One of the most popular PUBG Mobile events of the year — PMWI 2022 first stage results
PUBG Mobile World Invitational 2022, organized by KRAFTON and Tencent Games in cooperation with Gamers8 and ESL, kicked off in Boulevard Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia on August 11. The championship is divided into two stages: The Main Tournament and the Afterparty Showdown. The first stage of the tournament has come to an end and we take a look at its viewership statistics.
Tournament Stage 1 results
The first stage of PUBG Mobile World Invitational 2022, with a $2 million prize pool, took place on August 11-13. 18 champions from the PMPL, PEL, PMPS, PMJL and other regional leagues became the tournament participants. The event was held in classic game mode on three maps: Erangel, Miramar and Sanhok.
15 rounds were played throughout the championship, Vampire Esports from Thailand became the best team. The collective scored 220 points, while local Team Falcons, which ranked second, scored 197 points. Mongolian Stalwart Esports, Iraqi Nigma Galaxy and Korean DAMWON Gaming also were in the top 5. All of them will take part in the second stage of the PUBG Mobile World Invitational 2022 — Afterparty Showdown, which will take place on August 18-20.
Action from Stalwart Esports was the most valuable player of PMWI 2022 stage one. He received $10K as an individual award.
PMWI 2022 (Main Tournament) viewership statistics
The matches of the first championship stage accumulated more than 3.6 million Hours Watched and 237K Average Viewers in total. The event generated nearly 395K Peak Viewers; these figures were reached during the fourth round. PUBG Mobile World Invitational 2022 was broadcast in 24 languages and six streaming platforms, a pretty big number.
English was the most popular language, accounting for 26.3% of total Hours Watched. It was followed by Indonesian, Arabic, Hindi and Urdu, which contributed 17.3%, 8%, 7.7% and 7.4% respectively to the total Hours Watched numbers. YouTube was the leader among the platforms, its viewers generated more than 73% of total Hours Watched. Facebook accounted for 23%, while Twitch, TikTok, Trovo and NimoTV accumulated the rest of the metric.
PUBG Mobile Esports became the most popular channel, which broadcast the tournament in English, Spanish, Arabic, Burmese, Thai and Indonesian. Speaking about Peak Viewers numbers, the channel was followed by Suraj Neyoo Majumdar, a professional player who performs for Godlike Esports. PUBG Mobile Indonesia, PUBG MOBILE Pakistan Official and PUBGMOBILE also entered the top 5.
According to the first stage results, PMWI 2022 did not enter the discipline's top ten most popular tournaments of all time, falling behind the leader, PUBG Mobile Global Championship Season 0, by Peak Viewers almost tenfold. Meanwhile, the championship has already joined the discipline's top 3 events of 2022, following 31st Southeast Asian Games PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2021 Finals.
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Taking into account that the PUBG Mobile World Invitational 2022 has already achieved high viewership figures after the first stage, the event has all the chances to rise in the rankings of the most popular PUBG Mobile tournaments in 2022 after the Afterparty Showdown. It should be noted that unlike The Main Tournament, players will compete for a $1million at Afterparty Showdown, but there will be six cards to play, not three: Livik, Vikendi and Karakin will be added to Erangel, Miramar and Sanok. The first match will start today, August 18 at 11:00 GMT.
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