![]() ![]() ![]() While that alone paints a picture of the organisation’s lack of willingness to review its own practices, as part of the wider investigation into conditions at Evil Geniuses this publication has learned that this wasn’t the first time that their management had ignored warning signs surrounding their players. Our investigation uncovered that the organisation was currently being sued by one of its former star players for what they referred to as “fraud and deceit.” Alongside this multiple staff revealed how the organisation’s owners, Peak6 Capital, installed management without any esports experience that mistreated staff, made absolutely baffling business decisions, tanked the world’s number one CS:GO team, feigned ignorance about behavioural concerns of employees despite being forewarned and used the subsequent furor to usurp members of the former management team. The resulting outcry prompted calls for more awareness and proactivity from both the organisations that house players and Riot Games.įollowing that we reached out to current and former Evil Geniuses employees at all levels of the company to interview them about their experiences and we found that almost all had complaints regarding being undermined, working conditions, workplace bullying and other issues. The North American esports organisation Evil Geniuses triggered a spate of negative headlines In March after it was publicly revealed in a report on Dexerto that one of their young players, Kyle “Danny” Sakamaki, had been suffering from mental health problems and malnutrition during his time on their League of Legends team.
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