Swagg put KXCE in a lobby with 50 Iridescent players. Ranked killers. Comp-level sweats. The question on the thumbnail: can a Rebirth pubs demon hang? Twenty-seven minutes later Swagg was calling him the most entertaining player in the whole series — and telling him to go find a comp team.
Posted by @Swagg · Sept 5, 2026 · Episode of the “Can 50 Iridescents Beat…” series
The setup
If you don't know the format: Swagg builds a custom Rebirth Island lobby stacked with Iridescent-ranked players, drops one creator in, and spectates with a mic. Every episode is a stress test. Swagg framed this one honestly from the jump — KXCE is “super popular on TikTok and Instagram, known for being a Rebirth Island player and being absolutely twisted,” but “he's not a comp player.” So: how does a guy who mainly plays pubs do against actual competitive players?
The cold open sets the tone with a clip pulled straight off KXCE's own stream:
“I'm telling you, I'm better. Let me show you something.”
— KXCE stream clip, in the cold open (0:13)
Swagg's grin says the rest: “I like that. I like that.” Then he finds KXCE in the lobby — “Legend in the building” — and explains why he's here at all. He'd been seeing the clips for a while. “All over IG, TikTok, and stuff like that. So I definitely wanted to have him on.” Before the first circle has even closed he's already telling chat this is “probably one of the most exciting players that I've watched in the series.”
Ninety seconds in, Swagg already knew
It took one rotation. KXCE hit a jump Swagg had never seen and the commentary flipped from “let's see how he does” to something else entirely.
“What? I did not know about that jump. Oh yeah, he twisted. That boy moving different. Hold on now.”
— Swagg, 1:08
Then the loadout dropped and the whole lobby's meta came into focus: the Rev 46. Swagg called it on the spot — “The Rev is the meta. That's the meta sub. The Rev is a puncher.” Five kills before the first circle closed. “He might come here and drop a nasty 20 ball.” A minute later a redeploy sequence made him stop mid-sentence — “KXCE's reaction times are ridiculous” — and by the two-and-a-half-minute mark he'd picked a side: “I'm kind of with this dude, man.”
Want that exact build? It's the current pick on our Gun of the Week page, import code included.
Swagg tells KXCE's story
While KXCE was cooking, Swagg spent a full minute telling the lobby who he actually is. This is the part worth rewinding for if you're new here.
“He said he's from Alabama. His story is actually pretty cool. He was working at his dad's bakery, and then he thought about going to the Air Force. He was streaming multiplayer — wasn't working out — then he streamed Warzone and it kind of took off. I love stories like that, man. I'm happy for him.”
— Swagg, 1:48–2:42
That's the real timeline: bakery job, Air Force plans, multiplayer streams first, then Rebirth Island — and everything changed. The rest of the story is on our About page.
“Mechanically, he's gifted”
The middle of game one is where the episode turns into a scouting session. At the three-minute mark KXCE is winning every 1v1 he takes — “he's not losing a one, bro” — and even after a tower camper catches him, Swagg's read doesn't budge: “KXCE looking like a demon in this. The best player in this lobby, hands down.”
A minute later comes the line the whole video gets clipped for. “I think he might have the most fluid movement I've seen in this entire series. Mechanically, he's gifted.” Swagg catches himself — “I might be glazing” — then immediately rewinds a dolphin dive and asks if KXCE practices it, because “that was actually incredible.” The verdict on why it all looks so natural: “You could tell he really does this Resurgence stuff.”
By seven minutes in he's reaching for comparisons. “He's almost as mechanically gifted as Shifty, bro.” Then, watching KXCE hold a timer instead of forcing a fight: “I haven't really seen anybody this calculated with his movements.” That's the part that separates a clip player from a real one — the patience between the plays. Somewhere in there Swagg asks the question every spectator asks. Most kills ever in a Warzone game? “Like 67.” Swagg: “67. God damn.” A few seconds later: “This guy's insane. KXCE is moving diff. Dog, what am I watching?”
And when the double knock lands and the counter hits fourteen, the read gets more specific: “He's very talented gun-skill-wise, man. We've watched that.”
