ONE Esports MPL Invitational 2022 results: Peak Viewers number drops by a million viewers

ONE Esports MPL Invitational 2022 was held from November 2 to 6, where the best teams of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League Fall Season competed with each other. The Esports Charts team sums up the results of the event and tells about the number of viewers it attracted.

Tournament Results

ONE Esports and Moonton held the third ONE Esports MPL Invitational tournament, which can be considered a kind of warm-up before the World Championship. ONIC Esports, previously ranked first in MPL Indonesia Season 10, won the tournament. It defeated Bren Esports from the Philippines in the quarterfinals and TODAK from Malaysia in the semi-finals and then defeated Geek Fam ID 3:2 in the decisive match.

Viewership Statistics

ONE Esports MPL Invitational 2022 matches accumulated 9.1 million Hours Watched. Broadcasts of the event drew 200.1K Average Viewers and 704.2K Peak Viewers. The Grand Final became the most popular game of the tournament, and GeekFam ID retained the lead by HW (2.97 million) since this team had more matches than the other participants. ONIC Esports is the leader by AV (352K Average Viewers).

The most popular broadcast language is Indonesian, it accounted for almost 37% of total HW. English is in second place (28.8%), and Tagalog is in third place (23.8%). About 75% of all tournament viewers watched the matches on YouTube.

The most popular broadcast channel is Mobile Legends channel on YouTube. It accumulated more than 2.7 million HW and attracted 181.4K PV. MPL Philippines, ML:BB Indonesia and the ONEEsports FB channel made it into the Top.

Comparison With Other Tournaments

Comparison of recent MPL seasons with ONE Esports MPL Invitational 2022

ONE Esports MPL Invitational 2022 featured twenty teams: eight teams from MPL Indonesia Season 10, six teams from MPL Philippines Season 10, three teams from MPL Malaysia Season 10, two from MPL Singapore Season 4, and the champion MPL Cambodia Autumn 2022. We have compared the metrics of the event with the leagues listed above to assess the popularity of the event.

MPL Indonesia Season 10 outnumbered all other regional tournaments combined, including ONE Esports MPL Invitational 2022, by audience reach. The international tournament is second by Average Viewers and third by Hours Watched and Peak Viewers totals (in both cases behind MPL Philippines Season 10).

ONE Esports MPL Invitational Viewership Comparison (2020-2022)

Comparing the ONE Esports MPL Invitational series as a whole, the most recent championship was less popular than the 2021 iteration of the event. The Hours Watched number decreased by 36%, the Peak Viewers number dropped by 58%, and the Average Viewers number dropped by 41%. One of the reasons for this was the absence of RRQ Hoshi, one of the most popular and media-mentioned teams in the discipline. It competed at MPLI in 2021 and was supposed to play in the tournament in 2022, but didn't go to the championship: the RRQ Sena lineup played instead.

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M4 World Championship will be held in Jakarta from January 1-15, 2023. There, the top 16 teams from the MPL regional leagues will compete for the $800K prize pool. The Group Stage will be held at MPL Arena (XO Hall), while the Playoffs will be played at Istora Senayan GBK.