The final matches of the Chess.com Pogchamps 5 show tournament, featuring popular streamers and bloggers, will take place on August 18 at 9:00 PM CEST. Out of the sixteenth participants, only four strongest players remained: CDawgVA, Franks-is-heres, QTCinderella, and Wirtual. They will be playing two finals at a studio in Los Angeles.
Chess.com Pogchamps 5 Viewership Statistics
You can follow the Chess.com Pogchamps 5 matches on the official Chess.com channels on Twitch and YouTube.
Initially, the 16 participants of Chess.com Pogchamps 5 were divided into 4 groups. The top 2 strongest players from each group advanced to the Championship Bracket, where the level of play and the prize pool were higher. The remaining less experienced players continued their battle in the Consolation Bracket.
CDawgVA and Franks-is-heres made it to the final of the Championship Bracket — the winner of the series will receive $20K, while the runner-up will earn $12K. QTCinderella and Wirtual will compete against each other in the Consolation Bracket final, where they can earn $7K or $5K depending on the result.
In Chess.com Pogchamps 5, many well-known streamers and bloggers participated. In addition to the aforementioned finalists, xQc, Fuslie, Sapnap, Jinytty, Tyler1, and others also participated in the tournament. The most popular match of the fifth tournament is currently the series between xQc and Papaplatte — it gathered 182K Peak Viewers. By the way, xQc won that confrontation with a score of 2.5 : 1.5.
Chess.com Pogchamps 5 statistics ahead of the final matches in Los Angeles
The third event of the Chess.com Pogchamps series, which took place in February-March 2021, has become the most popular tournament. This time, the organizers managed to gather 375K Peak Viewers during the stream, which occurred during the group stage match between Rubius and xQc
