How ZeratoR filled a WHOLE STADIUM with Trackmania nerds! (I was one of them)

I was able to attend the ZrT Cup 2022 and it was awesome! Here is how it went.
Sources:
Eirik Holdals Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3uvY39ugpitpqc
Zerators channel: kzbin.info
Covid Animation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5nXlqCqhLtrkJI
Music:
Epic Dramatic Military Music by Infraction [No Copyright Music] / Hero
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Baba is You OST
Sweet sweet Canyon - Mario Kart 8
Music: Suspense - SergePavkinMusic
Music Link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKbYg5WgpZiXo9U
Trackmania Pulp Remix
Epic I Cinematic I Dark I Background Music - Last Goodbye [Royalty Free]
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Trackmania Sunrise OST 21st Century Beatnik One T essai
#Trackmania #ZeratoR #Ubisoft #tm #tm2020 #esport

[@limul97]

just a small precision zerator said that there will be more cups in the future but he will change the formula so it will be different, he didn't said in wich way tho

[@yamajczyk7927]

Imagine french Dreamhack with Trackmania only.

[@hgfdgfbxcfw3169]

@@yamajczyk7927 Don't expect too much. Zerator recently said that as the ZTMC where revealed, people were expecting more for the next one. He said that one was the biggest was willing to make since it was a nightmare in terms of logistic and financial means. He said, that ZTMC as we actually know it was one and the next one will be something entirely different. But who knows. Zerator is someone (from his own words) who's more into making events than streaming. He has great ideas when it comes to entertainment, so the next ZTMC will still be great, just very different.

[@paulamblard3836]

he mainly said that the next time, it will not be Trakmania. but may-be he will comme back to trackmania, may-be it will be 1 each 2 years, ...

[@mmmargh4743]

Just a small precision he did say it was the end of the zrt Trackmania cup but he will probably come back to Trackmania sometimes. He didn't say he would do any cup in the future, juste that Trackmania doesn't disappear from his channel.

[@limul97]

@@mmmargh4743 i'm talking about what he said in an interview with samual etienne, i don't remember exactly what he said i searched but the video is 4h long i didn't find the part where he talked about it, he said roughly what i wrote in my comment that the cup like we've known it for 10 years ended but will come back in a new form

[@ZeratoR]

Merci beaucoup Flink pour la vidéo ! Good vibes and smiles, i love it :D !

[@TheDeferlys]

Vous le méritez Mr Nougaret

[@daaren6742]

juste le goat !

[@ThinkAboutVic]

You NEED to do this in English, or at least have English subtitles at some point. This seems super fun.

[@Christian-gb8nd]

He tried but it wasn't great, you need to understand that this event is long time built. He create the map on live weeks before, everyone train on it, the first part of the competition is on live. He just can't build the same hype with a English caster for example.

[@uzgar]

bonjour toi :)

[@nukulator]

I had no idea ZRT cup was this big. What a legend

[@felixp535]

Zerator also created the ZEvent, which is a charity event where France's most famous streamers gather in a room to play video games over a week end. Viewers can gift money to reach donation goals (some streamers do really crazy shit!), and all revenue is gifted to a charity. Last ZEvent, 10 million dollars were collected for "Action contre la faim" (Action Against Hunger), which to this day still is the world record for a charity stream! This man literally saves lives! He's a legend!

[@014Darkness]

This guy is the biggest gigachad ever. -It's a niche game -Only in French -Weird ass maps -Fun and entertainment focused -Stopped before people lost interest Honestly we need more people like him

[@TeynSH]

And all of this for a whim

[@skalel5347]

There is no need to repeat the things said in the video

[@cime62]

@@skalel5347 His comment is more useful than yours, still

[@un_ours_blanc]

He is the guy for entertainement

[@skalel5347]

@@cime62 at least I have independent thoughts...

[@yuranabdul7081]

Zerator is such a chad

[@raavenstark5905]

France has the best Twitch Streamers of the world. Just look at the events, the pixel war etc. It's so impresive to see the interactions between streamers and spectators. Lot of mutual respect

[@cirelli5658]

I think what many people here tend to forget is that the ZrT Cup is first and foremost *entertainment for Zerator's viewers*, not a competition that takes itself seriously (hence the low cashprize, hence the weird rounds like the mini car racing track and the round using a plane joystick). I'm willing to bet anything that 90% of the audience + viewership don't really care about Trackmania the rest of the year (and a significant part has never even played the game), they're just here once a year for a good show created by Zerator and that's it. Zerator always organizes a lot of big, fun events during the year (the ZrT Cup being one of them) and that's why so many watch the ZrT Cup every year. That's what Zerator does best and likes the most, organizing fun events for his audience, and the ZrT Cup is just one of many. I'm sorry to all the foreign Trackmania fans here but you're just not the target audience for the ZrT Cup 😟 Hence why Zerator deemed it not worth it to cast the event in English. Also, he said this would be the last edition *with this format*, but he likes Trackmania so he's not done with the game yet. His team and he will work on something new now, because they don't want it to drag on for too long and they feel like after 10 years of ZrT Cups, it's a good time to put a conclusion to this journey and come up with something new. I hope this clears some things up!

