After the Announcement of Counter-Strike 2, CS:GO Set a New Record For the Number of Viewers on Twitch

On the day of the Counter-Strike 2 beta launch, the peak online CS:GO section on Twitch reached 852 thousand of viewers. This indicator is the best result for a shooter in 2023. The Streams Charts portal provided these statistics.

Live broadcasts of CS2 demonstrations are held in the CS:GO section. According to portal representatives, the largest online was recorded in 2021 during the PGL Major Stockholm 2021 final, when more than 1.9 million users watched CS:GO on Twitch.

Who became the most popular CS2 streamer?

From March 22 to 23, the most popular streamer was the British athlete Owen Smooya Butterfield, who collected more than 192,000 viewers in a peak. This statistic does not take into account the Chinese audience. Streamer Mike Shroud Grzhesyk follows him with 159,000 people gathered at the broadcast.

Where is the CS:GO section, among other games?

Regarding popularity among the Twitch audience, the CS:GO section is second only to the "Community" category. Since the announcement of Counter-Strike 2, the CS:GO section on Twitch has gathered 6.95 million fans of Valve's shooter. This indicator is 800 thousand more than in GTA 5 and several times ahead of the results of any other game.

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Valve announced Counter-Strike 2 on the evening of March 22. This is a free update for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, based on the Source 2 engine and scheduled for release in the summer of 2023. The developers promise to improve graphics, sounds, maps, etc.