How to watch Red Bull Home Ground 3: the biggest Valorant off-season tournament of 2022

Red Bull Home Ground 3 is another edition of the company’s Valorant series. This time the event is organized in partnership with Riot Games as the championship is a part of the off-season 2022 series for the EMEA region. The off-season series consists of eight tournaments, organized by different companies, giving teams something to play for in the off-season. Red Bull Home Ground 3 has the biggest prize pool of all of them, with $100K. It will take place in Manchester, from the 9th-11th of December.

The event will have eight teams, with three of them coming from the Americas league. Seven of the attending teams were invited, with FUT Esports qualifying by winning the Turkish Qualifier. Worth noting that, BIG had won the EMEA qualifier and was supposed to attend the event, but their Valoran roster was dropped. So the tournament organizers invited Team Heretics as their replacement.

With the 2023 Valorant off-season being full of roster moves, fans will finally have a chance to see how some of the teams look in the server. Teams such as Team Liquid, Cloud9, and KRÜ Esports, made plenty of changes, so it will be very interesting to see what the play style of the teams looks like. The event will be played in the 5.10 patch, so we still will see a lot of Chamber gameplay. However, maybe some teams will try new strategies, already thinking about how the massive 5.12 patch changes might affect the meta of the game.

Red Bull Home Ground 3 Broadcasts

RedBull (Twitch)
Red Bull Gaming (YouTube)

Viewership Stats

Viewership comparison of Red Bull Home Ground 3 qualifiers and Red Bull Home Ground 2

The qualifiers for the Red Bull Home Ground 3 achieved some mixed results. When it comes to the Turkish Qualifier, it wasn't able to reach a wide audience, with just 6.2K Peak Viewers, and 3K Average Viewers. However, the EMEA qualifier achieved better results. It was able to captivate the interest of 35.7K simultaneous viewers, and 6.4K viewers tuned in regularly to watch the matches. However, we need o take into account that the most popular teams of the event weren't present in these qualifiers.

The main event usually reaches a significantly wider audience. Red Bull Home Ground 2 was able to reach 60K PV and 25K AV, it was a successful tournament, despite being far from beating any viewership record. But Red Bull Home Ground 3 is arguably a more popular tournament than its predecessor. We have top teams and players, from the two best leagues in the world, attending the event. Furthermore, it will be the first time we see some of these rosters in action, which surely will attract many viewers.

Superstar players such as yay, nAts, or xand, and some of the best in-game-leaders in the history of the game will be attending the event. Fans also have high expectations for Team Liquid, Cloud9, and 100 Thieves improved rosters. So the opportunity of seeing these new rosters in action will surely captivate the interest of Valorant fans from all around the world. It’s safe to say that, Red Bull Home Ground 3 has all the ingredients to be a very successful tournament.

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