The 2025 PUBG Nations Cup (PNC) has achieved an all-time new peak viewership report, turning into the most well-liked esports occasion within the sport’s historical past.
In response to esports information platform Esports Charts, the occasion noticed a complete of 815,631 peak concurrent viewers in the course of the 18th and final spherical of the grand ultimate, with Vietnam taking dwelling the win over China and Thailand.
With yesterday’s match day, PUBG has damaged its earlier peak viewership report of 757,875, recorded in the course of the PUBG World Invitational 2018. Furthermore, the competitors smashed its earlier report from final 12 months’s PUBG Nations Cup, which stopped the depend at 510,997.
Common viewership (272,681) has additionally gone up considerably, rising by over 70,000 viewers in comparison with the earlier version (202,133), doubling the variety of hours watched to a complete of 6m. Viewership was steadily rising after every spherical on the ultimate day, with a number of rounds reaching over 600,000 individuals.
Happening on the South Korean Olympic Handball Stadium, the competitors noticed 24 nations compete for the most important share of the $500,000 (~£369,674) prize pool for the primary time ever. With the victory, Vietnam took dwelling $150,000 (~£110,902).
PUBG Nations Cup’s Success
Workforce Vietnam’s win on the event was the most important cause behind the brand new viewership report, with over 500,000 Vietnamese viewers tuning in. Korean-speaking followers accounted for 146,508, adopted by Thai, English, and Russian.
Among the many streaming platforms, YouTube was the popular choice, peaking at 444,836, adopted by NimoTV (operated by Chinese language firm HuYa), Twitch and TikTok Stay.
Because of the occasion being held in South Korea and contemplating the nation had received the 2 earlier editions, PUBG Esports collaborated with Ok-pop teams aespa and PLAVE to kind a robust collaboration between music and gaming. Sadly, South Korea wasn’t in a position to repeat itself for a 3rd time in entrance of the house crowd, solely ending in eighth place.
