Odablock Won Best OSRS Streamer, and His Watch Hours Were 21x the Next Finalist's
Oct 4, 2026 · ShinyPull Data Team
At 17:06 UTC on Saturday, with Jagex's Golden Gnome livestream working through its categories on the OldSchoolRS Twitch channel, the Old School RuneScape account posted the streamer winners. Best OSRS Streamer: Odablock. It was the 2026 Golden Gnome Awards, and for a lot of Old School viewers it was the category that mattered most.
The trophy is the headline. The number behind it is the story. In the last 30 days, Odablock's streams were watched for 5,732,980 hours. The next most-watched of the four finalists was B0aty, at 274,346 hours across Twitch and Kick. That is a gap of about 21 to 1, and it opened in a single month.
What the Golden Gnomes are
The Golden Gnome Awards are Jagex's own yearly creator awards for RuneScape and Old School RuneScape. The process is simple: players nominate, Jagex counts the nominations and runs its checks, a finalist list goes out, and then players vote again. This year the finalist vote ran from August 7 to August 14. The Old School winners were announced across Saturday, October 3, with the livestream starting at 16:05 UTC, which is just after noon on the East Coast.
The Old School side of the night was broad. Odablock took Best OSRS Streamer and Sardaco took Best New OSRS Streamer. Settled won both Best OSRS Video Creator and OSRS Video of the Year, and MadSeason won Best New OSRS Video Creator. Gnomonkey took Best New Video Guide, theoatrix won the mobile video category, Zoinkwiz won Best Plugin Creator, theskulled won Best OSRS Artist, and the BeheCast won Best OSRS Podcast. Port Khazard took home Gamer of the Year, which Jagex called the highest level of recognition at the Golden Gnomes.
The cross-game awards had their own Old School moments. Alan Walker won Best Music Composition for Sailing, which prompted Jagex to note that he maxed his OSRS account last month. Soup won Best Series for Gielinor Games Season 5, SoloMission won Best Streamed Event for DMM AS season 3, and Jagex's winners list shows the Champion for Charity award going to four creators: Redwigon, Mr Mammal, Tracy Roshur and Odablock.
That last one is worth noticing. Odablock was a finalist in five categories this year: Best OSRS Streamer, Best OSRS Video Creator, Best Streamed Event, Gamer of the Year and Champion for Charity. He came away with two of them.
Four finalists, one very lopsided month
The Best OSRS Streamer finalists were B0aty, Faux, Gnomonkey and Odablock, and on follower counts alone you would not have picked the winner. B0aty has 628,347 Twitch followers, #908 on the platform. Faux has 348,358, Gnomonkey has 110,937. Odablock's biggest audience on a follower-style count is his YouTube channel, 403,000 subscribers, #2,476 on YouTube.
Watch time tells a different story, and it shows who people were sitting in front of this season. Add up the hours viewers spent on each finalist's streams over the last 30 days, on every platform they use, and the picture is not close.
B0aty's 274,346 hours is 219,095 on Twitch and 55,251 on Kick, and he has the biggest second platform of the three. Faux logged 103,976 and Gnomonkey 80,089. Odablock's 5,732,980 came from one channel on one platform. Set against Gnomonkey, who also took home a Golden Gnome for Best New Video Guide, the gap is closer to 70 to 1.
None of that says how the votes went. Golden Gnome results come from nominations and community voting, and Jagex does not publish totals. What the numbers can say is that the streamer who won was also the one who dominated viewing time in the weeks the vote played out. A 24-day subathon will do that.
The subathon behind the speech
If you read our earlier piece on the 24-day subathon, you know the outline. Odablock went live on Kick on September 1 and mostly stayed live until just after midnight on September 25. His paid subscribers went from 10,239 on August 31 to 103,430 on September 25, which made him the first Kick channel past 100,000, according to Streams Charts. The same report put his hours watched up 630% from August to September, in a month when Kick as a whole set a record of 773.8 million hours watched and passed one million average viewers for the first time.
Awards season landed right after the finale. And the subscriber line did what subscriber lines do when the event that created them ends.
From the September 25 peak to October 4, Odablock is down 9,794 paid subscribers, a drop of 9.5%. The slide started gently, losing a few hundred a day through the end of September. Then it sped up: 2,498 on October 2, 4,039 on October 3 (the day of the awards), and 1,368 on October 4.
The timing is the interesting part. Kick subscriptions renew monthly, and the first week of the subathon was when the climb started, adding thousands of subs a day from September 1 onward. A month later, those are the subscriptions coming up for renewal. That reads as a renewal cycle, not a verdict on the win. It is the shape you would expect when 90,000 people subscribed inside one month and some of them decide, one renewal at a time, whether to stay.
The more useful question is where it settles. At 93,636 he is still six times the next channel on Kick, which has 15,466, and the third has 8,326. Even if the slide continued for weeks, his floor would sit far above where anyone else on the platform has been.
The new names
Awards nights are also introductions, and the Best New OSRS Streamer winner is the one worth a look. Sardaco beat Jamzful, PetaOSRS and Widega, and he arrives with a healthy base: 85,238 Twitch followers, #6,203 on Twitch, up 1,524 in the last 30 days. His streams were watched for 95,242 hours over that stretch, more than Gnomonkey's 80,089 across both of his platforms.
Gnomonkey is the other name that kept appearing. He was a finalist for Best OSRS Streamer and Best OSRS Video Creator and won Best New Video Guide. On Twitch he has 110,937 followers, #4,982, up 560 in a month. Faux, the fourth finalist, has 348,358 Twitch followers and 103,976 watch hours of his own.
The room they won in
The stage matters too. The ceremony ran on OldSchoolRS's own Twitch channel, which has 301,475 followers, up about 5,700 since September 26. It streamed during RuneFest weekend, the same weekend Jagex announced a new roadmap, polls going live in game, Hardcore Worlds on November 4, and the first details of RuneScape Reignited, which launches December 2. For a community that spends most of its time looking at a second screen, it was a rare moment where the whole fanbase was looking at the same one.
What it means
Odablock's win is not only an OSRS story. It is a Kick story. The largest paid subscriber count on Kick belongs to a RuneScape streamer, by a margin nobody else is close to, and now he has a Golden Gnome to go with it.
The thing to watch from here is how the number holds. If his paid subscribers flatten near 90,000, the subathon built something much bigger than a one-month spike. If they keep falling, October will be a useful look at how long a Kick subathon audience stays after the stream ends. Either way, the answer will show up in the daily line, and the daily line is easy to check.