Viewership has been insane throughout the 2023 League of Legends World Championship and the finals have broken World Records.
The 2023 League of Legends World Championship has come to an end. Faker and T1 are World Champions once more, while the rest of his team are lifting the Summoner's Cup for the first time.
The team did this with huge expectations on their shoulders as "the last hope of Korea". The whole tournament has been insane, and with a new format, every match was exciting, which led to the World Championship finals breaking an esports world record.
LoL Worlds 2023 Finals: Esports Viewership Record Broken
Esports charts keeps track of viewership of all esports tournaments, and they've reported, after the Worlds finals concluded, that this year's World Championship has broken an esports record, previously held by the Free Fire World Series in 2021.
T1 vs Weibo Gaming managed to crack the 6-million peak viewer numbers – without taking Chinese viewership into account – which is a first for any esports event in the world.
Esports viewership, especially League of Legends World Championship viewership, has been steadily on the incline, with the 2022 Finals peaking at 5.1-million and the 2021 Worlds peaking at 4-million.
Now, the 2023 Worlds Finals managed a whopping 6.4-million peak viewers which is a new high for every single esports event in the world, truly crowning League of Legends esports the biggest in the sport.
#Worlds2023 has broken a number of ESPORTS LANGUAGE records! Korean - 2M Peak Viewers English - 1.69M Peak Viewers Vietnamese - 805.3K Peak ViewersMore on Worldshttps://t.co/ZWmzR59cqL pic.twitter.com/K05TXrwIGZ
— Esports Charts (@EsportsCharts) November 19, 2023
While the overall tournament did not break the total watch time record of previous World Championships like the one in 2021, it is important to remember that there were fewer games played this year thanks to the new format.
But, this also meant that there were many more meaningful games. Riot is likely going to stick with the Swiss format for the upcoming World Championships, though they have already revealed that some tweaks could be coming in the upcoming tournament.