The first major tournament of this year, VCT 2024: Masters Madrid, concluded after 10 days of intense competition. Although this event is not the main one in the discipline, it gathered the largest audience compared to the tournaments of the previous year, directly indicating the discipline's growing popularity.
Recall that yesterday, professional players gave us the brightest show in the event's grand final. The American team, Sentinels, faced the Korean underdogs Gen.G Esports, and the match was very exciting. As a result of five tense maps, the American organization secured a hard-fought victory with a score of 3-2, thereby making their fans rejoice after the previous unsuccessful season. A few hours after the tournament ended, the well-known portal Esports Charts, which deals with Valorant statistics, presented data on the event's viewership, and they turned out to be very unexpected.
As it became known, the tournament's grand final attracted nearly 672,000 viewers, and at the peak of popularity, about 1,665,193 fans followed the tournament. This means that the event in Madrid broke all previous records and became the most popular tournament in the discipline. It is noted that the 2022 World Championship grand final remains the second most popular, with 1,505,804 viewers at the peak of popularity.
It is interesting that tournaments of the Masters type have surpassed the popularity of the World Championships in 2022 and 2023, directly indicating the rising attention to the Valorant esports scene.
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