Final 12 months, Twitch returned to stay, in-person occasions holding them in San Diego and Amsterdam. The conference’s well being insurance policies prompted controversy after Twitch introduced that it could not require masks for both occasion. After appreciable social media backlash, Twitch reversed its resolution, mandating masks however solely at TwitchCon San Diego. San Diego continued to make information when a streamer broke her again after falling off a mechanical bull at TwitchCon’s well-known (now notorious) foam pit. This would possibly solely be a brief change in venue. There’s an opportunity that Twitch may return to San Diego because it’s achieved prior to now, returning to town in 2019 after internet hosting occasions in San Jose and Lengthy Seashore, California.

Holding the US leg of the occasion in Las Vegas looks like an attention-grabbing alternative, particularly after Twitch banned sure types of playing streams from the platform. Regardless of the ban, which led a distinguished playing creator to stream on a rival website linked to Stake.com, one of many playing web sites explicitly banned, playing streams are nonetheless well-liked on Twitch. And as livestreaming from TwitchCon is a well-liked pastime for the streamers in attendance, I don’t doubt that a few of them will movie themselves truly playing. I ponder if which may fall afoul of Twitch’s ban. Guess we’ll discover out in October.