Some players from Destiny 2 are organizing a tournament with prize money that aims to spoil the fun for one of the community’s most well-known streamers.
In Destiny 2, the Trials of Osiris take place every week from Friday to Tuesday, where the PvP players of the loot-shooter compete to show who is really skilled.
This is particularly interesting for experienced players and PvP veterans, but some players clearly desire an additional incentive and are pursuing a nasty plan – a tournament aimed at seriously ruining the fun for a well-known Destiny streamer.
What is the tournament about? As gaming journalist Jake Lucky reported on Twitter / X.com, there is a private Discord server within the Destiny 2 community that organized a streamsnipe tournament.
Through streamsnipe, players hope to gain an unfair advantage in their encounter with the streamer since they can follow their actions live on a second screen and know their perspective.
This unfair advantage allows them to win more easily and potentially rank up (if a ranking system exists in the respective game). Often, such players just want to troll the streamer as well.
For a streamer, a match against a streamsnipe negatively affects the enjoyment of the game. A subcategory of streamsnipe is queuesnipe, where players intentionally attempt to join the streamer’s lobby during matchmaking.
While there was no explicit call for streamsnipe in the competition, the course of the challenge is made clear by a screenshot shared by Jake Lucky: Whoever defeats the streamer “Gernader Jake” the most in Trials of Osiris matches, wins a prize of 120 USD.
GernaderJake is one of the most well-known streamers in Destiny 2, having over 500,000 subscribers on Twitch and streamed to an average of 2,700 viewers in the past 90 days (via Sullygnome).
Why is the tournament based on streamsnipe? Since the competing players in the Trials of Osiris are randomly assigned through normal matchmaking, it is not possible for GernaderJake to invite the players he will compete against.
The whole tournament is based on joining his lobby through random matchmaking and then defeating him in-game – this works of course most effectively when you have GernaderJake’s stream running in the background.
“I was targeted and harassed”
What does the streamer say about it? GernaderJake himself also spoke on August 22, 2023, on Twitter about the “bounty” that was placed on him. He mentions that he has been streamsniped by many people, some of whom used aim cheats or could fly around the map.
Moreover, GernaderJake notes that he experiences such situations every weekend, which tires him and many of his viewers.
I was streamsiped by many people during the stream, many of whom obviously used aim hacks and hacks to fly around the map. Although it doesn’t happen all the time and as much, I deal with it every weekend and I and many of my viewers are tired of it.
After some of my viewers saw how many teams of cheaters went against me, they wanted to lighten the mood. They formed some teams to try and take on the cheating streamsnipe and acted as “shields” to protect my team.
GernaderJake via Twitter
His viewers then wanted to create a sort of “shield” by forming teams and trying to get into the lobbies of the streamsnipe, wrote the streamer. This also worked about 10 times, but in four more cases, the “shield” teams themselves encountered the streamer.
According to GernaderJake, these matches took place fairly, but since his team was able to lead two of these matches 4:0, it created the narrative on Twitter that GernaderJake was receiving wins handed to him by his viewers.
He himself cannot understand how the whole situation ultimately led to accusations of him playing unfairly:
I was targeted and harassed, and so my community did something dumb to ease a pretty terrible situation. The idea that this could be used against me to convince almost a million people that I’m doing something horribly wrong just doesn’t make sense to me.
GernaderJake via Twitter
Why does streamsnipe ruin the fun in Trials of Osiris? Primarily, it is not enjoyable to play against players who have an unfair advantage – whether it’s looking at my monitor or cheating third-party software.
Additionally, every loss in Trials of Osiris prevents a flawless run and thus top loot in the Lighthouse.
In Trials of Osiris, the team that first kills all opposing guardians wins. The team that wins 5 rounds first decides the match in their favor and records a win on the Trials Pass. If you achieve 7 victories without a loss, you have completed a flawless run. For that, you head to the Lighthouse, where top loot awaits.
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