Twitch megastar Ibai Llanos slammed the platform for outages throughout his annual streamer vs. streamer boxing match, which broke Twitch’s world viewing information 3 times in a single stream on Saturday. At one level, Llanos’ channel reached a peak of practically 3.45 million concurrent viewers.
Llanos hosted the third version of his marquee occasion, La Velada del Año, which interprets to “The Night time of the Yr,” earlier than a crowd of greater than 70,000 on the Civitas Metropolitano soccer stadium in Madrid, Spain on Saturday. Even earlier than the occasion began, the bar was set excessive, with many individuals ready to see if the Spanish-speaking group’s largest streamer—who already held the world file for many dwell viewers on Twitch—would have the ability to make historical past as soon as extra.
They didn’t have to attend lengthy. Llanos beat his personal file in the course of the occasion’s first combat, which pitted Twitch streamer Andrés López, higher referred to as Ampeterby7, in opposition to Spanish pop star Abraham Mateo. The combat drew in 3.41 million viewers, in keeping with Streams Charts, breaking Llanos’ earlier world file of three.35 million set throughout final 12 months’s boxing match.
Nonetheless, issues with Twitch started to indicate up in the course of the second match of the night time between Mexican Twitch streamer Samy “Rivers” Rivera and Spanish TikToker Marina Rivera, who is called “La Rivers,” at round 2 p.m. ET. Greater than 5,200 customers reported issues with Twitch on the outage tracker Downdetector at the moment. Over on Twitter, #Twitch was trending, with many customers stating that the app wasn’t working.
Llanos addressed the outages in the course of the quick break within the combat between Rivers and La Rivers, expressing disappointment that Twitch hadn’t made higher preparations to accommodate for visitors to the Velada livestream.
“It’s a disgrace as a result of I believe Twitch is down. I believe Twitch is appearing bizarre. A number of individuals are telling us this within the chat. We’re involved with Twitch as a result of the reality is it’s a disgrace to placed on this occasion after which see {that a} platform with $300 million isn’t able to offering server, however we’re making an attempt and let’s see if we may repair it with slightly little bit of luck,” Llanos stated. “Everybody, we’re sorry that is occurring however there’s little we are able to do right here. We’re sorry.”
Gizmodo reached out to Twitch on Saturday and Sunday for touch upon the outages and Llanos’ statements however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
Regardless of the issues with Twitch, Llanos would go on to interrupt his world viewing file two extra occasions all through the occasion, which additionally featured musical performances from prime artists within the Spanish-speaking world, together with Ozuna, Lola Índigo, Quevedo, and Duki. The Spanish streamer reached 3.42 million concurrent viewers throughout Quevedo’s efficiency and three.44 million viewers over the last combat of the night time between Argentine streamer Coscu, whose actual title Martín Pérez, and Chilean YouTuber Germán Garmendia.
Though these numbers are actually spectacular, the actual quantity of individuals watching the stream was probably a lot larger, as many collect to observe Velada collectively. In these circumstances, whereas there is likely to be 5 folks watching the stream, Twitch solely counts related gadgets as viewers, which suggests it could register that case as just one viewer. That is along with the individuals who couldn’t view the occasion due to the outage on Twitch.
Total, Llanos’ eight-hour stream of La Velada del Año III maintained a median of two.89 million dwell viewers all through the occasion and drew in 15.19 million particular person viewers. His accomplishment is one other reminder of the may of the Spanish-speaking streaming group on Twitch, which dominates the listing of channels with probably the most concurrent viewers of all-time.
“Thanks for being a part of the most important livestream in historical past. For creating one other world file,” Llanos stated on Twitter after the occasion. “From the underside of my coronary heart, thanks. July 1, 2023 can be unforgettable.”
