Valorant has one of the crucial profitable girls’s esports circuits on the market, and so they’ve simply damaged their very own document for highest peak viewership with 453k concurrent viewers through the Sport Changers 2024 closing.
For reference, the 2023 Sport Changer grand closing had 293k, making this a greater than 50% enhance year-over-year and a large win for the Sport Changers league.
It’s notoriously tough for leagues centered round girls and different marginalized genders to get a foothold within the esports house, with only a few having sufficient endurance to remain alive within the long-term and garner sufficient sponsors to remain afloat.
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And, whereas some strides have been comprised of groups selecting up feminine gamers for his or her rosters throughout a number of totally different esports, it’s a rarity.
Sport Changers has, paradoxically sufficient, modified the sport for girls’s esports and created an area the place girls can thrive and turn out to be superstars. It’s on the level the place the highest rivals within the league have followers begging them to get into the tier 1 leagues.
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Regardless of the discrimination towards girls and different marginalized genders within the house, there’s no rule towards them moving into the VCT correct. Hell, Potter, one of the crucial profitable coaches in Valorant historical past, has actually set the bar for what it means to be a superb Valorant coach. Her run with EG in 2023 was historic.
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However, surprisingly sufficient, Valorant Sport Changers isn’t the largest girls’s league in esports if we’re speaking by way of peak viewership, not by a longshot.
The Cell Legends Bang Bang Girls’s Invitational 2023 peaked at over 1.3 million concurrent viewers, virtually 3 occasions as a lot because the 2024 Sport Changers record-setting grand closing.
Presently, the general document for Valorant occasions is Masters Madrid 2024 with over 1.6 million concurrent viewers..
Regardless, 453k concurrent viewers is nothing to scoff at, particularly contemplating how a lot progress the league has seen in such a short while.
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All stats aggregated from Esports Charts
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