How an Evil Org Ruined a League of Legends Prodigy
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
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Kyle "Danny" Sakamak of Evil Geniuses was one of North America's most promising prodigies. A talented ADC, Danny found early success on Evil Geniuses and was making a name for himself in the LCS with his insane mechanics, iconic Pentakills, and hyper-aggressive playstyle reminiscent of old-school Doublelift. But when Danny suddenly stepped down from the starting roster of Evil Geniuses after helping them qualify for Worlds 2022, everyone had the question: Why?
What unfolded was one of the craziest scandals in competitive League of Legends history. Mismanagement by the org, a toxic work environment, and outright lying and manipulating a young man for their own needs. Welcome to LoLAthlete, THIS is how Evil Geniuses Ruined Danny's Career.
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Edited by / pap4k_
0:00 Intro
0:45 Danny's Rise
3:10 Dominance on Evil Geniuses
5:06 Tapin.GG
5:57 Danny's Stride
8:38 Danny's Peak
9:17 First International Event
10:13 Cracks Begin to Show
12:56 The Breaking Point
14:30 An Evil Org
19:04 Danny's Legacy 
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I think it’s morally bad you’re making a documentary about how messed up an org was but you’re promoting an eloboosting site in disguise as a ploy to get fun non toxic teammates you buy
@@jordaneen exactly thats why ill watch vids but never subbing to this channel again its crazy how people hate boosters yet tons of content creators sure do take that $$$$$ tho
@@abraces9664 YO THIS IS SUCH A W
The only one who cared about him are his team mates and the coaching staff.
I hope Kyle is doing well now.
Idk these autistic kids are not important enough to change the whole multimillion dolar companies imo. Either you make it or not
That EG roster with Danny and Jojo was probably my favorite roster of all time too :( it always felt like they were never out regardless of how behind they got early due to the faith in Danny's team fighting
I say live, you say evil! LIVE!!! EVIL!!! LIVE!!! 😢💔 (same bro...be glad you lived and loved those moments.)
Man, danny alone made me root for EG that season. I was so excited for him to come in; it felt like the first rookie that had come along that could become *better* than doublelift with time and actually might have a decent showing internationally. As an adc main, it was super exciting to see a new prospect with such potential and that much talent that early in his career. He also just seemed like such a nice dude. I'm honestly still bummed about it, both for him and the fans.
So they're just evil and aren't geniuses?
The Warren Buffet of Esports, She really cut us short of the most promising NA player in over a decade. It's sad we lost that one gem we NA needed as hopeful shine of bright new light.
What DEI hiring does to a mfer
Danny is a legend. I wish him the best
That tweet sent from Danny’s account was truly the nail in the coffin. I have never read a more “gun to your head” social media post in my life
How is him saying they treated him good, the nail in the coffin?
@@mortimersmithsr2522 because he didn't write it, it's pretty obvious lol
It is a shame that such a bright career was so short. I will always remember his Baron steal and penta-kill against TL - it felt like that was the play that gave EG the momentum to beat TL and eventually win the 2022 Spring Finals. I am glad that such an epic moment was played on a big stage like the NRG stadium!
did bro really just promote a boosting site?
Yep, pretty much. He even tried to pass it off as a legitimate way to climb lmfao
Damn man, I thought I was tripping.
Yup unsubbed lol dudes a league content creator promoting stuff that actively ruins the game
"bRo" if someone isnt a bro there a goat brain rott at its best
what's wrong with that ? you're going to run into smurfs anyway,might as well have one on your team
Unironically ,he was the reason i started watching LCS after like 3 years of not caring about it .The fact that he could get a highlight almost every game especially late when it mattered most ,brought a lot of entertainment to a not so enjoyable region to watch .
I hope that someday Danny comes back to pro. He deserves at least one more showing
Seriously. If Yeon ever takes a break or gets a better offer from another team, I think that Team Liquid would be a great fit for Danny! He could thrive in a place where he is well supported...but the world may never know.
@@lizzb1065 personally, I would like to see him on either Liquid of Cloud9. I think with the rosters they have now, he would be a great fit for either team
also Impact being the goat in terms of play and teammate for going to management
Whoa whoa whoa, back 2 back videos?
Christmas came in July
life is good
I miss this kid so dang much... 😢 He was an absolute shining star for the LCS!! 🌟 Had such a chill, down to earth personality in every interview, and had better mechanics than any home grown American player since Doublelift! What a player... I hope that Kyle is doing well in life right now. Even during his short LoL career, he brought so many wonderful moments and memories to us fans that we'll NEVER forget. ❤ Miss you, Danny! Take care.
