FaZe Clan

FaZe Clan
Location United States
Founded 2010
Manager(s) Thomas "FaZe Temperrr" Oliveria, Richard "FaZe Banks" Bengston, FaZe Apex, Nordan "FaZe Rain" Shat
Sponsors G Fuel, Scuf Gaming, Kontrol Freek
Divisions Call of Duty
Website https://www.youtube.com/user/FaZeClan

FaZe Clan is a professional Call of Duty esports team. FaZe was founded as a gaming clan on YouTube by FaZe ClipZ, FaZe Resistance and FaZe Housecat (later named Timid) making trick shotting videos in the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. These early members originally created sniping videos in the Call of Duty game series. The team would later be led by current leader and owner FaZe Temperrr. However, during Black Ops 2 in 2012 they decided that they wanted to expand into the competitive scene. FaZe Red placed 3rd at the Call of Duty Championship 2015 and won the 2015 Season 3 championships. The FaZe YouTube channel was created on May 30, 2010 and as of January 6, 2016 has 3,566,201 subscribers, making it one of the most subscribed gaming team.[1]

Biography

Call of Duty

The beginning of FaZe

Their first roster was created in 2012 consisting of Heist, Folsom, Secretly, and Sham to compete at the MLG Winter Championship 2012. Their next roster was Heist, Methodz, Replays, and MBoze. The team finished 5th place and took home $2,300 at the event. the roster got a complete makeover going into UMG Atlanta as only Replays stayed to be joined by Slacked, Huhdle, and SpaceLy. Despite the new look, the team struggled to get any momentum. After dropping to the losers bracket following a loss to vVv Gaming in Round 4. Facing the tough task of going through the losers bracket to win the event, the team fell to Curse finishing in a very disappointing 9th place. the team decided to stick with the same roster going into the MLG PAX Prime Invitational. The team was able to make to the semifinals of the 8 team invitational, however that is where they were eliminated by eventual 2nd-place finisher, compLexity Gaming. To close out Black Ops 2, the team attended the 4 team MLG Fall Invitational. The team once again kept the same roster but was unable to break the slump as they finished 4th place and winning no money.

Call of Duty: Ghosts

With the launch of Call of Duty: Ghosts in 2013, FaZe replaced FaZe Slacked with FaZe Classic, a personal friend of early co-founder Replays. With the 8th seed at the MLG Fall Championship, the team face European team, TCM Gaming They fell 3-1 dropping to the Losers bracket immediately. eLevate.VeXed knocked FaZe out with a 3-2 victory. This left the team with a Top-24 finish which is the worst placement in FaZe history. The team got rid of SpaceLy and Huhdle and replaced them with JKap and Methodz. JKap had been regarded as one of the better AR-based players in the game and Methodz was on the inaugural roster from Black Ops 2.

At UMG Philadelphia the new roster kicked off the event by knocking OpTic Gaming to the Losers bracket with a 3-2 win. With compLexity Gaming the team but lost 3-2. In the losers bracket, the first team they matched up against was Team Kaliber. lost 3-2 landing them the 7th-place finish. While the team didn't place in the money, the two teams they lost to finished in 1st and 2nd respectively showing the team had some promise. Following this event, the Call of Duty Championship 2014 was announced and it was reveal that all players had to be at least 18 years old to compete. Because of this, the team had no choice but to release Methodz. The time following UMG Philadelphia, consisted of most teams changing up rosters. NameLeSs was dropped by Curse LV and FaZe jumped at the opportunity to pick him up. However, after a few weeks, ProoFy announced that he was leaving EnVyUs. Despite NameLeSs being a solid player, the team felt they could improve and decided to drop him in favor of ProoFy.

Following the roster changes, Call of Duty Championship 2014 in March where teams would be competing for a total prize pool of $1,000,000. To qualify the team had to place in the Top 8 one of two online qualifiers. FaZe competed in first one on February 1, 2014 and went through the competition without much challenge. They defeated Curse NY 3-0 to secure their spot at the Call of Duty Championship 2014: US Regionals. Once again teams were required to finish in the Top 8 to qualify for the championship event. Despite a first round loss to Strictly Business, who would go on to win the regional event, the team was able to get through the lower bracket and finish 4th place, securing their spot.

At the Championship, the team was upset by the Australian team Trident T1 Dotters in group stage but were able to advance to Bracket play with two big wins over SK Gaming and Aztek Gaming. They secured the 2nd seed in their group and set a match with the other Australian team, Team Immunity. They avoided another upset by defeating them 3-0 with the one of the top European teams, Epsilon eSports. They won again to set up a match against the favorites compLexity in which FaZe lost 3-1. The team but lost their next match the Losers bracket against Strictly Business 3-0. The team finished 6th place and walked away with $50,000.[2]

After the event, the organization decided to give ProoFy his own team with the creation of FaZe Black and have Theory fill his spot on the previous team which would now be known as FaZe Red. To complete the FaZe Black roster, ProoFy was joined by 2 members of the previous team with Censor and Saints along with FormaL joining from Team KaLiBeR. Upon creation, some started calling them a "God Squad" and possibly the team to finally dethrone compLexity (whose team later transferred to Evil Geniuses). Unfortunately, after a few weeks, ProoFy left the team to fill the void at OpTic Gaming that was left when MBoZe was given his own team in OpTic Nation. This left FaZe Black looking for one and that spot was taken by Dedo who had previously teamed with Censor and Saints. At the time, the MLG Ghosts League Season 2 was announced in which the FaZe Red team kept their spot due to competing in MLG Pro Circuit Season 1, however FaZe Black was not given a spot at first due to the roster changes. Even though three members of FaZe Black had competed on Strictly Business, the organization was given the spot, and not the players. After a few days, MLG changed these rules and invited the team to compete in the league.

