PGL Major Copenhagen had third-highest peak viewership in CS history

1-4-2024 00:16

PGL can now boast to have organized the three most popular events in the franchise.

The grand final of PGL Major Copenhagen, pitting Natus Vincere against FaZe, had a peak of 1,844,748 viewers, according to data firm Esports Charts's initial calculations. This puts the Danish Major as the third-most-popular tournament in Counter-Strike history, only behind PGL Major Stockholm and PGL Major Antwerp.

The figure eclipsed the BLAST Paris Major's peak of 1.53 million concurrent viewers, knocking the last CS:GO Major off the podium of the most popular Counter-Strike tournaments.

Sunday's match had a lot going for it. It featured two of the most popular organizations in esports and went to three maps—something that hadn't happened since ELEAGUE Major Boston 2018. Moreover, many big-name streamers were co-streaming the match, boosting viewership figures. The list of co-streamers for the final included many popular streamers that would not be typically associated with Counter-Strike, like Félix 'xQc' Lengyel, Marc Robert 'Caedrel' Lamont and Hans 'Forsen' Fors.

In terms of hours watched, the Copenhagen Major is only sixth on the list. This should come as no surprise considering that CS2's MR12 format makes for shorter games.

The Copenhagen Major's peak still pales in comparison with the record of over 2.74 million concurrent viewers, set during the Stockholm Major's final between Natus Vincere and G2. The Ukrainian organization was present in the three most popular CS matches of all time, having also contested the Antwerp Major's final, which had a peak of over 2.1 million viewers.

Besides Sunday's final, two other matches drew over 1 million concurrent viewers: the quarter-final between FaZe and Spirit (1,126,941) and the semi-final between G2 and Natus Vincere (1,069,582).

The final viewership figures for the Copenhagen Major's title decider will be released on Monday, the company added.

Most popular CS events of all time (peak viewership):

PGL Major Stockholm 2021 — 2,748,434 viewers
PGL Major Antwerp 2022 — 2,113,610 viewers
PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 — 1,844,747 viewers
BLAST Paris Major 2023 — 1,528,724 viewers
IEM Rio Major 2022 — 1,428,993 viewers

WOW, sad that the last 2 maps were such a bore

2024-04-01 00:17

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especially last map wasnt boring for me

2024-04-01 00:20

Lmao. So PGL Top???

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they just happened to get the three most prestigious majors, wouldnt say theyve really earned it

2024-04-01 00:29

no, it's just Navi top

2024-04-01 00:49

Yes, everyone is excited to see their shitshow and how they will fuck up harder than before

2024-04-01 05:53

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Miss you and love you PrestusHood

2024-04-01 13:46

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Great maul, one of the most iconic TF2 Players who fought the great enemy. You are missed as well!

2024-04-04 11:50

Who fought the great enemy kkkkkk You're badass af I miss casting aberta matches

2024-04-05 21:29

Imagine if Gaules had the rights to stream it

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thank god he didn't

2024-04-01 00:19

imagine brazil was actually a competitive region, because despite all of the viewers they can't produce talent good enough to compete at the highest level and end up fighting for the weakest region spot with oceania. mmm, yeah. it's probably because brazilians stop caring the moment their teams aren't playing just like wot happened in rio major. more people outside the arena than inside watching the game.

2024-04-01 00:28

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Rio major finals had more crowd than 90% of EU events m8, idk why u guys keep lying that it was empty clips.twitch.tv/MagnificentImportantAmaz..

2024-04-01 00:31

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correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't most of the said "crowd", the next day after their last BR team lost, preferred to stay with gaules outside of the arena rather than staying inside the arena to watch the grand final unfold? I'm not trying to be a negative person, but I'm genuinely curious if that was actually indeed what happened or another case of a "cheap hltv bait".

2024-04-01 00:47

go look at major final videos, it isnt empty but it isnt full either.

You're wrong and i gonna correct you, Gaules was outside before Furia got eliminated, it was during one of the Mouz matches, cus they made a fanfest event outside, where Furia and Imperial players (fallen and co) were doing signing sections, so everybody was outside, then ppl cherry picked this specific match to lie about the event and say that the crowd was empty when there was no BR team playing, but as you can see from the clip i linked above it is a lie.

2024-04-01 00:51

Understandable, pretty hard to access links on my phone, but either way, thanks for the clarification! 😊

2024-04-01 01:00

clips.twitch.tv/CooperativeHorribleApeVo..

2024-04-01 09:56

clips.twitch.tv/MagnificentImportantAmaz..

2024-04-01 12:13

2024-04-01 14:39

LOL, even with 120 seconds of delay and no brazilian teams Gaules was the second most watched stream, with over 60k every day only on twitch, he was streaming on yt, x , tiktok, twitter, and you say we don't care, tipical eu braindead.

2024-04-01 00:41

Tbf they have plenty of talent, but they all are spread between like 5 different teams

2024-04-01 01:22

no one cares about him, not even you

2024-04-01 00:37

maybe you do, why are you replying?

2024-04-01 00:46

If the final was navi v furia, im sure itd hit 4 million

2024-04-01 03:09

How do the Bad PGL events always make viewers ;-;

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viewbotting maybe...

2024-04-01 00:18

ya ok buddy sure

2024-04-01 01:07

it's about the game not the TO

this

PGL majors got blessed with better teams, better stories and better play level

2024-04-01 00:22

2021 covid buff aswell thats why there is such a big diff, despite this major being the best for sure

2024-04-01 02:43

100%

2024-04-01 05:43

Yep

2024-04-01 10:36

pgl stockholm - navi vs g2 pgl Antwerp - faze vs navi iem rio major - Heroic vs Outsiders blast major - Vitaity vs GamerLegion pgl copenhagen - Faze vs NAVI HMM i wOnDEr wHY thE PGL evEnTs GEt MoRE VieWERs??!??

