Nicholas “Nickmercs” Kolcheff (31) is the first big winner of the new games to Call of Duty. The US American won the first match in Call of Duty: Warzone 2 on Sept. 15, and he was by far the most watched streamer on Twitch on the night of the “CoD: Next” event. He beat the official channel of Call of Duty, the French Gotaga and Ninja. His advantage: the competition in CoD is now off Twitch.
Who won the evening to Call of Duty on Twitch? On the evening of 9/15, the Call of Duty Next event ran – Activision Blizzard invited 150 live streamers to show off their new Call of Duty offering. The Twitch streamers were live for 5 hours.
We know the numbers on Twitch (via sullygnome):
- The winner in the end was Nickmercs, he had 71,011 viewers on average, 101,584 in peak.
- This gave Nickmercs more viewers than Call of Duty’s official Twitch channel, more than the French Star Gotaga, and more than Ninja, which only came in at 6th place
- In Germany, the Twitch streamer “STYLERZ” was the leader. He has been showing Call of Duty: Warzone all year. Internationally, he was in 16th place.
Streamer was huge in CoD Warzone in 2021 – but hit angry
Why is he the prodigal son? From Activision Blizzard’s perspective, it’s important to get Nickmercs excited about Call of Duty again:
- Nickmercs was by far the biggest streamer on Call of Duty: Warzone in 2021
- However, in 2022 he went off the flag and showed almost only the competition, from Apex Legends
- So there’s strategic value in bringing him back to CoD Warzone right now and getting him excited
CoD Warzone loses its biggest Twitch streamer – “Would rather be playing fucking Pokémon!”
Where are the other great Twitch streamers? Many major Twitch streamers closely associated with Call of Duty moved to YouTube in recent years:
- TimTheTatman went 2021 – he’s such the good mood bear of Call of Duty
- CourageJD has been on YouTube for a long time
- DrDisrespect had to flee into exile after being banned there – but he was out anyway. He fell out of favor with Call of Duty
Activision Blizzard had invited few “generally great streamers” from the US except Ninja: shroud is probably too close to Valorant – xQc they probably don’t want necessarily because of his gambling proximity. Tfue is in Fortnite fever right now.
So there were mostly Call of Duty streamers on site.
These two could have rivaled Nickmerc’s – but both are no longer on Twitch.
Nickmercs: Strong partners and most careful play brought 1st win
How did the 1st match go for him? At the event CoD Next the first “real match” was played by Warzone.
Nickmercs competed together with 2 teammates:
- the Twitch streamer iSmixie, who also practically only shows CoD Warzone
- FaZE Scope, a player for the e-sports clan FaZe.
So by then he had quite a bit of firepower on his side. He played to win from the start anyway, took few risks and stayed together in the team.
After initial technical difficulties, in-game communications not working, Nickmercs slowly got going. He barricaded himself and his team on the roofs of skyscrapers, changed positions again and again, and played rather wait-and-see.
In the end, Nickmercs and his team played the map, took few risks, stayed together as a team, and were able to eliminate scattered opponents in the tightening final circle.
Nickmercs had 5 kills by the match’s end, a classic tactical victory.
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