A tournament with the top chess players in the world and live commentary by experts is not comparable to a chess stream by Hikaru playing blitz against random o

A tournament with the top chess players in the world and live commentary by experts is not comparable to a chess stream by Hikaru playing blitz against random opponents daily. If you take total viewer-hours Hikaru is bringing in far more than any top tournaments Hikaru’s popularity has skyrocketed over the last couple of months, averaging 16k concurrent viewers in the past month: https://twitchtracker.com/gmhikaru/statistics https://twitchtracker.com/gmhikaru/statistics