Australian is the new number 1 on Twitch – gets 120,000 viewers overnight

The Australian streamer Pestily is by far the most watched streamer on Twitch right now. And that although it otherwise has relatively few spectators. He became a star almost overnight – and that’s not the first time. The hardcore shooter Escape from Tarkov is to blame.

This is the situation:

• Pestily is a medium-sized streamer that draws an average of 10,000 or fewer viewers over the year.
• However, since December 28, 2021, it has had tens of thousands of viewers – with a peak of over 244,000 viewers at the same time.
• That’s because he specializes in Escape from Tarkov, which currently dominates Twitch as the most watched game by far.

Who is the streamer? Pestily is from Australia and has been in business since 2017. The former soldier plays and shows almost exclusively Escape from Tarkov, about two-thirds of the time.

On the analysis page sullygnome Pestily is currently number 1 on Twitch with almost 7.3 million viewer hours – ahead of the Spanish YouTuber and streamer The Grefg and the Twitch star xQc. Compared to xQc, Pestily can even score with significantly more viewers in the last few days:

• In the past 7 days, xQc had an average of 76,026 viewers and a peak of 12,397 (via sullygnome).
• Pestily trumps him with 114,957 viewers on average and 244,422 at the top (via sullygnome).

Escape from Tarkov regularly causes a rush at Pestily

That’s why he’s in first place: Pestily is probably the best known and greatest streamer for Escape from Tarkov. The hardcore shooter has been distributing so-called “Twitch Drops” every year at the end of the year since 2019.

These reward players for watching streamers with in-game rewards. That is why the interest in streamers like Pestily is always particularly high at the end of the year. He was able to fight his way to the top of Twitch overnight for the first time in late 2019 and early 2020.

What’s going on in EFT right now? The developers “wipe” the game regularly, so reset everything to 0. This happened for the most recent time on December 12, 2021, when the new update 0.12.12 with a new map was also released. Together with a reduction in the price of 25% and the drops up to January 8th, this is causing a player increase.

The number of players is so high that there are sometimes queues of 86,000 players (via GameStar.de). According to the CEO, these are not only related to the onslaught – that was expected (via Twitter.com).

Rather, the huge update brought along some technical problems, which contribute significantly to the overloading of the servers. Nevertheless, tens of thousands of fans and many well-known streamers such as shroud and summit1g are currently playing the hardcore shooter. If you want to get started too, here are some tips for you:

Escape from Tarkov: 13 Beginner Tips to Get You Started