FaZe Clan’s cryptic “11.11.26” post now has its first answer: a $100,000 Call of Duty tournament. A few hours after the date appeared on FaZe’s X account on 9 November, the organisation released a trailer for the Flank Invitational, a two-day event on 11 and 12 November. It will be streamed on FaZe’s Twitch channel and on the channel of former Call of Duty pro ZooMaa. The teaser, FaZe’s first original post since March, had passed 600,000 views by Tuesday, and the account’s bio now reads only “11.11.26”.
ZooMaa’s tournament brand, The Flank, confirmed the details in a post on X headed “FAZE X THE FLANK”. It listed a “12 team fantasy draft” on 10 November, followed by the tournament itself on 11 and 12 November. ZooMaa, who still goes by FaZe ZooMaa on X, thanked “the team at @FaZeClan for getting this done” and said the teams would be drafted on Tuesday. FaZe has not said whether the tournament is the whole announcement, or the start of something bigger.
The $100,000 Flank Invitational behind FaZe’s 11.11.26 date
FaZe’s 41-second trailer opens with the words “FaZe Clan presents” over Call of Duty gameplay, and closes on a card reading “$100K Flank Invitational, November 11-12”. In between, it promises a double-elimination bracket across three modes: Hardpoint, Search and Destroy and Hijack. The maps shown carry the Korean street signs of Modern Warfare 4, the current Call of Duty, whose launch patch notes landed in October. No team list, player list or prize split had been published by Tuesday morning, India time.
The fantasy draft format has a history at The Flank. The Flank has run invitationals for Call of Duty League players since 2024, when ZooMaa announced a $100,000 series of Black Ops 6 events for pros. Its last edition, a $20,000 tournament in November 2025, was won by a four-player squad that included CDL player Dashy. In October, ZooMaa said in a clip shared by the account SpawnUp that this year’s event was “not even full teams bc they wouldn’t let me do it, again”, without naming who had blocked full rosters.
How FaZe Clan went quiet after the creator exodus
The teaser lands almost a year after FaZe’s creator side fell apart. In the last week of 2025, Adapt, JasonTheWeen, Lacy, Silky and Stable Ronaldo announced they were leaving, and FaZe veterans including Apex, Swagg and Rug followed. Bloomberg reported that Matt Kalish, the DraftKings co-founder who invested in FaZe Media in 2024, had asked creators to sign with his new agency, HardScope, or go independent, calling the old model “unsustainable”. On 28 December, FaZe said it was “heartbreaking to see this era of FaZe come to a close”, and that esports would become “our main focus moving forward”.
The main account has been close to silent since then, apart from a $10,000 Modern Warfare 2 trickshot challenge in March. Several of the departed creators moved on together, with Adapt, Silky, JasonTheWeen, Lacy, Marlon and Stable Ronaldo launching a new group, CORE, on 30 April. Co-founder Richard “Banks” Bengtson, who rebooted FaZe in 2024 before stepping down as chief executive in July 2025, replied to the teaser within an hour. “Although I have no part in whatever’s next for this brand, I will always root for its success,” he wrote, adding: “Thank you for changing my life.”
FaZe Esports is the part of the brand that kept winning
The competitive side of FaZe never went away. GameSquare, which completed its takeover of FaZe Clan in 2024, sold its last stake in FaZe Media in March 2025, and its announcement said it “continues to own 100% of profitable FaZe” Esports. That unit has had a strong year, with the Rainbow Six Siege team winning a second straight Six Invitational in February and collecting $1 million. FaZe Vegas also won the Call of Duty League Championship in Las Vegas, an event FaZe co-hosted with ESL FACEIT Group, beating OpTic Texas in the final.
Counter-Strike has been the exception, after long-time captain karrigan left for Falcons in April and the team missed the Major in Cologne. That leaves Call of Duty, the game that made FaZe famous through trickshot montages from 2010 onwards, as the obvious place to restart the brand’s public life. The timing also suits a new game cycle, with Modern Warfare 4 fresh from its Season 1 update after a launch that divided players. The Flank Invitational begins on 11 November on twitch.tv/faze, the date FaZe chose for its teaser.
