-people that spam !drop !claim get their drop after 1 hour
-teams arent popular enough
-people expecting stomp after first series
-so many delays and stalling for just 1 series
-people only come for opening and closing ceremony for riot production
thats all i can found so far but atleast Day 1 2/3 game series is competitive and not a stomp. this valorant lan would be fun to watch even if cant beat cs peak major viewership
Really depends on who is playing. Sentinels vs Liquid will bring in the best viewership most likely. In Berlin, the peak viewership was 811,000k and it was in the group stage. The finals had 690k. It is the first day so it will most likely get higher. I don’t know why people are so concerned about viewership though. I think it will get 1.2-1.5 peak viewership but I don’t think it will come close to the CS major.
I know it doesn’t have to get close but people keep talking like it should get that viewership or beat it which is absurd imo. It has more to do with CS being around for 20 years. The fact there was a full sell out crowd helps a lot. The stage is cool and all for Valorant but the crowd makes that much more of a difference. Riot for whatever reason seems to have no interest in having a crowd atm.
Major challengers stage is considered more as qualifier, actual 'group stage' is Legends stage in which avg viewership was ~590k.
Also remember major had Swiss system which has a lot more matches than simple double elim bracket, +all matches were bo1.
So valorant should have the edge in views at least in terms of bracket and schedule
https://escharts.com/blog/pgl-major-stockholm-knockout-stage-preview
So valorant should have the edge in views at least in terms of bracket and schedule
that's not how it works,
https://escharts.com/tournaments/valorant/valorant-champions-2021
for 1 years old esport game, and got average 492k views in the day 1
it's pretty good stats
Reason why the View low because Riot make a system Watch party(Drop enabled).
if there is no watch party. so might be official valorant Twitch account has high view with Drop enabled only at official.
example Official Valorant : 200K Views
Watch Party Shroud : 40K
Kyedae : 40K
Jonas : 40K
if sum 200+ 40+40+40
Yes and no. Hard to compare the challenger stage viewers from cs and Valorant since they are ran in completely different ways. Valorant there are set groups with 1 match at a time. Cs has one big group with teams playing each other based on their record typically with more than one match playing at the same time. If you’re a diehard fan you watch all the games but if your team isn’t playing you don’t really care.
Don’t know why people care so much about the viewership. CS set the bar high with the Major but trying to only focus on the Valorant viewership will just cause people to go nuts.
dude it's being rebrodcasted right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XScE9dancs&ab_channel=VALORANTChampionsTour
go watch it
it happens every VCT, don;t misss it.
c9 v fnc was neck to neck
It's the group stage, what did you expect? Only diehard fans watch group stage matches, and even then there still was a peak of 600k concurrent viewers. 600k is not at all a bad number, seeing as these were roughly the same numbers in the opening matches of CSGO PGL Stockholm Major. If these numbers drop during playoffs, THEN I'd think there's a problem.
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