Was he on his own at EG? If he is neurodivergent then daily support from close family or trusted helpers is really important. Maybe it was good for him to get out when he did. I Hope he is doing well. Is he still active online?
Danny was one of the few LCS players i actually liked. He was always respectful and humble
It is absolutely disgusting what EG did to Danny. I'm glad they are no longer in LCS and I hope the entire Organization fails and goes bankrupt.
I hope Danny is okay now and if he makes a return to League Pro, it would be amazing to see him return and slap the LCS again. If he does come back, I hope he gets treated properly
No team will EVER touch him, he showed that he just crumbles under pressure. Also no team will want to deal with his sperg antics
@@anon_148 how to tell a person understood nothing about the video or the situation.
Or alternatively you're a bot. Hard to tell which
Turns out they are just Evil…
Thank you for making this video!! I was an EG fan and watching his breakout split is my favorite era of lol esports since like 2014 C9. I have heard bits and pieces of this story but a nice cohesive breakdown like this was great. Danny deserved better. One has to imagine he couldve had a long and prosperous career in lol esports if not for EG ruining him. Hope the guys doing better nowadays
putting subtitles of what you're saying every other sentence killed this vid
thank you so much for this video, i always wondered what happened i had no idea all of this actually happened
He plays lost ark at a pretty high level nowadays.
bro fell of hard
As a former teacher and subsequent SPED educator, this could have been avoided if they just drop 4k and hire a specialist care giver for SPED children.
Danny doesn't just have autism, he has Asperger's, you can't hold them in the same light as normal people. Something like having the same meal every day might seem like a temper tantrum to normal people, but it's just the way their brain is wired. If the org already know his pre-existing condition, it should be known what would happen if they don't draft up a consistent routine just for him specifically.
Everything else afterwards is straight up lethargy from handling a SPED kid so EG start mistreating him because they know he's easy to pushover. Idk the laws in US, but if this happened in Germany, the government and outside organizations would have went after EG hard.
I would have just fired him. Adapt or leave tbh. Everyone else was making it just fine. You dont change everything just to cater to one person on the team.
@@OrphanCrippler1 Failure to provide sufficient care is reprehensible, whether legally exploitable or not.
@@OrphanCrippler1 Like I previously mentioned, **you cannot hold them in the same light as normal people**. People on the spectrum are not throwing a tantrum, their brain is physically different from normal people which is why they act that way. In layman terms, it's the same as asking a guy with no legs adapt to kicking the ball when you're not even providing them prosthetic legs.
It's a whole different thing if he hid his condition and it came out later, but They HIRED him KNOWING he had Aspergers. By contract and by law, you MUST cater to him.
@@OrphanCrippler1 I mean, he's the single reason their team accomplished anything. If you really want to be meritocratic to hell and back, literally everyone else _should've_ been catering to him considering his impact was second to none.
@mrmcawesome9746 I dont want to be meritocratic lol. If someone cant conform to the company rules when no one else is having an issue, ESPECIALLY when its literal normal practice and asking him to play the tournaments he was hired for, then he needs to be fired.
Danny was such a star. I’m so sad he is not in the lcs anymore. I hope he is doing well.
Danny should have been allowed to develop in the NA goat. Made that EG tram look better than they had any right to be.
he just didn't have it in him. He crumbled under very low pressure
@@anon_148"very low" when was the last time you became a prodigy star player and qualified your team for msi and worlds while winning multiple individual awards ?
Business wise it just makes zero sense why they would invest in Danny. Esp if they weren’t going to uphold a healthy environment that he requires to remain functional.
imagine if tl had picked up danny.
i didn't watch much lcs but when i saw him play Danny was a god im sad they he was exploited by such scum and put under such pressure i hope he is doing well now no one deserves to go through that
wtf are you talking about exploited. They made playoffs and they wanted their star player to play during the playoffs. What's so crazy about that? Honestly the dude just doesnt have it in him to compete, no org will ever touch him again
I was there at the LCS finals weekend and witnessed his penta at baron against TL (my favorite team😢) I hate what happened to him. He had such a bright amd strong career ahead of him.
I've loved EG since OG Halo days. Was super excited for the NA talent we had that season.
This entire situation just ruined the org for me.
