VALORANT has taken off worldwide, however one area particularly has completely fallen in love with Riot’s tactical shooter and its esports scene. Japan grew to become one of many prime areas when it comes to VALORANT esports viewership final 12 months, and that’s undoubtedly persevering with into this 12 months.
The first break up of the VALORANT Challengers League in Japan is dominating all different regional competitions in viewership, in line with knowledge gathered from Esports Charts. At time of writing, the occasion has amassed over 5.5 million hours watched, with a peak of 137,160 viewers in the course of the opening match between Crazy Raccoon and Crest Gaming Zst.
The subsequent highest 2023 VALORANT occasion when it comes to complete viewership is the Ludwig x Tarik Invitational, which generated 2.2 million hours watched. The subsequent highest VALORANT Challengers league when it comes to viewership is the North American league, with over 1.08 million hours watched, which implies that VALORANT Challengers Japan is pulling in roughly 5 instances the quantity of complete viewership.
The peak viewership match for VALORANT Challengers Japan talked about above additionally narrowly edged out the height match in NA. The match between The Guard and Disguised Toast’s workforce peaked at simply over 133,063. VALORANT Challengers Japan additionally maintains a median of over 70,000 viewers whereas NA’s common sits at simply over 62,000.
As alluded to earlier, this isn’t a brand new pattern in Japan. Viewership figures from final 12 months painted an image of a area that has gone all in with VALORANT. On YouTube, particularly, the official VALORANT Japan channel stored tempo with each of the principle channels for VCT and the Overwatch League in complete hours watched.
Japan’s affinity for VALORANT has not gone unnoticed by Riot, and the lone VCT Masters occasion for this 12 months’s season will happen in Tokyo later this 12 months.
