Esportscharts has shown that since 2016, the World Championship (Worlds) is one of the two tournaments with a total time to see exceeding 1 billion. The other is Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League (MPL) of the game on mobile phone Legends: Bang Bang. However, MPL is a tournament system with many tournaments of the year, while Worlds only takes place once a year.
Behind these two events are also familiar names. In particular, the LCK tournament of the Korean League of Legends ranked third with more than 960 million hours. Riot Games's Valorant tournament system is Valorant Champions Tour ranked 4th with 860 million hours. Closing the Top 5 is the biggest tournament of Dota2, The International with 630 million hours.
Currently, League of Legends is still considered one of the most popular eSports subjects in the globe. In addition, Worlds is also one of the most worthy events in the world of Esports. At the time of Worlds 2024, the matches can easily cross the 1 million viewers at the same time, even though it is only the play-in matches.
Explaining the impressive viewing hours, Esportscharts mentioned that Vietnam also contributed greatly. Before that, the number of Vietnamese audiences was much better than other areas but still less than Korean and English. However, in recent years, views in Vietnam have increased a lot, especially with the form of co-stream with streamers such as Hoang Luan, Van Tung, Teacher Ba, …
In addition, two other areas also contribute significantly, Brazil and Japan. Before that, Brazil often did not pay much attention to League of Legends, but when the teams from this country played in international tournaments, the views also increased very high. Meanwhile, Japanese people are more and more interested in League of Legends, even Worlds Last year views Japanese had a time to surpass 150,000 people at the same time.
Over the years, the tournament continuously achieved new records on views, typically last year, the match T1 3-0 Weibo Gaming in the final reached 6.4 million viewers at the same time. Currently, Worlds 2024 is entering the matches of the quarterfinals and if many fans such as T1 go deep, the tournament can completely break the views of Worlds 2023 and establish new achievements.
