diff --git a/examples/gateway-parallel.rs b/examples/gateway-parallel.rs
index 6c4b845efe2..cbd1a5d932e 100644
--- a/examples/gateway-parallel.rs
+++ b/examples/gateway-parallel.rs
@@ -1,16 +1,8 @@
-//! Run the recommended number of shards in `available_parallelism` tasks. Note
-//! that neither [`ShardEventStream`] nor [`ShardMessageStream`] is required for
-//! parallelism; each shard can run on an independent task.
-//!
-//! [`ShardMessageStream`]: twilight_gateway::stream::ShardMessageStream
-
-use futures_util::{future::join_all, StreamExt};
-use std::{env, iter, thread};
+//! Run the recommended number of shards, each in their own task.
+
+use std::env;
 use tokio::{signal, sync::watch, task::JoinSet};
-use twilight_gateway::{
-    stream::{self, ShardEventStream},
-    CloseFrame, Config, Intents, Shard,
-};
+use twilight_gateway::{stream, CloseFrame, Config, Intents, Shard};
 use twilight_http::Client;
 
 #[tokio::main]
@@ -19,37 +11,25 @@ async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
 
     let token = env::var("DISCORD_TOKEN")?;
     let client = Client::new(token.clone());
-    let config = Config::new(token.clone(), Intents::GUILDS);
-
-    let tasks = thread::available_parallelism()?.get();
+    let config = Config::new(token, Intents::GUILDS);
 
-    // Split shards into a vec of `tasks` vecs of shards.
-    let init = iter::repeat_with(Vec::new)
-        .take(tasks)
-        .collect::<Vec<Vec<_>>>();
     let shards = stream::create_recommended(&client, config, |_, builder| builder.build())
         .await?
-        .enumerate()
-        .fold(init, |mut fold, (idx, shard)| {
-            fold[idx % tasks].push(shard);
-            fold
-        });
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
 
     let (tx, rx) = watch::channel(false);
 
     let mut set = JoinSet::new();
 
-    for mut shards in shards {
+    for mut shard in shards {
         let mut rx = rx.clone();
         set.spawn(async move {
-            // Run `process` and `rx.changed()` concurrently, returning when
-            // the first branch completes, cancelling the other one.
+            // Run the two futures concurrently, returning when the first branch
+            // completes, cancelling the other one.
             tokio::select! {
-                _ = process(shards.iter_mut()) => {},
+                _ = runner(&mut shard) => {},
                 _ = rx.changed() => {
-                    join_all(shards.iter_mut().map(|shard| async move {
-                        shard.close(CloseFrame::NORMAL).await
-                    })).await;
+                    _ = shard.close(CloseFrame::NORMAL).await;
                 }
             }
         });
@@ -68,12 +48,11 @@ async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
-async fn process(shards: impl Iterator<Item = &mut Shard>) {
-    let mut stream = ShardEventStream::new(shards);
+async fn runner(shard: &mut Shard) {
     loop {
-        let (shard, event) = match stream.next().await {
-            Some((shard, Ok(event))) => (shard, event),
-            Some((_, Err(source))) => {
+        let event = match shard.next_event().await {
+            Ok(event) => event,
+            Err(source) => {
                 tracing::warn!(?source, "error receiving event");
 
                 if source.is_fatal() {
@@ -82,7 +61,6 @@ async fn process(shards: impl Iterator<Item = &mut Shard>) {
 
                 continue;
             }
-            None => break,
         };
 
         tracing::debug!(?event, shard = ?shard.id(), "received event");