BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024 Sees Massive Viewership Spike
Fall Final Doubles Viewership of 2024 Event 2023 Event
Rising above its 2023 iteration, the BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024 Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) event in Copenhagen attracted a notable increase in viewership, ranking fourth most-watched CS2 tournament of the year. Esports Charts show that the tournament peaked at 899,345 viewers, more than double the 411,609 top audience noted in 2023. Comparatively to the previous year’s 169,721, the average viewership likewise showed a significant rise—303,736 people.
In viewership for CS2 competitions in 2024, the BLAST Premier: Fall Final ranks behind only the PGL Major Copenhagen and two ESL events—IEM Cologne and IEM Katowice. The event is especially noteworthy since it marks the last Fall Final under the present BLAST Premier circuit prior to a new format unveiled in 2025.
G2 Esports Wins a Grand Final Record Breaking Over Navi
Emerging triumphant in a best-of- five Grand Final—the most watched event—German esports team G2 Esports defeated Ukrainian team Natus Vincere (NAVI). With 6.8 million total hours viewed across the event, G2 ranked top; Navi second with 5.8 million.
With 418,127 viewers arriving from English-language streams, the event attracted its most participants. Other notable language streams were Russian (225,456), Portuguese (68,880), Ukrainian (64,773), and Polish (57,797). The platform only registered a peak audience of 998, much below BLAST’s own BLAST.tv (3,333), YouTube (324, 457), and Twitch (571,927), despite BLAST’s announcement to stream the remaining of the 2024 season on KICK.
BLAST Premier Tournament of the Year Most Watched
Reflecting a great increase in interest for CS2 esports and expectation for the forthcoming changes to the BLAST Premier circuit in 2025, these figures have made the BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024 the most viewed BLAST Premier event of the year.
