First title for Gen.G and huge audience — LCK Summer 2022 overview
Last weekend, LCK Summer 2022 held at LoL PARK in Seoul, South Korea, came to an end. The tournament didn't break the spring split record for Peak Viewers, but its viewership numbers looked pretty impressive nevertheless. In this new article, Esports Charts will tell you about LCK Summer 2022, how many viewers it drew, and which teams were the most popular.
In the LCK Summer 2022 Grand final, Gen.G Esports defeated T1 with the score of 3:0, and the first two maps were completely dominated by the future tournament champions. The third map saw a closer game, but T1 still didn't manage to end it in its own favor. Thus, Gen.G not only won its first Korean league title and earn a slot in Worlds 2022, but also took revenge on T1 for its defeat in the LCK Spring 2022 final.
Peanut, a Gen.G Esports jungler, was the MVP of the finals. He won 5 million South Korean won (about $3,725) and an exclusive bracelet from the tournament sponsor Tiffany & Co. We should also mention the SANDBOX Gaming team, which has grown considerably in the last few months. Whereas the team only finished ninth in LCK Spring 2022, it became the bronze medalist in LCK Summer 2022.
LCK Summer 2022 Viewership Statistics
LCK Summer 2022 broadcasts totaled over 66 million Hours Watched and drew 224.2K Average Viewers. The event reached its Peak Viewers number of almost 1.3 million people at the Grand final between T1 and Gen.G. The Top-5 matches of the tournament, according to this metric, consists of only T1 games, which is the most popular LoL team both in the region and in the entire world.
LCK Summer T1 matches were watched by 408K Average Viewers. Gen.G, DAMWON Gaming, KT Rolster, and SANDBOX are also among the Top-5 teams in the tournament. Detailed statistics on the most popular LCK Summer 2022 teams are available with our PRO subscription.
LCK Summer 2022 is the third most popular tournament in the Korean league, behind LCK Spring 2022 and LCK Summer 2021 in terms of Peak Viewers by 5.7% and 1.2%, respectively. However, the Summer Split outperformed LCK Spring 2022 and LCK Regional Finals 2020 by more than 20% in this metric. Moreover, the tournament is among the Top-3 LoL events in 2022 at the time of publication, second only to Mid-Season Invitational 2022 and LCK Spring Split.
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2022 World Championship runs from September 29 to November 11. South Korea has both T1 and Gen.G qualified for the tournament so far, and two more teams will be determined by the LCK Regional Finals, scheduled for September 1-3.
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