With Halo Infinite’s first organization-led event of 2023 beginning at this time—Spacesation Gaming’s Spartan Showdown—FaZe Clan has lastly launched the roster that it is going to be bringing into the sport’s second aggressive season.
FaZe has re-signed its star slayer Renegade, now pairing him up with three gamers from the previous Sentinels roster: SnakeBite, Frosty, and Royal2, alongside coach Royal1. With LethuL, these gamers gained back-to-back Halo World Championships in 2016 and 2017 beneath CLG and OpTic Gaming respectively, making this new lineup considered one of FaZe’s most promising since its entry final yr.
After a tumultuous finish to 2022 that noticed FaZe take house fourth place on the Halo World Championship with a roster comprised of Renegade, Spartan, KingNick, and Falcated, it’s clear the group needed a change that would assure success the place that lineup suffered from inconsistency. There’s no higher set of gamers to search out that consistency in than SnakeBite, Frosty, and Royal2, who held a six-year-long streak of grand finals appearances in main Halo tournaments that solely got here to an finish at HCS Anaheim final yr.
Whereas the dynasty these gamers have had isn’t in query, Halo Infinite has proved to be a tougher title for them to have the identical affect in. Apart from a first-place end in Kansas Metropolis, the Sentinels roster solely managed to take house a top-six end on the World Championship—their worst efficiency with the lineup that includes LethuL since its inception virtually seven years in the past. A slight adjustment to their lineup, bringing on the skills of Renegade to go with their years of expertise as a staff of three, might be the contemporary path that brings them again to the highest.
You may watch the brand new FaZe Halo staff compete within the Spartan Showdown event beginning at this time on Spacestation’s Twitch channel for a $25,000 prize pool.