DH Cluj drew 25 million viewers

23/11/2015 - 19:06

DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca had a unique viewership figure of over 25 million, the Swedish company has revealed.

The final major of 2015 came to a close on November 1, with EnVyUs scooping the top prize of $100,000 after seeing off Natus Vincere 2-0 in the grand final of the tournament.

Over the course of the event, there were over 85 million sessions across all streaming platforms, and over 25 million unique viewers tuned in, making it the second most watched CS:GO event of all time, behind ESL One Cologne, which had a global audience of 27 million people.

DH Open Cluj was the second most watched CS:GO event of all time

Viewership peaked during the final day of the event, when almost 1 million people were watching the streams simultaneously.

"Cluj-Napoca will be one of the most memorable CS:GO and event experiences in esports history," DreamHack Business Development Director Tomas Lyckedal said in a statement.

"As we go forward, we’ll see this event as a milestone event in both DreamHack’s and PGL’s development."

Below you can find the viewership numbers in detail, provided by DreamHack:

Views/started streams: 85,083,044
Unique views/visitors: 25,090,086
Hours watched: 30,837,479
Peak concurrent viewers: 985,052

LOL ok

2015-11-23 19:06

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rip deletion

2015-11-23 19:08

wasnt the peak more than 1M? they didnt count the hitbox russian viewers did they?

2015-11-23 19:09

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I'm sure they counted everything they could, just to beat ESL's majors. But that didn't happen.

2015-11-23 19:19

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Guess that's true, but I don't think that all the websites were willing to provide the information they needed.

2015-11-23 19:25

Both ESL and Dreamhack are under that swedish company as I know,so there is no reason for this

2015-11-23 19:28

Expected more.

2015-11-23 19:07

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most of bots like 24 million

2015-11-23 19:26

Lol sure if that where the case then 24 million would watch the stream till the end

2015-11-23 19:35

You don't even understand what is unique viewers and what is peak do you? Don't fucking talk here if you don't.

2015-11-23 20:57

nt doto fanboy

2015-11-23 20:59

ok LOL

WTF?

wow

sure lol

kidz

hahah

expected

LOL

exptyevcted

nice

Lol

wew lad

Kappa

Drops is lyfe

25,090,86 LOL Totally 25 million :)

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25,090,086

2015-11-23 20:37

unique viewers =/= viewers at once,but over the whole tournament,different viewers on different platforms,TV and streams

"unique" viewers =/= unique viewers, because same people watching on different devices = "unique" viewers.

2015-11-23 19:10

how many multi accounts for drops ?

WTF

we need a major in Brazil we gonna teach euros how to cheer

19th

nice prank

Columbus 25 k viewers incoming

IEM san jose had 220k+ wtf are you talking about?

2015-11-23 21:01

oh blyad thats 5 sint petersburg watching

fake or nah ?

unique != concurrent

2015-11-24 14:53

cobblestone !!!!!!!!! !!!!! ;D

wat

2015-11-23 19:16

25,090,860 probably.

lie

2015-11-23 19:11

because drops, real viewers ? one million max

not...i dont know a single player who uses bots for drops if it was real they why they peak was 1m and not 20m?

2015-11-23 21:03

nice numbers, cs:go has around 700k players but gets 25 million viewers ROFLMAO, why not make it 50M instead if you are going to lie so hard LOL

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omg, why u dont have brains in portugal?

2015-11-23 19:15

you stupid? at least show your flag nerd

2015-11-23 19:17

i would say atleast half were accounts for drops, i would say 8-12.5 mill would be a reasonable amount of unique. obviously im just guessing here but csgo only has 700k players, lol nt And btw they are not lying, its just difficult to know how many "unique viewers" were actually "unique"

CSGO has far more than 700k players. That's just the highest concurrent users. Tons of players play only once or twice a week.

2015-11-23 19:21

2015-11-23 20:29

+1 that guy has autism if he thinks there is less than even a million cs players world wide

2015-11-23 21:04

Why you people make us look like fucking retards just leave Portugal please

your brain logic choose one

2015-11-23 19:32

talks about falsifying statistics "cs go has around 700k players"

2015-11-23 19:47

use your brain 8,6m csgo players in october

2015-11-23 21:06

you stupid? concurrent != unique...

