BLAST Major RMR closed qualifiers: Europe, South America continue to pull in good numbers
The BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 RMR closed qualifiers for six different regions concluded over the last week, with the usual suspects from Europe and South America outperforming the other regions in terms of viewership. Here’s an overview of the important numbers from these CS:GO events that form a part of the discipline’s challenger mode.
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Viewership recap from BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 RMR closed qualifier
Among the seven events that spanned five continents, it was the South American competition and the two events from Europe that did the best in terms of numbers. The NA tournament too had a good outing, but the former two far outperformed it in terms of pure numbers.
The best tournament in terms of Hours Watched and Average Viewers was the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: South American RMR Qualifier, which did 1,343,154 HW and 88,251 Peak Viewers. Its most popular Twitch channel was gaules (most popular at 66,764 PV and most watched at 940,131 HW), who streams in Portuguese. Spanish channels too had a solid presence during this event.
Then came the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR Qualifier A, which did solid numbers of 928,241 HW and 107,695 PV. The most popular Twitch channel was rootthegamer with 24,445 PV, while the most watched streamer was izakooo with 122,928 HW.
The BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: North American RMR Qualifier followed with 473,265 watch hours and 46,436 peak concurrent viewers. The BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR Qualifier B came fourth, registering 456,792 HW and 59,402 PV.
These stats pretty much solidified the SA and Europe regions’ status as powerhouses in CS:GO’s esports scene in terms of viewership.
The following three events — Asian, Oceanic, and Chinese RMR Qualifiers — did average numbers, but were nowhere close to the top three in these metrics. The Asian competition was the most productive among the trio, perhaps showing that the proliferation of different FPS esports events happening simultaneously had an effect on its watch numbers.
Intriguingly, there were no official stream options for these events, but the three big events still managed to put up decent numbers across the board. This also meant that fans had to depend on community casters to tune in to the action, which resulted in these tournaments being covered in a variety of languages, especially in the EU market.
In this continental region, it is usually Russian, English, and Portuguese that lead the charts. But as seen from the images above, several languages enjoyed high engagement and shared similar stats, which is not usually the case in big events like BLAST.tv. The biggest winner was Polish, which had streamer izakooo to thank for its rise up the charts.
With the open and closed qualifiers now done, the teams will look forward to their respective regions’ RMR Finals which will happen in the first two weeks of April. Fifty-two teams will compete across these LAN events that will be broadcasted on BLAST.tv.
It will all culminate at the BLAST Paris Major 2023 starting on May 8, where there will be three stages: Challengers (May 8 to 11), Legends (May 13 to 16), and Champions (May 18 to 21). Twenty-four teams that qualify from their respective regional RMR events will battle it out for a total prize money of $1,250,000 at the Accor Arena in Paris, France.
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