European Server is the leader in matches played in 2021
European Dota 2 server has the highest number of matches played in 2021. The total number of games on it exceeded 112 million. Statistics are available on Stratz.com.
However, the statistics only consider a small part of the data from the Chinese servers. In fact, it counts only those users who use the international version of Steam. The data from the Perfect World servers is unknown.
Compared to the data of 2020, we can see some trends. The number of matches has increased by almost 30 percent on the European server. Then it was 88 million. Numbers from the servers in North and South America stayed unchanged. But in Southeast Asia, there are almost 5 million fewer matches.
Dota 2 in Southeast Asia has been losing popularity for several years in a row. From 2016 to 2018, these servers had more than 100 million matches played per year, and the discipline was leading. The decline in recent years is directly related to the mass switching of users to MOBA games on mobile platforms.