Riot Games Twitch Channel Surpasses 1 Billion Views
By Zac Cameron ·
The official Twitch Channel for most League of Legends tournament action has become the first channel to reach the epic milestone.
The official Twitch channel for Riot Games has become the first to reach the 1 Billion views milestone, hitting the landmark number during their weekly North American League of Legends Championship Series broadcast. The channel traditionally only broadcasts the North American and European LCS tournaments, along with various international events such as the Mid-Season Invitational and World Championship, though in the past they have showcased games from the Korean LCK tournament, which now has a separate channel.
We'd like to extend a thank you to the viewers for helping the @RiotGames @Twitch Channel be the first one to surpass 1 billion views. We could not have done it without your loyal support pic.twitter.com/2W69ix0CEJ
— lolesports (@lolesports) June 24, 2018
At the time of writing, the earliest vod on the channel is part of the introduction screen for the League of Legends SEA Regionals, which only lasts for 12 seconds, while the most popular vod is part 2 of the Season 2 World Championship Finals, which lasts for over 9 hours. In the past, many critics have called into question the ability for League of Legends to sustain itself over the long term, especially with the recent rise of other extremely popular games such as Fortnite. The achievement reached today will hopefully put many of these concerns to rest, with the company showing no signs of slowing down as it looks to expand its recent franchise model to regions outside of North America.
With the Summer Splits just now kicking off in most regions, we can expect to see many more view adding to the total count, especially as we approach what is anticipated to be the biggest world championship so far, later this year. As it stands, the channel has already accrued an additional 444,343 views since reaching the 1 Billion mark earlier today. For more League of Legends news, check out the recent results from the LCK, with fan favorite team SK Telecom T1 achieving their first victory of the LCK Summer Split, here.