Brawl Stars World Finals 2021 — $1M prize pool, NAVI & AC Milan among the participants, and new record in the discipline

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Brawl Stars esports season has come to an end. The last event was the World Finals 2021, which brought together the best teams in the discipline. The tournament also featured new Natus Vincere roster, as well as an esports team of AC Milan. In the new article, Esports Charts compared the tournament’s stats to the previous competitions in the series.

The update to the format of the esports season was that now the teams fought not starting from January (as it was in 2020), but from March to October. Each month the teams fought for cash prizes and gained tournament points. The teams with the most points were automatically earning spots in the World Finals.

The regional changes included the removal of South Korean and Asia-Pacific regions while adding Eastern Europe/Central Asia and East Asia. The tournament also featured teams from South America and Oceania. The format of the event itself was mixed: the teams could choose whether they would play remotely or participate in the LAN in Romania, Bucharest.

Comparison of Brawl Stars World Finals results from 2019 to 2021

The finale of the season was held on November 26-28 featuring 16 teams. The prize fund has not changed and amounted to $1M. Comparing tournament results to past years, World Finals 2021 lost 33% Peak Viewers. There was a change in the preferences of the viewers regarding the platforms. In 2020 YouTube gathered more people, but in 2021 Twitch became the leader in terms of the Peak Viewers.

World Finals 2021 was on air twice as long as last year's event, causing the Hours Watched to grow by 118%. The competition amassed 1.78M Hours Watched, which became a new record for the discipline! There was a 10% decrease in Average Viewers – a result that’s far from catastrophic, given that the championship lasted twice as long as the last World Cup.

The viewers could earn in-game prizes for watching the broadcasts: the longer one watched the tournament, the more awards one received – and this also had a positive effect on the viewership statistics of the event.

Most popular teams of Brawl Stars World Finals 2021

The Japanese team ZETA DIVISION has not only won the tournament but also turned out to be the most popular team that gathered 153K Average Viewers. Previously, the roster was known by the Jupiter tag, taking 5th-8th place at the tournament in 2020.

The second team in terms of Average Viewers is Natus Vincere; the Ukrainian organization entered the discipline only in May. The team took the second spot at the tournament, with 149K Average Viewers watching its matches.

The third spot in the top was taken by the joint team of AC Milan and the Spanish esports organization QLASH, gathering 138K Average Viewers. It should be noted that NRG Esports, the most popular team in the World Finals 2020, did not even make it to this year's main event.

Streamers and audience of Brawl Stars World Finals 2021

Thealvaro845, one of the most famous Spanish content creators in the discipline, also broadcasted World Finals 2021 and attracted 58K Peak Viewers, exceeding the performance of the official YouTube channel of Brawl Stars Esports by 39%. The distribution of the audience of the event was directly influenced by Alvaro’s stream, as the largest number of Hours Watched was generated by viewers of Spanish-speaking channels (34%). It is followed by viewers of English-language streams (21%).

In general, the tournament had a great variety of broadcast languages. The championship was broadcast in many European languages, which showed relatively similar figures in terms of contribution to the total amount of Hours Watched. In addition to Spanish and English, the top 5 also includes Portuguese, Russian and Italian.

Very soon, the developers of Brawl Stars — Supercell — will hold the World Championship in another of their games: Clash Royale. We will analyze its results in the next article and also determine which Supercell discipline gathers more viewers.

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