A hugely successful ALGS Championship ended off ALGS Year 4.
The ALGS Championship saw a huge uptick in Japanese viewership, making it the second most popular esports event held in Japan ever. The event was broadcast in both English and Japanese, simultaneously shown on PlayApex and Esports Rage.
While viewership was down a touch overall, these statistics place the Year 4 ALGS Championship behind only the VCT 2023: Masters Tokyo in terms of viewership.
ALGS Championship in Japan posts impressive viewership
According to data from Esports Charts Japanese viewership increased by over 60% from the previous ALGS Championship. This was offset by a dip in English viewership, which decreased by just under 40%.
However, this dip is very explainable. The ALGS Championship format is long, making it hard to position the event well for all timezones. The event took place in the middle of the night and early morning for European audiences, and started late at night for those in America.
Despite this, the English broadcast still performed well. The 'B-Stream' hosted by NiceWigg and Greek had more viewers than either of the Year 4 ALGS Playoff events, despite the different timezone. This approach from the ALGS has been hugely successful. Apex Legends fans have several ways to watch competition. This includes several different 'watchparties', FACEIT Watch and streams across multiple platforms like Twitch and YouTube.
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The biggest ALGS event in history
This viewership further adds to the record breaking ALGS Championship. The event was the best attended event in the programmes history. Over 30,000 people attended across the five days, including a sold out crowd of almost 13,000 on Championship Sunday.
The event included some notable collaborations, including with keyboard company Highground and with popular Japanese band SiM who performed the games first ever anthem at the tournament. The song, called Champions, was the first time that the esport has ever had an official song for one of their events.
These factors combined point to the ALGS Championship being hugely successful. With a short off-season before the programmes fifth year begins, the ALGS will hope to carry momentum through. Top level ALGS competition returns in April, ahead of the 160-team ALGS Open LAN.
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