14-year-old Cody “Clix” Conrad played the Fortnite Champion Series with his team and streamed it live on Twitch. He had to leave the match when the police came to his house. Someone had swatted him.
This was the situation: Professional Clix was playing the “Fortnite Champion Series” and had already been eliminated, but three members of his squad were still active. He watched one teammate. The game was being broadcast live on Twitch. Clix has around 450,000 followers on the platform.
You can see in the Twitch clip the typical action of a high-level Fortnite match and hear the voice chat comments: “I hit him again for 25, he is down to 10 HP.”
Then you hear Clix’s voice: “The police are here. I’m being swatted. One second, I have to go.” He sounds breathless, noticeably excited.
The team is briefly confused but continues playing.
This is how Clix reacts: As it turned out later, fortunately, no one was injured in the situation.
Clix later tweeted: “Swatting is so disgusting, how can someone even do that?”
Clix apparently got the Snapchat contact of a police officer.
Clix is part of the young US Fortnite elite
Who is Clix? The 14-year-old is among the best Fortnite professionals in the world. He placed 18th in the solo World Cup. He took home $112,500 in prize money.
In duos, he and his partner Sceptic only reached 35th place – the two then publicly argued after the World Cup.
Clix was a partner of Crimz in duos, another US teenager, who his father raised to be an eSports professional from childhood.
At 14, Clix still lives with his parents.
What is Swatting? Swatting is when a criminal describes a threatening situation to the police and sends them to someone else’s address. The intention is to have a armed police unit show up at the affected person’s location, causing stress and panic.
During such a swatting incident, an innocent person lost their life during Christmas time in 2017. A caller faked a hostage situation. The police responded to the wrong address and then ordered the residents of the house to come out.
A 28-year-old man who complied with the order was shot by a police officer because he made a “suspicious movement”.
Since many professionals in Fortnite are very young, this terrible practice often affects teenagers. This also happened to the reigning champion Bugha.
