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 24.4. he was banned from Fortnite by Epic and as a result cannot compete in the ongoing esports championship, FNCS. He believes a 15-year-old tricked him and cast a spell on him. Now he wants to take action against the block and uses his power on Twitter.
Why was Clix banned?
- Clix received a 2 week ban in Fortnite.
- The ban was for “playing with an opponent” in e-sports.
- The bad thing for him: Clix says he can’t do e-sports in Fortnite for 4 months due to the ban and he can’t go to the planned big event, the FNCS Grand Finales. It’s the end of the world for him.
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CLIX says:
I basically can’t play Fortnite competitively for the next 4 months. I had a call with Epic and the ban is so strong at the moment. I pray to God that something happens because this is my life.
Opponent puts a strong item down to Clix – Clix takes it
What exactly is he being accused of? Fortnite is played in online lobbies in esports. The rule is: “Everyone against everyone.”
However, Clix received an in-game item (a pizza box) from an opponent that gave him a crucial advantage that allowed him to win the match. Clix himself admits that this box won the match and he shouldn’t have taken the item.
The Pizza Box in Fortnite is an “Epic Item” that came back from the Vault in Patch 24.10. The box contains 8 slices of pizza that restore health and shield. It is considered very strong.
This is shown by the clip that incriminates him: In a 30-second clip from Clix’s perspective, he is seen engaged in a combat with an opponent. Clix angrily roars at the foe, calling them “Stream Sniping” bitch, but then the foe drops an epic item (purple), Clix jumps over to the foe’s position and grabs it.
It looks like his opponent is trying 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 written him messages
- The boy followed him throughout the game and shot him. That’s a stream sniper
- The guy planned it all, was a “Clix hater” and only helped him to get Clix banned. He also explained his plan to harm him in this way on Twitter
Clix explains: It was wrong of him to pick up the pizza. He shouldn’t have done that. Nevertheless, he finds a “ban for 2 weeks” too hard. Clix is much more generous with himself. A ban for 3 days would have been enough, a warning would actually have been sufficient.
In the video he then looks at the action from the perspective of the opponent, whom he calls “a shit” and who was also banned.
Clix tries to clarify that it only looked like teaming “from the outside” – but he doesn’t know the boy. Therefore, the streamer repeatedly emphasizes that the other is pressuring him in the game and shit on him. And the moment Clix grabbed the pizza, he didn’t have a chance to fire at the enemy.
How is he trying to get free now?? He uploaded the video to Twitter last night and wants to make the hashtag “#FreeClix” work. The video has now been viewed 280,000 times.
What’s behind it? Fortnite isn’t inherently suitable for e-sports because “teaming” is just as easy and there’s nothing in the game to prevent it. To this day there are doubts as to whether everything went right at the Fortnite World Cup 2019, because many successful players had the same coach and it is suspected that arrangements were made about running routes so that the top players do not run into each other and one have a higher chance of winning.
So this is all a relatively complicated situation:
- Clix now appears to be publicly putting pressure on Epic Games via Twitter to get the ban lifted
- Unlike Twitch, however, Epic Games is known for being and staying tough on such decisions. You don’t 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, begged, and then cried for Epic to let him in after all. But it was nothing.
- Epic Games has also made it clear in the past that Clix is on thin ice and needs to be careful.
We have already taken a critical look at Clix on MeinMMO:
The biggest Fortnite streamer on Twitch is a 17 year old doing such horrible things that I miss Ninja and Tfue