ESL Pro League Season 17 CS:GO final was held in Malta on March 26. FaZe Clan and Cloud9 teams faced off against each other at the event. Esports Charts has summed up the results of the tournament and calculated how many viewers watched the decisive match of the competition.
Tournament Results
The format of ESL Pro League Season 17 differed slightly from previous tournaments of the series. This time the organizers expanded the list of participants, increasing the number of teams from 24 to 32. Thanks to this, there were four triple-elimination brackets instead of the usual four groups, and instead of 12 teams, there were 16 teams that made it to the playoffs. Depending on the results in the brackets, they took their corresponding places in the final stage of the tournament.
FaZe Clan / Photo: twitter.com/ESLCS
Cloud9 was the first finalist of ESL Pro League Season 17 — first, Nafany's team took first place in their grid, and defeated MOUZ and ENCE on their way to the decisive match in the playoff stage. The second finalist was FaZe Clan — it was second in its bracket (losing the lead to Team Vitality). In the playoffs, karrigan's team knocked out FURIA Esports, forZe and Natus Vincere one by one.
The match between Cloud9 and FaZe Clan lasted 4 maps. FaZe Clan won with the score 3:1. The champion received $200K, quota places for IEM Cologne 2023 and BLAST World Final 2023 and one million dollars by winning the Intel Grand Slam Season 4.
Viewership Statistics
ESL Pro League Season 17 viewership results
ESL Pro League Season 17 matches accumulated 33.6 million Hours Watched and attracted 138.4K Average Viewers. The Grand Final between FaZe Clan and Cloud9 became the most popular match of the tournament — the confrontation of these teams was watched by 517.8K Peak Viewers.
Natus Vincere became the leader by total Hours Watched. Based on the Average Viewers number at the matches, FaZe Clan took first place.
The most popular languages of ESL Pro League Season 17 broadcasts were English and Portuguese — they accumulated 53.4% and 23.7% of total Hours Watched, respectively. As for the distribution by platform, Twitch accumulated five times more Hours Watched than YouTube.
The official English-language ESL_CSGO channel had the most viewers, as well as Brazilian streamer Gaules, who streamed in Portuguese.
Comparison with Previous Tournaments of the Series
ESL Pro League Seasons viewership popularity
ESL Pro League Season 17 failed to become the most popular tournament in the series. In terms of Hours Watched, it is second to the Season 16 finals, and in terms of Peak Viewers, it did not catch up with ESL Pro League Season 12 Europe.
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IEM Rio 2023 will be the next big CS:GO tournament — it is to take place on April 17-23 in Brazil. Sixteen teams, including FaZe Clan, Cloud9, Natus Vincere, Team Vitality and others, will compete for the $250K prize pool. Follow the event on the tournament page.
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