Twitch star Jaryd "summit1G" Lazar has come a long way from his days as a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player. A staple within the first-person shooter (FPS) community, Lazar's in-game alias is now synonymous with battle royale, survival games, and GTA V.
For over a decade, the streamer, content creator, and headshot extraordinaire has impressed with his deep knowledge and mechanical prowess of any game that involves a gun.
summit1G started streaming as early as 2012 when he primarily only played CS:GO while actively competing as a professional gamer. After a short, unsuccessful stint as a CS:GO pro, Lazar became a full-time streamer in 2016. Since becoming a streamer, he has amassed over 6.17 million followers on Amazon's purple platform.
Lazar has grown to be one of the most popular variety streamers on Twitch, averaging just under 22K viewers per stream. Thousands regularly flock to watch him play popular titles like Day, Fortnite, Escape from Tarkov, and Rust.
After playing in CS:GO's tier 2 and tier 3 competitive scene for over seven years, it is no surprise that summit1G is continuing with Valve's title.
As per Twitch Tracker's records, Lazar streamed CS:GO for over 268 hours in 2022, making up about 6.5% of his total stream time for the year. On average, summit1G's CS streams got about 16.5K viewers, with a peak concurrent high of 34,380 viewers for the year.
Sea of Thieves was summit1G's fourth most-played game of 2022. Lazar clocked in just over 283 hours, 6.9% of his total stream time for the year. Despite being his fourth most popular title played on stream, Sea of Thieves raked in about 20,369 viewers on average, ranking it second in average viewership.
Despite having a large audience per stream,
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