EDG’s shock Worlds win sees League of Legends smash Twitch esports records

The 2021 League of Legends World Championship has smashed quite a lot of giant streaming knowledge on Twitch and YouTube, helped on by EDward Gaming’s shock win over closing yr’s champs Damwon Gaming inside the event’s decider.

In accordance with EsportsCharts, the five-game battle between EDG and DWG clocked over 4m concurrent viewers inside the closing moments of the nail-biting assortment.

The must-watch League of Legends event raked in a 4,018,728-viewer extreme inside the closing, blowing earlier earlier Dota 2’s mainstay The Worldwide, which set its private knowledge merely closing month. On excessive of that, Worlds pushed LoL to its private Twitch high-water mark, the place 3.08m followers set a model new class report.

Regional Twitch channels moreover liked major peaks all through Worlds 2021’s closing battle, along with the core Riot Video video games account (882k), LCK_Korea (634k), CBLOL (282k), and LLA (306k).

That’s all with out along with China’s huge viewing numbers.

China is often disregarded of any esports viewing stats as a consequence of how they report numbers, nevertheless considering EDG’s shock triumph, their viewer counts would have been immense, significantly considering their rowdy celebrations.

EDward Gaming lifted their first worldwide title since MSI 2015 in Iceland.

The EDG vs DWK assortment is now the most-watched League of Legends assortment of all-time, dethroning G2 Esports vs SKT from 2019’s year-end event.

In third is Suning vs Damwon from Worlds 2020.

Worlds 2021’s streaming success moreover managed to transcend esports with its huge viewing haul, with Riot Video video games’ basic channel hitting 854,781 concurrent viewers all through EDG’s sport 4 and 5 comeback. This put them a slim fifth in Twitch’s all-time peak viewers behind ELEAGUE and PlayStation.

Merely this weekend, CSGO’s illustrious PGL Foremost Stockholm moreover smashed quite a lot of esports knowledge, with its 2,570,144 peak viewership the highest-ever for the game.

Meiko has been with EDG for half a decade and finally has his Worlds crown.

The LoL offseason now begins in earnest, with the free firm window set to swing open on Nov. 15. There are already quite a lot of rumors surrounding LCS and LEC heavyweights, along with Perkz and Alphari returning to Europe, Bjergsen and Doublelift getting back from retirement, and further.

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