FaZe Clan is an American eSports organization which competes in Call of Duty, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege and FIFA tournaments. The team was founded as a gaming clan on YouTube by players known as FaZe Housecat (later renamed Timid), FaZe ClipZ and FaZe Resistance who made trick shot videos for the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. In 2012, with the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the organization decided to expand into competitive play. FaZe Red placed 3rd at the Call of Duty Championship 2015 and won the 2015 Season 3 championship.
Video FaZe Clan
YouTube
The FaZe Clan began its existence through YouTube in 2010. FaZe started as a clan that would perform trick shots in Call of Duty and post clips and montages on YouTube. As the members' personalities and audience preferences changed so did the video content. The FaZe YouTubers, including FaZe Banks, FaZe Apex, FaZe Blaziken, FaZe Rug, FaZe Adapt, FaZe Censor, and FaZe Rain, started to vlog and do creative skits to further evolve their channels. Although the FaZe YouTubers are the more famous FaZe Clan members, they do not compete in any competitive gaming for FaZe. These YouTubers strictly make YouTube videos for FaZe to extend the brand and entertain their fans. Currently, each major FaZe member has over 1 million subscribers on YouTube, with some having between three and five million subscribers. The official FaZe Clan YouTube channel has 4.6 million subscribers, while FaZe Rug has the most subscribers out of all the FaZe Members with 7 million subscribers.
As of August 2017, Spratt has left FaZe Clan. Following this, Carl has also left to join 'RED Reserve'. FaZe Apex notes that both Spratt and Carl were on good terms with the clan and that Spratt has considered leaving for 'a while now'.
Maps FaZe Clan
Call of Duty
The beginning of FaZe
In 2011, FaZe created their first roster consisting of Heist, Folsom, Secretly, and Sham to compete at the MLG Winter Championship 2012. Their next roster was Heist, maxba2, 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. The team made the semifinals of the eight-team invitational but was eliminated by the eventual 2nd-place finisher, compLexity Gaming. To close out Black Ops 2, the team attended the four team MLG Fall Invitational. Once again, the team kept the same roster but finished in 4th place and won no money.
Call of Duty: Ghosts
At the Championship, the team was upset by the Australian team Trident T1 Dotters in the 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 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 then lost their next match in the losers bracket against Strictly Business, 3-0. The team finished 6th place and walked away with $50,000.
FaZe participated in the MLG Season 3 championships.
Roster troubles
Much later into 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 were quickly undone as Dedo was traded to Evil Geniuses in exchange for a temporary loan of Karma, and Parasite is back in play.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Advanced Warfare was released in 2014. As yet another series of Roster Swaps went down, FaZe was a part of the action. In the finals, FaZe won two best of five series to take MLG Columbus and $10,000 with Censor picking up three kills in the final round of game five SnD.
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 Huke and Slasher for Denial COD Champions James "Clayster" Eubanks and Dillon "Attach" Price
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.
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 four; however, FaZe made the 3-0 comeback to win the LAN event.
Roster
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
On January 20, 2016, G2 Esports announced that FaZe Clan had acquired their international Counter-Strike roster. On April 10, 2016, shortly after placing 9-12th at the MLG Major Championship: Columbus, FaZe announced kioShiMa would be replacing Maikelele. On July 7 the team placed 9-12th at ESL One Cologne 2016. On August 16, 2016, it was announced that Aleksi "allu" Jalli would be replacing Ricardo "fox" Pacheco. On February 2, 2017, it was announced that aizy would be moving to North on the 8th, while NiKo would come to FaZe after Dreamhack Las Vegas on the 20th, with Jkaem playing as the stand-in in the interim. In mid 2017, FaZe Clan brought Olofmeister and Guardian to replace kioShiMa and allu, respectively. With this new super-star team, FaZe would go on to win multiple significant tournaments such as ECS Finals Cancún 2017 in which they beat mousesports 2-1 in a best of 3 match after a closely contested final that featured 2 overtimes and minimal round differences on maps.
Current Roster
Former
FIFA
The announcement of FaZe Clan's first professional EA Sports FIFA player was made on 2018-01-25.
Current Roster
Overwatch
Current Roster
As of September 2017, the FaZe Overwatch Pro Team is inactive and no further comment has been made about the situation from any FaZe Owner or member.
PUBG
The announcement of FaZe buying Gorilla Core's PUBG team was made on 2017-11-11.
