Having only ventured four months in this new decade, 2020 has already seen its fair share of livestream dramas. From epic fails to jaw-dropping clutch plays, streamers have never ceased to entertain us throughout the first quarter of this year. We have compiled together for you the top 5 livestream dramas in 2020 which you can enjoy from the comfort of your couch.
Pokimane tries out CS:GO
Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys is an icon of female streamers throughout the globe and is herself the most popular female streamer on Twitch with a follower count of over 4 Million. She is usually a Just Chatting or League of Legends streamer but last month with the help of her chatroom she tried her hands on CS:GO, the competitive shooter by Valve. Despite the valiant efforts of her chat to teach her the game, the stream was filled with horrible misplays and numerous cringeworthy moments.
In her stream, Pokimane was seen claiming how she was a “big girl” and not an “aim at ground girl”. However, her words didn’t age well due to the following encounter that took place between her and a couple of enemies in the upper tunnels of Dust 2.
She saw an enemy approaching and was rather quick to start shooting but couldn’t score a kill on the CT due to her inability to control the spray pattern of the AK-47. After eight long seconds of them shooting at each other, which would feel like an eternity to veteran CS players, she was finally shot down with an AWP.
The 23 year old streamer was astounded and couldn’t quite grasp why wouldn’t her bullets connect and screamed, “Wait what? Why is the recoil like this?”
Her chat helped her out by informing her that she needs to “pull down” her mouse in firefights to compensate for the recoil.
The turn of events although being a little embarrassing for pokimane, couldn’t be more entertaining for the viewers. The Twitch clip quickly gained popularity and has well over 100,000 views in less than a month.
Call of Duty pro discharges his gun on stream
Carl Reimer is a professional Call of Duty player and a (now former) SoaR Gaming member. On March 5th, the streamer was interacting with his Twitch chat and entertaining his viewers without realising he might be making a mistake that could potentially cost him his entire career.
“B**** say I ain’t got money,” he casually joked while holding onto his Glock and pulling the trigger. Much to his surprise, the gun discharged on his monitor. Luckily no one was injured in this incident except a can of G-Fuel which took injuries it might not recover from.
His next words were, “God damn, I swear to God I just emptied the mag,” realizing he might just have put his career at stake.
His Twitch account was immediately suspended and he was also dropped from his clan SoaR gaming which they declared through a tweet.
An apology followed soon after, he resorted to YouTube to share that he was “intoxicated” while the incident went down and that he had “ruined the rest of his life”. He also mentioned that he believes SoaR had made the right call by removing him from the roster.
This incident gave a hint to why the Americans need to be more strict with their gun laws and why you shouldn’t have glocks lying around on your desk.
Sammyboy’s thoughts on Mason
Mason “mason” Venne is an American professional Dota 2 player and streamer who found himself in a heated feud with Sammyboy last week. During his stream on March 18th, Mason was in a game of Dota as Ursa with Sammyboy in his team who was playing Razor. The game went south pretty quick when their team started losing badly with a scoreline of 15-29. After getting caught off guard on several occasions and dying seven times, Mason finally gave up.
He started pulling off one of his classic moves to show his disdain towards his teammates and began to destroy his items. One by one, he destroyed all six of his items which he had built for the past 33 minutes, including an Abyssal Blade and a Mask of Madness.
Seeing this, Sammyboy, who’s also a professional Dota 2 player, lost his cool.
He started raging, and he started raging hard as he punctuated his anger with a flurry of insults aimed towards Mason, who in turn complained that Sammyboy “can’t play Dota”
As the seemingly endless barrage of profanities by Sammyboy continued, Mason proceeded to walk down the middle lane to feed his enemies which further ensured their defeat.
Although the turn of events along with a tilted Sammyboy was hilarious for the viewers, the community is furious at Mason for giving up in a game that was probably still winnable. The former “Infamous” member is infamous for not being able to adapt to inconvenient situations, or as redditor u/superpunchedout mentions in his comment, “i like him, but he tends to play dota as if he had his dream team doing everything perfect”.
Jankos destroys an iron stack in a 1 vs 5 showdown
Marcin “Jankos” Jankowski is a professional League of Legends player and is currently playing as a jungler for G2 Esports. The 24 year old streamer jumped into a lobby with five iron players, who are on the lower end of the competitive League of Legends spectrum and challenged them to a 1 vs 5 game, provided that he got just three bans and his desired hero pick.
He decided to ban Tryndamere, Master Yi, and Jax, and then after picking Camille, proceeded to destroy his opponents in the game which lasted only 17 minutes. Jankos got 34 kills to his name and absolutely annihilated his opposition who had picked a team of Mordekaiser, Sona, Heimerdinger, Lee Sin, and Maokai.
The Polish pro once again proved the existence of a huge skill gap between the ranks of League. What’s even more impressive is that he finished the game with zero deaths, which is a pretty big deal considering he was in the game 1v5. He then proceeded to boast about how easy the victory felt for him.
The clip has already racked up 218,000 views on Twitch and is still going strong.
CSGO streamer proves that age is just a number
This list would be incomplete without mentioning the 59-year-old gamer “IthemanTurk” and his amazing clutch play which took over Twitch by storm.
During the 5th round of his ongoing game on Mirage, the professional streamer found himself in a post-plant 2v2 scenario.
He was rather quick to neutralize a CT who tried to jump out of apartments as his teammate got shut down by an AWPer from the kitchen, leaving him in an intense one-on-one situation. The old man held onto his nerves and pushed the CT hiding inside market with his trusty AK-47. His crosshair instantly locked on to the head of the CT, finishing him off and securing the round for his team. He then proceeded to teabag his fallen foe, “Nothing like a little teabag,” he added.
While the clip is no longer available on Twitch, the man himself can regularly be streaming CS:GO in his channel.
Streamers have become an important part in the daily lives of gamers as they continue to entertain us with their content. Sometimes they rage, sometimes they fail and sometimes they shoot innocent cans of Gfuel with glocks, but they do always try to make sure that their audience is having a wonderful time. With the release of several new streaming platforms in the past couple of years, the number of streamers has also increased by a dramatic margin. And with the ever-increasing number of streamers, an increase in the quality of entertainment is sure to follow.
