Nah main stream had 43k something near the end. Viewership always increases as the match goes on thats normal. But the game's not popular in russia at all thats why i was curious
maybe it needed 1k+ to appear on the sidebar of twitch so more users clicked on it? kinda similar to how watch parties take priority over the main stream.
Actually when Gambit played - average online was like 5k, when played any another team - 1.5k online (Not include Navi, don't remember how big online when Navi played)