Before UGC Niagara Saints announced that he would not be attending the event. This left the team looking for one a day before the event started. They were able to pick up Saintt in the last minute unfortunately they lost their Championship Bracket spot and were going to have to go through the open bracket. The FaZe Red team meanwhile had the 5 seed. Despite the roster change, FaZe Black was able to make it through the open bracket and fight it's way all the way to a 5th/6th-place finish losing to OpTic Nation. They were able to defeat Strictly Business in the consolation game to secure 5th place and finish in the money. FaZe Red were dropped to the Losers bracket following a 3-2 loss by EnVyUs and then lost their first game in the Losers' Bracket to Team KaLiBeR getting eliminated from the tournament and finishing.

FaZe participated in the MLG Season 3 championships.[3]

Roster troubles

Much later in to the life cycle of Call of Duty: Ghosts, FaZe saw yet another roster change; however this change is a result of personal issues between Parasite and his teammates and he got benched. Shortly after a very professional ordeal coming out of Censor, his actions are quickly undone as Dedo is traded to Evil Geniuses in exchange for a temporary loan of Karma, and Parasite is back in play.[4]

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Advanced Warfare was released in 2014. As yet another series of Roster Swaps went down, FaZe were a part of the action. With Karma only being there on a loan contract and Parasite also departing as he attempted to reform Impact, Censor and Apathy were left looking for two. They considered many AW Gamebattle leaders such as Origin, Mike, Gyrusa, and Rejack. They eventually were able to bring ACHES and SlasheR on board. At MLG Columbus, FaZe went 3-1 in their pool to come out into the winners bracket. However, on Saturday night ACHES spent the night in hospital following cutting his hand open, but still returned to play the next day. Unfortunately their chances looked to be over with ACHES appearing to struggle as they were swept 3-0 by Prophecy and went down into the losers bracket. However, from here they beat Denial eSports, Team KaLiBeR and Prophecy before heading on to the grand finals against OpTic Gaming. In the finals FaZe won two best of 5 series to take MLG Columbus and $10,000 with Censor picking up three kills in the final round of the game 5 SnD.[5] FaZe would look to take this momentum into UMG Orlando. FaZe started very poorly, going 1-3 in their pool and they headed into losers bracket. They were able to defeat Rise, but fell to EnVyUs in a five map series and finished with a placement of T16.

About halfway through the first 2015 Season, Censor steps down as captain and handed the title over to ACHES. Not too soon later, ACHES decides to change things up a bit and traded Huke (their substitute), Censor and Apathy for Parasite from Prophecy, and also Enable and Faccento from JusTus.

New squad and new success

As Advanced Warfare continued to move along, a deal was struck upon between FaZe and Denial Esports. FaZe reportedly found that Huke and Slasher were unsettled at FaZe and were shopping themselves to other teams. As a result, the organization and key members ZooMaa and Enable, traded the two, for Denial COD Champions James "Clayster" Eubanks and Dillon "Attach" Price[6]

The deal established FaZe as a top three team, and the new squad made strong showings in the Pro League, as well as multiple LAN wins. Their first of which was the UMG Dallas 2015 event, in which they beat OpTic 3-0.[7]

Soon after the squad traveled to Europe to try to win the 2015 GFinity LAN event. FaZe ran through the tournament with ease and were pitted once again against OpTic gaming in the final. OpTic picked up a 3-0 lead in the best of 4. However, FaZe made the 3-0 comeback to win the LAN event.[7][8]

Tournament results

Roster

Nationality ID Name Primary Role
 United States Clayster James Eubanks Slayer
 United States Enable Ian Wyatt Support
 United States ZooMaa Thomas Paparatto Slayer
 United States Attach Dillon Price Objective Player

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

On January 20, 2016 G2 Esports announced that FaZe Clan had acquired their international Counter-Strike roster.[9]

Current roster

Nationality ID Name Join date
 Denmark aizy Philip Aistrup 2016-01-20
 Sweden Maikelele Mikail Bill 2016-01-20
 Norway rain Håvard Nygaard 2016-01-20
 Norway jkaem Joakim Myrbostad 2016-01-20
 Portugal fox Ricardo Pacheco 2016-01-20

References

  1. ↑ "About". YouTube. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ Pitcher, Jenna (March 31, 2014). "CompLexity dominates $1M 2014 Call of Duty Championship". Polygon. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  3. ↑ Lingle, Samuel (October 23, 2014). "MLG debuts Columbus arena with Call of Duty playoffs". The Daily Dot. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ Stuart, Keith; Perkin, Ben (March 29, 2015). "Call of Duty championships 2015: Optic Gaming drops out on day of upsets". The Guardian. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ Reese, Thomas (December 8, 2014). "Blood, sweat and cheers: How Aches became G.O.A.T. of 'Call of Duty'". Fox Sports. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  6. ↑ Lingle, Samuel (June 17, 2015). "Final two members of CoD Championship winners leave team, join FaZe". The Daily Dot. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  7. 1 2 Duwe, Scott (August 3, 2015). "FaZe Defeats OpTic in Gfinity Summer Championships". Red Bull eSports. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  8. ↑ "FaZe Clan Wins Call of Duty Summer Championship!". Gfinity. August 4, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  9. ↑ "G2's Counter-Strike team acquired by FaZe Clan". G2 Esports. January 20, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016.

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