IEM Rio Major 2022 is the first event of the series to not reach peak viewership during the final
On the evening of November 13, the second CS:GO Major of the season ended in Brazil. In the decisive match of IEM Rio Major 2022, the Russian-Kazakh team Outsiders defeated the Danes from Heroic with a score of 2:0. Interestingly, the final became only the second most popular match of the tournament.
In the final, the Outsiders confidently won their pick Mirage (16:12), and then crushed the opponents at Overpass (16:5). In the last minutes of the game, up to 1.17 million people concurrently watched the match. This is the second-best result of the tournament: the most popular game was Natus Vincere vs. FURIA Esports in the quarterfinals, which gathered 1.42 million Peak Viewers.
The final match did not help update the peak audience figures on any of the streaming platforms where the major was broadcast. For example, the largest audience gathered during the game NAVI vs. FURIA on Twitch, YouTube, while the peak on SteamTV was reached at the semifinal MOUZ vs. Outsiders.
Of the main languages, a new peak was reached on Russian- and English-language streams: up to 344K and 573K people concurrently watched the match on them. On English-language broadcasts, the highest figure (538K) was achieved during the semifinal Heroic vs. FURIA Esports.
The Rio Major was outperformed by the previous two events of the series by peak viewership, making it the third most popular competition in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive history. The IEM Rio Major was the first major where the most popular match of the tournament was not the grand final.
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