is arguably the highest-profile professional gaming team in North America, with over a dozen sponsors and over 30 players across seven games on its roster.

First off, how does a "team" work in games that are based on one-versus-one tournament competition? Do players compete against each other in tournaments?With Team Evil Geniuses and other similar teams, the word "team" is meant to be interpreted quite broadly. While we refer to ourselves as Team Evil Geniuses, EG actually consists of a group of different gaming teams (or "divisions," if you prefer), each focusing on its own game of specialty. A good analogy is that EG would be the gaming equivalent of the Yankees, if the Yankees weren't just a baseball team, but a larger parent company that supported many different kinds of professional athletes--and, for example, had a Yankees baseball team, and a Yankees basketball team, and so on.

So, Team EG has a StarCraft team (or "division"), and another for World of Warcraft, and another for Counter-Strike, and another for Street Fighter, and others as well. Some of these teams/divisions really are teams in the sense that they play team-based multiplayer games. Counter-Strike, for example, is a 5v5 game, and all 5 members of the Counter-Strike team always compete together in-game.

However, we do also have teams/divisions for games that are 1v1, like Street Fighter and StarCraft. Those function more as collections of affiliated, mutually supportive players, in that they they all practice together, help share strategies, and look to help their teammates succeed as much as possible. And while it should be noted that there are team competitions for both Street Fighter and StarCraft, those team-based competitions are still a collection of 1v1 matchups, with only one player from each team going against each other at a given time.

Unlike a typical clan of Battle.net players, I'd say the main differences would be the fact that EG is a multigaming organization, with a long list of corporate sponsors, its own tournament series and production studio, and a comprehensive management staff dedicated to taking care of everything our pro players need so that they can focus on winning, and winning alone.