The League of Legends World Championship finals had 5.1 million viewers — breaking viewership records

Over 5.1 million people tuned in yesterday for the League of Legends World Championship Grand Finals. That figure, which doesn’t take viewership into account, has eclipsed the previous record set by the 2021 Edward Gaming vs DWG League Finals by more than a million viewers, making this year’s event the leader by a margin. substantial.

The grand finale, held at the Chase Center, California, saw superteam T1 take on DRX, both Korean favorites who managed to earn their spot over another brilliant Korean team in Gen.G, and Chinese powerhouse Royal Never Give up.

Some interesting facts can be seen by looking esports cards, an esports data analysis website, which tracked the event. According to the website, there was a viewership jump of close to 3 million from the semi-final and final matches, and close to 1 million average viewers throughout the entire final event. In total, the website claims that 141,943,946 hours of gameplay were watched over the weekend.

Esports charts revealed additional information on Twitter, indicating that 2.8 million of the grand finale’s lofty figure was taken up by Twitch.tv viewership, while YouTube followed relatively closely with 1.7 million. The remaining 600,000 were divided between Afreeca TV, Trovo and Facebook.

Overall, it looks like this year’s global event was an amazing success. It’s been a big year for Riot Games’ esports efforts, as this was the first year in a while where people were able to attend the physical event and the company was able to pull off all the bombast it liked, somewhat limited due to COVID in the past. years. This allowed for a variety of powerful and notable moments, with a openly sobbing T1’s Keria standing out as an especially emotional.

But let us know what you think of these figures below! It’s hard to imagine how big the 5.1 million figure actually is, and it’s certainly a ridiculous bar set for next year’s finals. It was great to see the live crowd experience it once again, and I personally look forward to seeing what comes next year.

For more Riot Games-related articles, we covered the fake Project L roster leak that made its way onto the internet over the weekend. We also reviewed the 2022 Secret Lab Titan Evo series VALORANT edition chair here, in an unsuccessful attempt to fix our stance.