League Of Legends Worlds Series Reaches 1 Billion Total Views

October 22, 2024 Asia Esports

The League of Legends (LoL) World Championship (Worlds) is now the first PC or console esports event series to reach the 1 billion hours watched mark and the second esports tournament series overall, based on a report.

“Over the years, Worlds has evolved and constantly found new audiences to connect with. The game is truly one of the most global esports titles, with all corners of the world tuning in to the world championship matches,” esports database and news website Esports Charts said in their report.

This comes next to the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League by Riot rival, MOONTON Games. The report by Esports Charts, however, noted the frequency of MPL tournaments across the globe as compared to the Worlds’ annual ocurrence.

Previous Esports Charts reports also noted record viewership numbers for some of its markets, particularly in Asia, which houses the more dominant teams in the month-long culmination of the League of Legends circuit.

The Asian market proved a significant audience in the month-long series held across Europe from the playoffs. In fact, viewership in the quarterfinals match of reigning champions T1 and TES peaked at around 3,610,849 viewers. The data accrued by Esports Charts, however, excludes Chinese platforms, just as it has done the last few years.

“Interestingly, the biggest growth came from English and Vietnamese broadcasts, while Korean viewership surprisingly dipped slightly: last year’s series between T1 and LNG attracted a bit more viewers on Korean streams,” Esports Charts said.

Meanwhile, the play-ins match between Vietnam’s GAM Esports and Japan’s Fukuoka SoftBank HAWKS had 1.16 million peak viewers, reaching over 402.3k peak Vietnamese language viewers. However, GAM Esports did not make it into the knockout stages.

“The viewership was exactly half that of the Vietnamese Peak reached during the grand finals of last year’s Worlds event, a promising peak to be reached so early during Worlds 2024,” Esports Charts reported.