Evil Geniuses is currently playing in the BLAST Premier Spring Groups where the North American team managed to secure themselves a victory in their opening match against the World´s number one Heroic. A 2-1 victory in favor of wiz and co. kickstarted their 2023 season. 

During the second game of the tournament, Evil Geniuses was up against Team Vitality. A match where the young American AWPer had to play against the second-best player in the world Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut. Vitality took the victory 2-0 after they dominated the EG side. 

Despite not playing his best CouterStrike, wiz is amazed at how good the top-tier AWPer´s are.

- They're a lot more disciplined, a lot more drilled, and better at punishing your mistakes. So for me, I think I need to work a lot harder than before to get used to it. Jerric "wiz" Jiang says to [link:{"url":"https://www.hltv.org/news/35431/wiz-on-egs-blueprint-project-ive-gotten-a-lot-of-resources-that-ive-never-had-before","isNewTab":true,"text":"HLTV"}].

The 21-year-old AWPer is averaging 0.89 Rating / 0.79 Impact / 55.8 ADR / 0.57 KPR / 70.9% KAST during the first two games of the tournament. 

Evil Geniuses will take on Heroic once again in the Group A consolidation Final. The losing team goes to Knockout Stage Round 1. Can Evil Geniuses recreate their success from their first meeting? 

Watch highlights from the first game between Evil Geniuses and Heroic:

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It's not long since Tsvetelin "CeRq" Dimitrov left Evil Geniuses and left the team without an AWPer. That problem has now been solved as the North American organization has now announced that they are promoting AWPer Jerric “wiz” Jiang to the main roster as AWPer for the BLAST Premier Stage.

21-year-old wiz showed impressive performances while playing for EG Black, which has paid off for the talented AWPer who now will get to play his first-ever international LAN event at BLAST Premier. 

Evil Geniuses fans will have the opportunity to see wiz playing for Evil Geniuses for the first time on January 19th, when the team will face off against Heroic in the BLAST Premier Spring Groups. The match will kick-off at 15:00 (CET).

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