Recently, the largest opening in the history of Twitch took place featuring Counter-Strike 2. A viewer kept track of the valuable items in the crates and whether the opening was worthwhile.
What was this event about? Originally, 4 selected streamers were supposed to open crates for Counter-Strike 2. A collector offered the streamers rare in-game items. Each streamer was expected to reach around 60,000 US dollars, approximately 51,000 euros. The money was to be invested in 250 crates and sticker capsules, which were then opened live in front of viewers.
However, the event was expanded to include two more streamers. Thus, a total of 6 streamers received items worth 60,000 dollars, leading to a total opening of 360,000 dollars (about 308,000 euros).
And there was another surprise: During the opening, valuable Katowice-2014 capsules and Cobblestone Packages were given away, raising the total sum to a staggering 500,000 dollars (approximately 427,700 euros). Was it worthwhile?
Twitch streamers open crates for half a million dollars
Who participated? Besides ohnePixel, TimTheTatman, Arrow, and Nadeshot, Heyzeus and Sparkles joined. alleine ohnePixel streamed for over 10 hours (see Twitch) and achieved a peak of 137,000 viewers (seen on SullyGnome).
Was it worthwhile? X-user RemixFloats claims to be a skin enthusiast of Counter-Strike. He kept track of whether the opening was worth it for the streamers. He came up with the following numbers:
- TimTheTatman likely scored the biggest win, with 30,707 US dollars
- Arrow follows shortly after, with a significant distance, at 15,653 dollars
- ohnePixel lands in the middle with 14,016 dollars
- Heyzeus is below with 12,796 dollars
- Sparkles is very close to Heyzeus, reaching 12,064 dollars
- Nadeshot is at the bottom, only able to pull items worth 9,302 dollars
This results in a total of 94,538 dollars for the team. This does not even come close to the value of the items donated by the collector, which had a total value of 500,000 dollars. Even if you were to consider the small skins that RemixFloats did not account for, you still wouldn’t reach the value of the unopened crates.
However, it must be noted that it was still a donation. Even though the streamers could not recoup the value, everyone was able to make a profit for themselves.
Even during the last opening, things did not go well for ohnePixel. He pulled so many duds that he only turned 4,000 euros from 118,000 euros. Nonetheless, the spectacle was worthwhile for the streamer back then: 556,000 people watched as a German Twitch streamer pulled duds worth 120,000 € in CS:GO
