The Story Of Clix: Fortnite Superstar

In Fortnite there has been a lot of pro players and content creators, but rarely does someone manage to succeed so heavily at both. From playing in the biggest tournament in the world (Fortnite World Cup), to creating content that changed the internet you should already know who I’m talking about, its the big Clix. His story starts as a 14 year old kid, qualified for World Cup 6 times to becoming the biggest streamer on Twitch. But how did we get here?

Cody Conrad (Clix), was born in the United States Connecticut January 7th, 2005. He first became a gamer when he was only 5 years old, playing Minecraft and Call of Duty. Hw would sneak into his brothers room and use his PC. Even at a young age he knew his dream was to become a pro player. He knew he was good at video games but it wasn't until Fortnite came around that sparked his fire to become a pro. Fortnite was exploding and creating careers over night.

Clix wasn't just a spoiled kid that could get a nice PC to bring his game to the pro level. He had to make a contract with his Dad saying he would pay him back using the money he made off wagers during the summer when he had no school. Wagers were a great way to get your name out there and 1v1 other good pro players for money if you beat them. Clix then started to make a name for himself and decided to start streaming content like scrims, arena, and 1v1 wagers all while uploading montages to YouTube.

The World Cup

qualifying for the Fortnite world cup wasn't a easy task and only 100 solos and 50 duos qualed and won 50 grand plus a ticket to the New York lan. Clix was among these players and it would change he pro career forever as he competed and got 18th in the world cup landing him a additional 115 grand. After world cup ended he saw a huge climb in his Twitch viewership as he averaged 8000 viewers per stream, witch is a 6000 percent increase in only 3 months.

Clix however during this time was involved in a lot of controversy as during his time wagering he was always known to be able to take his opponents wall first try. This was at a time Clix had some of the best mechanics in the game and wall taking was a new thing only Clix could do so consistently, so he was accused of cheating and using macros to take walls first try. Although Clix did not perform as well as fans expected he was able to bounce back and get a huge opportunity. Trios was the new competitive game mode and he found himself in a trio with the best two players on the region, Faze Sway and Tfue. Still they did not find the high placements they were looking for so that lead him to a new trio Crimz and Spade however were able to place 1st in multiple FNCS weeks that they were the favorite to win the grand finals. But they still got 7th witch was a solid place for a new trio.

Chapter 2

When chapter 2 of Fortnite released it was one of the darkest times for competitive and the content felt dry overtime until Clix revamped and revolutionized creative boxfight wagers. This was in game practice of fighting in boxes, taking walls, and using piece control and fight your opponent in a small arena. Along this time with his personality he was building a huge community without realizing. At this point Clix made the decision to still compete and be a pro but now have a community beside him that would survive and thrive even when Fortnite is gone.

Clix joins NRG

In July of 2020 Clix announced his signing to NRG witch was one of the biggest org announcements in Fortnite history, becoming the crown jewel in a already stacked roster. After joining in Chapter 2 season 4 stark season he partied up with a trio yet again that was one of the best NA trios in the game with Bizzle a tier 1 veteran and a up and coming tier 1 controller player Illist. They yet again placed 5th, 4th, and 2nd in week qualifiers but yet again in grand finals Clix would not perform and they place 14th continuing Clix’s curse of not being able to place a top 3 or win a FNCS season. To break this curse Clix would pair up with Bugha and Bizzle and yet again be contested at their drop spot and lose to Sprite, Tahi, and Gabe and not even be able to make reboot round.

Pursuit of content

Clix to this day still had not won a FNCS but still was able to qulaify for the second biggest lan in the Global Championship and places and makes money in almost every tounoment. After trying to IGL and frager role the last 2 years he came to a conclusion that even though he wants to be a champion his main goal was to make way more money on twitch and YouTube as his revenue sky rocketed and he became a millionaire without having Fortnite contribute. In addition he even made his own clothing brand labbed Dreamin that had a lot of success and is still growing. To this day Clix claims that if he stopped streaming found a good duo and grinded all year that he would be able to win a FNCS but would rather stick alongside his community.

Co owner of XSET

The latest success in Clix career is his announcement that he is the co owner and will have shares of the Esports org XSET. This was a huge deal for him and really put him now at superstar level to the point where he has meet some crazy big celebrities and also been awarded Forbes 30 under 30 and he is only 18 with this type of money and success.