RLCS 2022-23 Winter Split Major has become the most popular Major over the last year

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On April 9th, the RLCS 2022-23 Winter Split Major, the final tournament of the Rocket League winter season, concluded in San Diego, United States. Esports Charts calculated the number of viewers who watched the matches, which teams were the most popular, and how the community casting by French streamer Kameto influenced the audience stats of the event.

The RLCS 2022-23 Winter Split Major featured 16 teams, including FaZe Clan, Karmine Corp, Team Liquid, G2 Esports, Team Vitalitу, and other top clubs. There are several teams in the game belonging to popular Twitch streamers. If these teams perform well and achieve success, the tournaments break records for the number of viewers on broadcasts. This is exactly what happened at the RLCS 2022-23 Winter Split Major, where the grand final saw FaZe Clan, a top American organization, face off against Karmine Corp, owned by streamer Kameto.

Viewership Statistics of the RLCS 2022-23 Winter Split Major

Three matches of Karmine Corp were in the top 5

In total, the matches of the RLCS 2022-23 Winter Split Major gathered almost 3.6M Hours Watched and 108K Average Viewers. The most popular match of the tournament was the grand final, in which Karmine Corp defeated FaZe Clan, reaching 271.1K Peak Viewers.

Interestingly, two more matches of the event peaked at over 200K concurrent viewers. All of them were played during the final day of the competition.

Only four teams had more than 100K Average Viewers at matches

The most popular team of the tournament was Karmine Corp, whose matches were watched by over 140K Average Viewers. By this metric, the team outperformed its closest competitor by 11%. 

The most popular broadcast languages were English and French, which together accounted for about 95.5% of the total Hours Watched for the tournament. Additionally, Peak Viewers on English-language broadcasts was slightly higher than on French-language ones.

In total, the matches of the RLCS 2022-23 Winter Split Major were covered on over 50 channels, including official broadcasts and community casters' streams. The most popular channels were the official English-language Rocket League channel and Kemto's channel. These channels showed similar results in terms of Peak Viewers, but the official channel far outperformed the streamer by total Hours Watched.

The ratio of official broadcasts and community casting

Comparison of RLCS 2023 Winter Split Major with other Rocket League tournaments

The RLCS 2022-23 Winter Split Major became the most-watched Major in the last 1.5 years, as well as the second most-watched in RLCS history (only behind the RLCS 2021-22 Fall Split Major). If we look beyond the season, the RLCS 2022-23 Winter Split Major ranks fourth in Peak Viewers among all Rocket League tournaments, including World Championships. In terms of total Hours Watched, the tournament ranks sixth in the history of the discipline.

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The Rocket League Championship Series continues to attract viewers from all over the world. Moreover, the discipline has not yet reached its audience limit — the 2022 World Championship gathered a record number of Peak Viewers in the history of Rocket League.

The next major tournament of the season will be the RLCS 2022-23 Spring Split Major, which will take place from July 6th to 9th in Boston, USA. Its participants will be determined based on the results of regional tournaments in Europe, North America, Oceania, South America, as well as in the MENA and APAC regions.

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