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FaZe Clan
File:FaZe 2.0 Logo.png
NicknameFaZe
Founded2010
DivisionCall of Duty
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Overwatch
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege
EA Sports FIFA
OwnersThomas "Temperrr" Oliveira
DRAKE "Apex" Abdelfattah
Richard "Banks" Bengtson
Nordan "Rain" Shat
ManagerThomas Oliveira (CEO)
PartnersGamma Gamers
Scuf Gaming
WebsiteOfficial website
FaZe Clan's Youtube channel

FaZe Clan is an American eSports organization who competes in Call of Duty, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, PUBG, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege and EA Sports' 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 Black Ops 2, 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. In 2016 a new era for FaZe began, when FaZe bought a Counter Strike: Global Offensive professional team and added CS:GO Directors to FaZe Clan's Creative roster. This movement is referred to as "FaZe 2.0" by the FaZe members and the fans alike. The FaZe CS:GO went on to become the 2nd most successful roster for the 2017 season.

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 4.5 million subscribers,[1] 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.[2] Following this, Carl has also left to join 'RED Reserve'.[3] 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'.[4]

Channel Name Total Subscribers Total Views Job in Clan Extra Info Lives In FaZe House
FaZe Clan 4.6 million+ 470 million+ Official Channel Official Channel for Clan -
FaZe Fitness 178.5 thousand+ 7.1 million+ Official Channel -
FaZe Temperrr 1.5 million+ 43.5 million+ Personality/ Owner/CEO Owner of FaZe Clan Pro Teams Yes
FaZe Apex 4.7 million+ 860 million+ Co-Owner of FaZe Clan/Personality Co-Owner of FaZe Clan Yes
FaZe Rain 5.1 million+ 953 million+ Co-Owner of FaZe Clan/ Trickshotter/ Personality Yes
FaZe Adapt 4.6 million+ 905 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality Yes
FaZe Blaze 2.9 million+ 422 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality Also known as 'FaZe Blaziken' Yes
FaZe Teeqo 1.8 million+ 207 million+ Personality Yes
FaZe Cheo - - Personality FaZe House Chef Yes
FaZe Censor 2.5 million+ 401 million+ COD Player/ Personality No
FaZe Jev 2.6 million+ 719 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality No
FaZe Rug 7.2 million + 1.4 billion+ Personality Most subscribed and most viewed in the clan No
FaZe Agony 1.0 million+ 122 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality/ Streamer No
FaZe Hazz 374 thousand+ 27.2 million+ Personality No
FaZe Kitty 335.8 thousand+ 16.6 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality No
FaZe Dirty 319.2 thousand+ 24.1 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality No
FaZe CBass 331.2 thousand+ 0 (No videos) FaZe Clan Manager No
FaZe Fakie 516.8 thousand+ 25.2 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality No
FaZe Jinx 407.6 thousand+ 31.6 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality No
FaZe HugZ 202.6 thousand+ 4 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality No
FaZe PryZee 379.6 thousand+ 15.6 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality No
FaZe Swan 727.8 thousand+ 60.3 million+ Personality No
FaZe Linkzy 628.4 thousand+ 62.7 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality No
FaZe Kay 1.0 million+ 112 million+ Personality No
FaZe Bloo 655.9 thousand+ 39.2 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality No
FaZe Replays 344.8 thousand+ 30.9 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality No
FaZe Barker 144.6 thousand+ 3.8 million+ Montage Editor Lead Montage Editor No
FaZe Unchained 11 thousand+ 497 thousand+ Montage Editor No
Pride 24.9 thousand+ 514 thousand+ Montage Editor Also known as 'FaZe Pride' No
Jacob Klassen 7.1 thousand+ 122 thousand+ Montage Editor/ Photographer Also known as 'FaZe PenG' No
FaZe Sensei 378 thousand+ 19.4 million+ Personality/ Faze Fitness Owner Owner of Faze Fitness No
FaZe Nikan 905.6 thousand+ 50.9 million+ Daily Video Editor Yes
FaZe Coan 29.1 thousand+ 395 thousand+ Graphics Designer No
FaZe Zaibot 7.4 thousand+ 72 thousand+ Head of FaZe Studio No
FaZe Mito 21 thousand+ 886 thousand+ Creative Director No
FaZe JPEX 36.6 thousand+ 885 thousand+ Graphics Artist No
Forceisdown 87.9 thousand+ 1.1 million+ Music Relations Also known as "FaZe Force" No
FaZe Banks 4.2 million+ 248 million+ Co-Owner of FaZe Clan/ Personality Known for being a part of YouTube personality Ricegum's squad known as "Clout Gang". No
FaZe Testy 144 thousand+ 4.2 million+ Trickshotter/Personality Joined on Christmas 2017 No
FaZe Hoppin 93.6 thousand+ 7.8 million+ CS:GO Player/ Personality Only CS:GO Director in FaZe Clan No
FaZe Clipz 94.4 thousand+ 2.5 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality Founding member No
FaZe GwidT 55.1 thousand+ 1.1 million+ Trickshotter/ Personality No