Fourteen kills and the mindset
Double knock. Resurgence deactivated. Fourteen on the board in a lobby built to punish exactly the kind of aggressive play he lives on. When game one finally ended, KXCE didn't reach for an excuse — he called his own decision and moved on. Swagg's reaction says everything:
“I swear you had this lobby. I swear this was free. You were probably the most entertaining person I've watched in the series. Your movement — you have no negative movements.”
— Swagg, 9:29
“Honestly, if you get a good squad for next year — a good IGL — you guys can brag. I'm watching you, bro.”
— Swagg
That accountability is the same thing he preaches in coaching reviews: own the decision, learn the timing, run it back.
The sit-down: comp, the AN-94 and FaZe
Between games the two actually talked, and this is the most interesting conversation in the episode. Swagg opened on the meta, then turned it over to KXCE:
“I like the Rev meta. It's actually fun to watch. This gun's actually solid.”
— Swagg, 10:25
“What you think about the A? You like the A? — I like the A. I wish that was the EWC meta, honestly.”
— Swagg / KXCE
Then the comp story came out. KXCE and EgoCris made the last 16 of a qualifier that Swagg's squad was also in, and finished just a few points from qualifying — close enough that they ran into Swagg's team head-on. “We almost wiped them,” KXCE laughed. And the reason that matchup meant so much: “I've rocked with FaZe since I was a kid, bro.”
Swagg's take was pure respect: “They're so good, bro.” Warzone is up and down for every squad, he added — and KXCE agreed it depends on the engine, too: some players are built for Black Ops movement, some for Modern Warfare.
Also confirmed in the sit-down, for the people who keep asking: he's 23.
Game two: chaos mode
Game two was the chaos game. Precision airstrikes overhead, gas moving early, and the whole lobby collapsing into the same POI. KXCE grabbed the Rev off his first loadout and Swagg went right back to work: “Bro, he moves too. You can tell, mechanically.” A minute later, watching him lock down a building the entire lobby wanted: “Control is his playground, bro. Watching him, ain't no one really moving like this that I've watched.”
What Swagg kept coming back to in game two wasn't the flashy stuff, it was the decisions. “I like the way he takes fights, man. He knows angles. He definitely knows angles.” Even when the lobby finally caught him in a blender late in the game, the summary stayed the same: “He genuinely has the gun skill.”
The two also compared notes on how Rebirth plays now with grapples gone. Swagg loves the change — “I really like this series now that there's no more grapples” — and KXCE's take was even-handed: they were fun in Battle Royale, but Resurgence is better when you have to earn the gap close with movement. Which, for a guy whose whole game is movement, is a good rule change.
One setting you should steal
Near the end Swagg tried to copy one of KXCE's jumps and kept pulling his parachute. KXCE's fix: set Wall Bounce to Hold. On tap, you pull chute mid-jump on Rebirth's rooftop lines. Every other setting he runs is on the Settings page.
“KXCE might make me make a couple of calls”
This is the line to rewind for. Three minutes into game one, KXCE had just been knocked by a tower camper and was sitting on his redeploy timer. Swagg, watching the replay of every gunfight up to that point, said this on his own broadcast:
“KXCE looking like a demon in this. The best player in this lobby, hands down. Like every gunfight I've seen — I'm looking for a Warzone team next year. I mean, KXCE might make me make a couple of calls, maybe.”
— Swagg, 3:18–3:32
Read that with the context of who's talking. Swagg is not just a YouTuber with a big audience. In 2026 he is the person who ran FaZe Esports' Warzone tryouts and announced the roster that came out of them. When he says he's “looking for a Warzone team next year” and that a player “might make me make a couple of calls,” he's talking about the calls he actually makes.
And it wasn't a one-off. He came back to it throughout the episode, each time a little more concrete. At 5:53, mid-fight: “You put an IGL around him in comp — I mean, this dude might come out and lead the pack.” At 9:29, right after game one, directly to KXCE: “If you get a good squad for next year, a good IGL, you guys can brag. I'm watching you, bro.” And at 16:23 he was thinking out loud about building something: “Imagine if I did a team — obviously I pick up a main pro team, but almost like a development-type team, youngins — like, if I get KXCE. I don't know who else I'd pick up.”
