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FaZe Clan’s actual esports teams continue to outperform the competition in many games. Its Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players were just awarded the Intel Grand Slam $1 million bonus over the weekend after placing first at four premier ESL tournaments this season. On the content creator side, however, big names like Nordan “FaZe Rain” Shat have called out the company with vague accusations of selling out and exploiting talent.

Still, a brewing backlash among fans and FaZe Clan members was enough to prompt an equally vague promise from the company to do better. “We know that for too long we haven’t been the FaZe we need to be, but we’re working hard towards fixing that,” the company tweeted last week.

It’s not clear what that fix might be, but finding enough money to take the company private again could be a big first step. A report by Sports Business Journal last week suggested sources within the company were attempting to do exactly that. FaZe Clan’s stock price has since doubled from $0.40 a share to $0.80 on the news that it might end up delisting itself before the Nasdaq can.