{"id":29594,"date":"2023-04-11T22:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T02:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=29594"},"modified":"2023-04-11T22:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T02:22:47","slug":"evil-geniuses-sign-refrezh-to-csgo-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/evil-geniuses-sign-refrezh-to-csgo-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Geniuses sign refrezh to CS:GO roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evil Geniuses have announced the signing of Ismail &#8220;refrezh&#8221; Ali from Sprout, after the Dane was removed from the German organization&#8217;s active <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"CS:GO betting\">Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/a> roster in February.<\/p>\n<p>Rasmus &#8220;Zyphon&#8221; Nordfoss replaced Refrezh on Sprout&#8217;s roster, sparking several rumours linking him to the struggling North American outfit, which is in the process of reshaping its roster in order to return to winning ways.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The rumors are true\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/refrezhCS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@refrezhCS<\/a> is HERE. \ud83d\ude08 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LIVEEVIL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LIVEEVIL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GSKU2nXZHO\">pic.twitter.com\/GSKU2nXZHO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EG CS:GO (@EGCSGO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EGCSGO\/status\/1645849196631674887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After taking over as the in-game leader at Sprout, refrezh chose to step down from his duties after being quoted as saying it &#8220;has been tough for him&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Dane will bring a wealth of tier-one CS:GO experience, having played for top European teams such as Copenhagen Flames and MAD Lions, as well as winning <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/esl-pro-league\/\" title=\"ESL Pro League betting guide\">ESL Pro League<\/a> Season 13 during his 16-month stint with Heroic.<\/p>\n<p>Evil Geniuses desperately need someone like refrezh, who has been playing at the highest level for a few years and has attended all three CS:GO Majors in Stockholm, Antwerp, and Rio de Janeiro in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Because they don&#8217;t have an official event until May 29, when IEM Dallas 2023 begins, EG will have plenty of time to integrate refrezh into the lineup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evil Geniuses have signed Ismail &#8220;refrezh&#8221; Ali to their CS:GO roster after he was dropped from Sprout&#8217;s active lineup earlier in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":26625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2988,11,262,2081,3070,1013],"class_list":["post-29594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-counter-strike-global-offensive","tag-csgo","tag-evil-geniuses","tag-iem-dallas","tag-ismail-refrezh-ali","tag-sprout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29598,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29594\/revisions\/29598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}