Most of the PGL Arlington Major 2022 group stage matches have come to an end, and it's time to draw the tournament's intermediate results. In a new article, we'll tell you which teams were the best at the end of the three game days, how popular they were with the Major audience, and also analyze the dynamics of viewership activity.
Tournament Overview
At the end of three days of the group stage, Team Aster from China secured a place in the upper bracket of the playoffs. The squad played 6 of 7 scheduled matches in Group B bo2: three of them ended in a draw, and the rest in a 2-0 victory. Another Chinese team, PSG.LGD, has much more impressive statistics (4 wins and 1 draw), and is the undisputed leader in Group A for now. The team hasn't made it into the upper bracket of the playoffs yet, but there's no doubt that it will happen.
Natus Vincere and Tundra Esports (Group B) are one step away from being eliminated from the tournament. NAVI has to defeat Team Spirit on at least one of the maps to secure the spot in the playoffs' lower bracket, and Tundra has to defeat beastcoast 2-0 for it. The underdog teams in Group A are Talon Esports, Thunder Awaken и Team Liquid, but they have two more matches to rectify their situation.
Viewership Statistics
When we look at the PGL Arlington Major 2022 viewership statistics of the first three days, we can see that the second day of the group stage was more successful than the others by any metric. For example, the tournament reached its Peak Viewers number of 406K people on August 5. The Average Viewers number of the majors increased by 3.4% compared to Day 1, and the Peak Viewers number was almost 3% higher.
The most popular teams at the end of three days are OG, Evil Geniuses and Team Spirit. The most popular match is the encounter between Spirit and EG, watched by more than 300.7K Peak Viewers.
Russian-language broadcasts of PGL Arlington Major 2022 still keep the leadership by Hours Watched and Average Viewers, but the highest number of Peak Viewers was reached on English-language broadcasts. It should be noted that Ukrainian again broke its own record for Peak Viewers in Dota 2, drawing more than 15.6K PV during the broadcast of NAVI vs BOOM match on Day 3.
The ranking of the most popular PGL Arlington Major 2022 channels remained almost unchanged in three days. The PGL channels still hold the lead among the official channels, and Nix and Just_ns still draw the largest audience among the community-casters.
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The PGL Arlington Major 2022 group stage viewership statistics are growing, albeit rather slowly. It is quite possible that during the decisive matches of this stage the interest of viewers to the tournament will increase significantly.
