The BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024 Counter-Strike 2 event saw a massive spike in viewership compared to its 2023 counterpart, making it the fourth most watched CS2 tournament of 2024.
The annual event, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, recorded a peak viewership of 899,345, according to esports data platform Esports Charts.
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This year’s peak viewership was almost double that of the BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023, which had a peak of 411,609. Similarly this year’s event boasted a massive increase in average viewership, recording an average of 303,736 viewers compared to last year’s 169,721.
The event became the fourth most viewed CS2 tournament of the year behind the PGL Major Copenhagen and two ESL events, IEM Cologne and IEM Katowice.
The BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024 marks the last event of its kind before the tournament organiser’s brand new circuit set to be introduced in 2025.
The event was won by German esports organisation G2 Esports after taking down Ukranian esports organisation Natus Vincere (NAVI) in a best-of-five Grand Final, the most watched match of the tournament. The champions were also the fan favourites throughout the event, garnering the highest amount of hours watched (6.8m) with NAVI once again coming in second (5.8m).
The most amount of viewers for the event came from English streams which recorded a peak viewership of 418,127 whilst Russian (225,456), Portuguese (68,880), Ukrainian (64,773) and Polish (57,797) language streams all pulled in a significant amount of viewers.
Despite the fact that BLAST announced it would be streaming the rest of the 2024 BLAST Premier season on KICK, the streaming platform only recorded a peak viewership of 988. It was beaten out by BLAST’s own broadcasting platform BLAST.tv (3,333), YouTube (324,457) and Twitch (571,927).
Overall BLAST Premier: Fall Final became the most watched BLAST Premier tournament of the year.
