From May 16th to 21st, popular Twitch streamers participated in the Rust Team Battle III show event. The event featured such creators as xQc, Disguised Toast, JLTomy, Buddha, hJune, summit1g, and others. Streams Charts provides viewership results for the event, which turned out to be the most watched among the Twitch Rivals Rust series tournaments.
The winner of the Rust Team Battle III was the CoconutB team, which managed to secure victory in the final minutes of the event by successfully raiding an enemy base. Interestingly, this happened after a big drama within the team — the captain of the CoconutB team had to exclude his assistant Erobb from the lineup for violating the event rules. It turned out that Erobb did not set the emote-only mode in his chat stream, meaning he could receive tips from viewers.
Twitch Rivals Rust Team Battle III Viewership Results
Overall Twitch Rivals Rust Team Battle III viewership statistics
Most of the Rust Team Battle III participants streamed the tournament on their channels — in total, over 300 channels accumulated 11.5 million Hours Watched. The event saw 264K Average Viewers and 344.9K Peak Viewers (largely thanks to xQc's stream, channel raids, and exclusive drops on the streams).
Twitch Rivals Rust Team Battle III had a wide geographic distribution of streams, as representatives from different countries participated in the tournament, including Canada, the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, South Korea, and others. As for the distribution of language streams, the Twitch Rivals Rust Team Battle III streams in English accounted for 71.2% of the total Hours Watched of the entire event. French is in second place (9.5%), followed by Spanish (8.8%).
XQc became the most watched streamer among the participants in Twitch Rivals Rust Team Battle III — his channel accumulated just over 2 million HW and reached 65.6K PV. The Top-3 of leaders also include the official Twitch Rivals channel and hjune's channel: they accumulated approximately 1 million and 828K HW, respectively.
Comparison of all Twitch Rivals Rust events by viewership
The event became the most watched of all the Rust tournaments in the Twitch Rivals series, but its length (nearly 44 hours) played a big role. If we look at the number of concurrent viewers, the previous Twitch Rivals Rust Team Battle ft. Disguised Toast and Twitch Rivals Rust NA vs. EU Showdown had more both Peak and Average Viewers.
Twitch Rivals Rust Team Battle III Chat Analytics
During the tournament, over 3.7 million messages were posted in the participants' chats by 215.2K chatterers. The most active chatters during Rust Team Battle III were on the channel of Canadian streamer xQc, they sent over a million messages in five days. Second place goes to the channel of streamer Erobb, who was eventually kicked out of the tournament just before its completion. CoconutB takes third place, with his team winning the event.
Twitch Rivals Rust Team Battle III chat analytics
XQc also outperformed all other participants in terms of the number of chatters: during the event, 53.7K people communicated on his channel. This is more than the combined number of the next three channels. As for the top emotes, viewers of the event spammed the LUL emote most often, about 108.4K messages. The Top 5 also include the classic emotes OMEGALUL and KEKW, as well as two personal emotes from the CoconutB and xQc channels.
Most active event channels in terms of audience engagement
We have also compiled a ranking of the event's streamers by audience engagement, this parameter helps to assess how actively viewers communicated in the chat. The leader by this metric is the r3crutatv channel, with an audience engagement rating of 15.4%. It should be noted that we have compiled the Top for large channels that had thousands or more chatters during the event.
The Top 3 of audience engagement also include the channels agustabell212 (15.1%) and Erobb221 (11.8%). The xQc channel also made it to the ranking, but only in eighth place (the Canadian had many viewers, but only 8% of them actively chatted).
The most popular Twitch Rivals Rust tournament is still the very first event, Twitch Rivals Rust NA vs. EU Showdown, which took place in April 2022. Its Average Viewers number at streams was 360K, while the Peak Viewers number was 473.2K people. The tournament featured many top streamers, including Tarik, xQc, Rubius, Shroud, TheGrefg, and others.