[@Zooz.]

Joystick weird? All the top TMUF players use it 😎

[@pouf6463]

@@Zooz. you're using a hotas to play ? ^^

[@rwGui]

while it's true it's a lot of entertainement for it's viewer, a lot of them discovered the game trhought it and still play it

[@cypriendemuynck9308]

@Zooz00 I don't think you understand, here we are talking about a plan joystick, not a controller

[@MrRubikraft]

You're right, Zerator's goal is to create a French gaming comunity oriented towards having fun. This seems normal when you play games, but most "players" of most "games" don't "play", they "work", they don't have fun, they are extremely serious. And this event is by far not Zerator's biggest event. His biggest event is the Z event, the biggest charity event based on gaming & streaming in the world, fully in French and solely oriented towards the French community.

[@Speedself]

Attending this event made for the most fun weekend I've had in years, also by meeting so many people from the community 😄 I didn't know you were there as well, I would've love to meet you and your propeller hat 😁

[@Eyohna]

It was my first time in Bercy and it was the greatest event of my life, thank you ZeratoR

[@WosileTM]

Man i love you

[@charbitre]

Hi ! Thank you so much for making me discover the Zerator Cup ! :D By the way, if you were wondering why so many people wore a "ZEvent" t-shirt, it's a charity event also organized by Zerator, which brings multiple streamers together to raise money for charity. The event lasts 3 days and these t-shirts are buyable during the event to help gathering money. Each year, the ZEvent doubles the amount of money collected and sets new records, with 5 millions € raised in 2020 and 10 millions in 2021. In only 3 days ! :) It's true that French people are often criticized for multiple reasons, for their lack of English vocabulary or their shitty personnality, so I hope you spent a nice trip in France and maybe have a different mindset about the french community ! :)

[@twitertaker]

I heard WC will be played live in front of 300 people. Imagine a cup full of troll maps can fill a stadium with 15000 people and Nadeo/ Ubisoft with all their advertising possibilities, money, most time serious maps, commentators in English and German and the power to claim only they have the best players in the world go this small.

[@anesthetized7053]

ggs zerator. hopefully someone picks up the torch and carries on the spirit of zrt cup in a different way

[@Clashs50]

ZeratoR said he would stop the cycle of bigger and bigger events but the events on TM will continue. I just hope it will hype the community as much

[@geckoztom]

I love the weird maps more than TMGL maps as a viewer, same for the french hype cast

[@Redman147]

I literally just heard about this event, as of posting, and the engine off part of the track was amazing. The few people yelling while everyone else went silent kinda ruined it, but it was still damn amazing. If it got so quiet a pin could drop that would've been something perfect. Sucks that the first time I hear about it, it ends. That's just sad.

[@T0NI_]

Holy shit I remember watching Spam play a few of the zerator maps, and thinking "well this is a fun little thing", I had no idea it was this big! This looked absolutely incredible, if I hadn't seen it on video I would've never believed a TM event could be this big and have such amazing production value :O

[@pr0torano]

Icy campaign in front of 15k viewers when?

[@dalistrata4]

FLINK TAKE NOTES!

[@guillaumest1]

As often, it started as a joke. He asked friends that never played the game to map for pro player. And I remember that in 2015, The webTV he worked for tell him « to stop doing the cup because it was a caprice and nobody cared ». Nice revenge 👍

[@guillaumejouveau7261]

Super vidéo, un plaisir de voir que le jeu vidéo réunisse les gens au de la des frontières !!

[@Neosyxlinkop]

The cup in this fomat stops, but other events on Tm will be done, thats what Zerator said :)

[@yohohoe6296]

Richtig geniales video, hast echt die Atmosphäre wiedergeben können und hat echt spaß gemacht zuzugucken. Hoffe hattest ne schöne Zeit✌️❤️🔥

[@h3llomarc]

nice video FlinkTM! I saw you with propeller hat and I saw Spammiej and Lukas Tobi guy in the video!

[@edvardmyhre8162]

Absolutley lovely video!

