Worlds 2017-2021 semifinals — which one was the most popular?

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Worlds 2021 is the major League of Legends championship of the year. The tournament is almost over, and the final match between DAMWON KIA Gaming and Edward Gaming will take place on November 6. A new Esports Charts article will tell you about the viewership statistics of the past semifinals and compare them with the results of the last five events in the series.

Worlds semifinals statistics

The Worlds 2021 semifinals were the most popular in the series. They generated 20.5 million Hours Watched and had 2 million Average Viewers. The match between T1 and DAMWON KIA Gaming was followed by 3.5 million Peak Viewers.

Second place went to Worlds 2019 with 17 million Hours Watched. Although the tournament semifinals were behind Worlds 2021 by Hours Watched, they managed to outpace it in terms of Peak Viewers by 12.6% and by 2% in Average Viewers. As in the Worlds 2021 semifinals, the T1 match was again the most watched, but this time versus G2 Esports.

Third place was taken by Worlds 2020, the semifinals of which had 10.4% fewer Hours Watched than Worlds 2019. It also dropped 32% in Peak Viewers and 10.4% in Average Viewers compared with Worlds 2019.

At the same time, the two Worlds 2020 semifinals were among the top 5 most popular semifinal matches in the series. The match between G2 and DAMWON KIA Gaming was watched by 2.1 million Average Viewers, while the Peak Viewers number was 2.7 million spectators. The match between Suning Game and Top Esports had 1.7 million Average Viewers, and the Peak Viewers number was almost 800K higher.

Fourth place ranked Worlds 2017 semifinals, which accumulated 8.6 million Hours Watched and 1.6 million Peak Viewers. The Worlds 2018 semifinals, which rounded out the rankings, were 23.6% behind them in terms of Hours Watched, but outpaced them by 18.3% in terms of Peak Viewers.

The most popular Worlds semifinal matches

The most popular game in the Worlds series was the match between T1 and G2 in the semifinals of Worlds 2019. It was watched by 4 million Peak Viewers. In second place was the match between T1 and DAMWON KIA Gaming, which not only generated the highest number of Hours Watched in the entire series, but also reached 3.5 million Peak Viewers.

In third and fourth place are G2 vs. DAMWON KIA Gaming match and Suning Game vs. Top Esports match at Worlds 2020. The first match had 2.7 million Peak Viewers, while the second had 8.7% fewer PV.

Fifth place went to the match between Invictus Gaming and FunPlus Phoenix. The teams distinguished themselves not only by the high Hours Watched number (5.8 million HW), but also by the high number of Peak Viewers — 2.1 million people.