How should we evaluate the first IEM CS contest after 2019?
How on earth is this IEM Chengdu Station, and how should we evaluate the first IEM CS contest after 2019? Numbers can't lie. Let's use numbers to see the results of IEM Chengdu Station.
Anti SLI, becoming the most popular CS event held in China
The data website Esports Charts released the watching data of IEM Chengdu Station. The peak online watching was the final match between MOUZ and FaZe, which reached 366460. In the 51 hour broadcast time of the whole event, the total viewing time was up to 7.67 million hours, with an average number of viewers of 151391.
Before IEM Chengdu, the most popular CS game held in China, the record holder was the game between fnatic and Natus Vincere in the seventh season final of StarSeries&i-League. The peak number of online viewing of this game was 243561.
Foreign players envy the best CS audience here
On the map of G2 vs. Virtus.pro Overpass, Ilya Osipov | The 1v3 of m0NESY shocked the world audience. The overseas CSer was also impressed by the super quality of the on-site audience in Chengdu. A speech that was highly praised on the Internet was like this: "The audience is really great. At the right time, they shout, and in other audience environments, 100% of m0NESY's wreckage will be destroyed."
M0NESY successfully helped G2 advance to the semi-finals with a score of 2-0 by virtue of this residual situation. This residual situation reflected that the Chinese audience was the best, and they used their practical actions to make m0NESY live up to its expectations. After qualifying for the knockout round, M0NESY once wrote, "We have locked the knockout match, and we are looking forward to playing in front of the Chinese audience."
A warm CS event
As a member of the host, CSBOY members Ke Liu | captainMo, Ma Sici, commentator Xiao Mengge, commentator Li Wenzhe and Sifu have all narrowed the distance between foreign players and CNCS through various ways. CaptainMo gave the sketches of the contestants drawn by his wife, Xiao Ma, to the contestants, and they received unanimous praise. Even Martin Lund | Stavn and Jakob Nygaard | jabbi, the players of the Astralis team, who were "booed" by the audience when they were on the stage in IEM Chengdu, also received this precious and unique gift. Not to mention that many foreign professional buddies know their distinctive ID in China for the first time, Gabriel Toledo | Fallen even showed Chinese on the spot: "I'm glad you called me Godfather, this is my second time to Chengdu, and I hope you can cheer us on. “
After the final of IEM Chengdu, a happy birthday song was sung on the spot, The final day of IEM Chengdu is the birthday of Finn Andersen | Karrigan, the chief cousin of the FaZe team commander, The champion of IEM Chengdu Station naturally became his best birthday gift.
A romantic CS event
In addition to the happy birthday song mentioned above, The IEM Chengdu scene also gave birth to the classic picture of ten thousand people singing Chengdu. "Walk with me in the streets of Chengdu, oh... until all the lights go out.". Tens of thousands of CS players waved their mobile phones, turning the venue into a night sky full of stars and dust.
This move also made the hard core E-sports arena feel a bit like a concert scene, which may be the romance exclusive to CS players. For Chengdu, which intends to build Chengdu into the cultural capital of E-sports, the collision between the city card Chengdu and CS has also made more CSers feel the unique charm of the city.
Write at the end
After the competition of IEM Chengdu, the next CS competition to be held in China is the Shanghai Major at the end of the year. This is the first time that CS series games have held the highest level official competition in Asia since their birth in 1999, and also since the first Major in 2013, Major was held in Asia for the first time. IEM Chengdu Station is very popular, which also makes us look forward to the arrival of Shanghai Major!
