Lowkey picking Seoul was not it

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Champs should only be held in Europe, that would give the best viewership times overall
NA isn’t even gonna watch Sentinels if the games are at 4am 💀

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CN viewership goes crazy
paris like 5-6pm after people get off work is like China (yes all of china have the same timezone) 11-12am, and the later game would be like 2-3 am.

edit: seoul and china is only an hour away so the viewship would be up by a shit ton

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not waking up at 7 am for a eu event lil bro

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Just keep it in Seoul but use Masters Tokyo times

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most people who have tickets are probably still gonna be at work around that time 2 pm isnt ideal for them at all

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who give a shit about the locals tho, are they sleeping at 2 pm or nah?

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Riot probably cares more about the locals than your ass sitting in the US of A because you don't pay to watch the match while the locals pay riot to watch live.

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are you stupid?

China alone had 45% of the total views for either Madrid or Champions 2023, with the timezone being fucking shit for them.

They'll easily have over 55% of the total views, not to mention their in-game market already exceeds several countries by themself.

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Speak for yourself my sleep schedule has been fucked for years so I’m watching that shit.

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china viewership goes crazy no?

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Not everything should revolve around NA, if they are dedicated fans they will wake up we suffered for Champs LA too.

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Bro acting like Asia doesn't watch Valorant...

Mf we have way more viewers than you do 💀

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Honestly I am starting to believe that this year it was the main strategy of VALORANT's marketing department to being more viewership to China and APAC in general, so much so that they made these horrendous time schedules for their main audience

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Harapan845

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really? valorant the game owned by china wants china to watch it? what a surprise

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Philosopher_Stone

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i mean yeah duh but like the approach seems hella forced considering there are so many western viewers

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Harapan845

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china still has more views anyways

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Philosopher_Stone

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As a country yes, as a region its even with americas

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but you also have apac viewership on top of that

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ShuGo

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https://x.com/ValorINTEL/status/1788584718101053863
3,100,000 = Total
1,687,848 = Non-China
1,412,152 = China

China's views gap every individual Region + 1 more probably

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Come on man. Let us have something. We watch Americas at like 3 am in the morning

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OK -- but these are regional tournaments ofc they are going to be horrendous to watch in APAC

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Last year's Champs started after Midnight in India and even later in the eastern side of Asia

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I am on with you there, in internationals and especially champs they gotta make these schedules more flexible

"+" this year we already had a tourney in China with hella mid viewership

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im literally fine with the matches starting at 12 AM EST = 1 PM SEOUL, they pushed a lot of the events further back for Americas it used to be 3 PM starting time on the East Coast now it's 5 PM, I mean most of the viewership is in EMEA/NA excluding China so why wouldn't you try to accomodate EMEA and Americas