Current Roster
Rainbow Six: Siege
The announcement of the arrival of FaZe Clan on Rainbow Six: Siege was made on 2018-01-18
The roster will participate in the Six Invitational in Montreal from 2018-02-13 to 2018-02-18
Results
Call of Duty
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
- 5th MLG Spring Championship 2013
- 9th UMG Atlanta 2013
- 4th MLG PAX Prime Invitational 2013
- 4th MLG Fall Invitational 2013
Call of Duty: Ghosts
- 24th MLG Fall Championship 2013
- 7th UMG Philadelphia 2013
- 7th Call of Duty Winter Invitational 2013
- 4th Call of Duty Championship 2014: US Regional Final
- 6th Call of Duty Championship 2014
- 6th MLG CoD League Season 1 Playoffs
- 1st MLG CoD League Season 1
- 3rd AEL Dallas 2014
- 3rd-4th Gfinity III
- 9th-12th UMG Dallas 2014
- 5th MLG CoD League Season 3
- 1st UMG Nashville 2014
- 7th-8th MLG CoD League Season 3 Playoffs
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- 1st MLG Columbus 2014
- 13-16th UMG Orlando 2015
- 4th MLG Pro League Season 1 Regular Season
- 4th MLG Pro League Season 1 Playoffs
- 2nd UMG California 2015
- 2nd MLG Pro League Season 2 Regular Season
- 2nd MLG Pro League Season 2 Playoffs
- 1st UMG Dallas 2015
- 1st Gfinity Summer Championship 2015
- 7th-8th UMG Washington D.C. 2015
- 3rd MLG Pro League Season 3 Regular Season
- 1st MLG Pro League Season 3 Playoffs
- 5th-6th - MLG World Finals 2015
Call of Duty: Black Ops III
- 5th-8th Totino's Invitational 2015
- Q NA CWL Stage 1 Pro Division Qualifying Invitational Tournament 2016
- 5th-8th UMG South Carolina 2016 Champion Tournament
- 3rd-4th UMG CWL $25K Challenge Variant 1, 2016
- 3rd-4th UMG CWL $25K Challenge Variant 2, 2016
- 1st ESL CWL Challenge Division Tier 2 Event 1 North America 2016
- 5th-8th ESL CWL Challenge Division Tier 2 Event 2 North America 2016
- 3rd NA CWL Stage 1 Regular Season 2016
- 3rd-4th NA CWL Stage 1 Playoffs 2016
- 5th-8th ESWC Zénith 2016
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Bold denotes a CS:GO Major
- 9-12th Global eSports Cup - Season 1 - EU Group Stage #2
- 5-6th DreamHack Open Leipzig 2016
- 7-8th Intel Extreme Masters X - World Championship
- 9-12th MLG Major Championship: Columbus 2016
- 13-16th DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016
- 7th ESL Pro League Season 3 - Europe
- 6th Esports Championship Series Season 1 - Europe
- 1st-2nd ESL One: Cologne 2016 - Qualifier
- 9-12th ESL One: Cologne 2016
- 9-10th ELEAGUE Season 1
- 5-8th StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 2 - Europe Qualifier
- 2nd ESL One: New York 2016 Europe Qualifier
- 1st-4th ELEAGUE Season 2 - EU Preliminary Rounds
- 9-12th StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 2
- 5-6th DreamHack Open Bucharest 2016
- 3rd-4th EPICENTER 2016 - Europe Closed Qualifier
- 5-8th World Cyber Arena 2016 - European Qualifier
- 4th ESL Pro League Season 4 - Europe
- 7-8th ESL Pro League Season 4 - Finals
- 3rd-4th iBUYPOWER Masters 2016
- 3rd-4th Intel Extreme Masters XI - Oakland
- 3rd Esports Championship Series Season 2 - Europe
- 3rd-4th ELEAGUE Season 2
- 5-6th Esports Championship Series Season 2 - Finals
- 1st-2nd ELEAGUE Major: Atlanta 2017 - Offline Qualifier
- 1st-4th DreamHack Masters Las Vegas 2017 - EU Qualifier
- 5-8th ELEAGUE Major 2017
- 9-12th DreamHack Masters Las Vegas, 2017
- 2nd IEM Katowice, 2017
- 2nd IEM Sydney, 2017
- 2nd Esports Championship Series Season 3, 2017
- 1st ESL One New York, 2017
- 1st ELEAGUE Premier Season 3, 2017
- 5-6th EPICENTER 2017
- 2nd Intel Extreme Masters Season 12 - Oakland
- 3rd BLAST Pro Series: Copenhagen 2017
- 2nd ESL Pro League Season 6
- 1st ECS Season 4 Finals
- 2nd ELEAGUE Major Boston 2018
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- 1st Auzom Premier League Season 1
- 4th Intel Extreme Masters Season XII Oakland
References
External links
- Official website
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