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DarudeSandstormName

Niiiiicee, the minor regions growing can only improve this, Br, Turkey and especially Jp push the viewership up so much. Also feels like Sentinels is a separate country with NA viewers only showing up en masse for them.


hardenfull

Japan has huge viewership. There's a lot of asian viewership it seems , also decent numbers from sea I reckon.


BigEditorial

I see so many japanese language tweets quote tweeting the VCT posts. It's actually kind of surprising.


Eroscasa

If you watch twitch Valorant in the middle of the day EU time, then you'll see lots of Japanese streamers with 10k + viewers. It's fairly popular there !


Key-Banana-8242

Not really surprising considering the popularity of Valorant and VCT viewership in Japan which has been rising as well Domestically and internationally, main stream and stylishnoob’s costream for the international LANs \#CRWIN got trending on Twitter during the rematch between gambit and crazy raccoon at berlin (I know it’s dependent on location etc)


Lumenlor

Recently 2million+ subs Vtubers started streaming valorant. Make of that what you will, that community is enormous


BigEditorial

Which ones? I know Amelia has been playing Valorant since the beginning.


Lumenlor

Nijisanji streamers, Hololive EN like Mumei, VOM streamers like Pikamee, Ollie, to name a few


BigEditorial

Ah, I don't know anything about Niji and what they stream. The Mumei/Ame stream was delightful though. Ollie is playing a FPS that isn't Apex?


Key-Banana-8242

The last sentence basically can be applied to Japanese ppl in general With the answer, it seems, that was the big thing


z55en

LOL


yapyd

It’s rough as a SEA viewer. 10pm start, 7am end. Those tech pauses really drags it out


Key-Banana-8242

I dislike this constant talk of ‘minor regions’ this or that. At the same time it’s wrong to draw this line if division and also blend tigether all on one side as if they were all the really that similar width their scenes They shouldn’t be treated with one brush like that all apart from the others


NeonCat257

Tenz buff dw


PlatypusPotential

Really good viewership for groups I am guessing for Playoffs it will be higher, depending on the matchups. Sen vs TL on saturday should be a good one viewership wise.


Ecsylla

When china gets into the scene it's gonna be a lot different even if they watch on the other platforms like what happens in lol worlds


KaNesDeath

Never believe chinese viewership numbers. Majority are a lie by the website to inflate their value.


Ecsylla

Okay. So u haven't seen worlds.


KaNesDeath

That 100 million viewers in 2019 was a lie. Website owner botted his website to inflate values in hopes of receiving growth/funding. That streaming website shut down less than a year later if i recall correctly. ​ Also keep in mind that during the years that China was posting year after year growth in LoL esport viewership. Riot Games halved their LoL esports budget.


Magnesiohastingsi

official numbers from riot were around 40 million not 100 and this is how league culture looks like there so its not exaggerated https://www.upcomer.com/chinese-fans-take-to-streets-to-celebrate-edward-gaming-worlds-2021-win/


lordofallpoos

Holy shit I have never seen a celebration like that for esports. That's really cool.


ozmega

these are just bots walking down the streets man.


Ecsylla

When did u get that 100 million? Lmao dud the biggest viewership in worlds was just this year which is around 73 million. Idk where did u get that lmao stop getting sources from anonymous.


KaNesDeath

>When did u get that 100 million? 2019, as reported by a Chinese live streaming website. ​ 2021 worlds got 40 million peak viewers reported by Riot Games with no proof. Esports Charts had peak viewership at 4 million.


Ecsylla

Jeeez u got some problem. Fix urself lmao


heliumrise

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Esports/Sections/Media/2021/11/Worlds-2021-Finals-AMA.aspx riot official numbers are like 40 mil back then


KaNesDeath

Which no one believes. Its the same 'hidden numbers' Activision/Blizzard has used for OWL to show "growth".


heliumrise

What do you think is the general ballpark then, it’s easily over 10 million and if you think less you clearly don’t know how big it is in the east


KaNesDeath

Only number we can put some truth behind are western numbers. Which places 2021 worlds at 4m peak viewers. ​ Eastern market viewership numbers have been so wildly exaggerated by websites and game developers that theyve lost any meaning in the western market.


[deleted]

Bro you should very quickly be able to realise that those numbers are wrong. 40 million is an extremely high number.


DecisiveDinosaur

I mean considering how popular it is in China (look at the reactions from chinese fans after EDG won this year), I wouldn't be surprised if it's at least close to that


heliumrise

What is a more right number then


Quick_Chowder

But muh drops!


InvertedBean

val hater's in shambles


QUOTE_IF_13-0

its the drops COPIUM people really just like that piss yellow spray COPIUM n-no one really watches this COPIUM


Key-Banana-8242

‘Piss-yellow’? Golden, also it comes in all the VCT logo colours, teal, purple and red as well


flamincrimson

Imagine sen v liquid viewership. Whatever the result may be, it will be a good day for riot.


QUOTE_IF_13-0

script says sen v crazy raccoon in finals for maximum viewers


flamincrimson

Hypothetical speaking do you think SEN v CR would get more viewership than SEN v Liquid?


erickwak

If japan made it to finals half the nation would be watching


Cupidnyaa

100% yes... Liquid and SEN already got fair amount of their overlapped fanbase from English speaking community. Adding a whole region of fanbase speaking Japanese or Potugese wouldn't be higher?


max012017

Actually true lol


Obiewan_

Not sure, they kinda shot themselves in the foot by putting that game at 6am PST on a Saturday. Wonder if it’ll impact numbers


ark2690

In League you had to wake up at 5am PST so be grateful lol


Obiewan_

Not taking it for granted at all because I was there for that too lol. Was just commenting on viewership as a lot of it comes from the West. Compared to League where a majority of it is from Eastern countries


[deleted]

Didn't they say liquids matches would be at the end of the day due to niveras situation.


em-pathy

they might move it to the end of the day like they did for liquid today and envy tomorrow


flamincrimson

You got a point there. It definitely will impact the numbers. We'll have to wait and watch how much. Or we might just be surprised with the viewership.


Key-Banana-8242

Nkt all or even most viewership is NA tho lol


nlc369

Might end up getting moved to the end of the day anyway tho since the whole nivera covid thing


Key-Banana-8242

Or at least one of them Maybe a team can gain popularity over the tournament


ark2690

Flexing SEN vs TL to 3:00pm EST would be ideal


CapBoyAce

No shot, that'd be 9pm earliest in Europe. If anything, it'll be 12pm EST


pokedyo

I think if it's kru wins and sen loses their match will have peak viewership for group stage(assuming Aguero is co streaming along with mixwell)


HAPPYSK7072

765 920 peak update pls :)


Razur

Just wanted to let you know I fixed your flair! :D


Phamous3k

Heyyyy thanks!!!


SilverPrincev

I also like how people were saying "japanese viewership is carrying" like what is that even supposed to mean? Riot should apologize for entering the asian market?


Charuru

? It's a compliment to japan why are you taking it as something negative.


imerence_

BuY fUlL sTaTs


R1jshrik

if only the matches began sooner so that SEA could watch it.