The rapid growth of PGL Major Antwerp 2022 viewership — the first day of the Legends Stage
On May 14, Legends Stage started at PGL Major Antwerp 2022. The strongest teams of the previous stage met with the best teams of regional RMR tournaments and played two bo1 matches. In a new article, Esports Charts will talk about the results of the first day of the Legends Stage and share its spectator statistics.
Results of Legends Stage Day 1
The best teams of the first day of the Legends Stage were Natus Vincere, Team Spirit, Copenhagen Flames and Ninjas in Pyjamas. The teams won two victories in a row and were one step away from reaching the Champions Stage: NAVI will fight with NiP, and Spirit will play with Copenhagen Flames.
In turn, Team Vitality, Bad News Eagles, Imperial Esports and Team Liquid suffered two defeats each and are on the verge of being eliminated from the tournament. In the knockout matches, Vitality will face Liquid, and Bad News Eagles will play Imperial Esports.
The remaining 8 teams finished the first day of the Legends Stage with one win and one loss. They will have to fight among themselves to determine who will go to the upper bracket of the fourth round, and who will go to the lower one.
Viewership Statistics of Legends Stage Day 1
The first day of the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 Legends Stage gathered over 1 million viewers at the same time, which was the best start of this stage in the history of CS:GO majors. The peak audience was reached during the G2 Esports vs. Natus Vincere and BIG vs. Imperial matches, which ran in parallel.
The most popular match of the day was the meeting between G2 and NAVI — at its peak, 687.4K viewers followed it. At the same time, the battle between forZe and Imperial for entering the Legends Stage remains the leader in this indicator at PGL Major Antwerp 2022, which was simultaneously watched by 706.26K viewers.
The most popular broadcast languages on the first day of the Legends Stage were English, Portuguese and Russian. Twitch has traditionally been the most popular platform to watch the tournament, but NimoTV came in second place, surpassing YouTube with 17% more viewers at its peak.
As mentioned above, the first day of the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 Legends Stage was the best in terms of peak online. But he lost to the first day of the PGL Major Stockholm 2021 Legends Stage in terms of other indicators of spectator activity. The average number of viewers was reduced by 11%, and hours watched by 20%. Note that the most popular matches of the first days of these majors were played by NAVI.
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The first participants of the Champions Stage and the teams that left the tournament will be determined today, May 15th. You can follow the spectator statistics of the major on the tournament page.
