First viewership stats of The Lima Major 2023 — Spanish broadcasts turned out to be more popular than English ones

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On February 22nd, The Lima Major 2023 started in the capital of Peru — the first major of the Dota Pro Circuit 2023 season and the first major Dota 2 tournament in South America. In a new article, Esports Charts will tell you about the first day of the group stage and the viewership it achieved.

The tournament's viewership statistics are available here

Results of the First Game Day

Eight matches were played in each group on the first day of the tournament. In Group A, three teams scored the same number of points: Gaimin Gladiators, Talon Esports, and Tundra Esports each earned one win and one tie. Meanwhile, EHOME played only one series, in which they were defeated by Tundra Esports.

In Group B, the leader after the first day was the Entity team, which won two out of two series. Following them were Shopify Rebellion and Team Liquid, which recorded a win and a tie each. Knights and HellRaisers were left without points after the first day, losing all their starting matches.

Viewership Statistics of The Lima Major 2023 Day 1

Viewership Statistics of the first day The Lima Major 2023

The matches of the first day of The Lima Major 2023 lasted for almost 12 hours and garnered over 2.9 million Hours Watched. The average online online of the broadcasts was 248.7K concurrent viewers, with a peak of 395.4K viewers. The most popular game of the first day was the series between BetBoom Team and Shopify Rebellion, which was watched by 235K viewers simultaneously. 

The most popular roster of the day was the Russian BetBoom Team, which led both in terms of total Hours Watched (859K) and average number of viewers per match (145.1K). It is worth noting that most of the top 5 teams in both categories were from Eastern Europe, North and South America.

The main language of the first day of The Lima Major 2023 was Russian, which accounted for 49.6% of the total HW and showed a peak viewership of 196.8K concurrent viewers. Spanish (15%) and English (21%) also ranked in the top three languages. As for platforms, Twitch accounted for 76.5% of the total HW, while YouTube garnered slightly over 13%. The contribution of DotaTV was only 1.2%.

The channel of the Russian community caster Nix garnered the most viewers on the first day of the tournament, with 85.5K viewers at peak. The top 5 channels by this metric also included betboom_ru, just_ns, betboom_ru3, and Gorgc.

Viewership Comparison of The Lima Major and PGL Arlington Major

If you compare The Lima Major 2023 to the previous Major, the championship in Peru gathered almost as many viewers on the first day as the PGL Arlington Major 2022 did, despite the inconvenient broadcast time for viewers from Europe. The slight difference in Hours Watched is due to the fact that the matches at The Lima Major 2023 were a bit longer on air. However, some may be puzzled by the statistics for languages.

The Lima Major 2023 became the first tournament where English only took third place in terms of concurrent viewers number on the first day. Usually, it ranked first or second (sometimes second to Russian), but at the tournament in Peru, English was surpassed by Spanish as well. The main reason for this was the change in the broadcasting studio. Instead of the more familiar PGL or BTS studios, the English coverage for The Lima Major 2023 was provided by the little-known Epulze studio, which had never hosted such large tournaments before.

On the first day of the PGL Arlington Major 2022, English had 145K viewers at its peak, while at The Lima Major 2023, this figure was only 78.2K. However, the story was quite different with the Spanish language. In the first game day of the previous major, its peak online did not exceed 46K, while on the first day of the major in Lima, it surpassed the mark of 82K concurrent viewers.

The group stage of The Lima Major 2023 runs from February 22 to 26, and the playoff stage will take place from February 28 to March 5. Teams are competing for a share of $500,000 prize pool and 1,900 DPC points.