GAMERS GALAXY: Invitational Series Dubai 2022 viewership results

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GAMERS GALAXY: Invitational Series Dubai 2022, the most recent Dota 2 LAN tournament hosted by the MENA organizer Galaxy Racer, wrapped up this weekend with a victory of the Indonesian team BOOM Esports after nearly eight hours of intense Dota 2 on the final day. 

The non-DPC event ran across four days and featured nine invited Dota 2 teams in a battle for an AED 1 million ($272,000) shared prize pool. Ten teams were originally supposed to participate, however, due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian-based Virtus.pro has been suspended from the competition. 

In 48 hours of Air Time, the GAMERS GALAXY: Invitational Series Dubai 2022 generated 5.24M Hours Watched and attracted 110K Average Viewers. 

The event concluded with a thrilling clash of BOOM Esports and Tundra Esports in a best-of-five series, which was spectated by more than 202K Peak Viewers. The most spectated moment of the event was the lower bracket final between BOOM and Nigma Galaxy, which attracted 244.6K concurrent viewers.

Despite some struggles in the group stage phase, BOOM swept through the lower bracket and thanks to its aggressive playstyle defeated Tundra 3:2. This marks the fifth consecutive victory for the Indonesian team which has been winning the vast majority of its matches since fall. 

With 121.39K Average Viewers, BOOM Esports has also become the most popular team of the event, followed by Tundra Esports, Nigma Galaxy, Team Spirit and OG. 

The GAMERS GALAXY: Invitational Series Dubai 2022 was the first offline Dota 2 tournament to feature some of the world’s best Dota 2 teams since The International 10, held last year in October. This resulted in an outstanding viewership comparable with the recent LCS Lock-In 2022 League of Legends tournament or with last year’s Eastern European and Southeast Asian qualifiers for Dota 2’s The International 10. Furthermore, the Dota 2 community called for Valve to adjust the DPC system to allow for more third-party events like this.