Karmine Corp's viewership outperforms KOI at VCT 2024: Game Changers EMEA Contenders

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The VCT 2024: Game Changers EMEA Contenders Series 1 was held as an online affair from March 30 to April 7, with this being an early chance for talented amateurs to be scouted and potentially make it big ahead of a grueling season. It ended as one of the VCT Game Changers' most popular events to be held in the region thanks to a popular team sealing its place in the next stage.

At the end of around a week of action, Karmine Corp GC and Odd 1 OUT emerged as the two qualified sides for the VCT 2024: Game Changers EMEA Stage 2. These two sides topped their respective Playoffs brackets to also take home €3,500 and €2,500 as prize money from this $12,880 prize pool competition.

  Crucial stats and most popular games from the VCT 2024: Game Changers EMEA Contenders Series 1   

The VCT 2024: Game Changers EMEA Contenders Series 1 registered 42.6K Peak Viewers during the much-anticipated Playoffs, Day 1 game between MAD Lions KOI and Karmine Corp GC. This was a clash between teams owned by two of Europe's most popular and followed content creators, ibai and Kamet0, respectively, leading to a lot of hype among both sets of fans.

The French side emerged as 2:1 victors to advance to the Upper Bracket Final while the Spanish side would fall to the Lower Bracket. Ironically, the latter would lose to the other side to progress to Stage 2, Odd 1 OUT, in the Lower Bracket Semifinal to end its chances of progress.

Looking at the most popular games list, it is not surprising that one esports organization topped the most popular team leaderboard. What might stand out is the name of the second-placed side, with Lua Gaming (the first Galician team in the gaming sector whose main ambassadors are Iago Aspas, Ana Peleteiro, and Xurxo Carreño).

While the first two names are popular athletes from Spain (football and triple jumping), the third is a renowned influencer. The side may not have advanced past the top 32 round, but it attracted a large number of viewers to the few matches it did play.

This clearly shows how important Kamet0’s side’s viewership figures were to the overall success of the Valorant tournament. In fact, it far outweighed that of MAD Lions KOI’s watch time and played a crucial role in it notching 318.3K Hours Watched and 11.3K Average Viewers over an airtime of 28 hours.

Another gauge of the importance of co-streaming in Valorant esports was seen in the fact that the three most popular channels to live broadcast this event were all individual handles. Fugu_fps and Helydia, two well-known French Twitch content creators, ended as the most-watched and the most popular names, with a Spanish name coming third on both metrics.

  Most popular VCT Game Changers EMEA events of all time   

Coming to comparisons, this event became the fifth-most popular one in the EMEA region when it comes to the VCT Game Changers series. The leader on this table is the VCT 2024: Game Changers EMEA Stage 1 - Closed Qualifier, where 16 teams battled to make it to Stage 1.

The game has gotten off to a great start in 2024, with the VCT 2024: Masters Madrid ending as the most popular Valorant tournament ever. With the discipline already enjoying a massive following and a highly-streamlined esports scene from top to bottom, every event manages to attract a healthy audience, and judging by the interest generated even in events like the Contenders, things will only continue to look up for Riot Games and the other organizers.