Hearthstone Grandmasters Season 2 results — views keep dropping
Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021 Season 2 matches ended in early October. The total prize money pool of the event was $486,000. In the new Esports Charts article, we'll tell you about the tournament's viewers activity and compare it to last season and the league's previous events.
Glory, McBanterFace, and Gaby became the winners of Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021, which lasted for seven competitive weeks. The esports players received invitations to the next Grandmasters 2022 and Hearthstone World Championship 2021. Players, who ranked 2-12 in the tournament, also received spots in the next season of the league.
Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021 was most popular in the Asia-Pacific region, where the tournament had 834K Hours Watched with 102 hours of airtime. The Average Viewers number of the region's matches was 8.1K, with the Peak Viewers number of 13.9K in a match between Shaxpy from Taiwan and Bankyugi from Thailand.
In second place was the EMEA region, which had 637,500 Hours Watched. Its Peak Viewers (11,700 people) was during the group stage match between Jarla and Thijs, one of the most productive players in the discipline in terms of prize money won. The Average Viewers number reached 6.5 thousand people in the EMEA players’ matches.
Matches of American players were the least watched. Although they were not far behind EMEA. The region collected 595K Hours Watched with an Average Viewers number of 5,800 spectators. The Peak Viewers number was at the match between Inguagehackr and McBanterFace. McBanterFace later won the tournament. At the same time, the cyber sportsman is one of the newcomers of the discipline. He started playing on the pro scene only in 2019.
As an example, second season of Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021 collected a 38% less Hours Watched than first season, and its Peak and Average Viewers were 34% and 31% less.
The Asia-Pacific region showed the least change in statistics. Its Hours Watched dropped by 17.6%, while Peak and Average Viewers dropped by 19.6% and 13.7%, respectively. At the same time, matches in all Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021 regions had almost the same number of hours on air.
For example, only the European Grandmasters 2019 division (which later expanded to EMEA) had 4.3 million Hours Watched in its second season — twice as much as all of the Grandmasters 2021 regions in that season.
Such sharp declines in Grandmasters viewership are due not only to the fading interest of players in Hearthstone, but also to the platform where the matches were shown. In 2020, YouTube obtained exclusive rights to broadcast esports tournaments of the discipline, but viewers were not ready to switch to a new platform.
Also read: Hearthstone esports is in trouble: viewership decline after switching to YouTube
Hearthstone World Championship 2021 will take place in mid-December, with a prize money pool of $500,000. The tournament will feature the top eight players from the first and second seasons of Grandmasters 2021, and the winner will get $200,000.
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