2015-11-24 15:07

90% only watched for drops !drop

2015-11-23 19:12

great..

Bullshit

2015-11-23 19:13

Peak concurrent viewers: 985,052 rofl, those other stats dont mean shit

2015-11-23 19:14

worst major :D

Unique views/visitors: 25,090,86 2,509,086

That is pure fucking bullshit xDD

lmao

fake or 10 multiaccounts

still boring

and still 250k purse.. childish games with little monsters walking around using magic have 16million purse

2015-11-23 19:18

among which 1 million are earthlings.

ARE YOU CRAZY, ARE YOU OUTTA YER MOIND?

2015-11-23 19:20

DH Cobblestone Napoca 2015

much crybabaies

A lot of bots, no more than 800k viwers on final streaming :/

2015-11-23 19:22

viewer peak is unimpressive? take unique viewers number

25,090,086 7,090,086 - Real viwers/fans 10,000,000 - Just open this stream on twitch cuz they see so many ppl watching this shit ? 3,000,000 - Bots and multiacc for more drop ?? 5,000,000 - ppl who watch the stream from TV/Mobile etc that's all

People fail to realize that you dont have to be a csgo player to watch a major. I stopped playing Lol and sc2 a few years back yet i still watch some of the events. Also its featured on the twitch homepage so any random user can check it out for a few minutes then turn it off, but theyll still be a unique viewer.

lol... I was 1 of maybe 5 out of my 250 people on my friends list, who watched the grand final. Was fucked. Wasn't a bad major but the finals were so underwhelming.. And dat crowd.. Romanian's are so poor they cant even afford hype.

ye the hype was so low, the crowd was worse than in some random 40k prizepool small lan.

2015-11-23 19:59

Right? Even the way NiP went out was like.. uhh yeah cool story bro, not anti-climactic at all

2015-11-23 20:15

Can confirm. Most of my friends list didn't watch it either since it was pretty much a guarantee Envyus would win.

2015-11-23 20:32

cool story h3h3 r8 8/8 shit started going downhill

Volvo be like "Y is majr no hipe n no viuws?" While they don't even up the prizepool a little bit while expecting us the same shit we already have for 2 years "Y no much playr incres?" While they have no idea about balancing and keeps pulling out weird updates out of their ass I really wish CSGO would expand but Valve is not doing it right

2015-11-23 23:19

interesting phenomenon cluj turned out to be, it had most stacked teams and production staff lienup, and still people didn't care much about it

Many matches were pretty underwhelming, especially the final.

2015-11-23 19:36

no hype, almost all the stadium was empety besides some chairs in the front.

2015-11-23 20:00

well you sure it affects people at home? you see empty chair in the stadium after envy beats fnatic and turn off stream because of it?

2015-11-23 20:14

no but when you watch a major you want to see big crowds like katowice with alot of hype etc

2015-11-23 20:22

You know that the crowd was bigger than that of any other DH major right?

2015-11-23 21:09

Problem was 1. This Major occurred in a hurry. It was announced like a month before it happened compared to other majors 2. Too short of a gap between this Major and the previous one.

top that next NA major!! salty haters around here bwhahahaha

2015-11-23 19:27

24 milion and half for skins eazy

Major London Wembley, Major NYC madden square garden, cut this kiddy shit make it happen.

2015-11-23 19:29

old monitors and 150 fps :D

2015-11-23 19:33

and yet 250k prizepool

I thought human beings are only 8m lol

2015-11-23 19:34

m or b?

2015-11-23 20:36

Hold on there. Unique viewers are probably due to Dreamhack stream being on front page of twitch. Let's be realist there. There's no way that many people (or bots) watched CS:GO major.

2015-11-23 19:37

lol? i don´t think so many watched the final then

2015-11-23 19:43

24 million watched because of souvenirs

2015-11-23 19:44

Was meh for me. Katowice 2014 and Colongne 2014 were the best majors for some reason.

2015-11-23 19:46

shit major

2015-11-23 19:49

Better than any ESL event ever.

