Spanish megastreamer Ibai Llanos has damaged the world report of concurrent viewers on Twitch, drawing 3.4 million spectators inside minutes of the primary struggle of his streamer vs. streamer boxing match, La Velada del Año III, according to Streams Charts.
Llanos held the third version of his occasion, which interprets to “The Night time of the 12 months” in English, earlier than an viewers of almost 70,000 folks on the Civitas Metropolitano stadium in Madrid, Spain. The primary struggle featured Twitch streamer Ampeterby7, whose actual title is Andrés López, and Spanish pop star Abraham Mateo.
Llanos achieved this feat regardless of issues with Twitch, which seemed to be affected by an outage. Greater than 4,800 reported issues with the streaming app shortly after 2 p.m. ET, in response to Downdetector, in the course of the Velada’s second fight. Over on Twitter, the web’s water cooler, #Twitch was trending, with many customers stating that app wasn’t working.
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The earlier Twitch world report for concurrent viewers was additionally held by Llanos, which he set final yr with La Velada del Año II. Greater than 3.3 million folks tuned in to observe the occasion, which is broadcast totally free on his Twitch channel.
Llanos’ new report is yet one more reminder of the might of Spanish-speaking community. After Llanos, Spanish streamer TheGrefg, actual title David Cánovas, holds the report for the second most-watched Twitch stream, garnering 2.4 million viewers in 2021. He’s adopted by Spanish streamer elxokas, or Joaquín Domínguez, whose stream drew 1.2 million viewers in 2022.
Though the whole lot indicated that Llanos would set a brand new report this yr, from the streamers scheduled to struggle to the musical company, the occasion has been suffering from setbacks. Three streamers needed to pull out of the Velada as a result of damage or well being points, forcing Llanos and his workforce to seek for one other streamer to take their place. Llanos had taken to calling this yr’s occasion “the cursed Velada.”
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