In the last spring period, the LPL tournament had many difficulties in attracting the audience. Specifically, the number of people watching the LPL tournament has decreased quite a lot compared to the previous season. The famous players like Thery, Uzi take a break and the decline in confidence in fans when LPL representatives constantly failed before T1 at Worlds 2023, which is said to be the main cause of this.
T1 has defeated a lot of LPL to win the World Championship 2023
Like a way to save the tournament, the organizers have applied the system as well as the new Summer LPL 2024. However, it seems that these efforts are not enough to pull the audience back to watch the summer LPL 2024.
Specifically, according to statistics from Sohu page, the number of views of the summer match in the summer of 2024 is only about 550 thousand. This figure is only half the number with the opening match of the Spring tournament. Meanwhile, the other matches of the summer LPL 2024 fell into a more “carpet” situation when views were only 100-300 thousand. This is really too low compared to a large area like LPL.
The highest number of views of the summer LPL 2024 after 5 days of starting is only 550 thousand
Not stopping there, LPL fans continued to be “rubbed salt” by former World Worlds – Ning with harsh comments. According to Ning's sharing, LPL is now seriously degraded in terms of attractiveness. Therefore, as a tournament viewer, Ning thinks that LPL is not equal to the friendly tournament called “The Old Cup”.
“I watched the recent LPL matches as an audience, actually it was less attractive than the” old trophy “. This tournament brings together many famous names, the audience will want to see the Uzi, Thery more play. Not to mention the” old trophy “has a lot of” dramas “among content creators and makes the audience talk about them. “Old Cup” is now more attractive than LPL ” – Ning shared.
Ning recently commented “cruelly” about the current situation of LPL: “I watched the recent LPL matches as an audience, really less attractive than” the old Cup “. This tournament brings together many famous names, the audience will want to see Uzi, Theshy more play”
After the defeat of LPL representatives at Worlds 2023, the belief of the audience in the tournament has decreased quite a lot. This continued to take place in the last MSI 2024 when BLG collapsed before Gen.G right on the home field. This is most likely the main reason why the number of LPL Summer views 2024 continues to decline compared to the spring.
BLG's failure at MSI 2024 was held at home, making the belief of the LPL audience decline
Therefore, it is difficult for the organizers to change the competition format, it is difficult to regain trust in the audience. Perhaps the LPL teams themselves need to try harder, bringing this area to international titles to regain trust in fans. If that happens, the number of viewers, LPL tracking will automatically increase without any change in format.