Cloud9 triumph and Portuguese-language domination — IEM Dallas 2022 overview
IEM Dallas 2022, the fourth tournament of the current Intel Grand Slam season, ended last weekend. Cloud9 won its first championship in four and a half years, and the Portuguese-speaking audience was the most active during the event. Esports Charts sums up the championship and tells about its viewership statistics.
IEM Dallas 2022 Results
Cloud9's opponent in the finals was ENCE, which came to IEM Dallas 2022 with a substitute player Snax due to Spinx's visa problems. The European team didn't lose a single match on their way to the finals, while C9 eliminated major champions FaZe Clan.
The Russian roster of Cloud9 won the final with the score of 3:0 & took its first victory in a major LAN tournament. American club got the first trophy in the discipline in 4.5 years, as the last tournament won by Cloud9 was ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018. In addition, Cloud9 joined FaZe Clan and Team Vitality in the battle for Intel Grand Slam Season 4 title after winning IEM Dallas 2022.
Tournament Viewership Statistics
IEM Dallas 2022 matches totaled a little fewer than 12.5 million Hours Watched and drew 232.3K Average Viewers. The tournament's Peak Viewers number of 430.5K people was reached on the first game day during Cloud9 vs. Team Liquid and FURIA vs. Imperial Esports matches held simultaneously.
The most popular IEM Dallas 2022 match is the Grand final, which was watched by more than 405.6K Peak Viewers. FURIA's quarterfinal and semifinal matches are also in the Top-3. Gaules is the one who helped to achieve this result by broadcasting the matches of the tournament in Portuguese.
It should be noted that the Brazilian streamer became the most popular IEM Dallas 2022 caster, surpassing the English-language ESL broadcasts both by Peak Viewers and Hours Watched. Thanks to Gaules' huge contribution, Imperial Esports became the event's leader by Average Viewers, with only two matches played during the tournament, while FURIA ranks second. Cloud9 became the Top-1 team by Hours Watched, but is only in fifth place by Average Viewers.
IEM Dallas 2022 ranks fourth among the most popular S-tier tournaments in the discipline in 2022. It outpaced ESL Pro League Season 15 by 4% in Peak Viewers number, but fell behind BLAST Premier Spring 2022, IEM Katowice 2022 and PGL Major Antwerp 2022 by 26%, 160% and 390%, respectively. At the same time, IEM Dallas 2022 is in second place among Intel Grand Slam Season 4 tournaments by this metric.
IEM Dallas 2022 could have attracted a much larger audience if NAVI and Heroic had been on the list of participants. We should remind you that these teams dropped out of the tournament due to visa problems and COVID-19.
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The next Intel Grand Slam Season 4 tournament will be IEM Cologne 2022, scheduled for July 5-17 in Cologne, Germany. The championship will feature 24 of the best world teams, including NAVI and FaZe Clan, and the prize pool of $1 million.
