The point of the bounty isn't just for those who watch, and I feel that's a common misconception. It is, after all, a community event... and the community is much more than what you see here, on Reddit, and on the Twitch. I see where OP is coming from, where it can be annoying how he broke precedence but at the end or the day, it's an informal rule... so (being blunt here) he needs to simply get over it. He couldn't match them, which is unfortunate, but there is always next time when the event is ran. I was there from *generally* the start of the bounty, and he wasn't insulting or taking jabs at people until around the time the PS4 guys started giving him some serious shit for not doing the countdown even after reasonably explaining he was going to be doing so. In his explanation, he said it would speed up the process (meaning more emblem opportunity, if only by one or two games overall) and would be equally fair to people across the board, for both people in stream and not - both of which I feel are reasonable explanations as to not do a countdown.