Pokemon TwitchCup 2 came to an end on the 19th of October, with the event having a duration of eighteen days, and being organized by Barbe, Sekiam, Yuste, and other Spanish content creators. This tournament brought together some of the most popular Spanish streamers on Twitch, such as IlloJuan, ibai, and TheGrefg. Some participated as players, while others did so in the coaching position. Every participant had a coach that would help them understand the game, and improve as much as possible. However, coaches couldn’t tell participants what attacks they should use in the combats, and they had other limitations about what they could say.
In the first phase of the event, the streamers finished a custom map that was created exclusively for the tournament. During that phase, players needed to understand how to play the game, and coaches were there to help in what they could. After completing the game, we had the pre-tournament phase, where players evolve their pokemons, learned more about the game and made their best team possible.
The participants were drawn, and would then play versus each other with the pokemons they had caught and evolved in the tournament phase. In this phase, players did not have the help of coaches and had to take everything they had learned to try and win the event, or at least go as far as possible. ReventXz was the winner of the event, as he defeated chusommontero in the grand final.
Viewership Stats
Pokemon TwitchCup 2 viewership was a success with viewers watching the event for 16.5 million hours, and reaching a peak viewership of 393K. The event had an airtime of 220 hours, which is normal since it took place over eighteen days, and had multiple streamers broadcasting it. The multiple broadcasts had 75K Average Viewers during the event.
Every participant of the event streamed from his channel, and to avoid streamers would end the game in one or two days, they could only play until they reached a certain part of the game on that specific day. So that players would be playing the same phases at the same time, making it more interesting for the viewers, and also fair for everyone participating in the event. In the tournament phase, every round was scheduled for a specific time, with at max two combats happening at the same time. This allowed viewers to watch most of the matches, something that would not be possible if they all started a the same time.
Ibai was the most popular streamer and the second most watched of the event with 292K Peak Viewers, and 3 million Hours Watched. IlloJuan secured first place in the most watched category with 4 million HW, and he was the second most popular content creator of the event with 163K PV. Elxokas occupies third place in both metrics.
All the days of the event had a very good viewership, but there are two that stand out among them. Day 10 had 393K Peak Viewers, and that is mainly because of ibai stream. On the 17th of October, ibai steamed the event as he was waiting for the Ballon d'Or gala to begin. Many viewers tuned into his stream of the Pokemon TwitchCup 2 as they waited for the Ballon d'Or ceremony to start.
On day 16 the event had 316K Peak Viewers, a much higher number than average, and once again ibai was one of the reasons this happened. IlloJuan and ibai were the most popular streamers of the event, and on the 23rd of October, they both streamed at the same time, which captivated the attention of thousands of viewers. Both streamers have a big community and are some of the most entertaining content creators to watch on the platform, so it’s normal to see them have this big impact on the viewership of the tournament. The final day of the event had 227K Peak Viewers, which is a good number, but far from the two most popular days of the tournament.
Top Twitch events of the past three months
When compared to the top five events of the same nature, that happened in the past three months on Twitch, Pokemon TwitchCup 2 was the second most popular one, ahead of events such as Twitch Rivals Rust Team Battle ft. Disguised Toast, or the Twitch Rivals Streamer Bowl III ft. Fortnite. Curiously the only event that was more popular, was also mainly composed of Spanish-speaking streamers. RingCraft had 440K Peak Viewers, just 7K viewers more than the Pokemon TwitchCup 2 peak viewership, and sits at the top of this list.
In watch time department, Pokemon TwitchCup 2 beats every single one of the events in this list, and by a large margin. With 16.5 million Hours Watched, it’s clear that thousands of viewers were interested in the tournament, and enjoyed tuning into a stream of one of the many content creators that participated in the event, regularly.
There is no doubt that the tournament was one of the biggest events of the year in the streaming world, captivating the interest of many viewers, so we should expect a third edition of the tournament next year. The Spanish streaming community also proved once again they are one of the biggest in the world, by showing amazing support to all the content creators that participated in this event.
