Saw a post along the lines of how "GC has more viewers than T2" which atp isn't even surprising and wanted to list a bunch of reasons why, some include:
- The games are streamed on the official valorant twitch/youtube account (compared to tier 2 accounts which have a fraction of the followers/subscribers that the main accounts have)
- Have way more promotion on the games (for comparison tier 2 has only a fraction of the social media posts that GC has through promotions)
- Much better production (people are more willing to watch something if they don't need to wait 6 hours for the staff to fix something with production)
- Has drops (pretty self-explanatory)
- Every region is included (Most of the time each region's viewers in tier 2 will consist of that region itself instead of GC which is every single region)
- Better venues (venues in tier 2 look like they are from a random small studio they rented out for cheap while GCC gets an entire arena to play in)
- Interactive page on Valorant (basically promotion but for everyone even off social media)
The more surprising thing is that even with shit production and promotion, the tier 2 scene is somewhat consistent with the viewership in GCC (at least for last year since this year's GCC hasn't ended yet)
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