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Esports World Cup halftime report: 175M+ hours watched, 60K tickets sold


The first Esports World Cup has brought in 1M festival visitors to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and 177.5M hours watched in its first 4 weeks.

The inaugural Esports World Cup is half way done and the mega tournament has reached significant viewership and attendance milestones in its first four weeks. Despite narrowly missing Dota 2’s top spot, League of Legends did see the highest peak viewership at 3.4 million viewers. When these are excluded, the viewership for completed tournaments totals 96.8 million hours watched according to EWC partner, Esports Charts.

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