2017 VGA Champ

2017 VGA Champ is a global Twitch badge connected to the Video Game Awards of 2017, whose show could be watched and co-streamed on Twitch at the time. How was it earned? The exact distribution path is not documented in the archive; the badge dates from an era when Twitch rarely explained such campaigns officially.

No collector on BadgeBase has been recorded with the Champ badge so far, which places it among the true phantoms of the archive. Comparable pieces gather in the rare badge overview.

The pairing of award show and Twitch badges did not end there. The Game Awards 2023 shows how the same idea returned years later.