Video games enlivened Holy Week in Buenos Aires. The second edition of Gamergy Argentina, the largest European eSports and gaming event in the world, brought together electronic sports (eSports) and social media personalities, in an event that took place from Friday to Sunday and brought together thousands of teenagers in Technopolis.
After the first edition, which had as its main attraction the grand finale of the “Copa Libertadores” of the video game League of Legends, known as Liga Latinoamérica, this edition has given a greater role to tiktokers, streamers and youtubers.
Gamergy offered different scenarios and activities for the more than 62,000 attendees during the three days, including a charity show where 16 content creators competed in arm wrestling duels, like the one Gerardo Sofovich managed to popularize in ” Sunday Night”.
“We saw the results and we did it again at Easter on purpose, planned, designed for this date. This is why it is a weekend where many people leave, but many people come and there are even more people who stay and it has one more weekend of fun and entertainment, especially for children. Next year we’ll do it again,” acknowledged one of the organizers, Juan Diego García Schettino, from GGTech.
There was also a cosplay contest, a Just Dance contest at the TikTok Arena and a Counter Strike showmatch which saw Boca Juniors win a purse of 1,000,000 pesos.
Just the streamers, tiktokers and instagramers of the local and international scene have encouraged their fans. Especially in the arm wrestling tournament.
Rodrigo Carrera, better known as “Carre”, was the protagonist of the fight that caused the most effervescence on the main stage of the Flow Arena. The bahiense caused a sensation to the point that his screams turned into tears of emotion. Not to be outdone, his popularity amounts to more than 2 million followers on Instagram, 3.5 million on Twitch and his video views on TikTok do not drop below 100 million.
Others of the most requested were the streamers Brunenger and Joaco Lopez, who then got lost in a flood of teenagers who went hunting for a photo or an autograph.
However, the champions were the cosplayer Sophie Valentine and the youtuber Juan “JuanitoSay” Della Valle. The 400,000 pesos raised went to Garrahan Hospital.
A Spaniard in Buenos Aires
The Spanish Manuto He is a content creator and on the Twitch platform he has more than 260,000 followers and 6.4 million on TikTok where he usually shows himself playing League of Legends, Minecraft or Fortnite, even humorous clips.
“The audience was wonderful as always. In the end, Argentina is characterized by this, by those people, by that warm community and the truth is that it is wonderful and well, well, very well, because the truth is that the last year they had less events this year, it’s like we’re going beyond video games and so on.”
Among the stellar personalities present at Tecnópolis, some of the “little brothers” protagonists of the latest success of Argentine television stood out. Finalist Juan Ignacio “Nacho” Castañares and his girlfriends Lucía “La Tora” Villar and Mora Jaborinsky were some of those who walked through the VIP Tecnópolis event on behalf of the Furious Gaming team. Meanwhile, Agustín “La Frodoneta” Guardis arrived with Leviatán on Friday.
Even politics did not want to miss this event of communities. In the presence of Jorge Macri, minister of the government of the City of Buenos Aires, was joined by the new Secretary of the Knowledge Economy of the Nation, Juan Manuel Cheppi. Both toured part of the 12,000 square meter Tecnópolis, where the stands of various eSport teams stood out (9z, KRÜ, Malvinas, Furious, Velox, Stone Movistar, Oxen and Ebea2).
Technopolis attendees also enjoyed a series of talks on cryptocurrencies, gaming accessibility and esports careers, as well as food trucks, PC and console arenas, a dedicated cryptocurrency zone and a TikTok Arena featuring meet and greet with content creators.
This Sunday is the closing event in charge of music with several exponents of Amazon Music, in the first event of the platform in the country, with contributions from the band cumbia Migrantes, Yami Safdie and Seven Kayne.
Source: Clarin
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