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William Calandros (born September 4, 1979), also known as Killa_Bee_Cash, is an American professional Call of Duty player. He is the founder, co-owner and CEO of esports team Discharged Gaming (DG) and former co-captain of OpTic Gaming in the 2014 Call of Duty: Ghosts season and the 2014–2015 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare season, playing the objective support role.

Personal life

Calandros was born on September 4, 1979 to Nick and Dianna Calandros. He has a brother & sister.

Calandros attended Steubenville Big Red Highschool in Steubenville, Ohio and graduated in 1997. Prior to competing in competitive gaming, Calandros worked as a police sergeant and swat team leader in Jefferson county, Ohio

Calandros is a Major League Gaming (MLG) 2011 Call of Duty XP World Champion, winning Best eSports player in 2015. He participates in the Twitch streaming program. Calandros was previously sponsored by several gaming hardware companies, including Astro Gaming, Game Fuel, Kontrol Freaks and Scuf Gaming.

In April 2015, shortly after the Call of Duty Championship 2015, Killa_Bee_Cash announced that he was leaving OpTic as a player and taking a leave of absence from competitive gaming. In 2016, Calandros created his own competitive gaming team, called Discharged Gaming, which began playing in the Call of Duty World League during Black Ops III season.

Early career

Calandros's gaming handle, "Killa_Bee_Cash" originates from his love for the rap group Wu-Tang Clan. He narrowly missed qualifying for MLG Chicago in Gears of War play by one slot in 2007. In 2007 he made his professional debut on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

OpTic career

Calandros has been a member of OpTic Gaming since June 2010, when he first joined the OpTic competitive team. In 2014, he became the Co-captain of OpTic Gaming after Will "BigTymer" Johnson resigned. Calandros stepped down as OpTic Gaming's co-captain after a seventh-place finish at the 2015 Call of Duty Championship tournament. Killa_Bee_Cash then decided to leave OpTic in 2016 returning in 2020 to be a part of the support team.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II 2012–13 season

Treyarch were to make Call of Duty: Black Ops II which was the second game in the Black Ops franchise. The game was a success competitively and attracted a bigger audience through the season. With Frag Cup 4, an annual online tournament at the start of a new Call of Duty title, a up and coming member of the OpTic Gaming competitive team was unable to play due to gambling restrictions in his province, and after impressing early on in the game, OpTic Gaming picked up Calandros, who rejoined the OpTic Gaming competitive team on a permanent basis. They finished in the 7th/8th position in Frag Cup 4 before going to the first LAN event which was UMG Chicago. OpTic Gaming started the tournament strong, making their way to the finals without losing. The team then lost the first series in the final. However, because they were the winners of the 'winners final' the match went into a final and decisive series, in which they were able to win 3-2 and become the first Call of Duty: Black Ops II champions.

The next tournament was MLG Dallas. Here, the top 8 teams qualified to compete at that year's Call of Duty Championships, which was an annual $1,000,000 event. Calandros and OpTic Gaming went on to finish in the 5th/6th position.

At the Call of Duty Championships, OpTic Gaming finished in third place losing to the eventual winners of the tournament. They then played in Gfinity 1 (G1) in London, United Kingdom and MLG Anaheim in Anaheim, California where they placed in third respectively at both events. The next event Calandros attended was Gfinity (G2) in London. However, their new roster finished 9th–12th. Their performance at the MLG Fullsail Invitational, where the four highest ranked Black Ops II teams competed, (and which was to be OpTic Gaming and MLG's final event of the Call of Duty: Black Ops II competitive season) was much improved, finishing in second place. In first was a team by the name of Complexity Gaming.

Call of Duty: Ghosts 2013–14 season

The next title of the Call of Duty franchise was Call of Duty: Ghosts which MLG announced that it would be their featured FPS title for the upcoming season again. Calandros and OpTic Gaming disappointed at both of their first two events which were to be MLG Columbus (13–16th place) and UMG Philadelphia (9–12th place) before a roster change occurred with one player retiring, two leaving and one later rejoining. During this time Calandros teamed with Christopher Duarte, who goes by the name of 'Parasite'. At this time, the team consisted of 'Killa_Bee_Cash', 'Clayster', 'Ricky' and 'Parasite'. However, after only a handful of days, 'Parasite' and 'Ricky' left OpTic to join Curse Las Vegas. OpTic then picked up 'Saints' and 'MBoZe', before 'Scumpii' rejoined OpTic to replace the departing 'Saints', who returned to Strictly Business. After the retirement of 'BigTymer' following UMG Philadelphia, Calandros became the co-captain of OpTic Gaming.

Optic, led by Calandros, qualified for the Call of Duty: Ghosts national qualifiers for the annual Call of Duty Championship $1,000,000 tournaments after qualifying via MLG's online qualifying tournament. At the US Championship Finals OpTic Gaming finished in 7th place to qualify for the Call of Duty World Championship, after eliminating Curse New York in an elimination game in a best of 5 series. This allowed the team to qualify for the annual $1 million tournament. Calandros and his OpTic Gaming squad played in the MLG Pro Circuit Season 1 online league where after a promising start they suffered problems online and were not able to qualify for the MLG PAX East Championship; eventually OpTic Gaming finished bottom of the league in 10th place. OpTic Gaming later announced that Calandros and his teammates would be hosting the winners of the US Regional finals, Strictly Business Gaming for a pre-LAN event for the World Championships.

