Team Ray wins Jynxzi's League of Legends Streamer Tournament

After close to six hours of grueling, top-notch competition, Nicholas “Jynxzi" Stewart’s League of Legends Streamer Tournament crowned a victor. The team of Alois “Alois” Nelissen, Felix “xQc” Lengyel, Nicholas “Sapnap”, Kingsman265, and captained by Chen-Ruei “Rayasianboy” Hsu emerged triumphant after winning a contested 2-1 final against the team of Zachary “Sneaky” Scuderi, Ludwig “Ludwig” Ahgren, “Pokelawls", “ArrowCS", and captained by “Zoil". Though a prize pool was not originally disclosed, Jynxzi gifted 250 subs to each member of the winning team.

The final was a contested affair dominated by two teams with defined strengths and surprising assistance from the supporting cast. Across the series, the strong foundation of Kingsman, Sapnap, xQc, and Alois had to withstand the intense blows of the bot-lane pair of Pokelawls and Sneaky. Thanks to his performance in both Game 1 and Game 3, xQc was selected as the Finals MVP.

It’s been a long time since the North American scene built up this amount of hype for a streamer-led tournament. Thanks to the colliding worlds from different streaming scenes, the tournament broke several metrics. According to Esports Charts, the tournament peaked at 908,068 concurrent viewers, positioning it as the fourth-most-watched League of Legends tournament of the year.

This peak beats LEC Versus 2026 by more than 100,000 viewers, making it the most-viewed tournament in the West. The tournaments that occupy the first three spots on the list are LCK Cup, First Stand 2026, and LCK 2026 Season, in this respective order. A combination of entertaining personalities, never-before-seen crossovers between interesting gaming scenes, and the possibility of acquiring different in-game rewards could have helped propel this tournament to new heights.

The successful production of the tournament came with several new milestones for Jynxzi’s streaming career. This is the eighth game he has hosted a tournament of, but his stream had never reached the heights following League of Legends’ tournament.

According to his own testimony and several metrics, Jynxzi set a new record of peak concurrent viewers with over 410,000, reached 10 million followers, and gained around 300,000 followers in this stream.

The quarter finals, set up as best-of-one games, kicked off the intensity. Several high-profile competitors were quickly eliminated, including Yiliang “Doublelift" Peng and Tyler “Tyler1" Steinkamp, captained by Marlon “Marlon" Lundgren-García and Louis “LosPollosTV" Sammartino, respectively.

Team TheBurntPeanut, with the likes of Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson and Frederik “NoWay" Hinteregger, stumbled against Zoil. In their path to the finals, Team Ray had to overcome the team of captain Yusuf “Yusuf7n" Abdullahi and Moe “Yassuo" Abdalrhman.

This set up the matches between Team Jynzxi and Team Ray, and Team Zoil and Team Ronaldo for the spots in the finals. Even if Jynxzi had his coach and was the host of his own tournament, this wasn’t enough to take Team Ray’s finals spot, thanks to the synergy developed. The other spot was reserved for Team Zoil, thanks to Ludwig’s pocket Amumu and ArrowCS destabilizing Ronaldo in the mid lane.

We compiled some of the most exciting or funniest moments from the tournament. Team captain Marlon was not ready to experience League of Legends’ chaos.

Pokelawls had a highlight-reel moment when his Jinx got a pentakill against MrBeast and TheBurntPeanut.

After a long pause due to a power outage, Sapnap found a great flank to push Team Ray 1-0 up in the Finals.

Could you imagine if your first time listening to Silver Scrapes came on the Grand Finals of your own tournament?