RoV Pro League 2024 Summer kicks off season proper as discipline readies for sweeping changes

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The RoV Pro League 2024 Summer was held from February 3 to April 7 at the Garena Esports Studio and the Bitec Bangna in Bangkok. The pre-season changes that saw two new teams added to the league and one withdraw, bringing the number of participants down by one from the usual nine, seemed to weigh on fans' minds, as seen in the middling viewership stats.

This competition saw Talon Esports ease past Bacon Time 4:1 in the Grand Final to emerge as the champion. The winning team took home around $164K and the runner-up a little more than $49K, with the top five sides also booking their spots at the Arena of Valor Premier League 2024.

  Most popular matches and essential stats from the RoV Pro League 2024 Summer   

The RoV Pro League 2024 Summer recorded 203.7K Peak Viewers during the summit clash, with the two finalists meeting in the Upper Bracket Final ending fourth on this list. They faced each other four times at this Arena of Valor event, with their first one on Week 2, Day 3 of the Group Stage ending as the third-most-popular match.

Bacon Time appeared in all five games of this top-five standings, reflecting their popularity in the discipline among Thai fans. Its performance, combined with the winning run of Talon Esports and Buriram United Esports' third-placed finish, saw this tournament also record 9.4M Hours Watched and 52.3K Average Viewers over an airtime of 180 hours.

One interesting trend seen at this event was an almost 3% increase in watch time for the in-game viewing system for events. Since it is the best way for fans and viewers to obtain in-game drops by viewing matches, there's always a decent crowd using this feature to watch the matches live.

The Arena of Valor season for 2024 has seen a lot of changes, what with the international release of Honor of Kings and its integration into the Esports World Cup 2024. This will mean new/updated tournaments and higher prize pools, but most importantly, the world will now get a glimpse at the most popular MOBA in China.

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Regardless, the RoV Pro League 2024 Summer ended as the fifth-most popular event in the series. The leader is the previous split, the RoV Pro League 2023 Winter, with three of the top five names on this list coming in the last two years, reaffirming the game's solid presence regionally and internationally.

It's an exciting time to be an Arena of Valor fan, with many new competitions and a whole new game in the pipeline. The esports MOBA market, so far dominated by the ever-growing Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, could even see a shake-up that may take the competitive mobile segment into a new world, one where multiple titles challenge the hegemony of PC disciplines.