The second of the three stages of the current RLCS season concluded on March 27th with a victory of G2 Esports over Team Queso. After two best-of-7 series, G2 Esports defeated the Spanish team to win the RLCS Winter Split Major 2022. This marks the first LAN victory in five years for G2.
The offline event, which was held in Los Angeles, saw 15 Rocket League teams fighting for a chunk of the $300,000 prize pool and important RLCS Circuit Ranking Points, that give the best scorers automatic qualification to the RLCS World Championship.
The tournament took place across four days in late March, with the Air Time totalling 37 hours. During this time, the competition generated over 4.38M Hours Watched and attracted 119.96K Average Viewers, which is 20.16% less than the average viewership of the RLCS 2021-22 Fall Split Major.
The grand final between G2 and team Queso brought in the highest volume of spectators — over 261.28K concurrent viewers tuned in to watch the thrilling finale. That’s only a slight decrease in RLCS viewership since the last major — 6.76%.
The most popular team of the event by both metrics was team Queso with the mark of 1.83M Hours Watched and 146.12K Average Viewers. The next was G2 with 1.15M HW and 130.61K AV, followed by Spacestation Gaming, FaZe Clan and Team BDS.
Compared to the previous, spring edition of the event, the official RLCS broadcasts have been expanded with plenty of new casting talent, as well as with new languages, including Swedish. Moreover, YouTube recorded a slight growth in its contribution to the total Hours Watched mark.
While this didn’t lead to an increase in viewership, the RLCS popularity seems to be rather stagnant, with only a slight decline in average viewership since the last international event.
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The following RLCS Spring Major is set to kick off on June 29 in the Copper Box Arena in London, England. Moreover, the recent major revealed Psyonix’s plans for the 2022 World Championship, which is set to take place from August 4 to 14 in Dickies Arena Dallas, Texas.
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