LOUD triumph amid discipline record audience — Valorant Champions 2022 results
VALORANT Champions 2022 has ended, and it drew a much larger Peak audience than the previous year's World Championships. In a new article, Esports Charts will discuss the results and the tournament's record-breaking audience at the Grand Final between LOUD and OpTic Gaming.
LOUD won VALORANT Champions 2022 with a 3-1 victory in the deciding match for the title. The team made it to the Grand Final through the playoffs upper bracket, defeating Leviatán, DRX and OpTic Gaming 2-0. It should be mentioned that this year's VALORANT Champions 2022 finalists fought for the VCT 2022: Stage 1 Masters Reykjavík title and OpTic was the stronger one.
VALORANT Champions 2022 broadcasts accumulated over 60.7 million Hours Watched and drew 525.8K Average Viewers. The tournament reached its Peak Viewers number of over 1.5 million people at the culmination of the deciding map of the Grand Final. The English- and Portuguese-language broadcasts became the most popular at the championship, attracting record-breaking 644K and 452.3K Peak Viewers, respectively.
The most popular VALORANT Champions 2022 team is LOUD, matches of which drew 727K Average Viewers. OpTic, Paper Rex, EDward Gaming and ZETA DIVISION are also in the Top 5. The most popular community-casters of the event are tarik, fps_shaka and shroud.
The VALORANT Champions 2022 Grand Final outpaced the final day of VALORANT Champions 2021 by all viewership metrics. The Peak Viewers number was 38.2% higher, the Average Viewers number — 44.7% higher, and the Hours Watched number — 38% higher.
As we mentioned above, VALORANT Champions 2022 achieved record viewership numbers, becoming the discipline leader by both Peak and Average Viewers, as well as by Hours Watched. The tournament outperformed last year's World Championships by 37% of PV, 12% of AV and 32% of HW.
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Riot Games has previously announced the format and stage schedule for Valorant Champions Tour 2023, the game's third esports season.
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