Karmine Corp will fight versus Vitality.Bee for reaching the EU Masters Spring 2022 grand finals: the first results of the playoffs

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Last week, the first playoff matches of the European Masters Spring 2022 took place. The champions of European League of Legends tournament will be determined on May 7. In this article, Esports Charts will overview the intermediate results of the event’s playoffs stage and share some expectations for its final matches.

Quarter-final results

From April 28 to May 1, EU Masters Spring 2022 quarterfinals featured the following victories: LDLC OL defeated X7 Esports, AGO ROGUE won Bifrost, Karmine Corp beaten Unicorns of Love Sexy Edition, and Vitality.Bee eliminated Fnatic TQ. Three out of four match-ups ended with a score of 3:0, with only Unicorns of Love Sexy Edition being able to take one map from their opponent, Karmine Corp.

Participating in the tournament’s semi-finals will be three LFL representatives as well as AGO ROGUE. LDLC OL will face the Polish team, and Karmine Corp will play against Vitality.Bee. The first match will take place on May 3 at 15:00 GMT and the second on May 4 at the same time.

This means that the grand final of the EU Masters Spring 2022 Masters is bound to feature at least one French team. Note that the winner of the previous two seasons was Karmine Corp, which means that team has a chance to become a three-time European Masters champion.

First viewership statistics

The majority of the audience of the European Masters Spring 2022 is French, and the most watched team of the event by a wide margin is Karmine Corp. Its match versus Unicorns of Love Sexy Edition in the quarterfinals was watched by 178.3K Peak Viewers. This is the tournament’s highest figure at the time of publication of the article. At the same time, French-language broadcasts gathered almost 133K Peak Viewers, while English-language broadcasts — only 22.6K Peak Viewers.

Despite not having ended yet, European Masters Spring 2022 has already entered the top three most popular tournaments in the series. The event bypassed last year's EU Summer in terms of Average Viewers and could potentially overtake it in other metrics as well.

Karmine Corp's matches attract a huge audience, so another appearance by this team in the grand final could help the European Masters set a new spectator record. Will it happen? We'll find out very soon.