Overview Evil Geniuses' VALORANT team won VALORANT Champions in Los Angeles in 2023, beating Paper Rex 3-1 in the final to become the first North American team to take the title, and it was one of the partner teams when Riot Games launched VCT Americas in 2023. The league plays its stages on LAN at Riot Games Arena in Los Angeles, and the best teams go on to the international Masters events and Champions; in 2026 those ran in Santiago, London and Shanghai. Evil Geniuses was founded in 1999 out of a Canadian Quake clan, and PEAK6 bought it in 2019. Matchday Riot Games Arena opened in 2013 as the LCS Arena and was renamed in 2023. The stage is modular and 18 inches high, and more than 1,000 LED screens went in during the 2023 renovation. Group matches in the 2026 Stage 1 were best of three, and the league streams its matches on Twitch and YouTube in English, Portuguese and Spanish, so a team plays in front of the room and three language broadcasts at once. Arena tickets are sold through the league. Talent and Influencers Christine "potter" Chi joined as head coach in August 2021 and coached the 2023 title run. The 2026 roster opened with Phat "supamen" Le, rookie Banh "bao" Bao, Douglas "dgzin" Silva, Anthony "okeanos" Nguyen and Corbin "C0M" Lee, a 2023 champion with the team who came back as in-game leader, a new role for him. After four straight Stage 1 group losses, EG benched C0M and okeanos on May 7, 2026 and promoted Jake "Paincakes" Hass and Javan "zerona" Varela from its academy side; both debuted the next day. Track record Liquipedia lists Evil Geniuses as the highest-earning VALORANT organization of 2023, at $1,250,000. Before VALORANT the organization won The International in Dota 2 in 2015, EVO titles in 2010, 2015 and 2022, ESL One New York in 2019 and the LCS Spring Split in 2022. It left League of Legends in November 2023 and Counter-Strike in January 2024.