It felt like less people tuned into the finals tbh. Riot needs to do something before the esport starts dwindling.
The big eu teams are liquid mostly coz of scream and how big they are on content side on youtube. turkey has the biggest fanbase but since the teams are shit we don't get good viewership for the good games. Turkish stream easily adds 70k viewers.the biggest fanbase teams in Europe that are KOI(Spanish)and KC(french) don't have teams good enough to be in the kain circuit yet or else we could easily see EMEA rising to japan levels in terms of viewership. Imo after franchising gets announced next year we'll see good viewership with turkish Spanish (koi) and French(kc)orgs getting a slot
it is getting bigger in the 'minor regions', but for EMEA and NA, they seemed to dropped off. If there's no big name teams, many people just dont bother watching. That's what I've been saying, Valorant is a 'casual' game, you get 100k viewers when there's even no esports going on, and when there's esports, it highly depends if streamer is co-streaming if you look at viewers number