BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2022 had twelve of the best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams in the world, fighting for a ticket to the BLAST Premier Fall Final 2022. The tournament and was held from August 18-28 in Copenhagen, in the BLAST Studio.
Team Liquid, Natus Vincere, and OG were the winners of the tournament. They qualified for BLAST Premier Fall Final 2022 and took home $27K each.
In the Knockout Stage, OG had the most impressive performance of every team, as they started in round 1 of the single-elimination bracket, and went on to defeat Complexity, FaZe Clan, and Astralis. Proving they truly deserved to qualify for BLAST Premier Fall Final 2022.
However, it wasn't only Team Liquid, Natus Vincere, and OG that secured their spot at BLAST Premier Fall Final 2022. Since six of the twelve teams of the event would qualify for BLAST Premier Fall Final 2022, the tournament had a Last Chance Stage.
In this Last Chance Stage, the teams competed in a single-elimination bracket, where the winners would advance to the BLAST Premier Fall Final 2022, while the losers would qualify for the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2022.
From that Last Chance Stage, FaZe, Ninjas in Pyjamas, and G2 Esports emerged victorious. Securing their ticket to the BLAST Premier Fall Final 2022, and winning $17K each. As for the remaining six teams, they will have to try again in the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2022.
Viewership Statistics
When it comes to viewership, BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2022 had some pretty solid numbers. The tournament had 12 million Hours Watched, 384K Peak Viewers, and 178K Average Viewers.
Natus Vincere, G2 Esports, and Team Vitality were the teams that contributed the most to the great viewership results that BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2022 had. When it comes to ACV, Natus Vincere came in first place with 236K Average Viewers. They were followed by G2 Esports with 229K ACV, and Team Vitality with 222K ACV.
Fans tuned in the most to watch Team Vitality. The French organization was the most watched team with fans spending 3.5 million hours watching the team. G2 Esports claimed the second spot with 3 million HW, and Ninjas in Pyjamas closed the top three with 2.6 million HW.
Natus Vincere doesn't show up in the top five of the most watched teams in the tournament. However, we have to take into account that the team only played four games, while teams such as Ninjas in Pyjamas played six games.
For the third straight year, Natus Vincere was in the most watched game of the BLAST Premier Fall Groups, and for the second time in three editions of the event, it was against Team Vitality.
G2 Esports and Team Vitality also show up in three of the five most viewed matches in the tournament. This shows how massive the fan base of both teams is, and that in every game that these two teams are involved in, they will attract a lot of viewers.
Regarding Hours Watched, BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2022 had the best numbers ever, compared to the other two editions of BLAST Premier Fall Groups. However, the event wasn't able to set a new record in Peak Viewers and Average Viewers, not being able to beat the 416K Peak Viewers, and 182K Average Viewers that BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2020 had.
BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2022 was on air for 67 hours, which certainly helped the tournament in having more Hours Watched than the previous BLAST Premier Fall Groups editions.
BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2022 is also in the top ten viewership list of tournaments organized by BLAST. Despite a smaller prize pool than other BLAST tournaments, such as BLAST Premier World Final 2021, or BLAST Premier Global Final 2020, the number of HW wasn't that much lower.
Most watched broadcasts
Twitch was the platform of choice to watch the tournament, with 248K fans simultaneously watching the broadcast, while YouTube came in second place with 82K PV. To finish the top three we had NimoTV with 53K PV.
Fans also spent 4.9 million hours watching the event on Twitch, while they spent 1.2 million hours on both the 500BROS NimoTV channel and the official BLAST YouTube channel.
The English broadcast was by far the most watched, with 126K Peak Viewers. In second place we once again had 500BROS with 53K PV, and to close the top three we have bySL4M, a Russian commentator of WePlay Esports studio that had a maximum of 51K fans watching simultaneously.
These numbers also prove that Twitch continues to be the viewer's primary choice when it comes to Esports tournaments. Despite YouTube also having a good amount of HW on their stream, it came nowhere near the numbers that the Twitch broadcast was able to achieve.
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