esports: global audience peak (including China) of 50 million cumulative viewers for the 2024 Worlds

The 2024 League of Legends World Championships (Worlds), an esports competition held between Berlin (GER), Paris (FRA) and London (ENG) from 25/09/2024 to 02/11/2024, reached a global audience peak, including China, of 50 million cumulative viewers, a record since 2021 (73.8 million viewers), announced the game's publisher Riot Games, according to data provided by the esports audience specialist site Stream Hatchet, on 20/11/2024.

Outside the Chinese market, the final set a record peak audience with 6.94 million simultaneous viewers on Twitch and YouTube, up from 6.4 million for the 2023 final. "The 2024 League of Legends World Championship was the most-watched esports tournament in history," said Esports Charts, a website specialised in audience data, on 02/11/2024. In detail, live streams on YouTube recorded a peak of 3.34 million viewers, while streams on Twitch generated a peak of 2.54 million viewers.

The average audience per minute during nearly 110 hours of live coverage was 33 million viewers worldwide and 1.73 million viewers excluding the Chinese market. This average of…