IEM Katowice 2022 — Results and Viewership Statistics Overview of the Play-In event

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The IEM Katowice 2022 Play-In matches took place from February 15 to 16, where the last eight participants of the group stage were determined. In a new Esports Charts article, we will tell you about the results and viewership statistics of this stage.

Not all the teams managed to attend the event with full rosters. Bymas from MOUZ got coronavirus right before the championship, so he was replaced by JDC from the club's youth roster — mouz NXT. For the same reason ropz was unable to play for FaZe Clan, and the team had jks as a replacement. Ninjas in Pyjamas for the third month in a row is playing without device, who is on vacation and dealing with health concerns. Regardless of the problems, all three teams qualified for the group stage of IEM Katowice 2022.

Fnatic, ENCE and Copenhagen Flames had surprising performances at the event. The teams showed very modest results in the last months, but they played excellent games in the Play-In and made it to the top eight. Astralis and OG qualified for the group stage of IEM Katowice 2022 as well; note that OG played with the new captain, nexa, who joined the team just a month ago.

IEM Katowice 2022 Play-In accumulated more than 4.2 million Hours Watched. The Average Number of viewers at the matches is 177.7K spectators, while the Peak Viewers number reached 292.6K people during ENCE vs GODSENT and BIG vs Fnatic matches that were on air at the same time. Astralis vs MIBR match in the first round of the upper bracket was the most popular one of the Play-In — it attracted almost 204.5K Peak Viewers. Let us remind you that more information about the tournament is available with our PRO subscription.

IEM Katowice's Play-In viewership statistics increased significantly compared with the previous year. The event's Hours Watched increased by 20%, The Average Viewers number increased by 19% and the Peak Viewers number grew by almost 24%. It is interesting that the most popular IEM Katowice 2021 Play-In match was also the one featuring MIBR.

It should be noted that IEM Katowice 2021 is in the top 7 of last year's CS:GO tournaments in terms of Peak Viewers and ranks fifth in Hours Watched. Considering the excellent start of the Play-In stage, the current championship has a good chance to surpass last year's results.

The group stage of IEM Katowice 2022 takes place from February 17 to 20. The tournament's finals will be held from February 25 to 27. The 16 best teams in the world will compete for a prize pool of $972K.