The LCK 2025 Season has turn into the third most-watched esports occasion of all time, peaking at over two million viewers in the course of the playoffs.
This yr’s competitors was the primary time Korea’s premier League of Legends match used a single season with 5 rounds, and the LCK Cup.
In line with esports information platform Esports Charts, the LCK 2025 Season hit 2,031,979 viewers in the course of the decrease bracket match between T1 and Gen.G.
The determine makes the season the second-highest LCK peak in historical past, placing it behind LCK Spring 2024, which peaked at 2.6 million viewers.
LCK 2025 additionally recorded over 161 million hours watched, changing into the primary LCK break up to report greater than 100 million hours watched. The 2024 League of Legends World Championship is the most-watched esports occasion in historical past, with over 190 million hours gathered throughout the occasion.
On account of the longer match format, the LCK 2025 Season noticed will increase within the variety of hours watched and common viewership. In comparison with 2024, hours watched climbed from 204 million to 229 million, and common viewership elevated from 208,757 to 252,156, a rise of 20.7%.
T1 featured within the high 5 most-watched matches of the season, with all of them peaking at over 1.3 million viewers.
What Subsequent for The LCK?
T1 will start its quest to win a 3rd consecutive Worlds within the Play-In, the place it takes on Invictus Gaming to earn the ultimate place within the match’s Swiss stage.
Mid-Season Invitational 2025 and LCK 2025 champions Gen.G head into Worlds as one of many championship contenders, wanting so as to add one other trophy to spherical off a powerful season.
