Six Invitational 2024 sets new Rainbow Six Siege esports viewership record
Six Invitational 2024, the premier tournament of the year in Rainbow Six Siege esports, concluded in São Paulo. The championship achieved a record number of Peak Viewers, attributed to both English and Portuguese broadcasts. Community casting played a significant role in the achievement: the final matches were covered by Jynxzi and Gaules, and the overall number of unique channels increased by more than three times compared to the previous world championship.
The Brazilian team w7m esports defeated their compatriots from FaZe Clan with a score of 3:2 in the decisive match of Six Invitational 2024. The derby was intense: FaZe Clan led 6:1 and was on the verge of the title on the final map, but w7m esports incredibly won seven rounds in a row and snatched victory.
It was the second consecutive world championship final for w7m esports. Last year, the Brazilian team lost to G2 Esports at the Six Invitational 2023. After that w7m esports had a highly successful season, becoming the champions of BLAST R6 Major Copenhagen 2023 and BLAST R6 Major Atlanta 2023.
Six Invitational 2024 Viewership Statistics
The broadcasts of the Six Invitational 2024 generated just over 13 million Hours Watched — this is 5.7% less than the previous world championship; however, the decrease can be considered insignificant, as the recent World Championship was on air for less time. Much more important is that the average number of viewers per broadcast was slightly higher than last year.
The grand final between w7m esports and FaZe Clan became the most popular match of the tournament — it attracted 221K more Peak Viewers than the second most popular series between w7m esports and Virtus.pro in the lower bracket final. Speaking of team statistics, w7m esports emerged as the leader both in total hours of watchtime and in the average number of viewers per match.
The Six Invitational 2024 showed the best viewership on English and Portuguese broadcasts in the history of Rainbow Six Siege World Championships. Much of this can be attributed to the increase in the number of community casters. The previous championship, Six Invitational 2023, was covered on 57 channels, while during Six Invitational 2024, there were already over 180 channels. This is a record number for this tournament series.
The top channels for peak viewership were the streams of Jynxzi and Gaules — it was thanks to their broadcasts during the final days of the tournament that a record number of viewers were achieved. It's worth noting that Jynxzi is one of the most popular Rainbow Six streamers in the world. As for Gaules, he usually specializes in Counter-Strike but also closely follows the successes of Brazilian teams in other disciplines. He paid attention to Six Invitational 2024 partly because two Brazilian teams played in the grand final. Among other community casters, shroud also covered the tournament's final matches.
521.3K Peak Viewers is the best result in the history of the title. Before this, the most popular tournament for Rainbow Six was Six Invitational 2018, which was simultaneously watched by 316K people.
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