In India’s valo eSports Shobith Roy aka Tbone is considered to be the biggest and everyone’s favourite streamer. His witty and entertaining personality plus the fun ‘Baap-Beta’ banter with Fa2GOD is loved by everyone in the scene.
In Indian eSports, almost 9 out of 10 creators and players would consider him to be their favourite. Some might even consider him to be the FACE of valorant in India. But, a big BUT, when we see his stream stats and viewers in comparision to his friend and fellow streamer Binks69, he lacks the audience support to back that claim.
If you are closely following both of them you would notice Binks brings more viewership than Tbone whenever they are streaming. When you see official watch parties Tbone doesn’t stand anywhere near Binks. On recent Convergence 2023, Binks was pulling in upwords or 8k viewers whereas Tbone was struggling to grab constant 3k eyeballs.
Other creators and players might see the monologue of Tbone’s stream, which btw is really entertaining, but a viewer watches from start to end. He/She (doubt there might be any she) would closely monitor each and every move of the streamer. What matter is viewer retention not being everyone’s favourite.
Binks might not be considered to be creator’s favorite but he is truly the favorite of viewers and is the real face of valorant.
Remember, in streaming world viewers are the real stake holders and you can’t unsee them.
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