JP Viewership Insane

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Sprouts

I feel like a lot of people forget how popular valorant is in JP right now

Not sure if these stats are true, but according to Liquipedia, the stage 3 JP playoffs actually had a higher amount of average viewers and peak viewers then EMEA
https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VALORANT_Champions_Tour/2021/EMEA/Stage_3/Challengers_Playoffs
https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VALORANT_Champions_Tour/2021/Japan/Stage_3/Challengers_Playoffs

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hopefully Japan does well

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that's also because EMEA viewership is bad lol, literally god damn ESL pro league group stage got more viewers than challenger 3 playoff for EMEA

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Sprouts

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True
EMEA viewership is bad right now and is hard carried by the turks

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its really dumb tho, its not even the major

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There's something wrong with this viewer stat, both Liquidpedia and Esports Charts didn't count the number of viewers from the co-stream of a Turkish man named wtcn

And he always had over 50k+ people watching during the event, mostly on the SMB and Acend games

And about the japanese scene I always talked about how big the numbers there were
I hope they do well at Masters Berlin

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I assumed there had to be something off, since the EMEA numbers did seem low
Just wondering though, would that mean that the JP numbers are wrong to, since Stylishnoob's co-stream was getting like +80k viewers?

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No, japanese are correct.
Only emea and korean numbers are wrong.

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No co-streams no viewers supernova LUL

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PrTsty

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No product placements no sells
Stop talking shit, valorant would at least pull 75 percent of the viewers without co streams

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skerett

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75%? u crazy xDD Imagine valorant without co-streams and without turkish big team

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supernova

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Imagine CSG OMEGALUL without CIS/NAVI/S1mple and Gaules OMEGALUL

If it weren't for Gaules CSGO would not have 5% of the viewers it has today in Brazil

NA scene = dead
All asian scene = dead
EU = carried by CIS

CSG OMEGALUL brain lmao

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Ms

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Valorant is literally only popular in NA and Japan, in EU is carried by turkey.

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That is completely untrue, lol.

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skerett

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LMAO WHOLE VALORANT SCENE IS CARRIED BY CO-STREAMS HAHAHH, wanna compare viewers without co-streams supernova OMEGALUL.

Eu carried by cis ???¿??=??

Supernova remember that csgo will be always the king, no big streamers playing it, no ads on the internet. Not a plastic game like valorant

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i remember checking live tweets during iceland and it was almost entirely japanese fans, i was shocked that there were so many fans considering how csgo was super niche in jp.

they have a really solid playerbase and the community is really invested in esports, it may take a few years but i confidently think japan will be competitive with the top regions eventually as they grow

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Well csgo isnt really a style of game that matches well with the asian style. The picture i have a bout an ideal game in asia or in this case japan are cartoon/anime graphics and abilities + riot invested quite a lot into asia

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has a realistic looking game without abilities succeeded in asia? excluding shit games like cod mobile, crossfire etc

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Stratos

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basically Westerners tend to like more with realistic style than Asia.

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Yah dude also it kinda makes sense you get home after the work and again you want to watch the real world again imo its kinda depressing

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KiwisAreAwesome

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i hope they succeed because i love the underdog story! :D

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Valorant is pretty popular and Japanese people are addicted to twitter lol

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Yea, Japan has a lot of popular streamers that co-stream the tournaments. I personally watch StylishNoob's co-stream, but the main stream is also enjoyable since the casters are amazing. I think the chat is a lot more bearable compared to NA/EMEA since there aren't that many spammers from other regions (besides the occasional when is Northeption playing? spam). Hopefully Japan can perform well at Berlin.

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The chat in the main stream is practically つよおおおお or うおおおおおおお or やば. Or whenever something is playing: smth(followed by random japanese characters) or スミス(followed by random japanese characters. Pretty chill chat though. Really rare for spam to happen. And I usually watch the CR games because I like how their team works with the 7 man roster bc it's pretty interesting. And all of the chat is just vibing.

I personally actually don't like the castors at times though. Because they are quite loud. I usually like to analyze plays and shit. But my ears go anime mode whenever the castors start screaming. It's a little annoying at times for me personally.

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big_chungus69

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Probably "smth 強い" lol. It means "strong" but they always spam it whenever someone makes a crazy play.

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Asphyxia

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Ik lol. But the whole chat starts simping after smth whenever INSM are playing.

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Stratos

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don't forget the amount of "WWWWWWWW" when a funny moment happen.

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Stratos

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I remember it was like 20k peak viewers back in VCT JP stage 1 especially when Jupiter (now ZETA) plays, now you easily get a stable 25k-30k minimum live viewers during stage 3 even without ZETA or CR playing the game and peak is at 162k total (including co-streams). Even Youtube stream were usually peak at 10k, now 10k is the minimum while the peak is at 30k-40k viewers.

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MilanTheMyth

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It's nice but how did it happen? because in stage 1 they got like 30k views but now 133k suddenly.

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Stratos

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Some said that there are many factors to it, the rise of PC gaming in FPS title and esports culture in general during the pandemic are some of them I believe.

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Sprouts

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Here's a guess, could be completely wrong tho:
Valorant started to become more mainstream in Japan after Reykjavik and got a massive spike in players
Absolute Jupiter (Zeta) started to get actual competition from CR, which eventually turned into a rivalry
Northeption, with Seoldam, started to bring in more fans in Stage 2 and 3 and attracted fans from other regions as well
More large content creation streamers started to co-stream the main events, such as StylishNoob
Another popular player, something, started to play in Stage 3 which brought in even more fans