It can be said that the recent Spring 2024 tournament of the League of Legends village has witnessed a lot of changes in the most notable areas of the League of Legends village. For example, LCK with T1's journey of many ups and downs plus DDoS incidents affecting the whole tournament and plots to attack Faker and his teammates. Or like VCS became the most mentioned area at the end of the group stage when negative suspicions appeared. And of course, it is impossible not to mention the LPL when the tournament's appeal has clearly decreased when a series of stars have lost form or taken a break, such as TheShy, Kanavi, Ruler.
TheShy and many stars are absent or have lost their form, making LPL Spring 2024 less attractive
The lack of top superstars, combined with the suspected professional factor when all four LPL teams are “defeated generals” of T1 at Worlds 2023, along with many other objective and subjective factors, have caused The LPL tournament has clearly lost its attraction. According to statistics from the Esports Chart website, the 2024 LPL Spring tournament witnessed an unprecedentedly low number of viewers on international broadcasting platforms. Specifically, this tournament only received 292k viewers (peak view), even lower than VCS (312.5k peak view).
Highest view count of Spring 2024 tournaments in the League of Legends industry and LPL's position is even lower than VCS
Of course, the statistics of this site do not represent the numbers of domestic broadcasting platforms right at LPL. But one thing can also be seen: international audiences may be gradually reducing their attention to China's top League of Legends tournament. If in previous years, people could still find familiar names like Uzi, TheShy… then these players would be completely absent. Not to mention, the current LPL is almost a race of JD Gaming – Bilibili Gaming, maybe this season there will be more Top Esports. Meanwhile, names that have long dominated and have large fanbases (Edward Gaming, Royal Never Give Up) are slipping, making foreign audiences less interested in LPL.
Teams that are more familiar to international audiences like EDG or RNG have almost no mark other than disappointment and poor achievements.
Meanwhile, LCK Spring 2024 witnessed unprecedented “huge” numbers with more than 2.60 million views at its peak. It's still a “two-horse race” between T1 – Gen.G, but it's clear that LCK is showing completely superior attraction compared to LPL. Meanwhile, VCS also received attention, partly because of negative suspicions and partly because of the return of a series of superstars, including SofM, in the recent playoffs.
Meanwhile, LCK is completely superior, if not in a position that no other tournament in the League of Legends can match.
At the present time, LPL is gradually losing both quality and attraction. MSI 2024 could be an opportunity for teams in the region to try to “save” the tournament. But if they continue to lose against LCK representatives, the possibility that LPL will have to wait for another disappointing Summer is very high.
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