One of the specialties of the tournaments in the LPL area is the extremely large number of viewers. With LPL Spring 2024 starting with the match between two large teams including Bilibili Gaming (BLG) and Top Esports (TES), many people expect the tournament to have a “booming” view. However, in fact, this match made LPL fans quite pessimistic with the future of the tournament.
Sad signals are still clinging to the LPL tournament
Specifically, according to the community, the largest number of viewers of the BLG match against TES only falls in about 544 thousand at the Bilibili platform. Meanwhile, these matches in previous seasons usually have views about 1 million. This shows the attention of the audience to the LPL tournament seriously declining this season.
The highest number of viewers in the focal match BLG confronted TES was only about 544 thousand
According to the analysis from the Sohu page, the failure of the LPL area before T1 at Worlds 2023 is a major cause of this alarming situation. “The opening match of the Spring LPL 2024 did not reach 600 thousand views, this is an alarming situation. The main reason from the audience has lost the excitement of the matches at LPL. The fact that a series of LPL teams failed against T1 in Worlds 2023 made the audience lose all the trust” – the Sohu page of the LPL area said.
The victory of T1 against a series of LPL teams in Worlds 2023 made the excitement of the audience in this area significantly reduced
Indeed, the second half of the 2023 season is an extremely difficult time for the LPL area. The first is that their League of Legends team has not been able to play as expected and only won a bronze medal at the Olympics. Then there was a series of heavy failures of LNG, JDG and WBG at Worlds 2023 before T1. With such disappointing results, the LPL audience lost confidence and no longer closely watching this tournament is also understandable.
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Moreover, the fact that the players like Uzi or Thery take a break also affect the attractiveness of the spring LPL 2024. The reason comes from the fact that they are all players with many fans and attract a lot of views when playing. Combined with the decline in confidence from the audience after Worlds 2023, the LPL tournament is facing huge difficulties.
In addition, the absence of the players “smoking” like Theshy, Uzi also makes LPL Spring 2024 less attractive.
In order to improve this, the LPL teams only have to make great efforts to achieve high results in international tournaments. If you receive a heavy defeat like Worlds 2023, the LPL tournament will generally face many difficulties, especially the loss of confidence from the audience.