This user really believes Chinese numbers are legit, get a load of this guy 😭🫵👍

Never seen anyone believe Chinese numbers except users in this website

So?

1. Copenhagen had 1M+ unadulterated viewers in both semis
2. Shanghai major ended well ahead of Christmas, iirc it ended on 15th. And most cs fans are employed if you didn't know. The average cs player can't have $5k worth of skins by asking parents for some pocket money.

I'll attach evidence below, but I thought this was well known, even the league subreddit doesn't believe the crazy numbers these streaming platforms put up.

https://amp.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3260129/china-scammer-uses-4600-phones-fake-live-stream-views-and-traffic-earns-us415000-4-months

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1015818

These aren't isolated incidents either, you will find even more articles if you look up. None of the links are from obscure websites.

https://escharts.com/tournaments/valorant/valorant-masters-bangkok-2025

Riot never counts any concurrent numbers in anything. I mean, you can't even know how many players are playing the game currently, it's always a riot tweet with a trust me bro. They gotta do it to attract sponsors for the next event.

Secondly, Chinese streaming platforms do not count viewers, they count something called heat/viewership rating. 1M rating ≠ 1M viewers. 4.3M my ass.

IEM Cologne 2022 clears any valorant match ever played, and will clear anything. Fuck that, even map 1 of Cologne 2015 clears ts.

Shanghai major had the worst time to watch games both as a NA or EU fan. People had to sleep to go to work/school the next day instead of staying up and watch games till morning. EU had it worse, imagine waking up at 4 am to watch the games lmao.

I remember how people were saying "it's a riot game it will have league numbers in 2 years" lmaoaoao.