The annual League of Legends Mid-Season Championship officially started on May 1st. Although this MSI game started during the May Day holiday, because the game was held in Chengdu, China, there was no time difference restriction for domestic audiences to watch the game. , you can even go to the venue to watch the game. Generally speaking, the overall overseas ratings of games held in Asia will be lower than those held in Europe and the United States, because Western viewers may need to stay up late to watch the game, and there may also be schedule conflicts with their own Fearless Contract events. Conflict, but the ratings of this MSI are very high.
According to the latest statistics from the foreign data statistics website eSports Charts, the peak number of viewers for the 2024 Chengdu MSI opener is 788,000. This data only counts overseas viewing data and does not include live broadcast platforms in mainland China. But in the ratings data of MSI over the years, this year is second only to the Icelandic MSI in 2021. We can compare the MSI opening game data in recent years.
2024 - Chengdu, China: 788000
2023 - London, UK: 597000
2022 - Busan, South Korea: 708000
2021 - Reykjavik, Iceland: 1100000
2019 - Hanoi, Vietnam: 414000
2018 - Berlin, Germany: 273 000
2017 - São Paulo, Brazil: 555000
Views from this It can be seen from the data that the ratings of this year's Chengdu MSI are still quite high. The opening game attracted 80,000 more people than the 2022 MSI held in South Korea. The ratings of the 2021 Icelandic MSI are indeed ridiculously high, mainly because players did not have many offline activities during the epidemic, so they gathered together to watch the live broadcast of the game online. Moreover, the 2020 MSI was suspended due to the epidemic. 2021 is a large-scale offline competition after the MSI restarts, so it attracted more audience attention.
Interestingly, although the ratings of the MSI opening game were the second in history, the second series of the day, the game between T1 and EST, set a new ratings record. The peak audience for this series reached 1,514,241, almost double the number of viewers in the opening game. This number set a new record for the peak number of viewers on the first day of MSI. After all, this was the first time a highly popular team like t1 had entered the finals, and the audience wanted to see the performance of the world champions.
Therefore, even though this was a play-in match, even though the opponent EST was not well-known, and even though the outcome of this match was not in suspense, overseas audiences still tuned in to watch t1's debut in this MSI on time. Although t1 did not come up with any weird lineup in the game, their line-changing style and active competition with est still brought a lot of fun to the audience. At least there were more heads in this game, which was better than psg's game against fly. The game was more interesting, and the program effects were quite good.
In view of the above factors, T1's game against EST successfully ranked seventh on the MSI's historical peak audience list. It can be said that it is an exaggeration to achieve this result for a game that is a play-in and non-knockout game. The top six games are basically after the semi-finals, and they are battles between the four major divisions. The specific rankings and ratings are as follows.
2023msi winner's group final: t1 vs jdg (2.297919)
2022msi final: t1 vs rng (2.194104)
2023msi loser's group final: t1 vs blg (2.184103)
2023msi winner's group semi-final: t1 vs gen( 1.936191)
2021msi finals: dk vs. rng (1.839876)
2019msi semi-finals: t1 vs. g2 (1.704400)
5 of these 6 games have ratings contributed by t1, except for the fifth place dk played against rng, t1 did not reach msi that year, and dk was the new champion of the global finals at that time. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as T1 or Faker participates in a game, the ratings will be very high, and they will really attract traffic. In particular, Faker won his fourth world championship last year, and his popularity has become even higher around the world. If T1 can go further in this MSI, it is very likely to set a new ratings record for MSI.
