In 2021, esports began to emerge from coronavirus isolation. LAN tournaments began to happen more regularly, and the spectator stands gradually ceased to be empty. Esports Charts continues to sum up the results of the year, and this time we will tell you about the most popular Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments of the outgoing year.
Top CS:GO esports events in 2021
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Place
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Tournament
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Peak Viewers
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#1
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PGL Major Stockholm 2021
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2 748 434
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#2
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BLAST Premier Fall 2021 Finals
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861 383
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#3
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IEM Cologne 2021
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842 972
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#4
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ESL Pro League Season 14
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758 567
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#5
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BLAST Premier World Final 2021
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727 376
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#1 PGL Major Stockholm 2021
The major that kept the CS:GO fans waiting for two whole years due to the coronavirus became the leader in terms of Peak Viewers by a large margin. PGL Major Stockholm 2021, which took place from October 26 to November 7, was able to gather 2.74M Peak Viewers. This mark was reached during the final confrontation between NAVI and G2 Esports. Let us remind you that the team of the Ukrainian club became the champion of the Major without losing a single map for the entire tournament.
#2 BLAST Premier Fall 2021 Finals
BLAST Premier Fall 2021 Finals took the second spot, with the most popular match of the tournament being the grand final with the participation of NAVI and Team Vitality. This confrontation was watched by 861.38K Peak Viewers.
#3 IEM Cologne 2021
Closing the top 3 with a result of 842.97K Peak Viewers was IEM Cologne 2021, which took place in July. The championship was supposed to be the first LAN event in a long time with spectator stands full of fans. In the end, it was still held in a studio format due to restrictions related to the coronavirus. The most popular match of the championship was the final battle of NAVI versus G2 Esports.
#4 ESL Pro League Season 14
Holding the fourth spot in the ranking was ESL Pro League Season 14, the grand final of which featured the battle of NAVI versus Team Vitality – an encounter that attracted 758.57K Peak Viewers. The duration of the tournament itself was one of the longest in 2021: the broadcasts of its matches lasted more than 221 hours in total.
#5 BLAST Premier World Final 2021
Closing the top 5 most popular tournaments of the outgoing year is BLAST Premier World Final 2021. It is symbolic that it was this specific tournament that became the last major CS:GO championship of 2021. The grand final of NAVI versus Gambit collected 727.38K Peak Viewers.
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If at the beginning of the year Gambit dominated the discipline, then with the return of LAN tournaments, Natus Vincere seized the initiative and held to it until the end of the season. This is evidenced by the fact that the team became the champion of all five events in our ranking. In particular, such impressive CS:GO viewership figures were reached precisely thanks to the tournament participation of the NAVI team, which is very popular in the CIS.
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