Elimination of the four-time champion, the viewership figures are growing — WePlay Academy League Season 5 statistics

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Last week marked the end of the fifth, anniversary season of the WePlay Academy League, which was attended by the youth rosters of 13 major esports organizations, from Natus Vincere to FURIA Esports. In the new article, Esports Charts overviews the results of the CS:GO tournament, its viewer statistics, as well as the most popular teams and broadcast channels.

Tournament results

Initially, 14 teams were supposed to participate in WePlay Academy League Season 5, but the Brazilian Young Gods were disqualified because of being unable to play with their full roster. As a result of the group stage, five teams left the event, including MOUZ NXT, a four-time league champion. Fnatic Rising and BIG Academy became the best in their groups and went straight to the playoffs. At the same time, the roster of the German club lost only one map out of ten, which is the best result in the group stage.

Astralis Talent and Spirit Academy became the strongest teams in the Play-In (the second stage of the tournament). On their way to the playoffs, Astralis.T knocked FURIA Academy and NAVI Junior out of the tournament, while OG Academy and Young Ninjas left the event with the help of Spirit.A.

As a result of the playoffs, Spirit Academy and Fnatic Rising reached the grand finals. In the match for the title, the Eastern European team lost to the Western European team on two maps in a row. While the match on Mirage featured fierce competition and ended with a score of 14:16, the game on Inferno was rather bland, as shown by its score of 1:16.

WePlay Academy League Season 5 viewership statistics

In total, the matches of WePlay Academy League Season 5 generated more than 1 million Hours Watched while being on the air for nearly 120 hours. The event attracted a total of 8.4K Average Viewers.

The anniversary season attracted more than 18.5K Peak Viewers, this mark was reached during the very first match of the group stage between NAVI.Junior and Astralis Talent. It should be noted that the meeting of these teams in the Play-In (the second stage of the tournament) gathered 17.3K Peak Viewers (4th spot). Interestingly, only matches of NAVI.Junior and Astralis Talent made it to the top by concurrent viewership. Note that the grand final between Fnatic Rising and Spirit Academy was watched by 13K Peak Viewers.

The most popular broadcast channel for the fifth season of the WePlay Academy League was the English-language weplaycsgo. Its viewers generated more than 56% of the tournament’s total Hours Watched, and the channel’s Peak Viewers mark was just over 10K.

The second spot by each of the indicators was taken by Igor SL4M Sopov, who was broadcasting the tournament in Russian. He attracted more than 5.5K Average Viewers, and his channel’s audience was responsible for more than 28% of the tournament’s total Hours Watched. Closing the top 3 was the official Ukrainian-language broadcast on the weplaycsgo_eeu channel, which was followed by almost 2.3K Peak Viewers. The viewers of this channel contributed more than 7% Hours Watched to the tournament’s total indicator.

Most popular & Most watched teams of WePlay Academy League Season 5

The most popular team of the tournament was NAVI.Junior, whose matches were followed by a little fewer than 10.5K Average Viewers. At the same time, the finalist Spirit Academy turned out to be the most watched team as its matches generated 274.5K Hours Watched. Astralis Talent took the second spot by two indicators, being behind the leader by 5% and 6% in terms of Average Viewers and Hours Watched, respectively. Fnatic Rising, the champion of the event, entered the top 5 by AV and the top 3 by HW.

Top WePlay Academy League events

Among all seasons of the WePlay Academy League, the indicators showed by the fifth one were nearly the worst, losing to the first, second, and third seasons of the league both by Average and Peak Viewers. At the same time, WAL S5 still got ahead of the fourth season, gathering 2.5 times more Average Viewers and 70% more Peak Viewers. It should be reminded that WePlay Esports abandoned the official Russian-language broadcast starting from the fourth season, so SL4M began broadcasting WLA matches in Russian as a community caster. Because of this decision, the league lost much of its audience, but it seems that the situation has begun to improve.