 15. The French mastermind has left the EG camp and travelled back home to France, due to a non-COVID related medical treatment.
– Damien “maLeK” Marcel was absent from today’s match and will miss the remainder of this week’s ESL Pro League Season 15 matches due to returning to France for non-COVID related medical treatment, Evil Geniuses wrote on Twitter yesterday.
An update on Coach Malek: pic.twitter.com/orU4HyaTfo
— Evil Geniuses (@EvilGeniuses) March 30, 2022
The viewers of yesterday’s matchup between Evil Geniuses and Astralis could see the assistant coach, Paolo “Evy” Berbudeau standing behind the North American team. Something he will continue to do, Evil Geniuses confirmed in their statement.
Evil Geniuses got off to a rather slow start at the $823.000 event as they suffered a tough 2-0 loss against Lukas “gla1ve” Rossander and the rest of Astralis. They will go up against NAVI today, which on paper looks to be the toughest matchup in the group.
Astralis defeats Evil Geniuses in Farlig debut
