Call of Duty League 2023 — scump outpaced the main channel by audience in the third qualifier

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The qualifiers for the third major of the Call of Duty League 2023 season concluded last week. Among the teams, Seattle Surge and Boston Breach performed the best, while scump outpaced the Call of Duty Twitch channel in terms of audience during the broadcasts. Let’s take a look at the current statistics of the league.

Call of Duty League 2023: Stage 3 Major Qualifiers took place from February 17 to March 5, all the games were hosted online. The teams played three weeks of matches, five series each. The participants fought for places in the upper bracket of the playoffs of the upcoming major, and the teams from Seattle and Boston showed the most confident game, having scored four wins with only one loss each. Las Vegas, Minnesota, London and Florida rosters will start from the lower bracket of the playoffs.

In total, the matches of the event went on for almost 50 hours, during which the audience spent more than 4.1 million hours watching streams. On average, the online of event was kept at around 82.5K viewers. OpTic Gaming became the most popular team (a lead of more than 20K Average Viewers compared to others), and their match during the final week against Atlanta FaZe was the most popular, as it reached more than 205K viewers at the peak.

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The average audience of the third qualification turned out to be approximately on the same level as the second (the difference is less than a thousand people), but the peak audience has grown significantly compared to the two previous stages. A significant contribution to the success of the tournament in terms of a one-time audience was made by scump, a pro-player who turned into a streamer.

scump left the OpTic Gaming active roster during the second qualifier and ended up covering the event as a co-caster. According to the statistics of the qualifiers and the final tournament, scump's contribution to the overall result of the tournament was 34-38%, while now it has grown to 45%: slightly more than the Call of Duty Twitch channel contributes to overall viewership.

scump is the most successful, but far from the only community caster of the tournament. In addition to him, many popular Call of Duty content creators joined the broadcasts, including zoomaa, methodz, nadeshot and many others. The total number of broadcasts of the event has approached 50. Since the beginning of the season, the share of community casting in tournaments has been actively growing. Compared to the first qualifiers, its share increased to over 58%.

In terms of maximum one-time audience, the qualifier became the sixth most popular esports tournament held by Activision under the CDL (and formerly the CWL). Call of Duty League 2020 continues to hold the first place, where the final between Atlanta FaZe and Dallas Empire gathered over 331 thousand people at the peak. 

Note that the previous major of the season was the first Call of Duty pro-scene tournament in 2.5 years to overcome the mark of 300K Peak Viewers. It seems that if FaZe and OpTic meet in the final, a new record is inevitable.

The third major of CDL 2023 will take place on March 9-12. The event will be hosted at Esports Stadium in Arlington, and the prize pool will traditionally be $500,000, of which $200,000 will be taken by the winner. Viewership statistics of the major will be available on the tournament page.

Earlier, several other world championships, where a large number of viewers follow esports games on streamer channels, came to an end. Read more about the statistics of VCT 2023 LOCK//IN and The Lima Major 2023.