When it comes to the tournaments of Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA), the Arena of Valor World Cup is one of the most popular tournaments of all. The tournament started back in 2018 for the first time and since then the popularity has kept rising.
The tournament is mainly organised by Tencent and Garena along with other multiple sponsors and partners. Unfortunately, the Arena of Valor World Cup 2020 was cancelled due to the rising cases of Covid-19.
The announcement came officially stating that the championship has been cancelled and future dates will be announced later. On April 26th, it was declared that the World Cup can be carried out this year by following the Covid guidelines.
Arena of Valor World Cup 2021 was held online from 19th June to 18th of July. The tournament featured 6 teams from the 9 best regions and had a massive $500,000USD prize pool.
In this article, we will be talking about the Arena of Valor World Cup 2021 detailed statistics. We will be going through multiple analyses and will make it easier for you to grasp all the details. So, without any further ado, let’s take a look at the breakdown.
Most popular matches of Arena of Valor World Cup 2021

The topper of this section is the match fought between MAD vs FL which contributed the highest number in the Peak Viewers. It had 550K Peak Viewers which makes it the second-highest Peak Viewers count after 2019’s World Cup. In the second place, we have the final day’s match between TaLon vs MOP which could manage to have 514K Peak Viewers.
Coming to the second last place, it is the first day’s match which had the battle between FL vs BUE with 455K Peak Viewers which is an impressive count as the tourney had just started with this match. In the bottom place, we have got the match of the Losers Finals which was battled between MOP and SP and concluded with 348K Peak Viewers.
Language stats is also an important factor in an analysis of a tournament, so we also have that in place. According to the data, Vietnamese and Thai peaked the chart with 412K and 219K counts respectively.
Tournaments Viewership Comparison

To begin with, first, we have the latest Arena of Valor World Cup 2021, which was successful to grab an impressive 18M Hours Watched which is the highest ever in all of the Arena of Valor tournaments. In addition, it had also collected 550K Peak Viewers during the MAD vs FL match. We have also recorded 153K and 123H of Average Viewers and Air Time respectively throughout the tournament of 2021.
We certainly don’t have the breakdown for the 2020 World Cup as we mentioned clearly about the cancellation. In this case, we will jump into the data for 2019’s World Cup. Quite an interesting record we can see here as there are approx 14M Hours Watched and 764K Peak Viewers during Vietnam vs TPE match. The Peak Viewers count is significantly higher than what the 2021 tournament had. Moreover, it has 71H of Air Time and 195K, Average Viewers which is again a leader in the later year’s number.
Finally, we have the 2018 World Cup’s details where it gathered 3M Hours Watched along with 306K Peak Viewers. Similarly, there was 84K Average Viewers and 41H Air Time. The numbers are clearly justified as the year progress the popularity of esports is gradually increasing.
Arena of Valor World Cup 2021 most popular teams

When discussing the most popular teams in Arena of Valor World Cup 2021 the Average Viewers tells about the supporter’s count for the team. So, the team having the most Average Viewers is eventually the most popular team among all in the entire championship.
In the first place, we have Team Flash which had 247K Average Viewers, hence becoming the most popular team in the championship. In the second and third spots, we have Buriram United Esports and MAD Team with 191K and 189K Average Viewers which can be considered as a small difference. The last spot is secured by TaLon with only 178K Average Viewers.
With this, we have reached the end of our analysis for Arena of Valor World Cup 2021. Make sure to visit us again as we come up regularly with the analyses of exciting tournaments.
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