ESL Pro League Season 16 intermediate results: Group A

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ESL Pro League Season 16 matches in Group A are over, which means we can sum up the first intermediate results of the tournament. In a new article, we will tell you which teams dropped out of the championship, secured a playoff spot, and were the most popular in terms of viewership statistics.

Group A Results

The teams played five bo3 matches each, and Team Vitality proved to be the strongest team. The squad of the French club finished the group stage without a single defeat and secured a place in the tournament's quarterfinals. Fnatic took second place in the group with 3 wins and 2 losses. Natus Vincere, Team Spirit, and Ninjas in Pyjamas finished the group stage with the same statistics (2 wins and 3 losses). At the same time, NAVI got last place in the playoffs thanks to the positive difference between the won and lost rounds. The team with the worst result in the group is Endpoint: they lost four games but defeated Natus Vincere.

Group A Viewership Statistics

Group A matches totaled 7.55 million Hours Watched and drew 159.2K Average Viewers. The most popular and most watched team of the tournament at this stage is Natus Vincere. The team's games accounted for more than 50% of the event's Hours Watched and attracted 229K Average Viewers. The most popular language of broadcasts is English, followed by Russian, Vietnamese, Portuguese, and French.

The Peak Viewers' number of ESL Pro League Season 16 in this stage was 368.3K people reached on Day 5 when there were three matches held concurrently: NAVI vs. NIP, Vitality vs. Spirit, and Fnatic vs. Endpoint. The majority of the tournament viewers chose to watch the clash between Natus Vincere and NIP, and this fact had a negative effect on the viewership statistics of the other teams.

For example, the Average Viewers number of Team Vitality on the fifth day was 81.6% fewer than on the first four days. Fnatic, Team Spirit, and Endpoint also saw drops of 93.3%, 70%, and 92.5% of Average Viewers numbers, respectively. In terms of the Average Viewers' number of teams for the entire group stage, Vitality lost 11.6%, Fnatic 14.2%, Team Spirit 10.9%, and Endpoint 14% due to the unsuccessful fifth day of the event for these teams.

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The first matches of Group B are on September 7: FaZe plays with FTW, Outsiders plays with BIG, and G2 plays with MIBR. You can follow ESL Pro League Season 16 LIVE statistics on the tournament page.