[@Clashs50]

When I see this I'm proud to be french 🥖

[@eti4256]

Same

[@jaediletm1601]

Great video for a great event ;-)

[@proefslak]

Damn, you vlogged all of your travels?? Cool montage!

[@thomaswiplier166]

You got your like on the "Epic Travel Montage" :D

[@nyzortm8158]

This looks insanely fun! Kinda sad, that it's the last one, but I guess it will go more epicly into history! Amazing event!

[@erickvallee2548]

not really the last one look at the pinned comment or LISTEN TO ME CUZ IT AIN'T THE LAST ONE . it is in this formula ,but there will be more cups

[@nyzortm8158]

@@erickvallee2548 I posted my comment 2d ago. pinned got posted 1d ago. anyways, thanks for letting me know

[@maxwellerobini1603]

@@erickvallee2548 still the last one that will be this "epic"

[@migueltavaress]

Cool meeting major community members

[@Tactcat]

nice video bro :)

[@ericdanielski4802]

Nice stadium.

[@vxunaTM_xuandanhphan]

absolutely

[@matteocecconi7560]

he also organizes a charity event every year, at each Edition the choice of the association and well thought out and there is a follow-up after the event, to show concretely what the donations are for, it's called the z event there are more than 50 streamers for 3 days who live, you are welcome if you want, an example of associations, doctor without borders, action against hunger, Amnesty International, Pasteur Institute

[@billedefoudre]

Must look so weird from a foreigner perspective. Know that it is NOT representative of France or french gamers at all It's representative of ZERATOR. It's all due to him. Take it like PewDiePie or Markiplier saying "we're gonna have a " jumping ropes with pineapples on the head" challenge every year, and have fun with it." 5 years later, 15000 person's are shouting "pineapple ! Jump !" And foreigner thinks "those Americans are crazy" No, it's just that someone with traction have put a lot of dedication into something that wasn't a big deal to start with (or in general), and now the show is getting funnier and bigger each time, and we're just embracing it.

[@cesartheimperator3525]

According to spanish these are only bots

[@Lostouille]

On bot TM 😤

[@raavenstark5905]

i did this TM Cup so proud of what i did for my first time :)

[@elpred0]

I did not have idea this was the last one.. such a loss :(:(

[@termidi9232]

He said it was the last one like that, i don't think he'll stop doing events on trackmania but next time it'll be different ( that's what i remember for his streams, maybe i'm wrong )

[@Lostouille]

It's about fortnite this year and it will be around 120€k cashprice

[@oktopuce6760]

nice

[@brownie3618]

LA FRANCE !!!!

[@officialxardeus]

8:12 the guy in front of you is sneaking a pic of you hahah

[@GreepTheSheep]

Gigachad

[@MarinMixes]

Zeraaaaaaaa

[@Funay31]

about 10000 of these 15000 people don't even have the free version of the game btw

[@Xeeroth]

fière de nos streamer Français

[@sheuphorica7417]

holy smokes wish i was there

[@ThiVasss]

Trackmania needs more recognition. The metacritic scores and many reviews are very biased towards trackmanias subscriptions service, which while not perfect makes a lot of sense for the type of game trackmania is. This event tho just blows my mind.

[@fryfraker7221]

ZeratoR is the Twitch goat

[@Loann056]

And 20 days after the Trackmania cup : KCX2 x)

[@dalistrata4]

TMGL could never... sad

[@m0ntreeaL]

Und der Trackmania world cup sitz tagelang auf ihren Karten....

[@amadeus_1471]

you should come for the next KCX we filled the same arena but only with ultras

[@nick0layy]

kinda funny when you were talking about the virtual stadium in a map and I was like "Wirtual stadium? i thought that was Zerator's cup. what Wirtual is doing there?" XDDD

[@Lex_en_vrai]

Ha ! I have heard of it as I am indeed, French

[@nosehair3717]

Most expensive beer ever

[@doctorvashj]

What is this commentsection? Nice world record.

[@lekaarribou]

C'était une dinguerie sur place.

[@ssj6kurwa641]

BAHHAHAHAHAHAH CE MDR love it

[@NotNitsuga]

Here is another title that I think sounds better: "A streamer filled up an ENTIRE STADIUM for a racing game cup, here is how" idk thats just me

[@itsaadi_btw8268]

BRO WTF this ain't trackmania cuz I am indian and in our country this game is zero like nothing, no one knows this game until I told them. Good to see that TM is know somewhere else

[@nathanm2317]

A02 from TM2 on the thumbnail nah?

[@un_ours_blanc]

You should know that out here in France, german stands as a hard language too XD

[@Lostouille]

J'ai fait 17 ans d'allemand , c pas aussi compliqué que tu ne le crois.

