The time of Ninja and Tfue is long gone. Since 2022, Cody “Clix” Conrod (18) has been the biggest streamer on Twitch for the online shooter Fortnite. But Clix has a problem: On April 24th, he was banned from Fortnite by Epic and therefore cannot participate in the ongoing eSports championship, FNCS. He believes a 15-year-old tricked him and made him get banned. Now he wants to fight against the ban and uses his power on Twitter.
Why was Clix banned?
- Clix received a 2-week ban in Fortnite.
- The ban was for “teaming with an opponent” in eSports.
- The worst part for him: Clix says he cannot compete in Fortnite eSports for 4 months due to the ban and also cannot attend the planned major event, the FNCS Grand Finals. To him, it’s like the end of the world.
Before Clix, Ninja was the biggest Twitch streamer for Fortnite for a long time
This is what Clix says:
I basically can’t play competitive Fortnite for the next 4 months. I had a call with Epic, and at the moment, the ban stands. I’m praying to God that something changes, because this is my life.
Opponent gives Clix a strong item – Clix takes it
What exactly is he accused of? Fortnite is played in eSports in online lobbies. It’s every man for himself.
However, Clix received an item in the game (a pizza box) from an opponent, which gave him a significant advantage, allowing him to win the match. Clix admits that he won the match because of this box and that he shouldn’t have taken the item.
The clip that incriminates him shows: In a 30-second clip from Clix’s perspective, you can see that he is engaged in a standoff with an opponent. Clix angrily yells at the opponent, calling him a “stream sniping” bitch, then the opponent drops an epic item (purple), Clix jumps to the opponent’s position and grabs it.
It really looks like his opponent wanted to help him win.
Clix says: A 15-year-old hater wanted to get him banned on purpose
How does Clix justify himself? In a video, the 18-year-old explains:
- The player is a 15-year-old guy who has already messaged him
- The boy followed him throughout the game and shot at him. That’s a stream sniper
- The guy planned all of this, is a “Clix hater,” and only helped him so that Clix would get banned. He also explained his plan to harm him on Twitter
Clix explains: It was wrong of him to take the pizza. He shouldn’t have done that. Still, he finds a “ban of 2 weeks” too harsh. Clix is much more lenient with himself. A 3-day ban would have been enough; a warning would have been adequate.
In the video, he examines the action from the opponent’s perspective, whom he calls “a jerk” and who was also banned.
Clix tries to clarify that it only looked like teaming from the outside – he doesn’t know the boy. Therefore, the streamer repeatedly emphasizes that the other was pressuring him in the game and shooting at him. And at the moment Clix grabbed the pizza, he had no opportunity to shoot at the opponent.
How is he trying to get out of this now? He uploaded the video on Twitter last night and wants to make the hashtag “#FreeClix” go viral. Currently, the video has been viewed 280,000 times.
What’s behind this? Fortnite is generally not suitable for eSports because “teaming” is so easy and nothing in the game prevents it. To this day, there are doubts whether everything was above board at the Fortnite World Cup 2019, because many successful players had the same coach and it is suspected that there were agreements on movement paths so that the top players wouldn’t run into each other and have a higher chance of winning.
Therefore, this is quite a complicated situation:
- Clix now seems to want to publicly exert pressure on Epic Games via Twitter to lift the ban
- In contrast to Twitch, Epic Games is known to be strict with such decisions and to remain so. They do not respond to public pressure. The case of “FaZe Jarvis” is legendary. The young content creator was banned from Fortnite after using an aim bot “for fun.” He begged, pleaded, and cried that Epic would let him back in. But it was for nothing.
- Epic Games has also made it clear in the past that Clix is on thin ice and must be careful.
We have critically examined Clix on MeinMMO before:
