Team Spirit's victory at the most popular Dota 2 tournament of the season — PGL Arlington Major 2022 results

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On the night of August 15, PGL Arlington Major 2022 ended. The finalists of The International 10 & recent Riyadh Masters 2022 met in the final, Team Spirit and PSG.LGD. The championship was barely ahead of the previous major of the season by viewership activity, but everything changed during the decisive playoff matches. In the new article, Esports Charts will tell you about the results of the major, its viewership statistics, and the most popular teams of the tournament.

Results of the major

The best Chinese team PSG.LGD finished the PGL Arlington Major 2022 group stage without a single defeat and reached the grand final through the playoffs upper bracket. While it seemed that the team was head and shoulders above all their opponents, something went wrong during the title match. Team Spirit was initially one of the main contenders for getting into the top 2 of the tournament, and reached the grand final, losing only to PSG.LGD in the playoffs upper bracket final.

After winning TI10, Spirit had three encounters with PSG.LGD and failed to win a single map against the team. Before the start of the decisive match of the major, Team Spirit captain Yaroslav Miposhka Naidenov said twice from the stage that “Only a miracle will help" them defeat PSG.LGD in the grand final. Considering all the factors, the majority of analysts were confident in the victory of the Chinese team at PGL Arlington Major 2022, and bookmakers estimated the probability of this with 1.25 coefficient. As a result, Team Spirit won with a score of 3:1, losing on the first map, winning back 30K gold gaps on the second, crushing the opponent on the third, and turning the tide of the game at the end of the fourth.

PGL Arlington Major 2022 viewership statistics

In total, the matches of PGL Arlington Major 2022 have generated more than 33.7M Hours Watched and gathered 305.3K Average Viewers. As expected, the most popular match of the tournament was the grand final between Team Spirit and PSG.LGD, watched by almost 708K Peak Viewers. At the same time, the lower bracket final between Spirit and Aster took the second spot, having gathered almost 601K Peak Viewers.

Team Spirit became the most popular team of the tournament both by Average Viewers and Hours Watched. PSG.LGD is second according to these indicators. The top 5 also included OG, beastcoast, and Aster.

Russian turned out to be the most popular broadcast language, accounting for over 42% of the major’s total Hours Watched, as well as gathering 370K Peak Viewers. At the same time, 37% of the tournament’s total indicator was generated by the English-language broadcasts, which gathered 228.3K Peak Viewers.

Leading among the platforms was Twitch, which viewers brought more than 75% of PGL Arlington Major 2022 total Hours Watched. The top 5 tournament coverage channels by the indicator included PGL_Dota2, Nix, betboom_ru, just_ns, and the PGL YouTube channel.

The most popular Dota 2 majors

The viewership activity achieved by PGL Arlington Major 2022 was impressive. The tournament became the second most popular Dota 2 major in terms of Peak and Average Viewers, losing only to The Kiev Major 2017. If we compare the championship with the previous major of the season, PGL Arlington Major 2022 turned out to be more successful than ESL One Stockholm Major 2022 by about 20% both by Peak and Average Viewers. In addition, for now, the event took over the title of the most popular Dota 2 tournament in 2022, but is almost guaranteed to step down upon the advent of TI11.

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PGL Arlington Major 2022 was the first major in 2022 that finally featured the participation of Chinese teams. It is evident that teams from China not only made the tournament more spectacular but also helped improve its viewership statistics.