Z Event

The Z Event is a francophone charity project created by Adrien Nougaret and Alexandre Dachary (respectively known under the pseudonyms ZeratoR and Dach) whose goal is to bring together French streamers to collect donations that will support a charity. Organized on the Twitch streaming site, it has raised more money than any other French video gaming event.[1] During the 2019 stream, ZEvent raised €3.5 million Euros.[2][3]

Z Event
SportCharity Project
Esports
Founded2016
DirectorAdrien Nougaret and Alexandre Dachary
No. of teams54 Streamers (2020)
56 Streamers (2019)
38 Streamers (2018)
30 Streamers (2017)
16 Streamers (2016)
Country France
Official websitehttps://zevent.fr/

The first edition took place in 2016 under the name Project Avengers. The event is in the benefit, successively, of Save the Children, the French Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Pasteur Institute and Amnesty International. In total, between 2016 and 2020, these events raised more than 10 million euros or 11,7 million dollars.

Editions
Événement Date Donation Amount collected More informations
Avengers Project 4 - 6 March 2016 Save the Children 170 770 € Shortest edition, with 34 hours of live stream.
Z Event 2017 8 - 10 September 2017 French Red Cross 451 851 € First edition under the name of "Z Event".
Z Event 2018 9 - 11 November 2018 Médecins Sans Frontières 1 094 731 € First Z Event to exceed the million euros.
Z Event 2019 20 - 23 September 2019 Pasteur Institute 3 510 810 € World record for a charity stream on Twitch.
Z Event 2020 16 - 18 October 2020[4] Amnesty International 5 724 377 € Occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adrien Nougaret (ZeratoR), creator and co-organizer of the Z Event.

Avengers Project (2016)

The Avengers Project took place from March 4 to 6, 2016, to raise funds for the NGO Save the Children during the drought in Ethiopia.

The event raised €170,770.[5][6]

Z Event 2017

The Z Event took place from September 8 to 10, 2017 to collect donations for the French Red Cross during Hurricane Irma. The event raised a total of €451,851.[1][7]

He was congratulated by the President of the French Republic, then Emmanuel Macron, on Twitter.[8]

Z Event 2018

The Z Event took place from November 9 to 11, 2018[9] to collect donations for Médecins Sans Frontières.[10] In total, 38 streamers participate in this charity event. The event brings in a total of €1,094,731.34.[11] The sum raised was essentially used to reconstruct fully a destroyed hospital in Yemen.[12]

During this edition, the event is broadcast live on NRJ radio[13]

Z Event 2019

Following the 2018 edition, organizers received over 400 requests from non-governmental organizations.[14] After examining the latter, the Pasteur Institute was chosen. The 2019 edition of the Z Event took place from September 20 to 22, 2019 in Montpellier.[15] In total, 55 Francophone streamers were gathered in a room made available by the Metropole of Montpellier for a total event duration of 54 hours.[15][16][17] Squeezie and Antoine Daniel participated in the event.

On the second day, Riot Games made a donation of €20,000,[18] Webedia €25,000, then the American streamer Ninja €26,000.[19][20] A total of €3,510,682 were raised by the end of the event,[14][21] breaking the record for the largest amount of money collected at a charity event on the live streaming platform Twitch.[22] On his Twitter account, the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron congratulated the initiative.[14][21]

Z Event 2020

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the organization of a 2020 edition was initially uncertain. Indeed, ZeratoR said on April 29, 2020 live, at the time in full containment in France, that it may not be possible given the atmosphere of the time. On August 31, 2020, during a live performance where he returned to the Z LAN 2020, a few weeks before the event’s regular run (usually between September and November), he announced that “until the 2020 edition is announced, there will be none”. Despite this, on 4 October 2020, the event was announced to be held from 16 to 18 October 2020 in Montpellier, the beneficiary of which will be Amnesty International France.

In order to limit the risk of Covid-19 propagation, ZeratoR announced at the same time a strict protocol. The 85 participants (including streamers and team members) had to pass a PCR test, and those who would be tested positive could not participate. The organisers therefore invited all participants to isolate themselves at home until the 16th October. The event took place for the first time in a hotel, that participants were not able to leave during the event.

The store sold over 120,000 T-shirts,[23] and more than 132,000 donators of 1 euro registered during the event. On the Twitter account of the Presidency of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron congratulated the initiative as for the previous editions. Participants gathered in total more than 5.7 millions euros.

References
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