It can be said that there has not been a season that LCK faces many current challenges, especially after the extremely strong “self -destruct” of Gen.G in late 2023 recently. Accordingly, even in the opening match of the Spring LCK 2024, T1 became the first “victim” of Gen.G when the match between this team and the defending champion LCK was not broadcast on any channel of the Bilibili platform. But even so, the incident of Gen.G accidentally brought some certain mutant changes.
Battle T1 – Gen.G must not broadcast on the platforms of LPL
Accordingly, noted from the page Esports Chart, The match between Gen.G – T1 has recorded more than 1.1 million views at the highest time (Peak View). For those who do not know, this number is only inferior to the LCK LCK final of the 2023 Spring also between the two teams on about 300k views. And yet, this figure also passed the second highest view in the Spring Tournament 2023 when the match between T1 – KT only reached about 1 million views.
View T1 – Gen.G extremely high, according to the statistics of Esports Charts
The view of the match T1 – Gen.G opened the LCK Spring 2024 high as close to the view of the LCK Final 2023
According to many opinions, this is largely due to the LPL that has “conferred” Gen.G, forcing the audience this area to see the T1 match must choose flexible ways, such as using VPN or “Fake location” to see on other platforms. In fact, this may come because LPL audiences want to watch T1, rather than to see gen.g play. Because, T1 is the current champion of Worlds 2023 and on that journey, T1 defeated all 4 representatives of LPL. And even, all 4 teams only found exactly 1 game against Faker and his teammates.
According to many opinions, Gen.G is “prohibited” in LPL forcing the audience to find a way to “cross the fence” to see in other platforms to help the view of the statistics soar to skyrocket
In addition, before, the platforms of Esports Charts Do not record the number of views from the LPL's broadcast applications. With the Gen.G “punished”, this may be the number of views close to the most accurate number that a match with T1 can bring to LCK. Moreover, the sudden increase in the view may be due to a reason that at the present time, the tournaments have not returned fully. Therefore, a good match like Gen.G – T1 reaching a high view is understandable.
T1 also contributed when they were the new king of League of Legends
Of course, perhaps it will be necessary to wait for more matches, to really determine the cause for the sudden growth of the view of the opening match of Spring LCK 2024. But at least, this may be a bright spot for the gloomy picture of the LCK Spring LCK 2024 after the “self -destruct” of the tournament champion.