Some people say data is the new oil, some say it’s the new soil.

In any case, they are a new kind of raw materials you could build a lot of different valuable things from. Of course at Gamoloco we’ve been measuring viewerships for the past 2 years (the site turned 2 yesterday, YAY!) and we’ll keep doing that, but that’s not all.

Today we’re very happy to introduce something a bit different: the God-o-Meter.

This time, instead of measuring live streaming viewerships, we focused on chat data with the help of Juuso Haavisto.

We counted how many times CSGO pro players at ESL One Cologne 2016 were called “god” by the chat on the esl_csgo channel. If you’re totally unaware of the CSGO scene, know that ESL One Cologne was a Major tournament, some kind of world championship if you will: the players performing there are the best of the best.

And among them, the most god-like of all was, according to the live chat crowd……

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(yeah, we like drumrolls at Gamoloco)

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EDIT: We updated the visual to version 1.1 While gathering the dataset, we couldn’t find many “god coldzera”. That was surprising, so we looked for “god cold” and “god zera” but we hadn’t realized the community used “godzera”, in one word, to cheer him up. So we left him out of the visual… We understood our misfire from reading your comments this weekend: thank you for pointing it out. Our apologies to this formidable CSGO player, coldzera, who now stands where he should have been from the start.

Adding coldzera’s graph in v 1.1, we had to change the scale of all other graphs as the Brazilian’s peak during the final was just too high.

ZONIC is the man! Zonic is god! And what a lead!

Now if you don’t know the story: Zonic was not the best player or the most spectacular at the event. Zonic is the coach of Danish-side Astralis, who unexpectedly ended up playing as one of their members had to go through emergency surgery (appendectomy).

Zonic is also a former professional player every hardcore Counter-Strike fan has known for like 15 years. Many fans were very happy to see him stepping it up in troubled times and that shows.

As for the 9 other players, you could say they were the most spectacular or clutch in the tournament… or at the very least, fan-favorites.

The vertical bars show when players got called “god”. It seems like the semis, to the right of the graph right in front of the digits, were much more god-like than the final… If you watched, you know that was the case.