Austin Major becomes the most watched CS event

Following the conclusion of the BLAST.tv Austin 2025 Major, the buzz is still around on how The MongolZ nearly pulled off a Cinderella-run and how Vitality have put up a near flawless first half in 2025, with ZywOo securing seven consecutive tournament MVPs among other things. Filled with action, upsets and unpredictability, the BLAST.tv Austin 2025 Major has unsurprisingly become the most watched Counter-Strike event of all time.

Putting up over 76 million watch hours, as per an Esports Charts report, the BLAST.tv Austin 2025 Major surpassed PGL Stockholm 2021, the first Counter-Strike Major after the pandemic. Five matches in the playoffs witnessed over a million peak viewers and the grand-final was the most popular match of the Austin Major. 1,789,313 viewers tuned in towards the end, a number that neither Vitality nor The MongolZ had seen before in one of their matches.

Having an average viewers count of 563,629, the BLAST.tv Austin 2025 Major broke several records in terms of peak viewership in certain languages, several platform records and an all-time high viewers count on BLAST's official stream site.