With a peak of 5.1 million viewers, the LoL Worlds 2022 final match was the most-watched League of Legends game of all time – it was even the second-biggest esports match ever. 2.8 million people watched via Twitch alone. And that’s not even counting Chinese viewers.
How many people saw the match? 5.1 million viewers watched the LoL Worlds final at its peak. This is reported by the Esports Charts site. The final was held in the night from Saturday to Sunday, November 6th, between the South Korean teams T1 and DRX.
At its peak, 2.8 million people watched the match on Twitch and 1.7 million on YouTube Gaming. Other platforms were AfeecaTV, Trovo and Facebook.
Most viewers watched the thrilling 5-match duel in English (1.6 million), followed by Korean (1.2 million) and Spanish (855,000). In Spain in particular, the hype surrounding LoL is being fueled by twitch streamers: the huge streamer Ibai was watched by 482,000 at its peak, more than the official broadcast of Riot Games.
The Chinese audience numbers, which were certainly huge, are not recorded.
3.2 million viewers watched the opening show with the performance of Lil Nas X.
So far, only the “Free Fire World Series 2021” event with 5.4 million viewers has been bigger than LoL in e-sports, as Venturebeat knows. Free Fire is hugely popular in parts of Asia.
The Life of Faker – That’s why he’s a living legend
Huge final saw legend Faker fail again
Why was the match such a bringer? It was mainly due to Team T1 that so many LoL fans worldwide were watching. The team around the legendary midlaner Faker is extremely popular – this year T1 played its way into the finals after a long dry spell and it looked like Faker would win title number 4.
The 26-year-old has been chasing the 4th world champion title since 2017, when he failed with T1, highly favored by Samsung Galaxy and their midlaner ambition.
But T1 lost of all people to his old school friend Deft and his team DRX, who had made it to the finals as total underdogs from the play-ins.
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Pyosik was considered a lousy jungler in the LCK – is now world champion
As a result, players have become world champions that hardly anyone expected, such as Jungler Pysoik. He was considered by many to be one of the weaker junglers in the LCK – but he’s kind of a good guy that everyone likes.
Pyosik (22) was recently only known for dancing quite silly:
Mid laner Zeka and top laner Kingen became stars overnight. The 22-year-old Kingen even won the award for most valuable player in the finals as a top laner.
The T1 players were heartbroken after the loss, with Wunder support Keria in particular looking like a mess after the match. That was too much for streamer Tyler1. He didn’t want the cameras to stay on the losers for so long.
Keria was really exhausted after the loss – the camera stayed on him in other shots for longer than might have been appropriate.
Extremely strong match – but for Germans at an impossible time
Was it a good match? Yes, it was a bomb match, albeit at an impossible time for Germans. For us, the finale started at 1 am and lasted until 6:30 am early Monday morning.
The German LoL streamer Tolkin, who commented on the game on Twitter, was apparently close to death several times during the night. When “his favorite team” T1 lost the thing, he tweeted at 6:25:
The unlucky ones win against the golden boys of LoL
The exciting thing was that T1 was like “everybody’s favorite team”. It’s the gold boys: Faker has been worshiped for years as if he could walk on water. Keria (19) is considered a child prodigy, a “monster and genius.” Many would have wished the two and their teammates victory.
On DRX, on the other hand, hardly anyone gave anything. The team broke up in 2020, had to pull itself together, was actually the team from Korea, which nobody paid any closer attention to than Gen G., T1 and Damwon KIA. They even had to fight their way through the play-ins.
Ultimately, it was probably decisive that DRX got the supporter Beryl from DAMWON Gaming before 2022 and put him on the botlane with Veteran Deft: The 25-year-old supporter Beryl became world champion in 2020 and runner-up in 2021, but fame fell in both years to his team members ShowMaker and Canyon.
After 2022, it looks like supporter Beryl was the real key to the World Cup.
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