Tekken World Tour 2022 becomes the most popular tournament in the series' history
Bandai Namco's Tekken World Tour 2022 season finale was held on February 4-5 in Amsterdam. The tournament saw the best result by Peak Viewers in the history of the series with only EVO championships being more popular in regard to the discipline as a whole.
Tekken World Tour is an international Tekken esports league that spans four regions and dozens of countries. Tekken World Tour was first held in 2017, and since then the league has been held almost every year (the finals of 2020 and 2021 were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic).
Tournament Results
Tekken World Tour offers players around the world the opportunity to earn ranking points for prizes at major tournaments like Evolution Championship Series, Community Effort Orlando, VSFighting, etc. These points are used to compile a ranking, with the best players making it to Tekken World Tour Finals. Winners of national and regional qualifiers also qualify for the final tournament.
Atif Butt / photo: twitter.com/BNEesports
Tekken World Tour Finals 2022 featured 24 players. First, they played a series of matches in the Group Stage, after which eight players advanced to the Playoff stage. In the Finals, the Korean player JeonDDing and the Pakistani player Atif Butt faced off, with the representative of the Middle Eastern country securing a confident 3-0 victory.
Qualification Statistics
A number of regional and national qualifiers were held throughout 2022 to determine the quota places for Tekken World Tour Finals. The tournament was preceded by The Last Chance Qualifier, which determined the final four competitors. It drew the highest number of Peak Viewers, which was more than 38.6K.
West Europe Regional Finals are the best qualifier among regional qualifiers, with 23.4K Peak Viewers. A few fewer viewers watched the games in North America and Japan.
Final Tournament Statistics
Tekken World Tour 2022 Global Finals matches accumulated 873.5K Hours Watched and drew 40.1K Average Viewers. The event reached 89.9K Peak Viewers on the final day when the Tekken 8 gameplay was presented. As for the distribution by platform, streams on Twitch accumulated more than 80% of the total Hours Watched. YouTube accounted for another 18% of HW.
English became the most popular language of Tekken World Tour 2022 Global Finals, accounting for 78.7% of total HW. Korean (11%) and Japanese (6.4%) are also in the Top 3.
The tournament was broadcast on nearly 60 channels, including official channels and streams hosted by community casters. The English-language Tekken channel became the most popular, with 360.4K HW and 37.6K PV. The Bandai YouTube channel also ranks among the most watched, while maximilian_dood and avoidingthepuddle attracted the largest audience among community streamers.
What Else Did Tekken World Tour 2022 Global Finals Viewers Watch?
Nearly 26% of Unique Tekken channel viewers in January also watched the gamesdonequick channel, which hosts charity speedrun marathons several times a year. About 22.6% of viewers watched the broadcasts of maximilian_dood, the tournament's most popular community caster.
Regarding audience overlap in the category, about 71.5% of the Tekken channel's Unique Viewers watched regular broadcasts of Just Chatting before the tournament. About 38% of viewers watched League of Legends streams. Over 30% also watched such games as Dead Space, Elden Ring, Escape from Tarkov, Valorant, and Tekken itself.
Comparison With Other Tournaments
Tekken World Tour 2022 Global Finals has become the most popular tournament in the series by Peak Viewers. It also has become the fourth most popular in the history of the discipline, but still lagged far behind EVO 2018, EVO 2019, and the record-breaking EVO 2022 Tekken.
Most Popular Tekken Tournaments
In terms of popularity, the recent Tekken World Tour can compete with other top fighting game tournaments (but not with all of them). For example, the Average and Peak Viewers numbers are comparable to those of EVO 2022 Dragon Ball FighterZ and EVO 2022 Mortal Kombat 11, while Street Fighter, Super Smash Bros., and Guilty Gear tournaments that took place at EVO 2022 had 2-3 times more Peak Viewers. However, the Tekken tournament at EVO drew more than 250K PV.
Tekken is one of the most popular fighting disciplines in esports, so it's no surprise that Tekken World Tour draws tens of thousands of viewers. Nevertheless, the seasonal league cannot yet boast the same audience as the EVO events. Perhaps it's worth considering holding Tekken World Tour Finals in North America, where fighting games are very popular.
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