By Noah Buchanan & James Swanner The Sidemen Charity event is a British charity event, and stars a match of soccer between two teams, the Sidemen vs. YouTube Allstars. Sidemen is a YouTube channel with a collection of YouTubers who all lived together. It was founded in London and was created to simply entertain people. Sideman grew so much to the point where they created their own charity events and now bring in the most famous people from across the world. The match was played and streamed on September 24, 2022. The stadium was filled with 27,000 fans. The charity itself raised exactly 1.08 million dollars. Teenage Cancer Trust and Campaign Against Living Miserably will receive 40% of the money raised each. The remaining 20% will be shared by children’s charities Rays of Sunshine and M7 Education. The official stream for the charity match peaked at 2.6 million concurrent viewers, and at the time of this article viewership has gone up to 21 million views. All seven regular members of the Sidemen played in the match. These members included KSI, Minimenter, Zerkaa, TBJZL, Behzinga, Vikkstar123, and Wroetoshaw who were joined by popular YouTube influencers, such as MrBeast and LazarBeam. The YouTube AllStar team also had a few influencers that stood out like IShowSpeed, Noah Beck, and AnEsonGib. Before the match started KSI, who is known as the leader of Sidemen, called out a specific person named IShowSpeed (Darren Watkins Jr.) and disrespected him and promised that the teenager would be “exposed” on the pitch which brought drama between the YouTubers and Sidemen off and on the field. As the game progressed, well into the first half, Speed retaliated by taking down KSI with a crunching tackle. Speed was a huge part of the event and was one of the most popular people in with fans. Speed showed his athleticism by blind-siding people and showing a couple of his soccer moves and skills. With Speed's athletic showmanship, the game got even more interesting. During half time, when they were in the locker room Speed fired up the team and helped his team members regain their strength to fight against Sidemen. Later on in the game Speed had a chance to score and scored, but the refs did not count it and denied him the goal, even though it was considered one of the best highlights in the game. Many people have their opinion on if he was offside or not and if the goal should have counted.
Although the rivalry between Speed and KSI was a big part of the event, the game also hosted some other crazy highlights like famous YouTuber “Filly” sinking a right-footed strike into the net for a deep goal. Both teams were neck and neck the whole entire time until after 87 minutes passed when Team Sidemen stepped up. The score was 7-7 with 3 minutes left, Miniminter from Team Sidemen stole the ball and launched a long shot, making the goal, and winning the game for the Sidemen. The end score was 8-7 with the Sidemen barely scraping by and taking the victory. The charity event ended as a fun and wholesome event that brought joy to the viewers that watched the match and the charities that received the money.
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