Thierry Henry and Sir Mo Farah to compete in the Twitch Prime Crown Cup
As part of Amazon Prime day this year, Twitch are hosting the Twitch prime Cup where streamers will take on world class athletes.
The whole shebang kicks off on July 13 as celebrities, Twitch streamers and Prime members wll go to the Gfinity Arena in Fulham to play Apex Legends and top EA Sports titles. As part of the event former Olympic Gold medalist Sir Mo Farah, Arsenal legend Thierry Henry and five-time X Games street skateboarder gold medalist Leticia Bufoni will compete in a FIFA tournament. Other celebrities like DJ Dillon-Francis and Murda Beatz will test their skills in Apex Legends mode King of the Hill, last one alive wins.
As part of all this Twitch prime members can unlock new skins for Apex Legends and content for EA Sports titles throughout July and August. You can catch all the action over at twitch.tv/twitchprime.
Prime day kicks off on Monday July 15 and lasts for 48 hours, which is a bit odd for a ‘day’.
Nick Gillham
Nick is an avid video game entusiast and has been since his mum first allowed him to play on the Atari 2600 she never touched. To this day he's had the pleasure of playing on a vast array of different gaming machines.
He's a recovering WoW-holic and when he's not playing games he's talking about games, reading about games, writing about games, watching videos about games, watching his son play games or chatting rubbish on Twitter.
A lover, not a fighter and an all round good guy (he would say that, he wrote this after all), he's happy to be here as part of GIAG.