2024-04-01 00:27

cannot deny what you putting down

2024-04-01 00:57

+9999

2024-04-01 07:19

you can see if navi go final, the view will on top

2024-04-01 10:44

+1 maybe 2

2024-04-01 12:31

Valve come in clutch and fix the seeding disaster that plagued Rio and Paris the worst.

2024-04-01 00:44

This event didn't have that many issues that was pgl fault. Rmr was shit but overall it went pretty smooth. Imo Blast production was superior but it's not terrible as others pgl major.

2024-04-01 10:08

But let's not talk about Blast's Major cup though

2024-04-01 11:13

Now if PGL actually give a fuck and fixes all those tech issues they've been having since stockholm, Shanghai could get a spot in the top3.

with the huge audience china could give i think they can get that top3 spot easily

Well escharts rarely counts Chinese viewership because its hard to get reliable data on those streaming sites and what they count as a viewer is like weird. I just think all these issues (stream going down during Semis/Finals), same bozo audio problems, that stage rush debacle. You'd think PGL would improve but they just simply havent. Hopefully they learn a lesson (ngl I doubt it) and put on a close to perfect show.

2024-04-01 00:21

EZ NAVI UP!!!!!!!!!

Tarik, who nowadays is more involved on Valorant scene than in CS, was mentioned in the article and Gaules was not

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Gaules is literally CS GO broadcaster

2024-04-01 00:32

He makes watchparties just like Tarik

2024-04-01 00:39

But he keeps on doing it. Tarik is unlikely streamery, he streams a major once or a tournament a year not all the time

true

2024-04-01 00:42

2024-04-01 00:23

There’s something in the water at PGL which makes great games

2024-04-01 00:35

woah unexpected lets fucking go

how is rio there with heroic and vp even gambit was more hype

2024-04-01 00:38

Furia vs NaVi in playoffs

2024-04-01 00:40

oh ok i thought it was about final

Not bad

NaVi is the most entertaining team of all time.

POG. SHANGHAI NEXT. CHINESE VIEWERS POGG

2024-04-01 00:43

Pretty impressive to be 3rd considering CS is EU dominant. And EU is Christian tradition dominant. And it's Easter. So many potential viewers not watching because life.

2024-04-01 00:52

Eastern EU here, we're celebrating Easter on May the 5th

2024-04-01 05:38

Most viewed majors were no surprise under Covid

pity about all the missing rounds on the vods, missed end of round 6, frozens clutch on round 8, round 15 and probably a few others

2024-04-01 00:55

It seemed to me that streamers like Gaules Evelone Shadow had more viewers at least on twitch. It was possible to mention them

2024-04-01 00:56

imagine if they didnt have the issues with the stream and the 3rd map were a little more competetive

W major

2024-04-01 00:58

Being the third highest is kinda low since it was the first cs2 major and it should have the most hype? Idk if thats a W for pgl

2024-04-01 01:03

I mean Stockholm was the first major in 2 years after covid (not just the first major but also the first LAN with crowd), there was a lot of hype built for it because of that

2024-04-01 01:15

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True but I still feel like the hype should be bigger now, but well thought my friend. And nice name

2024-04-01 01:20

why would people get more hyped for a game that launched almost 1 year ago and is basically the same as csgo, except for less rounds?

2024-04-01 03:55

for the same reason it was almost impossible to arena tickets for the weekend of the major, people want to be part of the first

2024-04-01 03:57

all big lan events, especially majors, are sold out on weekends. that still does not tell me why this event would be more special than the previous ones

2024-04-01 03:59

I like your logic. I think the average casual does not know or care that the game has changed. And to reach millions of viewers, one need average casuals to watch the game.

2024-04-01 11:11

If final more competitive we will reach 2 million also we need Navi to play final if u want to reach higher viewer.

2024-04-01 01:04

gg it was a nice major, a bit of unexpected results tho

2024-04-01 01:16

why did stockholm have such a high peak

2024-04-01 01:26

and this was with short maps and only bo3, impressive

2024-04-01 01:32

make sense since all of the finals pgl has had are top 4 most watched cs teams faze navi g2 (vita)

2024-04-01 01:36

Gaules brought a massive viewership (topping 500k on multiplat) even though he had a 2-min delay and was lagging sometimes. Not only that, since semifinals, gotv coincidentally went down a bunch of times, while in the final, it just went off after rd6 on map 2, meaning all of the 75k viewers on Gaules stream couldn't watch the game from there, having to "watch" the scoreboard. That's the most impressive thing I've saw following this game for over 20 years.

2024-04-01 01:48

Now that PGL is doing 11 events in the future, in my opinion there are too many events. It should be the case that all top teams should be represented and compete in every Tier 1 event. Now the teams can more or less choose which event they attend and can tactically avoid each other. Surely that’s not what we as viewers want? In addition, the teams hardly have any time left to prepare for events and think about new tactics etc., considering that the teams also need travel time in order to be able to take part. In addition, the hype and anticipation for matches is lost. I would think it would be much better if valve controlled everything and there is only 1 Tier 1 event per month in which all the top teams compete. This means that the anticipation of wanting to watch the games always remains and teams have enough time to prepare.

2024-04-01 02:19

There will be 4-5 Elite events per year with all top teams - 2 majors, Katowice, Cologne, Blast Year Final. As for teams picking events - that's already happening with US and China events being skipped by few top teams. In general many events are good for orgs and health of scene in general. Some T2/T3 teams will have a chance to get LAN experience which at the moment is almost exclusive for partner teams.

2024-04-01 11:01