19-year-old Evan “Cented” Barron had become a professional in the online shooter Fortnite . He had been playing for the world’s largest esports organization, the “FaZe” clan, since 2021, and had already collected over $300,000 in prize money. A clip on Twitch that recently surfaced has abruptly ended his career. His clan does not give second chances anymore.
This is the player in question:
- The 19-year-old Evan “Cented” Barron hails from Canada and is among the 600 most successful Fortnite professionals in the world in terms of prize money.
- The Canadian has earned $327,177 in 64 tournaments: Almost half of the money came in 2021 when he finished 2nd in several tournaments during the FNCS online championship (via esportearnings).
- Even more important for his career: Cented signed a professional contract with FaZe, a massive esports organization, in March 2021, which can help content creators build lucrative channels on Twitch and YouTube. FaZe includes shooter stars like NIKCMERS or Mongraal and strangely enough, the rapper Snoop Dogg.
One of the appeals of Fortnite is that new things keep happening in the game:
Streamer joins chat, immediately greets friend with a racial slur
This is what led to his downfall: Cented joined a voice chat and greeted a friend there with a racial term, the “N” word. He apparently did not look around in the chat for a second before the greeting to see what was going on.
The friend did not take the racial greeting too seriously, just pointing out: “Uhm – I’m live.”
Because the friend was currently streaming on Twitch, the greeting, which was apparently meant to be private, went out to everyone.
A 9-second clip of this scene circulated later on Twitter:
FaZe releases 19-year-old – Says they will “no longer” tolerate this
This is how his clan reacted: The FaZe clan has terminated the player with immediate effect permanently. The reason given is “hate speech”.
It is stated that they continuously develop and expect the same from their members. FaZe and the gaming community “can no longer” tolerate such discriminatory language (via twitter).
This is what it’s about: FaZe shows here a new toughness. For the same offense, they had previously only suspended another Fortnite player, “Dubs” (then 16), two years ago and prescribed him “sensitivity training”. With the 19-year-old, they are now dealing much more harshly.
This could be due to the fact that FaZe has now established itself differently and is planning an IPO.
It could also be that now, as Fortnite is no longer so hyped, they are making an example.
It often happens that a Twitch streamer thinks no one can hear him and then loses it during a friend’s stream. This happened to MontanaBlack as well:
Twitch bans MontanaBlack for 7 days – This is what he says about it
Or it could be that there has really been a deep change in thinking within the organization.
Ego and success have gone to his head, says pro
This is what the pro says: Cented says that they have “mutually agreed to part ways”.
The pro explains: He is sorry. He is not sorry for getting caught but that he knew better. Cented says he does not want to hide behind his age. He should simply not have that word in his vocabulary anymore (via twitter).
The 19-year-old explains: Somewhere between 2021 and 2022, he lost his way, his ego suddenly became large, and he went from “nice guy Cented” to someone who made many enemies and who posted things on Twitter in anger that he should have held back on.
Somewhere he lost himself at the height of his success.
He just said something for the “shock factor” – something he should never have said. He is sorry.
It often happens that a Twitch streamer thinks no one can hear him and then loses it during a friend’s stream. This happened to MontanaBlack as well:
Twitch bans MontanaBlack for 7 days – This is what he says about it
