Hikaru explains why he\u2019s not upset about losing Chess Streamer of the Year at Streamer Awards Twitch: GMHikaru\/Streamer AwardsChess\u2019 biggest Twitch streamer Hikaru Nakamura, or GMHikaru, has responded to not winning Chess Streamer of the Year at the Streamer Awards, claiming that he doesn\u2019t care and that he\u2019s \u201cwon enough\u201d in his career. Chess has always had a decently-sized presence on Twitch, especially when it blew up off the back of the success of Netflix\u2019s The Queen\u2019s Gambit, and spearheading that category was GMHikaru. Even now, he still averages around 10,000 viewers per stream, far ahead of his closest competition, dominating the Chess category. Despite that, Hikaru didn\u2019t win at the Streamer Awards, with the Chess Streamer of the Year accolade instead being handed to Levy \u2018GothamChess\u2019 Rozman. Speaking on the snub, Hikaru directly addressed not winning the award, saying that it doesn\u2019t bother him. \u201cLet\u2019s just be honest, I\u2019ve won so many things, so many awards, you think that really I\u2019m going to be super angry about winning this?\u201d Hikaru explained. \u201cIf you were to ask me, am I supposed to care about this when I\u2019ve won things like the US Championship? Of course I don\u2019t care.\u201d Hikaru also added that \u201cYou look at Levy, you look at Botez, or people of that sort, they\u2019re never going to win anything when it comes to chess. That\u2019s just a reality. So why should I be upset that they win these awards?\u201d Of course, as mentioned, Hikaru doesn\u2019t necessarily need an award to prove his prowess either on the chess board or on Twitch, having won multiple tournaments in his career, played against the very best, and dominated chess streaming for years. If there were to be a tournament among the top chess streamers, you\u2019d be hard-pushed to find someone to beat Hikaru \u2014 and ultimately, that\u2019s what his goal is anyway. He just so happens to do it very well while live on Twitch. Another possible \u201csnub\u201d conversation has also been made around xQc, but Hasan argued xQc\u2019s continuing dominance means he\u2019s less likely to win awards each year. Perhaps the same is true of Hikaru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hikaru explains why he\u2019s not upset about losing Chess Streamer of the Year at Streamer Awards Twitch: GMHikaru\/Streamer AwardsChess\u2019 biggest Twitch streamer Hikaru Nakamura, or GMHikaru, has responded to not winning Chess Streamer of the Year at the Streamer Awards, claiming that he doesn\u2019t care and that he\u2019s \u201cwon enough\u201d in his career. Chess has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}