Brian Vigneault , a 35-year-old American player known by the pseudonym "PoShYbRiD in the communitye of the game World of Tanks , died while participating in a 24 hour game marathon broadcast on Twitch . The investigation must still determine if the cause of death is linked to this marathon, which was aimed at raising funds for the Make-a-Wish foundation .
It is this weekend, between Saturday and Sunday, that the player decides to embark on a 24 hour marathon during which he plays the game World of Tanks, according to him for the charity, all broadcast on Twitch where the game is very popular. After 22 hours of broadcasting, during which spectators have already noticed that he is taking many breaks, Brian Vigneault is absent once again. He will never come back to the camera.
Later, the local emergency services receive a call concerning a cardiac arrest, and the emergency services arrived on site n could only note the death of the playerand father of three. "He was in bad shape, explains Jessica Gebauer, a friend and streamer on the same game, spectator of the broadcast. "He looked really, really tired. Many of us advised her to go to bed, which the stream could wait for, she added.
24-hour marathons , and sometimes even more, are a very common practice on the Twitch site. One of the most famous is the Awesome Games Done Quick , where several players take turns for a week non-stop to raise funds for different associations fighting against cancer or for Doctors Without Borders, but many do the same at home, as amateurs, to support a cause or simply to impose a personal challenge. Deaths like this- these are however very rare. Her friend Jessica Gebauer now runs a GoFundMe page to support the family. financially Brian Vigneault's family.
