"viewership is low"

The peak viewership number is misleading - the tournament has ~300,000 average viewers (https://escharts.com/tournaments/valorant/vct-2023-masters-tokyo-valorant), which is higher than all of the VCT international Leagues and on par with Masters Copenhagen

It'll be difficult to get a high peak because EU and NA viewers can't really watch at the same time (bc of timezones), but don't let that make you think this tournament isn't successful

also I'll take a slight drop in viewership for a great crowd any day

ok

Ok

are you that one twitter guy?

The biggest boost for viewership is really just which of the teams playing and making deep runs. Also close and long series.
Loud, sentinels and Zeta in particular have a huge amount of fans with many of them only interested in watching their teams play.

https://escharts.com/tournaments/valorant/vct-2022-stage-1-masters-reykjavik
Masters 1 reyjavik had great numbers because of this.

Copenhagen had middling numbers due to the "fan favourites" falling early.

ded geam

pro valorant could have been bigger than pro CS -TODAY- if riot played their cards right. they have no idea what they're doing