At the Call of Duty World Championships, OpTic were placed in a group with 'Epsilon eSports', 'NSP' and 'SSOF'; controversy was caused when 'SSOF' were disqualified and OpTic only had two teams in their group. OpTic first played 'NSP' and beat them 3-0 leading to a group decider against Epsilon where Calandros and his team lost 3-0. However they advanced as the second seed and faced tK in the first round of the winners bracket. Calandros led his team to a 3–0 victory against a team considered to be a top three team by many. In the second round Calandros was to come up against Strictly Business Gaming who they had hosted in a pre-LAN event, however Calandros and his teammates won 3–2 and played Australian team Trident T1 Dotters for a guaranteed top three finish. OpTic Gaming led by Calandros won the series 3–1 and guaranteed themselves 3rd and $120,000. OpTic were then to face CompLexity who were undefeated on Call of Duty: Ghosts and came up short in the winners bracket finals losing 3–2. OpTic then lost to Team EnVyUs in the losers bracket finals and Calandros led his team to a top three finish and won his cut of $30,000.

Shortly after the Call of Duty World Championships, Calandros signed an exclusivity contract with MLG to stream himself playing Call of Duty on MLG's MLG.tv web streaming service. On April 15, 2014, OpTic Gaming announced that Marcus 'MBoZe' Blanks would be leaving the team in order for Jordan 'ProoFy' Cannon to join the team. The OpTic Gaming roster (Calandros's teammates) for UGC Niagara and for the 2014 season Call of Duty:Ghosts season was Seth 'Scumpii' Abner, James 'Clayster' Eubanks and Jordan 'ProoFy' Cannon.

At the new roster's first tournament together, a disappointing first day lead to them having to play the world's best team, and eventual winners of UGC Niagara, CompLexity Gaming, who proved too strong for Calandros's team. They narrowly won every map to take a 3–0 series win and knock Calandros and his OpTic Gaming team out of the tournament. Before and after UGC Niagara Calandros competed with his team in the MLG Pro Circuit Season 2 in order to qualify for MLG Anaheim's pro team tournament to contest for a $70,000 prize pool. Calandros's team qualified, being second place in the league.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 2014–15 season

Calandros at the MLG Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Season 1 Championships at Columbus, Ohio in 2015.

Advanced Warfare will be the next installment in the Call Of Duty Franchise for the e-sports circuit. The season formally began November 2014. Calandros was invited by Activision to Los Angeles for a preview of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare in order to advise developers on the state of the game. On October 28, 2014 OpTic Gaming, led by Calandros, participated in an exclusive Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare streaming event at the so-called 'OpTic House' in Chicago, in order to promote the new edition in the franchise for its creators, Sledgehammer Games.

In season opening competition, MLG Columbus, Calandros and his team achieved second place, losing out to FaZe in the Grand Final. This was a sad loss for OpTic and Calandros, as they hadn't dropped a map all day until the grand finals. OpTic looked like they were going to win it all until they ran into Faze Clan in the finals. Faze narrowly took the victory, going all the way to a second best of five series.

The second tournament Calandros competed in with OpTic was at UMG Orlando. Calandros and his team achieved first place this time around. They went 0–2 in the first day of competition but his team managed to bounce back and with their other two games in pool play on the second day of competition. On Championship Sunday OpTic were crowned victorious as they beat a young team known as Stunner Gaming 3–1 in the grand finals.

Twelve teams qualified, including Calandros's team, for Pro League Season 1: Prophecy, FaZe, Justus, Aware, Automatic Reload, EnVyUs, Denial, eLevate, Rise Nation, Team KaLiBeR, OpTic Nation, and OpTic Gaming. Calandros's team now consists of Ian "Crimsix" Porter, Seth "Scumpii" Abner, and Matthew "Formal" Piper. OpTic Gaming were to go 38–6 in the MLG Season 1 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and qualified with the number one seed for the playoffs which they completed at with a $75,000 prize pool. OpTic Gaming went into the event led by Killa_Bee_Cash and hoped to become the first team to win a LAN tournament without dropping a map. They went on to beat Rise Nation 3–0, they then came up against a team with young players called Aware Gaming who they beat 3–1 however this meant they did not become the first team to win an event without dropping a map. They then faced Team Kaliber in the winners bracket final who they narrowly beat 3–2 before progressing to the grand finals where they beat Denial eSports 3–0 to win their second event in a row. This was Calandros's second win of an MLG event after winning previously at X Games during the Call of Duty: Ghosts season.

On April 4, 2015, Calandros announced that he was stepping down as co-captain and member of the OpTic Gaming pro-team. He continued his work as a police officer and was replaced on the lineup by Damon "Karma" Barlow.