Censor opens up on former FaZe issues and CoD career struggles in emotional video via EsportsnationPopular YouTuber and former Call of Duty pro Doug \u2018Censor\u2019 Martin gave a revealing take on how his competitive career started to wind down, apparently outside of his control. The 25-year-old says he was at the top of the Call of Duty scene, but now finds himself looking to be on a roster as the signing window for orgs in the new franchised Call of Duty league to pick up players has finally opened. His 40-minute video on September 3 detailed his side of the events which eventually saw him step down from being FaZe Clan\u2019s captain, heavily invest into the CoD scene but eventually fizzle out in the end. After his immediate and growing success on FaZe Clan, Censor along with his team were able to claim the top honors at UMG Nashville 2014 and then the MLG Columbus Open 2014 shortly after. While all seemed to be progressing well, Censor says he was disheartened with how the team\u2019s managers wanted to make a switch at the helm and transfer the captaincy over to Patrick \u2018ACHES\u2019 Price. \u201cMaybe (FaZe) believed that (ACHES) had the best mindset,\u201d Censor said. \u201cWhich he wasn\u2019t in the best mindset, he wasn\u2019t completely focused on the game, he wasn\u2019t the best version of himself\u2026 He just was not the right guy.\u201d (Timestamp at 12:17) He later noted how it wasn\u2019t because of the lack of success or chemistry that made FaZe want to switch things up, it was \u201cjust because ACHES.\u201d (Timestamp at 12:52) \u201cI\u2019ve wanted this more than anything, but it got ripped away from me in 2014,\u201d Censor said explaining how getting dropped by the org blind-sided him. \u201cFor no reason, I never had an explanation, whatsoever. All I did was win at the highest level versus the greatest competition, who are still the greatest competition today.\u201d (Timestamp at 21:31) The history of how it all went has stuck with Censor through all the years, seeing as how he quite literally put everything he had into the game. \u201cI drop out of college, I do everything in my power with zero dollars in my bank account to make a Call of Duty team, I dethrone the biggest and best Call of Duty team in the history of Call of Duty. Join FaZe Clan. Win the first two majors. Destroy the second greatest Call of Duty team of all time, in that OpTic dynasty, (just to) have it stripped away from me that same exact night\u2026 I was ballistic.\u201d (Timestamp at 24:54) But it\u2019s not all without hope. One of the main takeaways Censor wants future franchises to understand is that he\u2019s not going anywhere. He\u2019s confident that he can still compete at the highest level, since a lot of the competition that he outclassed many years ago are the same champions that grace the scene today. The player signing window for the brand new Call of Duty League opened on September 3, and stakes are now higher than ever for those who want to be picked up by an organization that will be playing at the highest level of the esport next season. On numerous occasions, Censor has made it clear that his goal is to land on such a team, but right now the only thing he can really play is the waiting game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Censor opens up on former FaZe issues and CoD career struggles in emotional video via EsportsnationPopular YouTuber and former Call of Duty pro Doug \u2018Censor\u2019 Martin gave a revealing take on how his competitive career started to wind down, apparently outside of his control. The 25-year-old says he was at the top of the Call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}