Pokémon TwitchCup 3 was a standout event, reaching millions of Hours Watched across the two weeks it was live. The Spanish community is supported heavily by the collaboration of streams in the scene, with many large-scale Spanish collaborative events becoming some of the most-watched in live streaming.
The previous Pokémon TwitchCup 2 held in 2022 became the most-watched Pokémon tournament of recent times, reaching over 16.5M Hours Watched. The TwitchCup 2 received 393K Peak Viewers, which made it more popular than 2022 World Championships VGC (99.7K PV), the hololive UNITE World Tournament (99.5K PV), and the 2023 World Championships VGC (74.3K PV). Was the TwitchCup 3 able to set a new record for the Pokémon category of tournaments and events?
In total, the Pokémon TwitchCup 3 received 13.5M Hours Watched, roughly 3M hours fewer than the 2022 iteration of the same event. The TwitchCup 2 managed to receive more watch time across the event, despite having roughly 20 fewer live streamers and content creators to cover the event. The 2023 edition hosted more streamers than ever for the event series, but these streamers suffered from diluted viewership compared to the 2022 event.
The TwitchCup 3 tournament reached 235.8K Peak Viewers on the first day of the two-week-long event. Although the excitement for this event was high among the Spanish-speaking Twitch community, they were unable to beat the high bar set by the first-day viewership throughout the event. The TwitchCup 3 received over 155K fewer concurrent viewers at peak than the TwitchCup 2 event in late 2022.
Of course, the driving forces behind viewership for these collaborative events are always the streamers themselves. Despite featuring a wide and diverse range of some of the biggest names in the Spanish-speaking side of Twitch, the Pokémon TwitchCup 3 was unable to set new records for the event series.
IlloJuan was the most popular streamer of the event, receiving 96K Peak Viewers on his own personal broadcast of the event. The Spaniard is historically especially popular at these Pokémon TwitchCup events, and he was the most popular creator for the previous edition of the event too.
Following close behind IlloJuan by Peak Viewers were ibai and Rubius. These two are at the top of the Spanish-speaking content creation industry, combined they boast over 30M Twitch Followers. The strength of Spanish-speaking community streaming events is that all of the streamers pull weight for the event.
The Pokémon TwitchCup 3 hosted some of the most famous and most popular Spanish-speaking streamers, and all of them were live for hours and hours throughout the event. Rubius covered the event for over 41 hours throughout the two weeks of competition.
Knekro, a Spanish streamer signed with KOI, was the second-most-watched stream of the entire event, receiving over 1.26M Hours Watched for the event. He is known for streaming some Pokémon games, but he largely broadcasts League of Legends on his Twitch profile. Knekro streamed close to 60 hours of Pokémon gameplay for the TwitchCup 3, and his dedication brought him to the second-most-watched streamer of a star-studded event.
The Pokémon TwitchCups have cemented themselves as some of the most popular events in live-streaming for Pokémon. The events regularly receive more concurrent viewers than world championships, large-scale events, and special collaborative events from other live streaming communities.
Spanish-speaking content creators regularly host large collaborative events to boost each other's viewership and create some great content together. The formula is a winning one, and the event proved that this formula of collaboration between content creators is enough to dominate Pokémon viewership in live streaming.
