December 31 marked the end of RTA in Japan Winter 2022, the largest speedrun event in Asia. As part of the charity event, participants speedran through a wide variety of games, from Super Mario and Donkey Kong to Dead Rising and Cookie Clicker. In the new article, Streams Charts will tell you how many viewers followed the six-day competition on Twitch, and how active the event broadcast chat was.
RTA, or Real Time Attack, is a competition to see who can beat the game in the shortest amount of time. The money raised during the RTA in Japan Winter 2022 will be donated to "Médecins sans frontières" after tax. Note that the 2022 RTA summer event raised ¥6.7M ($50K) in donations.
RTA in Japan Winter 2022 aired on RTAinJapan for almost 131 hours. During this time, the event has generated a little less than 6.8M Hours Watched and attracted more than 51.8K Average Viewers. The mark of almost 85K Peak Viewers was reached during the Cookie Clicker speedrun. The audience was also interested in the passages of The Convenience Store and Transiruby, which gathered 84.5K and 75.3K Peak Viewers, respectively.
In total, the event was attended by more than 600.6K unique viewers, 66% of whom were also authorized on Twitch and had the opportunity to write to the broadcast chat. Only 41.7K unique viewers used the chat at least once. In total, they sent over 1.16M messages using over 2.5M words. At the same time, approximately 76% of chatters wrote two or more messages.
Also, there were more than 2.9K cheer chatters in the RTA in Japan Winter 2022 broadcast chat, which sent a total of 9.7K cheer messages. On average, the RTAinJapan channel received 133 bits from each such message.
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RTA in Japan Winter 2022 was the series' most-watched event by Hours Watched, beating RTA in Japan Winter 2021 by almost 2%. Note that these same competitions are in the series’ top 2 by duration. At the same time, the winter event of 2022 took only the fourth spot by Peak Viewers, lagging behind the leader RTA in Japan Summer 2021 by 115% in this metric.
