ZEvent 2026: The Final Edition — Dates, Where to Watch, and How to Get the Twitch Badge
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ZEvent, the French charity marathon that holds the world record for a livestreamed fundraiser, is running for the last time. The tenth and final edition opened with a concert in Montpellier on Thursday night and the 50-hour streaming marathon starts today at 6:00 PM Paris time. There is a free global Twitch badge attached, 338 channels signed up, and a €16.179M record from last year to beat.
ZEvent 2026 Schedule
| What | Paris (CEST) | UTC | US East |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening concert — Sud de France Arena, Montpellier | Thu Sep 3, 8:00 PM | 18:00 | 2:00 PM |
| Streaming marathon begins | Fri Sep 4, 6:00 PM | 16:00 | 12:00 PM |
| Marathon runs through the weekend — 50+ hours of programming | Sat Sep 5 – Sun Sep 6 | — | — |
| Badge window closes | Mon Sep 7, 5:59 AM | 03:59 | 11:59 PM Sun |
The opening concert
Sud de France Arena, Montpellier, with GIMS, Bigflo & Oli, Gazo and L'Orchestre Curieux. Tickets ran €35 for general floor up to €45 for lower stands and early-access floor — but the concert is also part of the broadcast, so you do not need to be in Montpellier to watch it.
How to Get the ZEVENT 2026 Twitch Badge
ZEvent 2026 carries a free global Twitch badge, the same way the 2024 and 2025 editions did. Global means it displays next to your name in every Twitch chat you type in, not only on the channel you earned it from — which is why these are worth collecting even if you have no other connection to the event.
What you do
Watch the marathon live on Twitch. The official ZEVENT channel is the reliable route. No sub, no purchase, no donation required — it is a straightforward watch-to-earn badge.
The window
6:00 PM CEST on Thursday, September 3 to 5:59 AM CEST on Monday, September 7. In US terms that is noon ET on September 3 until 11:59 PM ET on September 6.
Do not leave it to the last day.
The published window covers four days, but Twitch event badges of this kind are typically granted during specific live stretches rather than evenly across the whole period. People who tune in on the final evening expecting the badge to still be flowing regularly end up without it. Watch early in the marathon and you are covered.
Where to Watch — 338 Channels, One Tracker
ZEvent is not one stream. The main broadcast runs on twitch.tv/zevent, but the event is really a network: 338 creators had registered channels for this edition as of concert night, each running their own fundraising campaign that feeds the collective total.
zevent.fr — the live stream tracker
Every participating channel, who is live right now, what they are playing, current viewer counts and each creator's individual donation page — plus the running collective total.
The pull is already there. During Thursday night's concert, before a single hour of the marathon had aired, the main ZEVENT channel alone carried 89,000+ concurrent viewers, the tracker showed roughly 100,000 across all registered channels, and €110,000 had been raised.
Almost all of it is in French. If you do not speak the language, the main channel is still the best place to be: the concert, the on-site challenges and the donation milestones carry regardless, and the individual channels cover the usual spread of games from Dofus to Hearthstone.
Why This Is the Last One, and Where the Money Goes
ZEvent was founded in 2016 by Adrien Nougaret (ZeratoR) and Alexandre Dachary (Dach), and every edition since has picked a cause and pointed the French-speaking streaming community at it. The 2026 run has been framed from the start as the ending — partners are calling it “the final event” in their own announcements, and the closing gesture reflects that.
Rather than choosing new beneficiaries, the final edition routes everything through the Fondation de France, which will distribute the money across all 22 associations the event has backed since 2016. It is a deliberate full-circle structure: the last fundraiser pays back into every cause the first nine supported.
Every ZEvent, and the Record It Has to Beat
| Edition | Raised | Cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | €170,770 | Save the Children |
| 2017 | €451,851 | French Red Cross |
| 2018 | €1,094,731 | Médecins Sans Frontières |
| 2019 | €3,509,878 | Pasteur Institute |
| 2020 | €5,724,377 | Amnesty International |
| 2021 | €10,064,480 | Action Against Hunger |
| 2022 | €10,182,126 | Five environmental associations |
| 2024 | €10,145,881 | Five social-solidarity associations |
| 2025 | €16,179,096 | Healthcare associations — current world record |
| Total | €57,523,190 | Nine editions, 2016–2025 |
There was no edition in 2023, which is why the 2026 run is the tenth across eleven years.
The shape of that table is the story. ZEvent spent five years climbing from €170,000 to €10 million, then sat at almost exactly €10 million for three editions running — and then 2025 jumped 59% to €16,179,096, the largest amount ever raised by a charity livestream marathon anywhere. That is the number the final edition is walking into.
Ankama's LAN, Twitch Drops and Free In-Game Items
Dofus and Wakfu studio Ankama is opening its offices for the weekend, hosting thirteen creators from its community to stream together LAN-style from September 4 to 6. They stream on their own channels, each with their own campaign feeding the collective pot:
- BarbeDouce
- Boomnasty
- Doggfast
- Hexotik
- Humility
- Huz
- Laniyelle
- Lomitall
- Proteam
- Rhobalas
- Tamaroush
- Walkyrip
- Yoda
Twitch Drops
Two hours of watching across any participating channel earns one Ochre lottery token, from 6:00 PM Paris time on September 4 to 11:59 PM on September 6. Link your Twitch account to your Ankama account before it starts — drops do not backfill for unlinked accounts.
Free cosmetics
The Zi Helmet, Cloak and Shield are free from the Ankama Store in DOFUS, DOFUS Retro and DOFUS Touch, with the Helmet and Cloak in WAKFU, from 6:00 PM on September 4 to 9:00 AM on September 7. Account-bound for life, one claim per account.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When is ZEvent 2026?
The opening concert is Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM Paris time at the Sud de France Arena in Montpellier, and the streaming marathon runs from 6:00 PM on Friday, September 4 through the weekend, with more than 50 hours of programming.
Is ZEvent 2026 really the last one?
Yes. Organisers ZeratoR and Dach have billed it as the tenth and final edition, ending a run that started in 2016. Participating partners are describing it the same way — Ankama's announcement calls it "the final event of this French charity marathon".
How do I get the ZEVENT 2026 Twitch badge?
Watch the marathon live on Twitch — the official ZEVENT channel is the reliable route. It is a free global badge, meaning it displays in every Twitch chat once claimed, not just on one channel. The window runs from 6:00 PM CEST on September 3 to 5:59 AM CEST on September 7.
Do I need to buy anything to get the ZEvent badge?
No. It is a free watch-to-earn badge with no subscription, purchase or donation required. Twitch event badges like this are usually granted during specific live stretches rather than evenly across the whole window, so watching early in the event is safer than leaving it to the final day.
Where can I watch ZEvent 2026?
The main broadcast is on twitch.tv/zevent, and 338 creators had registered channels for the 2026 edition as of the concert. The community tracker at zevent.fr lists every participating channel, who is live, and each creator's individual donation page.
How much has ZEvent raised in total?
€57,523,190 across nine editions from 2016 to 2025. The single-edition record is €16,179,096, set in 2025 — the largest sum ever raised by a charity livestream marathon.
Who gets the money from ZEvent 2026?
Unlike previous years, which each backed a named set of associations, the final edition routes donations through the Fondation de France, which distributes them across every cause the event has supported since 2016 — 22 beneficiary associations in total.
Who created ZEvent?
Adrien Nougaret, better known as ZeratoR, and Alexandre Dachary, known as Dach. They launched it in 2016, and it has grown into the biggest charity event in French streaming.