Best Guild Boss Explains Why He Upset Fans and Turned Off Twitch at 40,000 Viewers

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In World of Warcraft, the race for the “World First Kill” is over. The “Team Liquid” guild overtook Echo and Method and secured the kill on Scale Commander Sarkareth – but the stream on Twitch stopped at a crucial point in the race. Raidleiter Maximum had almost 40,000 live viewers a day.

This is the situation:

  • A World First race in WoW is about which guild is the first in the world to defeat the currently hardest boss in World of Warcraft on the hardest level of difficulty
  • The race actually takes place in public: the raid guilds broadcast their boss fights on Twitch, fighting for advertising money and popularity. WoW never gets more viewers than during a World First race on Twitch
  • But the US guild Team Liquid decided to skip the twitch stream at the crucial stage of the race and “secretly” train the final boss fight

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    “I know you’re mad – I don’t give a fuck”

    This is how the boss justified why the stream failed: When Team Liquid had defeated the penultimate boss in the raid and now moved on to pulling the final boss, the leader of the raid, Maximum, said:

    “We’re going to try a bit without the stream now and go to bed early. I know this is going to piss some people off, but I want to be clear: I don’t give a shit. The only thing I care about is winning. Anything we do from now on will only help our competitors to be honest and that sounds – I don’t know – like a really stupid idea. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

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    US guild skips twitch stream

    This is what the boss says: After the boss was final the day after, the head of Team Liquid Maximum explained:

    That’s why we didn’t stream last night. I have a feeling when we streamed the strategy and they [Method und Echo] Had woken up to this strategy, they would have killed the boss before we woke up.

    This is the background: If Team Liquid had broadcast their attempts on the boss, the European guilds Echo and Method would have woken up in the morning and could have analyzed Team Liquid’s attempts to get an informational edge. Then they would probably have killed the boss while Team Liquid was sleeping.

    Therefore, the US guild Team Liquid made a conscious decision to forego Twitch fame for a few hours and piss off the fans, as long as you just get the win.

    That was the moment of victory:

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    Streamer has given up about 40,000 viewers

    How many spectators did he give up? Maximum streamed “only” 9 hours on May 14th when training, instead of 15 hours as usual. It can be assumed that around 3-6 hours were not shown – with around 40,000 viewers at the peak.

    Maximum was the largest single streamer of WoW on Twitch in the last week – only the Echo_Esports guild had more viewers. TeamLiquid’s official stream took 3rd place.

    On the final day of the race, when Team Liquid took World First, Maximum had a peak of 92,000 spectators.

    It may be upsetting for fans to have missed an important part of the race when Team Liquid “learned” the boss. But apparently the guild felt it was necessary.

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