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As a way to beta test their new Bits and Cheer system which they are planning to fully implement in the near future, Twitch is enabling viewers to Cheer for their favorite players during the Evo 2016 finals on Saturday and Sunday. For those who aren’t fully up to date on what Bits are, they are a special currency you can buy on Twitch which, when used, donates a certain amount of money to the streamer in question, as well as showing a cool chat emote called a Cheer based on the amount of Bits used.

The way this Cheer system will work at Evo is as follows: say Daigo is playing Infiltration’s Chun-Li and he manages to full parry Chun-Li’s Critical Art, you can then Cheer to celebrate this hype moment. To do so, you’d type Cheer1000 (if you wanted to donate 1000 Bits) and then use #daigo to register your support. You should be able to Cheer on all the finals on Saturday and Sunday on the main Evo stream so have your Bits in your account should you wish to Cheer your favorites. The cash generated from Cheers has 70% attributed to the streamer/player while the remaining 30% is given to Evo itself, with a Bit being equal to 1 cent per Bits used in a Cheer. So, if Daigo does said parry and you did an 1000 Bit Cheer, he would receive around $7.

At the moment, the money donated via Cheers will only go to players with a Twitch partnership but as this featured grows and evolves into something greater, any player who is Cheered for should receive that money. Again, this system is still in beta and you can consider Evo as its first test run, ahead of it rolling out for other big streamed events. For more information on the general Cheer and Bits system, check out Twitch’s big FAQ for all the gritty details.

Source: Twitch