Team Liquid’s 
hotly contested 3-2 win against Team SoloMid in the League of Legends Championship Series Spring Split finals helped Riot Games’ Twitch channel rack up 1.8M hours watched over the course of a seven-hour stream Saturday.
The total was close to double the hours watched of 940K for Team Liquid’s 3-0 win against 100 Thieves in the Spring Split finals last year. Meanwhile, this season’s 296K average concurrent viewership (CCV) marked a jump from 2018 when the less competitive finals generated 261K CCV.
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For the LoL European Championship (LEC), a revamped format for the playoffs added some juice to the overall hours watched total for the event, even though the average viewership wasn’t much stronger than it was in 2018.
The league’s “juggernaut” style playoff had the top two seeds play one another last week to determine who got an automatic spot in the finals. The loser would have to play a quasi-semifinal match against Fnatic on Saturday before the Sunday finals.
As a result, Origen beat Fnatic on Saturday to with an average of 156K CCV and a total of 813K hours watched. Sunday’s finals proved to be less competitive though. After beating Origen 3-0 in the “juggernaut” match, G2 Esports won a less-than-competitive finals 3-0 in a match that averaged 146K CCV. The match reached 727K total hours watched.
In 2018, Fnatic downed G2 Esports in an equally uncompetitive fashion. That match attracted 148K CCV to Riot Games’ Twitch channel accruing 687K hours watched.
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Figures on Riot Games’ main channel don’t reflect the entirety of LEC coverage on Twitch. There are numerous alternative-language broadcast partners for the league that include O’Gaming TV (French), LVP (Spanish), Polsat Games by Frenzy (Polish), Summornser Inn Live by Freaks4U Gaming (German), and PG Esports (Italian). Though these alternatives provide a plethora of options for European viewers, in order to find consistency in year-over-year statistics, growth is measured most effectively using the main Riot Games broadcast.
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Peak viewership for the weekend predictably came during the decisive fifth game of the LCS Spring Split final when the viewership reached 421K as Team Liquid defeated Team SoloMid. The LEC max CCV of 252K came during Sunday’s finals as G2 Esports sealed the deal to win the Spring Split 3-0. Saturday’s play-in match for the LEC finals peaked at 242K CCV. Both figures were lower than the peak for the LEC last year during the finals which was 261K CCV.