What a lagend though, I hope if he finds love for gaming again, he goes to streaming so we can all support him.
what situation? that the kid was a literal sperg who couldn't take any pressure? Elk from BLG threw up on stage at MSI 2024 and kept playing. He was paid big money to perform, so they made him do that
@@anon_148 he was paid big money and they agreed to make sure his mental health needs were met. If EG failed to do that and then proceeded to lie to his family, that's EG being douchebag, money greedy people, not on Danny.
happy to see you got a sponsor on this vid! i love your vids
The fact that EG is still allowed to compete in any esport is infuriating
As tragic as it is that especially in the west the biggest problem with LoL eSports by far is the horrible organizations and the exploitation of players, at the same time that couldn't possibly be more fitting for League and riot games.
hell no thats the opposite of what the issue is. Western orgs need to push their players MORE to have a chance against hungry eastern teams. Not cater to spergs like Dany and bend over backwards for him
a healthy danny was a sight to be seen. i still remember watching him break down after a win…wish we knew that would be the last time he’d take the big stage. i really hope he’s doing well, fuck EG (not team, but uppers)
EG is such a horrible org. They destroyed multiple careers in CSGO aswell.
Danny would have unarguably become the NA goat if his needs were taken seriously. The world lost someone who could've taken NA to a world championship because of EG's mismanagement. I hope he's doing ok now.
Ok calm down buddy. Would championship is too much
NA goat and potential world champion? His career is tragic with how he was treated and I hope he's doing well but let's not overexaggerate and say ridiculous things like that based off such a short career
@@Gamefanaticzz You're hard stuck silver 100%
@@bcsangani1 If that C9 roster could make semis, there's no doubt a stronger team can do even better.
@g1Tron lol don't see how rank has to do with anything I said. C9 might’ve have made it to semis once but since then NA haven't even come close. You're just delusional
One of NA's best Adc talents in recent years and the org throws him away....what a joke
Whos the statue of at 19:08 ?
I can see that you showed a lot of effort with how you edited this video :O
I miss Danny!! He was the reason I started to get super excited for LCS again. poor kid.
Imagine being the Warren Buffet of esports that you destroy a legacy esports org, then running away with it.
Impact
Inspired
Jojo
Danny
Vulcan
EG 2022 - One of my favorite teams of LCS ever
L sponsor. Hey, at least you got your bag.
How do you decide what random stuff to typeface onto the screen? Lol
Sick video though, just seemed like there was a lotta typeface
Typical shady business companies. Care more about their image and not think about how their view impacts other people
When the corpa corpas and people are outraged
this video needs more traction
Damn... Guess EG lived up to their name 😵
0:58 Dr. D
He was the closest I could say to a young Doublelift/Stixxay he was just that good.
It was so sad to see what happened to Danny…. He was such a great player I feel lucky to have watched him play
"lol prodigy" and "LCS" XD
This is the equivalent of drafting Lebron and Steph then fumbled both.
I would say that while EG takes the brunt of the blame for Danny being forced into an early retirement... it would be unfair to say that they are sole people responsible for this outcome.... The fact that he had autism and even in the extreme case as well meant that even if he was properly accomodated for his entire tenure on EG, he would have eventually faltered... wanna know why? Because competitive League of Legends is super stressful... and on MSI we clearly saw him bomb when they went on a giga loss streak vs G2... The fact of the matter is that his family should have had more involvement on the daily business side of things and the moment things started to deteriorate which was a long stretch , they should have stepped in and forced him to go home and not after he was clearly completely burned out.... it's like watching a guy bleed to death and only stepping in when the bloodloss has reached lethal range. Clearly Danny was not in position to make decisions for his own well being..
Edit: It's also really weird for me to hear in the video that his parents only had communication with the executives... What the hell is that? North Korean camp detainment? Surely they must have had at least weekly talks with him... so idk it just feels like a case of greed or mass incompetence/negligence from all sides.
yamikaze video pls
damn
This or what Monte Cristo did to that girl
Wow i didnt know all the deets of the fall of eg in league til this. I can still hear phreak everyday calling dannys penta baron steal like yesterday. If you see this danny i miss you and you are one of many adcs ive looked up to to even play adc. God bless man❤
EG upper management should be tried and punished.
To say the least, anything more I would say would be hate speech from me.
Ask yourself this why did management stop caring when they won? because it wasnt benefiting the investors.. this is a huge problem with franchising.
thanks for covering this! fuck EG!
Nice sketchy boosting site ad bro
Yeah fuck eg, when they left the league i was quite happy
He had one of the most insanely good rookie splits performace wise. Was awesome to watch. I fell in the middle with the controversy part of Danny's story. I think EG's upper management are greedy and lack empathy but that's pretty much any company tbh. Danny should have been benched earlier, that's on them for not allowing it. He had the money to seek mental health resources which he should have done imo. I don't think EG are this terrible org like some do, they just suck at the very top as so many others companies do as well.
