Season 24 peaked at 747,055 viewers and grew its average audience by 74% from the previous season, but its biggest moment was not the grand final.
ESL Pro League Season 24 is the fourth most-watched season in the league’s history by peak viewers, according to Esports Charts. The Katowice playoffs, which ended with Vitality sweeping MOUZ in the grand final, peaked at 747,055 concurrent viewers.
Only Season 20, Season 14 and Season 23 have reached a higher peak. Season 24 finished 0.93% below the previous season.
The most-watched Pro League seasons
| Rank | Season | Peak viewers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Season 20 | 819,600 |
| 2 | Season 14 | 758,600 |
| 3 | Season 23 | 754,100 |
| 4 | Season 24 | 747,100 |
| 5 | Season 22 | 632,300 |
Season 20 is still the only Pro League season to pass 800,000 peak viewers, while Season 14 was the first to reach 700,000. The two most recent seasons have both passed that mark.
Average viewers up 74%
The bigger change was in the average audience. According to Esports Charts, Season 24’s average viewership was 74.47% higher than Season 23’s. The peak was slightly lower, but the audience across the event as a whole was far larger.
Spirit vs Falcons drew the peak
The most-watched match of the season was not the grand final. Esports Charts lists the quarter-final between Spirit and Falcons as the most popular match of the event, with 747,000 concurrent viewers. Spirit won the series 2-0.
The same match also produced the biggest co-stream of the event.
Co-streamers
Nearly 230 channels broadcast the event, according to Esports Charts’ co-streaming report, and Russian-language streams dominated the ranking by hours watched.
| Co-streamer | Peak viewers |
|---|---|
| strogo | 118,000 |
| ohnePixel | 66,600 |
| SL4M (YouTube) | 56,100 |
| Maj3r | 45,000 |
| SL4M (Twitch) | 42,800 |
strogo’s peak came during Spirit vs Falcons, and he was also the biggest co-streamer by hours watched with 3.34 million. ohnePixel’s peak came during the Vitality vs MOUZ grand final.
For a full look at the event’s top performers, see our list of the highest-rated players at Pro League Season 24.
