First Stand 2025 made a “embarrassing” achievement
It can be said that First Stand 2025 has brought new experiences to the audience when an international tournament of Riot applies Fearless Draft but comes with a lot of controversy. Because the tournament lasts only in a short time and lacks many faces considered the “peak” of Lo Lo village. It is for this reason, First Stand 2025 has become the international tournament with the lowest number of Riot views in the past 3 years.
The First Stand 2025 is Riot's first international tournament to apply Fearless Draft but has a “disaster” view.
Specifically, the total number of view of First Stand 2025 is only about 1.1 million at the highest time, according to Esports Charts statistics. Compared to the 2025 LCK Cup, this figure is nearly 800k lower views. Worth mentioning, the LCK Cup 2025 also witnessed T1 being eliminated soon after the first match of the playoffs.
It lasts for 1 week but the total view of First Stand 2025 is just over 1.1 million at the highest time.
In which no match beyond 900k landmark except for the final.
Perhaps the reason for the low view of First Stand 2025 is a long -lasting tournament in a short time. However, one more important reason and agreed by many viewers, is the absence of a series of “peaks” of League of Legends, which is typically T1. For those who do not know, up to now, all matches in the top 5 highest views are statistically stated by Esports Charts with the presence of T1.
All matches with the highest number of views in the history of the current professional League of Legends are present T1.
But First Stand 2025 has also completed the task
In fact, perhaps Riot himself does not expect this tournament to attract view like Worlds or MSI – tournaments in terms of value and meaning are superior. However, the First Stand 2025 has successfully helped the audience imagine how Fearless Draft and anti -island will be applied in international tournaments as well as the rest of the season.
Without the “view sentence” faces, Riot immediately received “consequences”.
However, there is also one factor that if T1 or teams like G2, Bilibili Gaming … continue to play as in the domestic league over time, the possibility of coming to MSI or Worlds will be really threatened when these “view sentences” have some unexpected results and must … at home.