Valorant champions 2022 had more peak viewership than IEM Rio major, what a sign of improvement
True, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Champions was the biggest Valorant event yet and 2nd Valorant official event ever with actual crowd (Copenhagen was pretty small crowd wise, so in a way it was supposed to be the first proper one). They even flew bunch of content creators there. While crowded events aren't new in CSGO and finals was played by 2 not that popular teams. So it is good for Valorant but there are factors that might have increased the viewership for Champions 2022 while there was factors that decreased the viewership for Rio Major.
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