Not only professional players in various games, but also streamers. Famous creators usually broadcast such competitions themselves, and thus events often show impressive viewership statistics. Streams Charts tells about the most popular streamers' tournaments of 2022.
The most popular streamers' competition of the year, both by Hours Watched (17.76 million) and Peak Viewers (2.26 million), is Twitch Rivals Squidcraft Games ft. Komanche. This Minecraft tournament took place on January 19-24 in a custom mode, based on “the Squid Game” series setting. 150 Spanish-speaking streamers took part in it, among them were Ibai, Rubius and Auronplay. The winner of the tournament was OllieGamerz, who received $100K. Notably, the tournament also became the most popular event in the Minecraft and Twitch Rivals series.
In second place among the most watched tournaments was Pokemon TwitchCup 2, which took place on October 8-25. The tournament, whose participants were popular Spanish-speaking streamers (including Ibai, IlloJuan, elxokas and TheGrefg), was on air for more than 220 hours and accumulated 16.56 million Hours Watched during that time. It should be noted that the event also became the leader of the discipline by this metric.
The top 3 streamers' tournaments of the year by Hours Watched is rounded out by Twitch Rivals Rust Team Battle ft. Disguised Toast, which took place on August 9-14 and accumulated almost 6.8 million Hours Watched. Participants of the event were four teams of 40 streamers each with DisguisedToast, xQc, TheGrefg and Dhalucard as captains. On the final day, Team DisguisedToast beat Team xQc by more than twice the number of kills (518 vs. 254) and became the tournament champion.
In fourth place is Twitch Rivals RingCraft ft. TheGrefG, its participants were 10 teams of 10 streamers each, including TheGrefg, Auronplay, Ibai, and ElSpreen. The Minecraft tournament in “The Lord of the Rings” mode lasted six days, during each of these days the teams went through different challenges. According to the results of the competition, Team Auronplay, Team TheGrefg and Team Elded entered the top 3. In total, the tournament accumulated 5.26 million Hours Watched for nearly 18 hours on air.
Saw Minecraft Games 2022 rounded out the top 5 most watched streamers' competitions in 2022, it had almost 4.8 million Hours Watched. It was also in second place by Peak Viewers numbers, gathering more than 832.12K simultaneous viewers on the broadcasts. Participants of the event in the horror film “Saw” mode were 10 teams of 10 streamers, which passed the challenges and tried to survive. The winner of Saw Minecraft Games 2022 became Noni.
In third place by Peak Viewers was Twitch Rivals Creator Series: Kick-off, ft. Fortnite Zero Build for North American streamers, it accumulated 557.72K Peak Viewers. Meanwhile, a similar tournament for European creators rounded out the top 5, generating 448.22K Peak Viewers. 33 streamers' trios competed for $100K at each of the tournaments.
In fourth place with 473.25K Peak Viewers was Twitch Rivals Rust NA vs EU Showdown, the predecessor to the above-mentioned Twitch Rivals Rust Team Battle ft. Disguised Toast. During the event, 40 North American streamers fought with 40 Spanish-speaking creators for a share up from $100K. In the end, Team DisguisedToast won the tournament with a five-fold margin by points from Team Alexby11.
Read the other results of the year:
- Most Popular Twitch Clips in 2022;
- Most Watched Twitch Streamers in 2022;
- Most Watched Twitch Streamers in 2022 — country lists;
- Top 10 Most Watched Twitch Teams in 2022;
- Top 10 Game Releases on Twitch in 2022.
