DEXGame Eyes on Tournaments: The World’s Biggest CS:Go Tournaments
The esports craze, which has a growing audience in the world and in Turkey, knows no bounds anymore. With its federations, clubs and regulations, it is no longer different from a professional sports branch. One of the games that plays an important role in the development of this sector is CS:Go, which is one of the first games of Game Zone & Arena. Let’s examine the world’s biggest CS:Go tournaments together.
CS:GO TOURNAMENTS REACHING THE MOST INSTANT VIEWERS IN 2021
Another factor that plays an important role in the popularization of esports is the broadcasting of the competitions on live broadcast platforms. The fact that the matches can be watched instantly increases the popularity of esports clubs and has an important place in expanding the audience with breathtaking competitions. Let’s take a look at the 5 CS:Go tournaments that reached the highest number of instant viewers last year, according to Escharts data.
PGL MAJOR STOCKHOLM
The coronavirus affected the world and also affected esports matches and tournaments. For this reason, Major League, which kept CS: Go lovers waiting for 2 years, managed to become the CS: Go tournament with the highest number of instant viewers. PGL Major Stockholm 2021, played between October 26 and November 7, is at the top of our list with a total of 2,748,434 viewers instantly on Twitch and Youtube broadcasts. This number is reached in the Final fight between NaV, and G2. We should not miss the fact that the Ukrainian club NaVi managed to become the champion of PGL Major Stockholm 2021 by winning the tournament without losing a single map.
BLAST PREMIER FALL 2021 FINALS
BLAST Premier League is an S Tier CS:Go tournament played for 2 seasons a year, Spring and Autumn. The grand final match played between 24–28 November last year attracted great attention. The match played between NaVi and Team Vitality is at 2nd place on our list with 861,383 views.
INTEL EXTREME MASTER SEASON XVI — COLOGNE (IEM COLOGNE)
While the IEM Cologne tournament, which was in the top 3 on the list with 842,972 instant views, was expected to be the first tournament to be held in a LAN environment after the tournaments that could not meet with the audience for a while due to coronavirus, unfortunately, this tournament also took place in the studio environment because of the measures. The most watched match of the championship was the grand final match between NaVi and G2.
ESL PRO LEAGUE SEASON 14
ESL Pro League Season 14, ranked 4th on our list, was one of the longest tournaments to take place in 2021. The broadcasts of the matches lasted more than 221 hours in total and reached 758,568 instant viewers with the struggle of NaVi and Team Vitality.
BLAST PREMIER WORLD FINAL 2021
BLAST Premier World Finals have become iconic as the last major CS:Go tournaments of the year. In the grand finale, where NaVi and Gambit faced off, a total of 727,376 instant viewers were reached.
We have listed the 5 CS:Go tournaments with the highest number of instant viewers in 2021. The fact that NaVi club takes part in all of these matches shows us how much NaVi is loved. Now let’s examine the prize pools of CS:Go tournaments together.
AWARD POOLS OF CS:GO TOURNAMENTS REACHING THE MOST INSTANT VIEWERS IN 2021
We know that athletes and clubs are rewarded for their success in esports, as in other sports. Let’s take a look at the prize pools of these tournaments, which are watched by millions and hundreds of thousands instantly.
PGL MAJOR STOCKHOLM
Let’s start with the tournament format. The tournament has a format of 3 stages, these stages are The New Challengers Stage (October 26–29, 2021), The New Legends Stage (October 30 — November 2, 2021) and The New Champions Stage (November 4–7, 2021). . The New Challengers and The New Legends stages are the stages consisting of 16 teams and qualifying in the Swedish System format. Top 8 teams from each 2 rounds advance to the next round, while the other 8 teams are eliminated. The qualifying matches are played in BO3, while the other matches are played in the BO1 format. The New Champions stage is the final round. Teams are matched in a single elimination system and the 8 teams remaining in this round play the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals for the championship. During The New Champions stage, all matches are played in BO3 format.
The prize pool of this PGL Major Stockholm tournament organized by Valve is worth exactly $2,000,000!
BLAST PREMIER FALL 2021 FINALS
BLAST Premier Fall 2021 is played in Playoff format with the teams remaining to the final round. All of these matches, played with the double elimination system, are played in the Bo3 format.
The prize pool of this tournament, known as the S-Tier event, is $425,000 in total!
IEM SEASON XVI COLOGNE 2021
In the IEM Season XVI Cologne tournament, the format was in a structure called Play In, followed by the group stage and the final with the playoffs. The first match of the preliminaries was played in bo1 format and the next matches were played in bo3 format and the best 8 teams were going to the group stage. In the group stage, 2 groups of 8 teams played matches between each other and the best 3 teams of these groups were making the playoffs. Playoffs consisted of quarter-finals, semi-finals and final stages, and each match was played in Bo3 format.
The prize pool of this S-Tier tournament with a grand prize is 1,000,000$ in total!
ESL PRO LEAGUE SEASON 14
ESL PRO LEAGUE SEASON 14 has a 2-stage format as Group Stage and Playoff. Teams that complete the group stage, which consists of 4 groups of 6 teams, in the top 3 places, advance to the Playoff stage. The teams that finished their groups as the leaders starts from the Quarter-Finals in the playoff stage, while the other teams are paired with each other in the round of 12.
The prize pool of the S-Tier ESL PRO LEAGUE SEASON 14 tournament is $750,000!
BLAST PREMIER WORLD FINAL 2021
BLAST PREMIER WORLD FINAL 2021 was played in Bo3 format with a double elimination system. As the grand prize pool of this 8-team tournament was distributed to 8 teams, we can say that the teams earned a little more money than other tournaments.
The prize pool of BLAST PREMIER WORLD FINAL 2021, which is S-Tier, is $ 1,000,000!
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