Gamer ‘Shroud’ Leaves Twitch for Mixer Following Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins
Oct. 25, 2019Just hours after announcing his decision to leave Amazon’s Twitch in favor of Microsoft’s Mixer, gamer Michael ‘Shroud’ Grzesiek made his debut on the new platform with more than 78,000 concurrent viewers, according to Lightstream Studios’ live analytics tool, Arsenal.
He announced his plans to leave Twitch earlier on Thursday in a sudden move that left many of his 7 million+ followers on the platform stunned. According to Mixer, the move will allow Shroud to“(engage) with his audience in new and exciting ways”via the platform’s interactive features such as Sparks and Embers.“… the next chapter is here, and I am excited and motivated to deliver the best live streams yet for me. The move to Mixer allows me to focus on what I love: gaming”, Grzesiek said in a statement.
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Shroud’s move to Mixerfollows a similar decisionfrom celebrated gamer, Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins, who earlier this year jumped on the Mixer bandwagon, hosting his first stream on the platform from Lollapalooza, a four-day music festival in Chicago. He also publicly invited Kyle ‘Bugha’ Giersdorf —the teen who recently won $3 millionfor winning the inaugural Fortnite World Cup — to join him on the new platform.
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