It can be said that the last 2024 spring of League of Legends village has witnessed a lot of fluctuations in the most notable areas of League of Legends. For example, LCK with the ups and downs of T1 plus the DDOS incidents affecting the tournament and the conspiracy to attack Faker and his teammates. Or as VCS becomes the most mentioned area at the end of the group stage when the negative case appears. And of course, it is impossible not to mention LPL when the attraction of the tournament has decreased significantly when a series of stars fall in form or take a break, such as Thery, Kanavi, Ruler.
Thery and many stars are absent or fall in form, making LPL Spring 2024 less attractive
The absence of top superstars, plus the professional factor was suspected when all 4 teams of LPL were “defeated generals” of T1 in Worlds 2023, along with many other objective and subjective factors, made the LPL award less attractive. According to the statistics of the page Esports Chart, The LPL Spring 2024 witnessed low viewers unprecedented on international broadcasting platforms. Specifically, this tournament only earned 292k viewers (Peak View), even lower than VCS (312.5k Peak View).
The highest turn of the 2024 Spring tournaments in League of Legends and LPL's position is lower than VCS
Of course, the statistics of this site do not show the number of domestic broadcast platforms at LPL. But one thing can be seen: the international audience is probably gradually reducing the attention for the leading League of Legends tournament in China. If in previous years, people could still find familiar names like Uzi, Theshy … then these players were completely absent. Not to mention, the current LPL is almost the race of JD Gaming – Bilibili Gaming, which is more this season has the top eSports. While the names have been dominated for a long time and have a large fan file (Edward Gaming, Royal Never Give Up), one after another also makes foreign audiences less interested in LPL.
The more familiar teams with international audiences such as EDG or RNG are almost no mark other than frustration and bowl achievement.
Meanwhile, the Spring LCK 2024 witnessed the unprecedented “terrible” figure with more than 2.60 million views at the highest time. It is still “the race” between T1 – Gen.G but it is clear that LCK is showing a completely superior attraction compared to LPL. Meanwhile, VCS is also noticed, partly because of the negative case and the rest because of the return of a series of superstars, including SOFM, in the recent playoffs.
Meanwhile, LCK is completely superior if not in a position without any tournament in the League of Legends village.
At the present time, LPL is gradually inferior in both quality and attraction. MSI 2024 may be an opportunity for teams in the region to make an effort to “save” the tournament. But if they continue to defeat against LCK representatives, the possibility of LPL must wait for another disappointing summer is very high.