Riot Video games has revealed that Valorant Champions 2024 is the most-watched VCT occasion of all time, surpassing the 2023 World Championships and Masters Madrid.
Based on the Valorant developer, Valorant Champions Seoul has peaked at 3.45 million concurrent viewers to date, simply forward of the match’s last 4 matches.
Esports Charts has the match bringing in a peak of 830,396 viewers for the match between Sentinels and Fnatic. Nevertheless, Esports Charts solely brings in information primarily based on a handful of streaming platforms like Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Afreeca TV, Kick, and others.
The corporate has a ‘Warmth Index’ for Chinese language platforms however no stable numbers, which makes it laborious to gauge simply how many individuals are watching from each nook of the globe.
Riot Video games, however, can observe who’s viewing matches by way of its web site and gauge viewership from China due to partnerships within the area.
The developer claimed the same milestone ultimately 12 months’s Valorant Champions, saying one among EDward Gaming’s group-stage matchups reached a peak of 1 million viewers in China.
Essentially the most-watched VCT occasion earlier than Valorant Champions 2024 was Masters Madrid which Riot claimed introduced in 3.1 million peak concurrent viewers. On the time of the occasion, Esports Charts clocked the occasion as having 1.6 million peak viewers, which was nonetheless record-breaking.
The groups on the prime of the viewership metrics for Valorant Champions 2024 to date embody Sentinels, Fnatic, EDG, and Gen.G. Sentinels has been a participant in 4 of the highest 5 most-watched matches on the occasion.
All 4 organizations are in style in their very own proper as Fnatic and Fnatic all have a number of Valorant trophies to their title, whereas Gen.G and EDG are each in style of their respective areas.
Followers of the esport ought to anticipate viewership to hit its highest in the course of the Grand Finals, as that’s when most viewers will tune in to see who will probably be topped the World Champions of Valorant. Valorant Champions 2024 will crown its champion on August 25.
