Australian basketball player Ben Simmons is no stranger to gaming, having grown up playing Call of Duty and watching montages of his favourite players pull off trick shots with sniper rifles in that very franchise.
As he explained to Esports Insider, many of his most-watched players all belonged to one team in particular: FaZe Clan. The now-multi-million dollar esports organisation and media company was in a much more rudimentary state back in 2011 – taking to Activision’s flagship series with the notion of executing never-before-seen kills instead of delivering an impressive kill-to-death ratio or game-saving clutch.