RNG fails and may miss Worlds — LPL Summer 2022 Results

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LPL Summer 2022, which featured 17 top teams in China competing for a prize pool of ¥4.2 million ($613,500) and a slot in the upcoming Worlds 2022, ended on the first day of fall. In a new Esports Charts article, we'll tell you about the end of the event and the size of the audience it attracted.

Tournament Results

In the Grand final of LPL Summer 2022, JD Gaming encountered Top Esports. The teams played at the same level throughout the tournament, so it was impossible to determine a clear favorite of the Split. JDG and TES finished the group stage having the same statistics of 14 wins and 2 losses. Then the teams met in the final of the playoffs upper bracket where JD Gaming made a comeback and won its opponent 0-2. The title match also ended 3-2 for JDG, but the teams won maps in turns.

Thus, both LPL Summer 2022 finalists earned a slot each in the Worlds 2022 group stage. JD Gaming earned it by winning Summer Split, while Top Esports scored enough points over the season and finished second in LPL Spring 2022 and LPL Summer 2022. Royal Never Give Up, the Spring Split and MSI 2022 champion, may miss the main LoL tournament of the year due to its poor performance in LPL Summer 2022 (5th-6th place). To qualify for Play-In Worlds 2022, the team must make it into the Top 2 of LPL Regional Finals 2022.

LPL Summer 2022 Viewership Statistics

LPL Summer 2022 broadcasts totaled nearly 18 million Hours Watched and 42.9K Average Viewers. The event reached its Peak Viewers number of 281.9K people at the Grand final between JD Gaming and Top Esports. The most popular and most watched team of the Split is TES. The matches of the team accounted for 25% of the total Hours Watched of the event, and were followed by 81K Average Viewers.

The most popular LPL Summer 2022 channel is LPL, as it drew 89.4K Peak Viewers. The YouTube channels LPL Vietnam Official and LPL English are next in line by this metric. It should be noted that some tournament matches were also covered by quite popular streamers: Kamet0, IWDominate, Caedrel, YoDa and others.

Most popular and most watched LPL tournaments

LPL Summer 2022 ranks fourth by Peak Viewers compared with previous tournaments in the series, 24% behind LPL Summer 2020, the leader by this metric. At the same time, it became 32.5% more popular than this year's Spring Split. Moreover, LPL Summer 2022 has become the most watched and longest running tournament in the league, as well as the tournament with the second highest Average Viewers number.