Riot Games and LCK_Korea set records for Peak Viewers on Twitch at the 2022 League of Legends World Championship Finals. Streams Charts reviews other esports channels on the platform that had the most viewers at tournaments. Spoiler: a leader has not changed for several years.
The ELEAGUE TV channel, which broadcasted ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 CS:GO, has been the most popular esports channel for several years. The Grand Final between FaZe Clan and Cloud9 was watched by more than 1.13 million PV.
Most popular esports channels on Twitch by Peak Viewers
The official Riot Games channel, which streamed the 2022 World Championship matches in November, is in second place in the ranking. The channel set a new record for PV at the final between DRX and T1 — 990K PV.
The Russian-language channel dota2ti_ru, which reached 812K PV at The International 2021 Final, takes third place in the ranking. It should be noted that it was the tournament that set the record of Russian-language esports broadcasts (1.2 million PV). At that time, the majority of viewers watched the content on the dota2ti_ru channel.
The official Fortnite channel, which attracted 712K PV at the Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am 2018 show tournament, is in fourth place. We should remind you that professional Fortnite players and streamers teamed up with sports and show business stars at that event. For example, some of the participants of the tournament were actors Robbie Amell, Liam McIntyre, Chandler Riggs, rapper Lil Yachty, UFC fighters Sean O'Malley and Tyron Woodley, as well as other celebrities.
The Brazilian streamer Gaules became the only content creator whose personal channel got into the ranking along with the tournament operators' channels. He set a record for PV at the Imperial Esports vs. Cloud9 match in PGL Major Antwerp 2022 — 707K PV. It is interesting that this is the only example from the Top where the maximum concurrent viewership was recorded not at the Grand Final, but at a regular match. Thousands of Brazilian fans came to support Imperial Esports in the elimination match, and helped FalleN defeat Cloud9.
The LCK_Korea channel, which usually broadcasts matches of the Korean Regional League in League of Legends, takes sixth place in the ranking. A record for PV was set at the 2022 World Championship final between Korean teams DRX and T1 — 692K PV. As you can see, this series set records on two channels at once, Riot Games and LCK_Korea.
The official PGL English-language channel ranks seventh with 668K PV. This result was reached at the PGL Major Kraków 2017 Grand Final between Gambit Esports and Immortals. It should be noted that this record has been in the Top for the longest time, although PGL held many other major CS:GO championships after the tournament in Kraków. Among them is PGL Stockholm Major, where the discipline record for PV was set.
WePlayCSGO_EEU, which hosted the official Russian-language broadcast of PGL Major Stockholm 2021, takes eighth place in the ranking. The broadcast was watched by 583.9K PV. The maximum number of viewers watching the event concurrently was recorded at the Grand Final between Natus Vincere and G2 Esports, when the Ukrainian team claimed the long-awaited victory in the Major.
The ESL_CSGO channel, which set a record for PV at the final match of IEM Katowice 2022 between G2 Esports and FaZe Clan, takes ninth place in the ranking with the result of 583.7K PV. The dota2ti channel, which broadcasts The International series matches, is in tenth place. The channel had 535K PV at the 2021 World Championship Grand Final between PSG.LGD and Team Spirit.
It is interesting that five different CS:GO channels, ranked in the Top, set records in five different tournaments. As for Dota 2 and League of Legends, the situation is different — records of different channels were set at the same tournaments. Another indicative fact is that four of the Top ten records were set at tournaments in 2022.
