Ibai Llanos

Tensions continue to simmer between Spanish streamer Ibai Llanos, who on Saturday broke the world record for most concurrent live viewers on Twitch with his annual boxing event, and Twitch. After slamming the platform on Saturday for outages during La Velada del Año III, which drew in 3.4 million viewers, the streamer says many experts have told him that they believe Twitch capped the number of viewers on his stream—an allegation that Twitch firmly denies. How Does Gerard Pique’s New Twitch Indoor Soccer League…

Twitch megastar Ibai Llanos slammed the platform for outages during his annual streamer vs. streamer boxing match, which broke Twitch’s world viewing records three times in a single stream on Saturday. At one point, Llanos’ channel reached a peak of nearly 3.45 million concurrent viewers. How Does Gerard Pique’s New Twitch Indoor Soccer League Work?Llanos hosted the third edition of his marquee event, La Velada del Año, which translates to “The Night of the Year,” before a crowd of more than 70,000 at the Civitas…

Image: La Velada del Año IIISpanish megastreamer Ibai Llanos has broken the world record of concurrent viewers on Twitch, drawing 3.4 million spectators within minutes of the first fight of his streamer vs. streamer boxing match, La Velada del Año III.What is One Change Mark Zuckerberg Should Make to His Social Platforms? | Gizmodo InterviewLlanos held the third edition of his event, which translates to “The Night of the Year” in English, before an audience of nearly 70,000 people at the Civitas Metropolitano stadium in…

Spanish streamer Ibai Llanos will once again attempt to make Twitch history today, although unlike most streamers, he won’t be behind a setup in his room. Instead, Llanos will be streaming live from the Civitas Metropolitano soccer stadium in Madrid before nearly 70,000 people, all of whom who have traveled from across the world to the Spanish capital to witness Llanos’ legendary steamer vs. streaming boxing tournament. Now in its third year, Llanos’ La Velada del Año, or “The Night of the Year,” is the Super Bowl of the…

Leer en español.Followers of Mexican Twitch streamer Samy “Rivers” Rivera are no strangers to the unfortunate events that seem to happen wherever she goes. One of her biggest powers, according to Twitch lore, is the ability to make the soccer team she’s cheering for lose their games. It therefore came as no shock last Sunday when Rivera announced on social media that she had missed her train from Valencia to Barcelona because she went to the wrong station. What was surprising, however, was that hundreds of miles away, I…

Twitch’s biggest event of the year, La Velada del Año III, or “The Night of the Year III,” the annual streamer vs. streamer boxing match organized by megastar Ibai Llanos, will be offered in English for the first time ever.How Does Gerard Pique’s New Twitch Indoor Soccer League Work?Llanos, a Spanish creator who is one of the platform’s biggest streamers in any language, announced the news in a stream late Thursday. Now in its third year, the Velada has historically only been offered in Spanish on Llanos’ Twitch channel.…

Spanish Twitch streamer Ibai Llanos started the countdown for La Velada del Año III, his yearly streamer vs. streamer boxing match slash summer concert, on Thursday night—selling out all the tickets for the event just an hour after they went on sale online.How Does Gerard Pique’s New Twitch Indoor Soccer League Work?Llanos revealed the musical lineup for the Velada, which translates to “The Night of the Year III” in English, and opened ticket sales in a livestream on Thursday. Flanked by Kosmos president and ex-soccer…

Like me, you might have been seeing and hearing Jack Black-as-Bowser’s “Peaches” song from The Super Mario Bros. Movie all over the place. There are more than 500,000 videos using the official song on TikTok alone, and that’s not counting the folks who have adapted the song to express their devotion to the other things they love in life, like soccer teams. Could Critical Role Go Independent in the Future?Yet, there is one “Peaches” adaptation that trumps them all, even though it’s on the most random subject imaginable: a…

The Mexican government’s press conference from the Palacio Nacional on Wednesday looked like it was part of a late-night comedy skit. Standing behind a podium with the government seal, an official proudly announced that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had been named the top streamer in Mexico in the first quarter of 2023. The announcement wasn’t a joke, though.How Does Gerard Pique’s New Twitch Indoor Soccer League Work?López Obrador shocked the streaming world this week when he suddenly popped up in sixth place on…

BARCELONA, Spain — Gerard Piqué’s Kings League, a new soccer league that just three months ago debuted to jokes and scorn, came to a glorious, dramatic finish in FC Barcelona’s famous Camp Nou stadium on Sunday. As Piqué handed the glittering gold trophy to the winner, Adri Contreras’ “El Barrio,” a perpetual underdog whose team was the only one without a sponsor, one thing became clear: The Kings League is here to stay. A total of 92,522 spectators attended the Kings League’s Final Four matchup and managed to sell out…