Four mentions in twenty-seven minutes, from a first-impression “maybe” to naming KXCE as the first pick for a development squad he's imagining out loud. Nobody signed anything on camera, and we're not going to pretend they did. But a scout doesn't say “I'm watching you” four times by accident.
KXCE's side of it is already on the record in the sit-down: he and EgoCris made the last 16 of a qualifier this year and finished a few points short. The tools are there. What Swagg was describing is the missing piece — a real squad and an IGL around the most fluid mover he says he's seen in the series.
Where it landed
Swagg closed the episode asking KXCE for a like goal (“let's do 4K”), told everyone to hit his links, and floated something bigger: a development squad of young Rebirth players — “if I get KXCE, I don't know who else I'd pick up.” Twice during the episode he said it outright: get a good IGL, get a squad for next year, and go.
“I genuinely appreciate you inviting me. So I appreciate you.”
— KXCE, 26:52
Fourteen kills in a 50-Iridescent lobby, the Rev doing exactly what he said it would, and one of the biggest Warzone creators on the platform telling him to go pro. A great Friday.
Who is Swagg?
If you somehow landed here without knowing: Swagg (Kris Lamberson) is one of the biggest Call of Duty: Warzone creators in the world. He's from Phoenix, Arizona, went from college basketball to full-time content, and has been uploading Call of Duty since the early 2010s. He joined FaZe Clan in April 2020 as part of the Nuke Squad, and in 2026 he's the one running tryouts and building FaZe Esports' Warzone pro roster.
- Audience: 3.2M+ subscribers on YouTube and 2.4M followers on Twitch (as of September 2026).
- Competitive résumé: World Series of Warzone Captains Cup winner in NA Trios and NA Duos (2021), two Toronto Ultra $100K wins (2020, 2021), Twitch Rivals Warzone Showdown NA champion (2021), and a top-four finish at the 2024 World Series of Warzone Global Finals in Las Vegas with FaZe. Over $200K in tournament earnings.
- The series: “Can 50 Iridescent Players Beat…?” launched in April 2026 with DiazBiffle as the first guest. Each episode drops one elite player into a Rebirth Island lobby of 50 Iridescent-ranked players (or two lobbies for the “100” episodes). KXCE's episode is the 25th.
- Find him: YouTube · Twitch · X · Instagram · TikTok · Swagg Reacts · FaZe Clan
Getting the invite from him is a big deal for any Rebirth player. Getting called the most entertaining player in the series is bigger.
Quick answers
Did KXCE beat the 50 Iridescent players?
KXCE dropped 14 kills in game one of Swagg's 50-Iridescent Rebirth Island lobby and Swagg named him the best player in the lobby, calling him “probably the most entertaining person I've watched in the series” and telling him to go find a comp squad. The lobby got the last word on the scoreboard, but the episode plays like a KXCE highlight reel.
What gun did KXCE use in the Swagg video?
The Rev 46 SMG, which Swagg called “the meta sub.” KXCE's Rev 46 build and import code are on the Gun of the Week page, and his full loadout board is on Warzone Meta.
Who is KXCE?
KXCE (also written Kxcetwin, K5 or Kace) is a 23-year-old Call of Duty: Warzone streamer from Alabama known for high-movement Rebirth Island gameplay. He's a Twitch Partner with a combined audience of over 500K across Twitch, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. Read more on the About page.
Where can I watch the full episode?
On Swagg's YouTube channel: Can 50 IRIDESCENT Players Beat KXCETWIN? (posted September 5, 2026). It's also embedded at the top of this post.
Run what he ran. The Rev 46 build from this episode is live on Gun of the Week, and the full curated loadout board (AN-94, MK35 ISR, Rev 46, VST, CBRS-3) is on Warzone Meta. Catch him live almost every night on Twitch (chat commands !rev and !a94 drop the builds), pull up to the Discord, and thank Swagg for the invite over at @Swagg. Only up from here.