The 10 Biggest Esports Tournaments 2020 With the Most Viewers
The esports industry continues to grow with the number of viewers and prize pools growing. Here are the biggest esports tournaments in 2020 that managed to reach the record for the most viewers!
Over the past few years, esports has become one of the fastest growing multi-billion dollar industries with a growing fan base.
Iconic competitive games, such as League of Legends, CS:GO, to Dota 2, continue to grow in terms of viewership / audience and prize pool. Meanwhile, competitive games that tend to be new, such as Fortnite and Rainbow Six Siege, are starting to surpass and compete with other old esports games.
In Asia alone, mobile games such as Mobile Legends and PUBG Mobile are becoming increasingly popular, especially in 2020, with more than 1 million fans!
In this article, Ligagame provides a list of the most popular esports tournaments with the highest number of fans in 2020.
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1. MPL ID Season 5
Esports Games: Mobile Legends
Number of viewers: 1.2 million
For Mobile Legends fans, you must be familiar with the Mobile Legends Professional League (MPL) Indonesia tournament. The most surprising thing, MPL ID Season 5 broke the record with the largest number of viewers worldwide in the middle of 2020! Who would have thought that the esports industry in Indonesia is growing rapidly in the midst of this pandemic, right?
According to the plan, MPL ID Season 6 will be held again in August with a prize pool of around Rp. 4.3 billion. No wonder the upcoming esports tournament has broken a new record for the largest number of spectators!
2. LCK Spring Split 2020
Esports Games: League of Legends
Number of viewers: 1.1 million
League Champion Korea (LCK) Spring Split 2020 is a League of Legends tournament organized for Korean professional teams. Ten well-known teams competed for a place in the LCK Finals.
according to Esports Charts, the viewership peaked during the broadcast of the match between T1 and Gen.G.
3. PUBG Mobile World League 2020 East
Esports Games: PUBG Mobile
Number of viewers: 1, 1 million
PUBG Mobile World League (PMWL) 2020 East, which ended in early August, managed to achieve a record for the largest viewership at the end of the game, making it one of the largest esports tournaments in the world.
Best of all, the winner of PMWL 2020 East came from Indonesia, Bigetron RA, who managed to get 287 points and 2 chicken dinners!
PMWL East 2020 has nearly 37 million hours of views, and most of this figure comes from YouTube. Because of its popularity, this PUBG Mobile esports tournament rivals Katowice’s viewership, the biggest CS:GO tournament in 2020.
4. IEM Katowice 2020
Esports Games: CS:GO
Number of Viewers: 1 million
CS:GO tournaments are known for their large annual prize pools. CS:GO itself has the largest number of professional players and the largest number of tournaments among other esports games.
IEM Katowice 2020 managed to break the record for the largest viewership. More precisely, when the Grand Finals broadcast took place between Natus Vincere and G2 Esports, the number of fans watching reached 1,001,625.
5. MPL Invitational 4 Nation Cup 2020
Esports Games: Mobile Legends
Number of viewers: 1 million
MPLI 4 Nation Cup succeeded in showing who is the biggest esports leader in Southeast Asia. In this tournament, all participants from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Myanmar competed for a prize pool of $100,000.
The Mobile Legends game again occupies the position on the list of the biggest esports tournaments in 2020 with the highest viewers. Most interestingly, almost 82% of the viewers are from Indonesia! This MPLI 4 Nation Cup viewer also peaked when RRQ was broadcast, gathering nearly 629k viewers.
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6. Copa America 2020
Esports Games: Free Fire
Audience: 896,000
Copa America 2020 is a Free Fire tournament organized by Garena. This esports tournament pits 12 teams from South America with a prize pool of $35k USD.
This Battle Royale game is indeed the most popular among Latin America (especially Brazil), even rivaling PUBG, Fortnite, and Apex Legends.
7. LEC Spring Split 2020
Esports Games: League of Legends
Number of viewers: 817,000
League of Legends is the largest esports in the world, in Asia, Europe, and America. The League of Legend European Championship (LEC) spring split has again managed to achieve the record of one of the esports tournaments with the most viewers.
Peek viewers were when the G2 team fought Fnatic in the grand finals. These two teams are indeed the most popular esports teams with fans around the world.
8. Arena of Valor Premier League 2020
Esports Games: Arena of Valor
Number of viewers: 670,000
Arena of Valor Premier League 2020 is an online championship tournament hosted by Garena and Tencent.
Based on the results of Esports Charts, the largest number of viewers came from Vietnam. Meanwhile, Indonesia only covers 2.9%. It’s only natural because one of the strongest and most popular teams, Team Flash, comes from Vietnam.
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9. ESL One Los Angeles – EU & CIS
Esports Games: Dota 2
Number of viewers: 500,000
Dota 2 is one of the esports tournaments with the largest prize pool, namely The International. Unfortunately, The International 2020 (TI10) which was supposed to be held in August, was finally postponed due to the pandemic.
However, Dota 2 fans still show a strong community. In mid-2020, ESL One Los Angeles managed to achieve the highest viewership on Twitch, beating DreamLeague Season 13 and MDL Chengdu major.
10. ESL Pro League Season 11 – Europe
Esports Games: CS:GO
Number of viewers: 490,000
The last place is ESL Pro League Season 11, a CS:GO match between European professional teams. Initially, this tournament was supposed to be held in Malta, Europe. However, due to COVID-19 which did not subside, it was finally converted into an online format.
Even so, this esports tournament still managed to reach large viewers, even surpassing its Season 10. ESL Pro League even managed to dominate the rankings on Twitch for 3 weeks in a row.
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From this list of the biggest esports tournaments, it turns out that Indonesia has contributed a lot to the development of esports around the world, in terms of fans/viewers, esports teams, to esports organizations.
Of course, over time, this ranking will change. Especially with the League of Legends World Championship tournament which is planned to be held in October in the city of Shanghai, China.
Last year, League of Legend itself managed to achieve the record for the largest viewership worldwide with the World Championship Finals tournament in Paris which reached almost 4 million viewers.
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