The Brawl Stars World Finals 2025, held in Stockholm, Sweden, noticed a much more modest displaying this 12 months in comparison with the 2024 version.
The match’s peak viewership dropped from a record-breaking 1.1m to just a bit over 211,000 viewers, in response to information platform Esports Charts.
In contrast to the earlier 12 months, when Supercell organised the occasion on the Helsinki Exhibition and Conference Heart alongside the Conflict of Clans and Conflict Royale World Finals, the 2025 version passed off at DreamHack Stockholm as a standalone competitors.
Regardless of a rise in airtime, which practically doubled in comparison with 2024, the common viewership additionally suffered a significant decline, stopping at 119,035 (down from 639,209 in 2024).
Nonetheless, the identical esports organisations proceed to be key drivers of viewershipt. Japanese group Loopy Raccoon (CR) was featured in three of the 5 most-watched sequence of the competitors, with different prime groups comparable to SK Gaming, HMBLE, and Revenant XSpark showing on the viewership leaderboard.
What Occurred on the Brawl Stars World Finals
Loopy Raccoon lifted the Brawl Stars Championship trophy after a dominant win in opposition to Italian facet HMBLE, taking revenge for its defeat within the 2024 version and profitable 40% of the $1m (~£754,330) prize pool.
The 2 groups began their marketing campaign collectively within the group stage, with CR already prevailing in its opening match. Different potential title contenders, SK Gaming and Totem Esports, additionally made it by the group stage, establishing a stacked knockout bracket the place virtually each sequence might have handed as a grand ultimate.
The playoff stage; nonetheless, didn’t actually reside as much as the expectations, with six of the eight sequence ending with a 3-0 scoreline. Unsurprisingly, the remaining two sequence with 2-3 data ranked among the many most-watched matches of the match, proving that followers are all the time extra more likely to tune in when the competitors is shut.
The viewership was fairly widespread throughout totally different demographics, with English and Spanish recording round 50,000 viewers every, adopted by Portuguese (39,959) and Japanese (35,506).
YouTube ended up being the popular platform for the massive majority of viewers (147,974), surpassing Twitch by over 90,000 customers. It is a pattern reversal from 2024, which had Twitch dominate with over 900,000 peak viewers.