2015-11-24 12:27

Just wait for this NA Major. If games will be played at 04:00 EU Time peek will looks like this: 50,536 viewers.

2015-11-23 19:52

It will be around 500k. People will leave their bots to watch for souvenirs.

IEM San Jose already had 150k - 200k viewers throughout the event, and you are still talking shit about them not having viewers? lol

+1 and it was a shitty ESL event. The major will probably have a few milion less viewers, but viewers still nonetheless.

2015-11-24 12:28

NA has 600 million people to Europe's 700 million...and the eastern half of Europe doesn't even have PCs capable of watching CSGO so NT.

2015-11-23 20:34

Worst major.

2015-11-23 19:58

:DDDD

How much money did it make

and without the bots ??

2015-11-23 20:05

with bots 30 million, without 25 million

2015-11-23 23:09

Crowd was still shit

2015-11-23 21:22

yeah right

2015-11-23 20:16

Nice b8

2015-11-23 20:25

this event was shit wtf

2015-11-23 20:26

10 million betting kids 10 million drop accounts 5 million real cs fans

2015-11-23 20:45

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I think you are being generous with the amount of real cs fans. 2M max

2015-11-23 20:51

and 1 idiot like you

2, cuz I had 2 accounts running at the same time. :(

2015-11-23 21:10

no you didnt

2015-11-23 21:16

yes :( sorry

2015-11-23 21:19

still boring crowd

2015-11-23 20:50

More than half of your don't understand that 25 million people clicked on stream, didn't watch. The peak - viewers was near million.

2015-11-23 20:58

so the same happens at international and world finals at dota2 and lol respectively right?

2015-11-23 21:26

Didnt even break 1 million

25 milion no life and no job xd

I love news like this where people find any way to discredit cs go from anything relatively good for it :)

viewbots for drops

2015-11-23 21:12

Soo retarded reporting.. it's like #222 said.. and there nowhere near 1 mil watching at any time - lol

dude its gotv +twitch -common viewers

I don't understand how does the crowd affect the viewers experience but whatever. I don't remember anybody talking shit about the crowd in Cologne when they were booing at Fnatic. At least the Romanians know how to behave themselves and not go crazy over a fucking video game. The amount of hypocrisy and plain stupidity of this community is mind blowing. We know how much the community affected LoL. Are we going to allow the same type of retards destroy the CS community as well?

stopped reading when i saw your flag

2015-11-23 21:28

I wouldn't talk about other flags as a russian. You're the most toxic people inside this community and you seem to be the type of retard I was talking about. Anyway, I've read an article about papa Putin's latest policy. Hopefully you guys will become extinct in the online community in no time.

2015-11-23 21:31

Don't mind Russians, we'll get bombed ffs :))... The crowd can spoke volumes about the success of an event. Anyways, I was pretty disappointed of the low numbers of participants on this event. Better location for future event can be Bucharest. :-D

2015-11-23 22:41

His response? He changed his flag. What a fucking retard.

2015-11-23 23:49

More like 1 million Hype was shit compared to befoelre

2015-11-23 21:47

MTG is lying through their ass. 25m my dick. eat shit monopolistic suit wearing fucks.

2015-11-23 22:11

25 million is plausible if you take into account all the viewerbots and people who had the stream open for drops without even watching lol

2015-11-23 22:14

Nope they accounted for the dupers, the total views was 30+ million. ~5 mil was viewbots. They tracked the ip addresses. 25 million unique viewers is the actual tally.

2015-11-23 23:08

rigged af

which major was #1?

2015-11-23 22:36

24 million accounts just for drops...other million legit viewers.

2015-11-23 23:12

But its not april's fool yet ...

Title should be, "DH Cluj drew 1 million viewers with an additional 24 million bots just waiting for drops."

2015-11-23 23:16

25 million bot viewers

2015-11-23 23:31

25 million hahaha, okay. This viewership stats are so cringe, pls stop

2015-11-23 23:42

!drop

they are tracking obviously the ip addresses...

Worst final no bo5 4Head

2015-11-24 00:03

idk how this happened this was a horrible major

2015-11-24 00:38

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2015-11-24 02:01