Earlier, Esports Charts released a detailed material on the viewership statistics of BLAST Premier: Global Final 2020. And now it's time for a much more serious analysis: we studied the chat of the main broadcast of the tournament to find the most popular emotes and the funniest copypastas. Who became the leader: LUL or Pog? Who is the player associated with SeriousSloth? Which Brazilian player was chat especially rooting for? All the answers are in the new Streams Charts’ article.
Most used emotes
LUL is the undisputed leader in frequency of use among all emotes. It’s not surprising as this is one of the most popular global emoticons of Twitch nowadays. It is actively used by the majority of viewers: LUL became the leader in use during five of the six days of the tournament. Every 25th word in the chat was LUL.
LUL was bypassed only in one out of six days of the tournament, it was done by the emote SeriousSloth. At first glance, the result seems strange, because this emoticon itself is rarely used. It was Team Liquid’s player Keith NAF Markovich who made emote with a sloth popular. And even the organizers themselves picked up the meme.
BetterTTV emote KEKW also turned out to be extremely popular. During the tournament it was in the top 2 for two days, three days in the top 3 and one day in the top 4. Note that this is one of the most common BTTV emotes, which are actively used by those who have installed the extension.
KEKW became more popular than EZ, Pog and OMEGALUL. EZ started to get some attention after third day of the tournament, and one of the LUL’s variations made it to the top 5 twice in the six days of the event.
It’s also interesting that blastFallen and Squid3 were in the top 5 once during the tournament. Both emotes are also associated with Team Liquid. Gabriel FalleN Toledo plays for the team, and Squid3 is used in a cheering copypasta.
It is worth noting that LUL is the leader in the total number of words in chat in six days, but it is inferior to Pog and KEKW in unique one-word messages. If we consider EZ and Clap as one message (they often come in pairs), then they will also bypass LUL. Chat users also actively spammed VAC during the most spectacular highlights and LULW during comical mistakes of players.
Most popular copypastas
The copypastas on the broadcast of the tournament were very diverse: and not always related to what was happening in games. It is worth noting that copypastas are being used much less often than emoji, because moderators quickly ban repeated messages. To prevent it users often add 2-3 new symbols to the original text so their post doesn’t get removed. We considered it in the analysis.
The most common phrase (this is also a copypasta in some sense) was gg in various spelling and usage variations: it was mentioned in 2.38% of all unique messages. Classic copypastas gained less than 0.2% of the percentage of use, but in terms of quantity, this is still quite a number.
Top 1 copypasta is an ironic appeal caused by problems with CS:GO servers. The matches scheduled for January 21 started with a delay: the chat could not help but take advantage of this, and began to joke that the CS:GO category should be changed to Just Chatting.
The second most popular copypasta was spam praising the newcomer of FURIA Esports Lucas honda Cano. At the championship, the young Brazilian had several highlights, although his team was eliminated after two matches, taking 7-8 place.
The third place was taken by copypasta about Sebastian Forsen Fors (one of the most popular variety streamers, whose viewers often appear in chats of CS:GO tournaments). The top 5 also includes ironic copypastas about G2 Esports and Team Vitality: as you can see, chat users are not averse to making fun of French teams.
Most mentioned teams in chat
Most mentioned teams in the chat are the same ones that became the most popular by the Peak Viewers; but they took different ranking. The only team that became the first in both categories is Natus Vincere. Champions were mentioned in every hundredth message that appeared in the chat.
Astralis became the second most mentioned team with 15.9K mentions; it is half as many as NAVI. With only 45 mentions difference G2 Esports finished ahead of Liquid, and the French from Team Vitality closed the top five.
Previously, Esports Charts did similar analytics on Twitch chat for Worlds 2020. At LoL’s World Championship two BTTV emoticons hit the top at once, and the most popular was the one that was almost never used at BLAST.
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