German Counter-Strike 2 streamer ohnePixel beat out the likes of FNS and Tarik as the most popular VALORANT Champions 2025 co-streamer.
VALORANT has its fair share of popular content creators. Champions 2025 just concluded, involving a lot of official co-streamers that brought in their own fanbases. What stood out among the rest, though, was the fact that the most-watched VALORANT Champions 2025 co-streamer was a Counter-Strike 2 content creator: Mark "ohnePixel" Zimmermann.
It's FNS! It's Tarik! Nope, it's ohnePixel!
After a weekend of co-streaming VALORANT Champions 2025 to his fans, the German streamer ohnePixel was the most popular among all the watch parties.
He only broadcast the finals weekend. During the grand final between Fnatic and NRG, he reached a whopping 122.1 thousand peak viewers according to Esports Charts.
This dwarfed the second in the list: ex-NRG player and Paper Rex cheerleader Pujan "FNS" Mehta, who only peaked at 64.6K viewers. Tarik "tarik" Celik is in third with a peak of 50K viewers.
ohnePixel and VALORANT
ohnePixel mainly streams Counter-Strike 2 to his 2.1 million Twitch followers. In this year alone, he has streamed 761 hours of CS2, averaging about 38 thousand viewers a stream.
When he was announced to be one of the official co-streamers for Champions 2025, it took everyone by surprise.
"The whole time, it's been CS community [or] VALORANT community," ohnePixel said after the announcement was made. "It is time to watch the biggest VALORANT tournament... I said why the f**k not?"
Later, he revealed that Riot offered him a spot in the Accor Arena in Paris, France, to be an on-site co-streamer. He denied this offer, saying, "I said no, because that would be too much. I would be taking a spot off a guy who has been content creating in [VALORANT] for a long time."
His co-stream of the VALORANT Champions 2025 was massively successful, even when compared to his Counter-Strike ones. According to Esports Charts, his peak of 122.1K viewers during the final was one of his most-viewed major esports events. The BLAST Austin Major earlier this year still reigns supreme, followed closely by PGL Major Copenhagen 2024.
"My blood is CS... Counter-Strike is where I'm at, but this was great," said ohnePixel after the Champs playoffs weekend. "[It] was way more than expected — greatest f*****g vacation ever. For sure, if Riot lets me, I'll be doing more Champs."
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