BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021: Viewership Stats and Tournament Results

Grand Finals of BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021 — the final tournament of BLAST's autumn season — took place on November 28. Natus Vincere won its third LAN tournament of the year and strengthened its leading position on the CS:GO esports scene. BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021 was the first tier-1 tournament since November's PGL Major Stockholm 2021 and showed the best result among all the BLAST events. In a new article, Esports Charts will tell you about the viewership activity at the championship and compare it with other events of the series.

Disclaimer: statistics does not include data from Chinese streaming services, since they use other methods of measuring viewership activity at broadcasts.

BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021 statistics

BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021 was watched by 338,4K Average Viewers, and the tournament itself generated 17 million Hours Watched — the highest total of any BLAST CS:GO event. The same goes for the event's Peak Viewers number, which was 861K viewers at the Grand Finals. The previous series record was set at BLAST Premier Global Final 2020 — it was the match between NAVI and Team Vitality, which was watched by 688K Peak Viewers.

The second most popular match at BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021 was the game between Astralis and Vitality in the lower bracket final, which drew 653K Peak Viewers. The next place went to another duel between NAVI and the French team in the semifinals of the tournament, which was concurrently watched by 636K people.

The last places went to the two matches of Heroic vs. Team Liquid and NAVI. The first one attracted 527K Peak Viewers, while the second had just 5% fewer viewers.

Most popular BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021 teams

The most popular team of BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021 was NAVI with 482K Average Viewers. At the moment, Natus Vincere is the most famous esports team in the world, and their position is only getting stronger.

The closest opponent of Natus Vincere is Team Vitality, the matches of which were watched by 455K Average Viewers. But the French team surpassed the roster of the Ukrainian team by 22% in Hours Watched — this happened due to the fall of the French into the lower bracket, and as a result they played one more match.

The top five was rounded out by Astralis, Heroic and Ninjas in Pyjamas with the Average Viewers number of 339K, 312K and 285K people, respectively.

Most popular languages of BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021

The main languages of BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021 broadcasts were English and Russian. Viewers of English-language broadcasts generated 45.7% of the total Hours Watched, while viewers of Russian-language streams generated 24%.

The WePlay studio officially covered the championship in Russian. Its broadcasts generated more than 3 million Hours Watched for BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021, and the Peak Viewers number reached 218K people.

Third place went to Portuguese-speaking viewers, who accounted for 16.3% of total Hours Watched. Brazilian streamer Gaules once again became the official caster of BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021, his streams collected 2.5 million Hours Watched.

The last places in the top 5 were taken by viewers of the Vietnamese and French broadcasts. They generated 8.4% and 2% of BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021 Hours Watched, respectively.

Main Streaming Platforms of BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021

Twitch generated the most viewers for BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021. The streaming service accounted for 74% of the total Hours Watched of the tournament, and at its peak, which also took place at the Grand Final, the platform attracted 623K viewers. YouTube was in second place with 17.7% of the total Hours Watched and 190K Peak Viewers.

In third place was a popular Asian and Brazilian streaming service Nimo TV. It accounted for 8.4% of the tournament's Hours Watched with 87K Peak Viewers. Facebook Gaming, which came in fourth place, failed to generate even 2K concurrent viewers.

BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021 comparison with previous seasons

In addition to outpacing all previous BLAST tournaments in terms of Hours Watched and Peak Viewers, the BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021 also had the highest Average Viewers number (338K viewers).

BLAST Premier Spring 2020 American Finals is the closest pursuer among the Spring/Fall events with the Average Viewers number of 248K and 508K Peak Viewers. Unlike the European division, there were only four teams at this event — Team Liquid, Evil Geniuses, MIBR and FURIA. It were the Brazilian teams and their extremely active fanbase that helped the event to reach such high results.

It should be mentioned that in all BLAST tournaments featuring NAVI, the matches of this team were the most popular. At four events, including BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021, the team's opponent was Team Vitality.

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BLAST Premier World Final 2021, the final championship by BLAST in 2021, kicks off on December 14. The tournament will have a prize pool of one million dollars and there will be eight teams competing: Natus Vincere, Gambit Esports, G2 Esports, Team Vitality, Heroic, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Team Liquid and Astralis.

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