Esports Charts: Esports World Cup Enjoys 120M Hours Watched

Esports World Cup records 120M hours watched, according to Esports Charts data. Image Credit: Esports Charts

The Esports World Cup enjoyed 120M hours watched over the entirety of its eight weeks of competition from July 3 – to Aug. 25, according to Esports Charts. The report notes that EWC was the fourth most-watched esports series of 2024 behind MLBB Professional League, LCK,  and Valorant Champions Tour 2024.

This tabulation does not include numbers from Chinese streaming platforms. From the report:

“Stats from Chinese live-streaming platforms have not been included as their publicly available viewership data is different from the usual concurrent viewers figures that are usually used and remain unreliable, rendering them incompatible with most other data services.”

League of Legends and Counter-Strike 2 competitions made up over 64% of the 120M hours watched during the event, according to the report. Of course, those numbers would probably shift in favor of other titles if Chinese data was included, as games such as Honor of Kings are immensely popular in the region.

You can read the entire Esports Charts report here. It should be noted that Esports Charts was an official partner of the Esports World Cup, which is funded by a grant from the Saudi Arabian government.

Earlier this week the Esports World Cup Foundation claimed that the Esports World Cup enjoyed cumulative viewership of 500M during the eight-week competition and 2M visitors to Riyadh. Esports World Cup Foundation did not provide a breakdown of this number, but we assume includes numbers from Chinese streaming platforms and other sources not tracked by Esports Charts.

At a closing ceremony on Sunday (which was also tied into the Esports Awards and the New Global Sport Conference), HRH Crown Prince and Saudi Arabia Prime Minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (HRH Crown Prince MBS) presented the Esports World Cup Club Championship Trophy to Team Falcons Chairman and Co-Founder Mosaad AlDossary.

As the top-performing team in the club-based championship, Team Falcons took home $7M. Team Liquid earned $4M, Team BDS took home $2M, Team Vitality secured a $1.5M prize, and T1 earned $1.25M. The Esports World Cup awarded more than $60M in prize money across its eight-week competition, with $20M dedicated to the Club Championship.