LoL World Championship “surpasses” Fortnite, Overwatch in terms of viewership

World Championship is the annual peak of LoLwith a record-breaking event bringing together the 24 best teams from over a dozen regions around the world to win the biggest prize, the Summoner Cup.

This year, Chinese warriors FunPlus Phoenix proved their strength, winning against very strong teams like G2 Esports, Faker of SK Telecom T1 and defending world champion Invictus Gaming to cement their position. they in LoL history.

It turns out that this global event is also writing its own pages in history and increasing number of viewers to the largest number ever seen when Tournaments held throughout Europe.

According to new data Riot Games announced on December 17, the tournament reached its peak with 44 million concurrent viewers during the tournament, as FPX defeated G2 3-0 in Final match in Paris.

Notably, the flagship event of Riot about to record a record of 21.8 million audience average per minute (AMA) over the course of the month-long tournament, surpassing the Overwatch League’s final figure of 1.12 million, by more than 20 times.

While the Worlds and the OWL finals compete with each other on AMA metrics, Blizzard and Riot have both adopted to better advertise their leads, the LoL event is also well suited for other events. esports events 2019 other.

According to EsportsCharts, the most recent CSGO tournament, hosted by StarLadder in Berlin, garnered 45.2 million hours watched with an average of 350,000 viewers, while Fortnite’s inaugural World Cup saw 22.7 million hours. watched with an average of 1.1 million viewers.

By comparison, LoL’s year-end event had a final record with over 1 billion hours of viewing time consumed by fans, as reported by Riot. The previously mentioned peak of 44 million concurrent viewers was also reported.

While it seems LoL is far ahead of the rest of the esports scene – only Dota 2’s The International 9 comes close to 88.8 million hours watched and 725k average viewers – these numbers are compiled by Riot. Recorded are global statistics, including China.

LoL audience in the West (watched 137.8 million hours, peak viewership at 4 million, average viewership at 1 million) are closer to their rivals, but still above record. The difference also speaks to the strength of Riot’s international audience.

With League of Legends and all subjects electronic Sportswhich continues to grow every year, it will be interesting to see if 2020 hosts any more record-breaking tournaments.

CSGO will be at the vanguard with the newly announced Brazilian Major, Fortnite’s second World Cup, the 2020 LoL World Championship held in China, and the Dota TI10 tournament in Stockholm which could also offer some of the biggest numbers of the year. .
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