[@garage_projects]

CarJ

[@YuckiDude]

😘

[@cookieyouwant]

Spammie winke

[@nathanwashington9784]

This is hype as fuck

[@flx910w]

i don't get why nadeo and ubisoft still don't see the potential

[@redizdead666]

They do, for nadeo at least, if I remember correctly they even created new blocks for previous cups.

[@thomasdagino2366]

Ubisoft Nadeo is actually a sponsor of the event

[@Miicka.]

@@redizdead666 They created TM2020 because of this cup and ZeratoR 😄

[@Neosyxlinkop]

🇨🇵😀

[@gremlinmaster8994]

Wish it wasn't exclusively in french, I would've loved to watch it

[@HakkamDaRed]

Sadly, Zerator said he tried once to do it with an english cast too, but there wasn't that much viewers. So he didn't retry it again.

[@leyoshivenere350]

You still can watch the rounds that's just regular Trackmania

[@Neomadra]

Looks amazing, I wished there was also an official English speaking caster. And the price money of 2000 bucks is really meager. It's like 15 cents per offline visitor. Still sad that ZrT is discontinued, hopefully someone in the community can build such an event, but next time it's hopefully more international

[@kroker1078]

The Meloy Competition from Eirik Holdal is supposed to be big and international. It's held the first time this summer, i think.

[@nukewurld]

Wirtual offered to be the English cast, Zerator declined.

[@Speedself]

The real prize is being able to play your favorite video game in the middle of 15 000 hyped up spectators 🙂

[@YTV78150]

@@nukewurld i think he just can't accepte because of the sponsor, he did talk quickly about this on a stream

[@Eyohna]

ZeratoR always said he doesn't want to put a lot of price money because this cup is a show (with a bit of random and fun challenges and not a full competitive cup)

[@ZiegenMeisterV1]

World cup who?

[@les2882]

Small precision, this was not a stadium :)

[@montagetm]

If only he spoke english :[

[@Lostouille]

He tried and it didn t work in english (not enough viewers)

[@benjawoui7319]

interesting video, exept that you don't explain HOW he filled the stadium. I click on your vid expecting more info because of your title. I don't like useless clickbait without any content delivery. I don't think your video is bad, my problem is only with the title.

[@oliboy6204]

Cool event, but boring for non french speakers.

[@Lostouille]

Do better then

[@oliboy6204]

?@@Lostouille

[@adamtousek7622]

This is honestly the most infuriating event ever. Why is there no english stream? Why not partner with Wirtual for it? You watch people like Granady explore the maps, you watch the qualifier streams and then "Fuck off, french final only" WHY?!?!?

[@Clashs50]

Maybe the price ? The place costs a lot more than the gains from tickets so privatizing the stream brings a lot of visibility to compensate And it's already difficult to stream it so streaming while also managing the povs to send to someone else ? It seems like what a professional event can do, not one done by a single streamer and its small team Wirtual talked about it while commenting the first semi-final I think

[@adamtousek7622]

@@Clashs50 I honestly believe that if he hired a caster for an english stream on his second channel he could get some sponsors and would make a nice bit of money. Even the effort to make it happen could be outsourced and still be profitable, considering how many people watch the earlier stages on streams of the participants. Therefore the only explonation i see is "This will only ever be seen the way I present it and fuck you if you dont speak french"

[@HakkamDaRed]

Zerator said he tried once to have a second stream with an english cast team, but it went poorly and had pretty low amount of viewers, so he dropped the idea.

[@chams6412]

1 - It's a show for HIS viewers 2 - He already tried an English cast... Didn't really work that much 3 - It's Trackmania, the first one to cross the end line wins. You don't need to speak French to understand that. 4 - stop crying it's been 10 years since the first ZrT Cup, move on

[@Miicka.]

He did an english cast for the 2016 cup and said it wasn't worth the price and anyway he doesn't make this cup for Trackmania in general but for his community which is 99.9% French speaking

[@HucaPuca]

Making such a cool event bigger than the game itself and then forcing it to be French-only, even banning non-French co-streams etc. is so pathetic. No other country is so selfish and full of itself.

[@Deluf]

Lmao that's his content, he worked hard for it, no one should get views and money out of his work

[@thecatdaddy1981]

Speaking your own language in your own country, how horrible.

[@florisj.6515]

Chiale

[@misterkirikou]

imagine being so selfish and full of yourself that you want to tell the creator of such a competition what to do with the event he created and profit from his work

[@daemonsoadfan]

there were lots of non french speakers playing the finals of zrt over the years, it's only the streams that are forbidden