The Twitch streamer Maximilian “Trymacs” Stemmler hosted his second sports event on the streaming platform Joyn with “The Great Kick”. Here at MeinMMO you will learn how the event went.
What kind of event was it? “The Great Kick” was a football event by Twitch streamer Trymacs in collaboration with the streaming platform Joyn, an internet offering from the TV stations ProSieben and Sat.1.
Joyn has already hosted several events this year with the big names of the German streaming world: Trymacs kicked things off with his boxing event, followed by a game show by Jens “Knossi” Knossala and the escape show by Marcel “MontanaBlack” Eris.
However, The Great Kick was not in a good position from the beginning: Originally, the event was supposed to take place on an ice surface, but the entertainer Stefan Raab put a stop to that. By then, tickets had already been sold, and the event had to be changed.
MontanaBlack also had his own show on Joyn:
First participant is out before the event even starts
How the event went: The Great Kick was held between 6 teams composed of German influencers. There was a first and second leg, a semi-final, and ultimately the grand final. Each game lasted 7 minutes.
In between, mini-games such as “Captain’s Bubble” were held, where the players’ upper bodies were in large plastic balls.
Fans could watch the event either live on site at the Lanxess Arena or exclusively on Joyn. At the same time, there was a broadcast on Trymacs’s Twitch channel, which was only intended for viewer interaction, as the image was pixelated and only elevator music was heard instead of the actual audio.
What went wrong? Even before the event, the participant list had been a bit chaotic, and there were further changes during the event itself. MontanaBlack, who was initially supposed to be team captain and later a field reporter, dropped out completely, and instead, “7 vs. Wild” participant Starletnova took over as the reporter.
During warm-ups, there was another drop-out: YouTuber Sebastian “Rewinside” Meyer got injured and left the arena on a stretcher. He took it in good humor and even reported from the ambulance via Instagram and Twitter.
How is Rewinside doing? The YouTuber provided information about his injury in an Instagram story. Apparently, he sustained an injury to his patella and meniscus, a part of the knee joint.
For Rewinside, it’s already the second event by Trymacs that he cannot attend: He was also unable to participate due to illness in the boxing event in April.
Also for YouTuber Domenic “Chefstrobel” Strobel from Team Trymacs, the event ended painfully: he sustained an unsightly injury to his toe. We have embedded the tweet here; the announced photo can be seen in the comments of the post.
No great football atmosphere
How was the event received? The great football atmosphere didn’t quite seem to set in. The viewer numbers from Joyn are not known, but the available data provides some clues.
On average, only 7,500 viewers followed the event on Trymacs’s Twitch chat – thus, The Great Kick ranked 5th among the streams with the fewest viewers from Trymacs this year. In his boxing event, nearly 22,500 viewers participated in the chat on average (via sullygnome).
Since the event was broadcast on Joyn and not on Twitch, actual viewer numbers can’t be derived from this, but it seems that interest was relatively low.
If you think that the absent viewers cheered along from home, you are wrong: of the 18,000 available seats in the Lanxess Arena, numerous seats remained empty. A Twitter user shared pictures of the event showing that while the lower tiers were well filled, there was yawning emptiness further up.
Despite a Christmas promotion where you could get 2 tickets for the price of one, over half of the seats were still available on the night before the event (via Twitter). In comparison: 13,500 fans attended Trymacs’s boxing event.
So there are many indications that the event fell significantly short of expectations. What consequences this will have for such influencer events on Joyn remains to be seen.
Who actually won? Even without a captain, Rewinside’s team qualified for the final. After receiving medical attention, the injured YouTuber was back on site to cheer for his team. Nevertheless, they lost 1:3 to Marc Eggers’ team.
The entire event is available for free on Joyn.
A few weeks ago, there was already an accident during MontanaBlack’s escape show Get Away on Joyn. YouTuber Kayla Shyx broke both arms. In a video, she talked about her injury and criticized the final game: it was not very fair.
YouTuber broke both arms during the show of Twitch streamer MontanaBlack – Critiques the event
