Banks confirms FaZe Clan funded CSGO team via skin gambling website FaZe Banks Instagram \/ Adela Sznajder BLASTFaZe Clan owner Ricky Banks revealed on May 10 that the organization had created a skin gambling site and used its lucrative success to initially fund the club\u2019s CSGO team, as originally reported by Esports Talk. Wanting to expand into Counter-Strike, but without the cash to properly fund the team they had their sights on, Banks enrolled FaZe Clan into a project with other collaborators with the goal of creating an alternative form of CSGO skin gambling. \u201cIt was kind of like a grey area, because it\u2019s a skin and there\u2019s no actual value to it, and the government puts absolutely no value to it,\u201d Banks said on an episode of the \u2018BADNWZ\u2019 podcast. \u201cWe came up with this idea, with these kids, for a different way to do it. We branded it the right way.\u201d Banks found his cash cow to get FaZe the funding they needed to buy their CSGO team in 2016. He claimed that the gambling site was their way to \u201cfinesse\u201d the major purchase as quickly as possible to get the most value out of the transaction. After finding their reliable income from CSGO skin gambling, FaZe were raking in about $200,000 a day from their novel business model. According to the exec, this was all done by the books. Banks and his partners flew to Antigua in the Caribbeans, where they faced less stringent regulations for creating a gambling site, allowing them to lawfully navigate their operation. \u201cWe were making $200,000 a day,\u201d Banks explained. \u201cWe set it up on Antigua, it\u2019s an island in the Caribbean where running a gambling website is completely legal if you have the permits to do it.\u201d Read more: Astralis add JUGi to CSGO roster – Banks paid \u201cthe guy who runs the island\u201d $100,000 to acquire the documentation they needed to be \u201cthe only ones who were doing it legitimate\u201d before skin gambling was regulated. FaZe maintained the skin gambling site for a few months before shutting it down. The offshore company had raked in enough cash for the org to successfully fund their CSGO venture. Valve has since been strict around their CSGO cosmetics in response to the cascading governance in the skin gambling industry. It was around this time in the mid-2010s where worldwide governments were taking aim at skin gambling. In 2015, these casino-style gambling sites for skins generated nearly $3 billion, according to findings from gaming research firm Eilers and Krejcik Gaming and Narus Advisors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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