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PogChamps is a series of online amateur chess tournaments hosted by Chess.com. Players in the tournament are internet personalities , primarily Twitch streamers . The first four PogChamps tournaments took place over the course of two weeks, while the fifth iteration lasted four weeks. [ 1 ]
The first PogChamps featured streamers including xQcOW, MoistCr1TiKaL, Ludwig Ahgren, and forsen. New participants from PogChamps 2 included itsHafu and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson . [ 153 ] PogChamps 3, beginning in February 2021, debuted with a wider range of Internet personalities and celebrities, with new competitors including MrBeast ...
Some Twitch users in 2020 petitioned for Twitch to remove Ryan Gutierrez as the face of the PogChamp emote, following numerous claims of Gutierrez promoting far-right conspiracies, such as anti-vaccination conspiracies, [18] and spreading misinformation and denial of COVID-19.
Andrea Cecilia Cristina Botez [1] (/ ˈ b oʊ t ɛ z / BOH-tez; born April 6, 2002) is a Canadian chess player, commentator, DJ [2] and internet personality. [3] She is mostly known as part of the BotezLive Twitch channel with her sister Alexandra Botez.
[15] [10] Chess.com teamed up with high-level chess streamers to organize PogChamps, an amateur tournament contested between popular Internet personalities that was streamed on Twitch and at one point became the top-viewed stream on the platform.
He gave lessons to players in PogChamps, an amateur tournament for Twitch streamers hosted by Chess.com, and its sequel, PogChamps 2. He additionally provided commentary. [ 205 ] At its peak, the tournament was the most-watched channel on Twitch for a short period, with 63,000 viewers. [ 188 ]
In 2023, Colquhoun participated and won PogChamps 5. [19] Videos. Many of Colquhoun's videos feature him cosplaying and role-playing, ...
[116] [117] During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the isolation ensuing from quarantines imposed in many places around the world, combined with the success of the popular Netflix show The Queen's Gambit and other factors such as the popularity of online tournaments (notably PogChamps) and chess Twitch streamers, resulted in a surge of popularity ...