The OTK Rift 2 League of Legends showdown, with participation of top Twitch and YouTube streamers, ended on September 16. They competed for a symbolic $25K prize pool, and streamed the matches on their channels at the same time. Streams Charts tells how many viewers have watched the event.
OTK is a US-based gaming organization that runs various events with popular content creators. It was founded in 2020 by such streamers as Asmongold, Mizkif, EsfandTV, Rich Campbell, and Tips Out. The organization was later joined by Sodapoppin, Tectone, Emiru, and other creators. OTK holds show matches mostly with organization members or various online shows. For example, in one of them, streamers exercised under the guidance of fitness trainers for weeks and it all took place on the air.
Eight teams participated in the OTK Rift 2 Showdown, involving Mizkif, Clint Stevens, Filian, CrazySlick, Sodapoppin, Ludwig, Tectone and Buddha. These teams included such popular content creators as Nmplol, Mang0, LilyPichu, QTCinderella, xQc, and other creators. Team Clint Stevens, Team Sodapoppin, Team Tectone, and Team Filian advanced to the playoff stage by the group stage results. The last one won the tournament. Filian, Bustin, Scrapie, Jaycgee and Th3Vale. were also among the winners.
Viewership statistics
The OTK Rift 2 matches lasted just over seven hours and accumulated more than 815K Hours Watched during that time. Average Viewers number at all broadcasts was 112.4K, and Peak Viewers number reached the mark of 209.2K.
Most viewers followed the event on xQc, Sodapoppin and emiru channels. Meanwhile, the tournament overall audience dropped significantly after the xQc team left the competition and the Canadian stopped streaming the matches.
The vast majority of the broadcasts were on Twitch, although Ludwig and Sykkuno streamed on YouTube because of their exclusive partnership with the platform. In total, 438.7K unique authorized viewers watched all of the Twitch broadcasts. There were more than 50K active chatters on the streams, who sent more than 512K messages. Audience engagement was 11.6%.
The xQc channel attracted the most number of unique authorized viewers (172.3K), despite the fact that the Canadian streamer spent only a few hours at the tournament, as his team was among the first to drop out. Emiru and Sodapoppin also entered the top three by this metric with 134.2K and 114.4K unique viewers respectively. Other participants failed to overcome the mark of 100K viewers.
Bustin became the leader by audience engagement — he had only 1.2K viewers, but more than 200 of them were actively chatting (16%). This figure for xQc was 10.3%, but he had a much larger audience. Another figure is the number of messages: while xQc's active chatter sent slightly more than 7 messages during the tournament, bustin's active chatter sent almost 47.
OMEGALUL (29.3K messages) and GIGACHAD (17.5K) were the most popular emotes in chats among the tournament streamers. At the same time, Tectone (more than 8K) and Filian (7.7K) had the most emotes in chat. Clint Stevens was the most frequently used nickname in chats (more than 8K). The second most frequently mentioned nickname was xQc (5.4K).
Earlier, one of the founders of OTK, streamer Mizkif, was at the center of the scandal. He was accused of covering up and concealing an incident of sexual harassment, for which his close friend CrazySlick was to be accused. As a result, OTK management decided to suspend Mizkif from organizational duties. You can get more details about that here.
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