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The Festival Online: ‘Lemon Poker’ Takes Down Streamers Challenge!

The Festival Online: ‘Lemon Poker’ Takes Down Streamers Challenge!

Yesterday was the grand finale of The Festival Online, wrapping up a fantastic series of 70 tournaments from August 3 to August 19, with buy-ins ranging from €7.50 to €250. The Streamers Challenge also concluded, awarding a €1,600 package for The Festival Bratislava. What an exciting end to the festival!

Before the start of the entire series, any online poker streamer had the option to sign up for a special challenge, going along with The Festival Online 2024. A grand total of 13 players signed up for the challenge, hailing from countries such as Estonia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. The competitive vibe entered the room straight from the beginning, making the players stand on their toes when the action got kickstarted on August 3.

The Festival Online 2024 - Streamers Challenge

Set up by a team of top-experienced elite group of poker fanatics, the Streamers Challenge consists out of several disciplines which go in line with what The Festival Series stands for: Harmony, healthy competition, and hospitality! Not only did the players had to compete in six different pre-selected tournaments of The Festival Online, they also had the chance to score bonus points along the road.

A total of five different topics were available to the challengers:

Challenge NameMultiplier
1. Organize a 'Hospitality event' on your livestreamYes (Up to 3 times)
2. Complete the Franke's Flip Flop Mission during your livestream (Play 3x Games of minimum €5)No
3. 'Tag and Share' ChallengeYes (Up to 3 times)
4. Qualify for Day 2 of the €100 satellite for The Festival MaltaNo
5. Win a Seat-Only satellite for The Festival MaltaNo

With the bonus challenges in place, the six pre-selected tournaments were connected to the 'Player of the Series' calculations of the live events of The Festival Series. The calculation, based on the points-structure of Formula 1 Racing, could eventually give a different dimension to the strategy of players. This because a multiplier is in place, based on the size of the player fields. Of course, deep runs are required to score decent points, something which only 'Roenninghaug Poker' seemed to accomplish by finishing 11th in the €30 Mystery Bounty tournament of The Festival Online.

The first prize of the challenge consisted out of a package for The Festival Bratislava live event, worth €1,600 (Nov 18-24). Great added value by founder of The Festival Series, Martin 'Franke' von Zweigbergk.

You would say that this made all streamers hungry from the get-go to complete all the bonus challenges. In the end, it took until the very last day of the challenge before the winner was known, by completing his final Franke's Flip Flops!

4. Rabaan (Paf)

For already quite some years, 'Rabaan' is part of the Swedish online poker group called ValueTown. By being an online poker streamer, he is no stranger to sharing social media posts and entertaining a community of poker fanatics. Add on top of this that he completed his hospitality challenges by diving into the woods and taking his viewers with him live on stream to go fishing! Pure epic scenes from the Swede, but unfortunately he stranded before reaching the safe harbour in 4th place.

Not only was he a bit unlucky in the tournaments, he also came in short by not completing the Franke's Flips challenge, and to qualify for D2 of The Festival Malta qualifier. On the last day of the challenge, he already knew he would not be able to pass the leader of the ranking.

Tournament Results12 Points
Bonus Challenge Results45 Points
Total57 Points

3. EstonianWeirdo (Betsafe)

A competitor in the streaming challenge hailing from Estonia couldn't miss out. 'EstonianWeirdo' proudly represented the blue/black/white flag of Estonia, by coming extremely close to be victorious! In fact, you can see it as some kind of bad beat in poker, since he had the lead in almost the entire challenge. On the penultimate day of the challenge, the two challengers who finished above him, managed to complete the Franke's Flip Flops challenge and pass him on the ranking charts.

It has been a great pleasure checking out pure class on stream, covered with an extreme relaxed vibe. One day.. One day will come and 'EstonianWeirdo' will use his 'one time' card and get to the point which he is aiming for. See you in the next challenge!

Tournament Results11 Points
Bonus Challenge Results65 Points
Total76 Points

2. Roenninghaug Poker (Coolbet)

One of the most beautiful things in poker is to see the enthusiasm of players when they are battling for glory. 'Roenninghaug' is one of these examples, bringing passion to the virtual tables by showing his journey live on Twitch. It has been a blast following him, competing in all selected tournaments, and completing all most all bonus challenges!

Highlights of his challenge were by far his 11th place in the €30 Mystery Bounty tournament, but surely as well his 'Sing-a- Song' hospitality event, and his 'Masterchef' hospitality event. There is some true talent there, and we hope you will join our next Streamer Challenge as well!

Tournament Results29 Points
Bonus Challenge Results50 Points
Total79 Points

1. Winner of the Challenge - Lemon Poker! (Fortuna)

"Lemon Poker' has been the proud host of our own official Twitch-Channel called 'ThefestivalOG'. As soon as the gates dropped after the start signal had been given, he stormed to his computer to figure out the perfect strategy to take this challenge to his name. Gifted by natural adrenaline, and by not having a 'turn off' button, he managed to eagerly collect his points on the way. Despite being a couple points behind before the last day, he still managed to keep the enthusiasm and battle for gold.

On the very last day of the challenge, he had finally found the option for the Franke's Flip Flops games on his poker client, and soon after that, secured the highly needed 5 points for the ranking to surpass both 'EstonianWeirdo' and 'Roenninghaug Poker'. But there was still one obstacle on the road of the seasoned poker pro from Czech Republic: The final Seat-Only qualifier for The Festival Malta.

Like a hawk looking to hunt his next victim, he kept refreshing the poker lobby to see if his opponents would turn up to try and collect points. As after all, it would turn out to be the only challenge which none of the participants managed to complete. Neither did 'Lemon Poker', as he failed to hold up with his Kings versus the Queens of his opponent.

With one of his direct opponents not turning up for the grand final, and 'EstonianWeirdo' busting out prior the final table, history has been made and 'Lemon Poker' goes in the books as the very first Champion of the Streamers Challenge of The Festival Online! Congratulations!

Tournament Results16 Points
Bonus Challenge Results65 Points
Total81 Points

Conclusion of The Festival Online 2024 - Streamers Challenge

With this article, the first-ever Streamers Challenge of The Festival Online is coming to a close. We would like to send out our appreciation to all participants who all battled for the ultimate victory. From all over Europe, online streamers signed up for this challenge. Surely it has been an epic ride throughout the series, and most definitely the second Streamers Challenge will be coming up very soon! We have seen great community-binding activities of all online streamers, alongside some great runs in the tournaments on the entire iPoker Network! With that being said, the Challenge has now officially drawn to a close.

If you would like to replay the final episode on our twitch channel, then click on the image below. Congratulations to the winner 'Lemon Poker'', and see you all very soon during The Festival Malta 2024 from September 8-15!