Dimas Ibnu14/10/2026
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Nicholas “Jynxzi” Stewart’s League of Legends creator tournament returns for a second edition at 4pm ET on 14 October, and viewers who link a Riot account to Twitch can earn three free rewards, headlined by an Arcane Warwick skin. For New Zealand viewers, that start time lands at 9am NZDT on Thursday 15 October.
Riot Games confirmed the date and the full drop list in a post on the official League of Legends account on X, which also told viewers to connect their Riot account before tuning in. The event runs one day before Worlds 2026 opens with the Play-In stage on 15 October.
Jynxzi Tournament Twitch Drops and Watch Times
Each reward unlocks after a set amount of time spent watching an eligible streamer competing in the tournament, and three hours of viewing covers all of them.
| Reward | Watch time needed |
|---|---|
| Malphite Press R emote | 30 minutes |
| Arcane Warwick skin | 2 hours |
| Arcane Warwick Mythic Chroma | 3 hours |
The Mythic Chroma is an alternate colourway for the same Warwick skin, so it’s only useful alongside the 2-hour reward, which you’ll have earned on the way there. Rewards don’t appear straight away. They’re delivered to your League of Legends client some time after you hit each watch-time mark.
back for round 2. @jynxzi’s League tournament returns October 14 at 4pm ET with some new Twitch drops watch 30 min for the “Malphite Press R” emote
watch 2 hours for Arcane Warwick skin
watch 3 hours for Arcane Warwick Mythic Chroma *connect your Riot Games account to Twitch before tuning in to make sure you’re eligible for Drops— League of Legends (@LeagueOfLegends) October 13, 2026
How to Claim the Jynxzi Tournament Twitch Drops
- On Twitch, open Settings and go to Connections.
- Scroll down to Riot Games and connect it by logging in to your Riot account.
- Once the accounts are linked, watch an eligible streamer competing in the tournament for at least three hours to unlock all three rewards.
Linking accounts before the broadcast starts avoids losing early watch time. As of 13 October, the day before the event, Jynxzi had not confirmed the full line-up of 40 streamers taking part, so the complete list of competing channels wasn’t public heading into launch day.
Start Time in New Zealand and Australia
Riot’s official start time is 4pm ET on Wednesday 14 October, which works out to these local times:
| Location | Start time | Date |
|---|---|---|
| US Eastern (official time) | 4pm ET | Wednesday 14 October |
| New Zealand | 9am NZDT | Thursday 15 October |
| Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart | 7am AEDT | Thursday 15 October |
| Brisbane | 6am AEST | Thursday 15 October |
| Adelaide | 6:30am ACDT | Thursday 15 October |
| Perth | 4am AWST | Thursday 15 October |
| US Pacific | 1pm PT | Wednesday 14 October |
A 9am Thursday start means New Zealand viewers chasing all three rewards need to keep an eligible stream running until at least midday, right through a working or school morning.
Jynxzi’s May Tournament and How the Drops Compare
The first edition, held in May 2026, put eight teams of creators against each other, with a field that included James “MrBeast” Donaldson, Tyler1, Ludwig Ahgren and Mark “ohnePixel” Zimmerman. It peaked at more than 420,000 viewers on Jynxzi’s own channel and passed 900,000 once co-streams on Twitch and YouTube were counted, which Insider Gaming said made it the seventh most-watched League tournament of the year.
Jynxzi leaned on that 420,000 peak when he teased a second edition during a livestream in mid-September, saying he had just come off a call with Riot and that the drops would be “insane”. He didn’t have a firm date at the time, only a rough mid-October target, which Riot has now locked in as 14 October.
Viewers of the May event earned a free 1820 RP Master Yi skin, and the Arcane Warwick skin sits in a lower price tier. But Warwick’s cosmetic, tied to Netflix’s Arcane series, is no longer sold in the League store, which gives this drop a value its old price tag doesn’t capture. For players who missed it the first time, three hours of a creator tournament is a route to the skin that the store currently doesn’t offer.
Jynxzi’s Worlds 2026 Final Co-Stream
Jynxzi used the same September livestream to reveal that Riot had given him permission to co-stream the Worlds 2026 final, which takes place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, in November. Dantes is expected to join him on that broadcast, and Jynxzi said at the time that he planned to ask Tyler1 to come on as well.
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