Another banger video btw.
Man, I'm still pissed about all the "tough shit, if you can't handle the pressure, you don't deserve to be a pro player" comments I saw around that time. It's like having a paraplegic working for you, taking away their wheelchair, and expecting them to keep working the same as before.
there are still those exact comments on this exact channel because people are depressingly ignorant.
I will always be a fan of Danny
If there are a million fans of Danny I am one of them
If there are a thousand fans of Danny I am one of them
If there is one fan of Danny I am that one fan
This is a great video, but why are you taking a sponsorship from a literal boosting service and advertising it like a legitimate thing? I get times are tough out here, but c'mon man.
I agree, it feels so weird making an advertisement about disliking bad, toxic teamates and then advertising a boosting service.
Like bro, the people who would buy this service getting boosted ARE the bad, toxic teammates.
it's the only way to counter the 0/10 tryndamere calling everyone a monkey and telling everyone to keep themselves safe while stealing all jg camps and mid and bot minions
The most fitting name of all time. Danny is the biggest what if of the LCS. If he joined C9 or TL he's the new Doublelift or Sneaky
Not really a prodigy, but yea it is poor treatment of a young person and this shouldn't be allowed or go unpunished, glad that at least EG is out of League scene, but this is prolly just a small dent in their overall business.
Funny how evil geniuses was actually evil
Can't he just work for a different org? Anyways does he still play League?
So my take is going forward teams will no longer take on people with mental disabilities to prevent any of this from happening in the future. It's a business, you get paid to play a video game and if you're the star of the team they expect you to put in the hours to stay that way and encourage the others to do the same. Should they have had people to help him? Yes, however that's more $ so I can understand the business (org) in this point as well. There is a reason you don't see any mental disability players in pro league of legends in LCK LPL LEC and as far as im aware LCS (major regions). It's business they don't want to pay extra when they're already paying players absurd amounts of money to begin with to play a game.
EDIT: I know this sounds really harsh, I liked Danny he could of been the best ADC NA has ever seen if he kept playing but the reality is "Real World" Business will always win.
Brotherman, most of the players u see playing this game professionaly ARE ppl with mental disabilities. U can legit watch some of them, how they act, how they talk.. Most pro players do have autism. Maybe it's just high functioning like rekkles, but still, u wouldn't say he is just by looking at him.
Pls think again before writing such bs.
Mentality like that, of security and not taking chances, reflects in the entertainment industry too. Reboots/sequels that aren't necessary and underperform. I get it, as you said- it's a business. But innovation and risk are the way we reach new highs. All we can do is wonder what could've been.
Didnt sneaky get diagnosed with something on the neurodivergence spectrum?
You should seek help, for real.
@@samuelvieira645 It's the real world. It's how business works.
All my homies hate EG
You just pump out banger after banger! So good, but please be careful for bornout, maybe take a step back
lol
Absolutely disgusting abusing a neurodivergent player just for money. Making his mental so bad and making him malnourished. As a neurodivergent player myself im disgusted.
Jeez this made me lose respect for EG. I’m not a big fan of them but I’ve seen their gp (mainly Valorant) and saw them as a solid Org. Then I see this is how they are with LoL? Hell nah
“Neurodivergent” lmao
bro stop typing words every 5 seconds on the screen pls
I dont know why but why do most pro gamers look like they have brain damage or like they have had a stroke either the camera man needs to be fired or prolonged gaming is very bad for your health.
man, i wish things were different for him, deserved way better
hope he is doing well nowadays
Promotion of a boosting site... dude, that's as bad as the majority of sport's RUclipsrs promoting betting sites. I understand you gotta get that cash money. I really do. Prolly, promoting something that actively makes the game worse is not the play.
special talente? like it took him 8 years to get to challenger
Another strong, independant, black woman in a leadership position ruthlessly demolishes a players health and destroys an organisation.
Why are they always so heartless?
Hopefully Team Liquid can pick up Danny and give him the home he needs and deserves.
As much as its EG's fault i don't think all the help in the world would have helped danny's metal health he should have got that sorted before deciding to play professional
He was like 18, at 18 years old no one has it figured out bro. It’s 100% on support staff to help him
Autism is a permanent thing, it changes how people think, with things in place it's more easy to manage and theyre less likely to burn out.
@@austinbecraft1222 hes 18, and just playing a video game. plenty of 18 year olds go into the military and are fine.
