🗓️ Date : June 4–6, 2021
📍 Location : Lyon, France
🎮 Games featured : 11 games, including Trials Rising, Valheim, Trackmania + a surprise game (pétanque)
👥 Participants : 192 players (64 trios) – streamers and amateurs
💰 Prize Pool : €50,001 ($61k)
🥇 Winners : Team KEK (Khalen, Étoiles, KennyStream) – 4-1 in finals vs SSL (Slide, Skyyart, Leaf)
📺 Audience : 795k unique viewers, 248k peak viewers, 5.46M hours watched (31h)
Trials Rising at ZLAN 2021
For this edition, Trials Rising was one of the centerpiece games – even featured in the grand finals.
ZeratoR (event organizer) and DamDamLive (streamer, longtime Trials fan) commissioned Chaaampy and the Trials France building team to create special tracks for the competition. RedLynx even added a dedicated “ZLAN 2021” tab in Track Central.
Custom Tracks Built for ZLAN 2021 :
ZLAN Pressure – x KAiLiMAN x (Kailiman)
ZLAN Dead Silence – x KAiLiMAN x (Kailiman)
ZLAN Chicken Land – Trials France (Pwaro, Champy, Kailiman)
ZLAN Urbex – Trials France (Steph59, Kailiman, Katin)
ZLAN Stream Room – Trials France (All Stars)
ZLAN Phehotis ZL21 – Trials France (DragonMicky, Champy, Steph59, Pwaro)
ZLAN Aftermath – Trials France (DragonMicky, Katin, Pwaro, Kailiman)
ZLAN Fisandohana – Shadows of TC (Katin, Kronenb)
ZLAN Underscore – TEKILAA X (Tekila, Ramchandra)
Solo Tracks Selected (by Chaaampy & ShinFenix) :
Lights, Camera, Action
Alcatraz
Shanghai Scrapers
Vietnam Vault
Thousand Cloud Village
Frozen Fjord
Fun fact : During the live map reveal, ZLAN Stream Room contained a hidden message from Chaaampy to ZeratoR, teasing him: “In Trials, we say track, not map.” ZeratoR read it live, in front of thousands of viewers – a legendary community moment.
Impact on Trials Rising
65k+ downloads of ZLAN tracks
225k viewers peak during the Trials finals
38k new players joined Rising after the event (+4.4%)
Trials Rising represented *11.34% of all ZLAN 2021 watch time
Competition Format in Trials
Teams of 3 competed simultaneously on custom-built tracks.
Objective : achieve the best times across several runs.
Fun and chaos came from crashes, mistakes, and unpredictable gameplay.
Some streamers hired French community players (e.g. GT4, ShinFenix) as coaches.
The Trials finals were incredibly close, with an epic ending run that kept 225k viewers on the edge of their seats.
