BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021 — Brazilians became the most active spectators of the tournament
The final matches of BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021 — intermediate BLAST tournament with $162,500 prize money pool — took place on October 17. The winners of the event were Heroic and Team Liquid. Both teams took 1-2 places and won $30,000 each, as well as slots for BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021.
In a new Esports Charts article we will tell you about viewership at the tournament and its most popular teams, as well as compare the results with previous intermediate BLAST events.
BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021 collected 3.5 million Hours Watched in 44 hours on air. The tournament matches were watched on average by 78K people, and the most popular match of the tournament between Team Liquid and MAD Lions was watched by 211K Peak Viewers.
Four of the five most-watched matches at BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021 featured teams with Brazilian players. These teams included Team Liquid (with FalleN), 9z Team (with bit), Complexity Gaming (with coldzera) and MIBR. The only match without Brazilian players was between G2 and MAD Lions.
Team Liquid was the most popular team at BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021. In addition to the match MAD Lions, which had the tournament's Peak Viewers, the top five most watched matches of Team Liquid included two more: against Virtus.pro and 9z.
The second place was taken by 9z, which was represented by South American e-athletes. Its captain is Bruno "bit" Lima, a legend of the Brazilian Counter-Strike 1.6 scene. The broadcasts of the team’s matches had the Average Viewers number of 116.5K people, but the result of Hours Watched (253K) is the lowest in the ranking.
Third place went to Virtus.pro with an Average Viewers number of 111,4K people. Team’s Hours Watched reached 743K — the third highest number at BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021. The CIS team was second only to Liquid and MAD Lions by Hours Watched — they had 791K hours.
MIBR and Complexity Gaming closed the top 5 with a nearly identical Average Viewers number of 94,1K and 92K spectators, respectively. The match between these teams was one of the top five most watched matches during BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021 — it had 112,4K viewers.
The latter event was even behind BLAST Premier Spring Showdown 2020, which was split into European and American divisions. The tournament had less Hours Watched than each of those divisions, but managed to outpace the European division by 26% regarding Peak Viewers.
BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021 was held at the same time as The International 10 — the main Dota 2 championship of the year. Despite the different disciplines, most of the esports community was focused on TI10, so the BLAST event was left behind.
This situation did not affect the Portuguese-speaking spectators, who showed the highest interest in the CS:GO tournament. Usually, Portuguese is one of the top 3 most popular languages at major events, but at BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021 it became the most popular language by Peak Viewers.
MAD Lions vs. Liquid had 96,1K Portuguese-speaking viewers during the tournament's broadcast. Such interest in the match was due to the American club's captain Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo - he is a CS:GO veteran and one of the most famous players in South America.
BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021 had nearly 1.4 million Hours Watched thanks to Portuguese-speaking viewers (39.2% of the total Hours Watched). Only the English-speaking viewers had a higher number — more than 1.6 million Hours Watched (46.2% of the total Hours Watched).
Also read: CIS dream comes true: The International 10 shows record-breaking viewership results
BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021 revealed all participants of BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2021, which will be held in November in Copenhagen.Natus Vincere, Team Vitality, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Astralis, BIG and FaZe Clan previously received invitations to the tournament. The remaining two slots were taken by Liquid and Heroic.
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