What's the percentage numbers on that? Otherwise, he's 18 years old bro, chill out. It's so easy to criticize somebody behind the screen and a keyboard lil Timmy. @@timk8513
@@timk8513 theyre also not autistic.
to be fair Danny was overrated. I mean his competition in NA were a super passive and washed DL, WildTurtle, Lost, Tactical the best being FBI an OCE import..
100 thieves ruined Danny. They constantly camped him with 3 people and Danny’s teammates weren’t able to punish the constant ganks.
Danny supposed to be the nxt doublelift
Surely you’re not that desperate that you advertise a boosting service right? Even after making a “mental health awareness video” no shot right?
ooof elo boosting sponsor, im out
The dude was meant to he something special in the game of league of legends. It was ruined for him
If you got coldfeet every time you're on stage it's not the orgs fault. Some players just don't have the mentality to play in front of a stage and that's ok but we should stop pretending every org is like tsm and every owner like Reggie.
He needed to be in a team like g2 and right now we would have talk about him like one of the greatest western ad ever, so sad that they ruined such great potential .
Let's not call Danny a prodigy cmon
He was scouted so early the LCS had to actually step in and force competitive teams to wait to field him in pro play. He sent his teams to the literal highest level tournament this game has to offer at an age where most people are learning algebra.
What else do you think he should be called?
This doesn't sound like EG's fault at all lol. It sounds like Danny is a mental breakdown waiting to happen, regardless of how comfortable he was.
He couldnt take the pressure, period. Id love to see someoneike him on an actual athletic sports team. He wouldnt even make it on my highschool wrestling team if he couldnt handle this type of training.
You're delusional and compassionless. The issue wasn't actually that he couldn't handle the pressure to perform, he had the skills, ability, and desire to perform and he showed it repeatedly. The real issue was that the team stopped doing anything to accommodate him in any way and quit caring about their player when he got the MSI result and then began outright mistreating him. Upper management actively and willfully worsened his mental state and then people like you draw the conclusion that he just couldn't handle it and that he was a 'mental breakdown in waiting' when in fact he could handle it if the organization just gave him a little bit like they did at the beginning. They didn't hold up their end of the bargain and they robbed the LCS of one of its best players.
Also baseball pitcher, Cy Young winner, and world series champion Zach Greinke is a perfect example of someone like him on an actual athletic sports team. He's excellent and you should read about him, he's definitely on the spectrum.
This is a clickbait and inflammatory video. Danny was a great guy and a good ADC but the simple fact is that he didn’t want to keep competing. He quit the same day he qualified for WORLDS! Stop giving NA players a pass to be lazy when it’s time to lock in and compete for a trophy.
Thank yoooooou
This is just untrue. He couldn't function with what the team was giving him, desire has no part in it. He was never lazy even when the organization was actively going out of their way to make the situation untenable. Don't dismiss somebody not being able to function in an environment because of decisions made by the org as laziness; it's way more serious and way more insidious by EG than that.
yes because you know more than the actual doctors that told Danny and his family that he was mistreated and malnourished by EG while they pressured him to stay quiet knowing he’s autistic 💀😭
"danny was kept overnight at the hospital for mistreatment and malnourishment" is not him being lazy.
I didn't have to stay overnight at the hospital when I was literally vomiting up blood-and that wasn't because anyone was being lazy. If he was in bad enough condition that people with actual medical degrees wanted him to stay overnight that means he's in actual medical danger.
That's not "laziness" that is "he worked until he was literally fucking close to death"
@BlackfeatherMain No, its him nit eating and not conforming to literal normal behaviour.
DANNY was, if I may say this bluntly... Limp wristed. Clear as day, you can see he was a soft soy drinking, stay in a bubble type of dude. He seemed to be gay, and EG I highly doubt did anything wrong. EG wasn't going to "entertain" Danny with his probably "particular" ways and his want's on a day to day basis. This is clear to see.
Projecting much?
@@wedmunds 100%
@@wedmunds You must be of the younger generation.. "projecting much" I've not heard before and I'm 34 years of age. You do realize Danny literally had soy drinking limp wrist's as if he were a gay boy. He talked like a gay boy, and he looked like a gay boy. It's not projection, it's reality?
"he seemed to be gay" is such a weird thing to write LOL. Almost like your subconscious inserted it between two unrelated sentences. I would look inward and do some soul-searching man. You have some shit to figure out.
Mate calm down with the bong and go back to reality as you are one of the reasons the right-leaning people are getting harassed and made fun off.
People are just rewriting history lol he was one of the worst performing members on that team, stats don’t lie