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.[5]

FaZe participated in the MLG Season 3 championships.[6]

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.[7]

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.[8]

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[9]

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.[10]

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.[10][11]

Roster

ID Name Primary Role
Replays United States James Crowder Flex
ZooMaa United States Thomas Paparatto Slayer
Attach United States Dillon Price
Priestahh United States Preston Greiner Flex

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

On January 20, 2016, G2 Esports announced that FaZe Clan had acquired their international Counter-Strike roster.[12] On April 10, 2016, shortly after placing 9–12th at the MLG Major Championship: Columbus, FaZe announced kioShiMa would be replacing Maikelele.[13] 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.[14] 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,[15] with Jkaem playing as the stand-in in the interim.[16] In mid 2017, FaZe Clan brought Olofmeister and Guardian to replace kioShiMa and allu, respectively.[17] 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 3-1 in a best of 5 match.

Current Roster

Alias Name Role Join date
rain Norway Håvard Nygaard Rifler January 20, 2016
olofmeister Sweden Olof Kajbjer Gustafsson Rifler August 20, 2017
GuardiaN Slovakia Ladislav Kovács AWP August 3, 2017
karrigan Denmark Finn Andersen In-game leader October 19, 2016
NiKo Bosnia and Herzegovina Nikola Kovač Rifler/AWP February 19, 2017
RobbaN Sweden Robert Dahlström Coach February 9, 2016

Former

ID Name Join date Departure
kioShiMa (inactive) France Fabien Fiey 2016-11-09 [18] 2017-08-20 [19]
allu Finland Aleksi Jalli 2016-08-16 [20] 2017-08-03 [21]
Maikelele Sweden Mikail Bill 2016-01-20 [22] 2016-04-03 [23]
fox Portugal Ricardo Pacheco 2016-01-20 [22] 2016-08-16 [24]
jkaem Norway Joakim Myrbostad 2016-01-20 [22] 2016-11-09 [25]
aizy Denmark Philip Aistrup 2016-01-20 [22] 2017-02-08 [26]

FIFA

The announcement of FaZe Clan's first professional EA Sports FIFA player was made on 2018-01-25.

Current Roster

ID Name Join date
Tass United Kingdom Tassal Rushan 2018-01-25

Overwatch

Current Roster

ID Name Role Join date
Lui (inactive) Luis Olivares DPS 2017-05-?[27]
FCTFCTN Russell Campbell Tank 2016-08-20 [27]
Forsak3n (inactive) Evan Wines DPS 2016-08-20

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

ID Name Role Join Date
MeToR Austria Max Lion 2017-11-10
Haxete Sweden Adrian Blom 2017-11-10
mxey Finland Anssi Pekkonen 2017-11-10
Jembty Finland Jere Kauppinen 2017-11-10
Fuzzface Sweden David Tillberg Persson 2017-11-10
Zephyr United States Ramon Perez Coach 2017-11-10

Rainbow Six: Siege

The announcement of the arrival of FaZe Clan on Rainbow Six: Siege was made on 2018-01-18[28]

The roster will participate in the Six Invitational in Montreal from 2018-02-13 to 2018-02-18

Current Roster
ID Name Join Date
gohaN Brazil Guilherme Alf 2018-01-18
Astro Brazil Leonardo Luis 2018-01-18
cameram4n Brazil Gabriel Hespanhol 2018-01-18
HSnamuringa Brazil João Deam 2018-01-18
mav Brazil Rafael Freitas 2018-01-18

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

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

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