Valorant Home Ground #2 — One of Red Bull’s most successful esports events
Red Bull Home Ground #2, the second edition of Red Bull’s VALORANT tournament series, has come to an end recently with Team Liquid’s victory over the European team Acend. The Red Bull Home Ground #2 took place at the Red Bull Gaming Sphere in London, where 15 teams battled for their share of the €60,000 prize pool.
Over and above that, the tournament featured a unique playoff format which added excitement and an extra layer of strategy to the competition. In short, each team picked their strongest map as their “home ground”, with home grounds being played first. If one team was able to win both home grounds (theirs and their opponent’s), they instantly won the whole best-of-five match. Interestingly enough, such development was true for all playoff matches but one — the grand final.
Overall viewership statistics
When compared with the discipline’s most prominent events, the viewership performance of the Home Ground #2 competition was rather mediocre. However, from the organiser’s perspective, it has become one of the Top 10 most-watched esports events (by Hours Watched) held by Red Bull.
During 27 hours of Air Time, the Red Bull Home Ground #2 accumulated 689.2K Hours Watched, showing a 30.3% growth in viewership compared to Red Bull Home Ground, the initial event of the series which took place at the beginning of 2021.
The event peaked during the grand final match between Team Liquid and Acend, when a total of 60.5K concurrent viewers spectated the action. Compared to the previous edition of the series, that’s 8.6% fewer Peak Viewers. On average, 25.5K viewers tuned in to watch the competition, showing a 31.9% viewership increase.
Language distribution
The Red Bull Home Ground #2 was officially broadcasted in five languages based on the popularity of the discipline, namely English, Russian, Turkish, French and German. Expectedly, English-speaking viewers accounted for the biggest portion of the event’s audience — 45.2% of the total Hours Watched was brought in by English-speaking viewers.
The second most popular language among the tournament’s spectators was Spanish, (28.1%), followed by Turkish (20%) and French (2.8%).
Most popular teams
The rivalry of Team Liquid and Acend has projected also into the Most popular teams chart (by Average Viewers). Although the results were really close, Team Liquid ended up winning this contest too with a mark of 27.6K Average Viewers, while Acend fell behind only by a few tens of spectators, accumulating 27.5K AV.
However, statistics is not the only decisive metric here. Fans of the Red Bull Home Ground #2 also had a chance to vote for their favourite player as a part of the Legion MVP Award sponsored by technology company Lenovo. As a result, the audience chose Turkish player Mehmet Yağız "cNed" İpek, granting at least one victory for team Acend. With 51% of the total votes, cNed has been crowned with the MVP title and rewarded with the main prize — gaming monitor Legion by Lenovo.
As for the rest of the teams, the third most popular team of the event was the Russian team Gambit Esports, who was knocked out in the quarterfinals by Acend. The team attracted 19.6K Average Viewers while having a significantly lower Hours Watched indicator than the two leading teams.
Next was Spanish team Giants Gaming with 16.7K Average Viewers, followed by G2 Esports with 16.4K AV.
Although the viewership performance of the Red Bull Home Ground #2 wasn’t anything exceptional in comparison with the discipline’s overall results, it still counts as a success for the event’s organiser, who’s held over 280 esports events so far. At the time of writing this article, the tournament ranked as Red Bull’s 6th best-performing esports event, which implies that the organiser is likely to continue hosting the series in the future.
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