Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses North America Rank #20 supamen Phat Le bao Bao Nguyen Okeanos Anthony Nguyen dgzin Douglas Silva C0M Corbin Lee has announced the addition of Cole "meco1e" Lewis as an assistant coach to Christine "potter" Chi, who returns for her fifth-straight season as the head coach of the villains.

meco1e joins after spending the 2025 season coaching for three different teams. He started the year as the head coach for North American Challengers squad Ambrosia Ambrosia Inactive GLYPH Conner Garcia acrian satellite , leading the team to a runner-up finish in Stage 2 before the team disbanded in May. Shortly after, he joined LEVIATÁN LEVIATÁN North America Rank #12 spike Rodrigo Lombardi blowz Guilherme Oliviera Neon Bruno Rodríguez Sato Eduardo Kenzo Nagahama Sato kiNgg Francisco Aravena PxS Josh Brunelli 's coaching booth midway through Americas Stage 2, looking to help head coach Desmo manage a multi-national roster with players based in Latin America and North America. Since parting ways with LEV after achieving a 5th-6th finish, meco1e assisted in Winthrop University Winthrop University North America Rank #152 moobs Gabriel Powell strongtallguy62 sym Tyler Porter stand-in Recoil Awab Hussain stand-in Fair 's Americas Ascension run, which began in the play-in portion of the event and ended with the team finishing fourth. In the past, meco1e has also coached for Van Lyn Van Lyn Inactive satellite roompa acrian gucc107 Andrew Gutnichenko and BackOutsideBoys BackOutsideBoys Inactive .

The 2025 season was the second straight season that the villains were absent from the international stage since winning Champions Los Angeles. In its rebuild for the 2026 season, EG has parted ways with yay , icy , and Derrek , and has benched former in-game leader NaturE . In their place, EG has brought on a pair of up-and-coming players, with former LEV player Okeanos and Tier 2 talent bao , who played for teams like Trust In Plug Trust In Plug Inactive Teague Teague Morgan bones Ethan Le moose Kaleb Jayne sacred Tanay Dammoju Kaoticc , M80 M80 North America Rank #24 Boni Derrek Derrek Ha alvinboy Alvin Hong , and SaD Esports SaD Esports North America Rank #8 Jerrwin welyy stellar Brenden McGrath payne zaj , joining the squad. The org also picked up dgzin , who started the year with LOUD LOUD Brazil Rank #14 lukxo Lucca Travaioli Darker Sebastián Castro Cicuamia Virtyy Leandro Moreno erde Roberto Lobos pANcada Bryan Luna cauanzin Cauan Pereira and ended it with Team Solid Team Solid Brazil Rank #1 raafa Rafael Lima havoc Ilan Eloy liazzi Felipe Galiazzi nevoy GuhRVN Gustavo Ferreira at Americas Ascension, and added C0M , who returns after two years away and assumes IGL duties. supamen is the only returning player from the 2025 core.

Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses North America Rank #20 supamen Phat Le bao Bao Nguyen Okeanos Anthony Nguyen dgzin Douglas Silva C0M Corbin Lee ' full roster is now: