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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 ]
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.
In the second iteration of the online amateur chess tournament Pogchamps, Botez was part of the commentator team. [28] In 2021, Botez took part again in the Pogchamps 3 tournament, doubling as a coach for CodeMiko [29] and as a commentator, [30] [31] and, once again, she joined the commentator team for Pogchamps 4. [32]
In July and August of 2023, Blaire participated in the PogChamps 5 chess tournament. She placed second in the consolation bracket after losing to higher-rated Norwegian streamer Wirtual in a live over-the-board finals match held in Los Angeles on August 18. She collected a $5,000 prize for her placement in the tournament. [53]
Hafu won the second PogChamps chess tournament in September 2020. [7] She has spoken out against sexual harassment in gaming. [8] [9] In September 2020, Wang began streaming and posting videos of her playing Among Us, frequently playing with other popular streamers including Disguised Toast, dakotaz, and xChocoBars.
PogChamps, an online chess tournament "Pog", an Alan Moore-written issue of Swamp Thing paying homage to Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo; One of the two title characters in Pib and Pog, an animated short film created by Aardman Animations
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 ...
[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. [15]