The VCT Stage 2 2025 aggressive season has come to an finish throughout all of Riot Video games’ worldwide leagues, with the perfect groups now heading to Paris for the VALORANT Champions 2025.
Nonetheless, while all leagues will all ship 4 representatives, viewership traits throughout VCT Stage 2 diversified sharply throughout the board. VCT Pacific is surging to new heights with robust peaks, VCT Americas confronted a giant slide, VCT EMEA is constructing first rate momentum, and VCT China is exhibiting indicators of a stronger fanbase.
Esports Insider takes a take a look at all 4 worldwide leagues to analyse the recognition of VCT Stage 2 2025. Viewership statistics are sourced by esports information platform Esports Charts.
VCT EMEA Stage 2
VCT EMEA noticed progress in peak viewers numbers on this 12 months’s Stage 2, although the common remained steady in comparison with final 12 months.
The area recorded a peak viewership of 274,774, up from 199,788 in 2024, in keeping with Esports Charts, whereas the common viewership ticked up barely from 96,376 to 99,337. The slight enhance is extra emphasised by the longer broadcast schedule — 123 hours of airtime in comparison with 90 hours in 2024 — suggesting a extra constant viewers.
Essentially the most-watched sequence of 2025 was BBL vs Staff Liquid, adopted by Staff Heretics vs M8 (200,772), BBL vs M8 (188,095), Fnatic vs Karmine Corp (178,447), and FUT vs M8 (169,427). Apparently, the grand ultimate between Staff Liquid and GIANTX failed to succeed in the highest 5 hottest matches.
Other than the height viewership, this 12 months’s widespread matches recorded comparable numbers to the 2024 Stage 2, exhibiting a constant curiosity within the league.
VCT Americas Stage 2
This 12 months’s competitors recorded a peak viewership of 295,084, down from 394,975 the earlier season. Common viewership additionally fell from 203,829 to 155,558 and complete hours watched reached 18.278m.
Essentially the most-watched sequence was per week 4 match between 100 Thieves vs LOUD, peaking at 295,084 viewers. LOUD proved to be a robust drive in viewership within the league, because the Brazilian workforce was featured in 4 of the 5 most-watched matches.
That is additional proved by the language distribution: English streams led with 168,793 peak viewers, adopted by Portuguese with 145,933, and Spanish with 62,780, in keeping with Esports Charts.
By comparability, the 2024 Stage 2 featured stronger numbers, with matches equivalent to G2 vs Leviatán (final 12 months’s grand ultimate) and EG vs LOUD peaking at almost 400,000, showcasing indicators of volatility within the league’s viewership. Furthermore, this 12 months, no playoff matches have been featured within the prime 5 hottest match-ups throughout VCT Stage 2.
VCT Pacific Stage 2
Compared, VCT Pacific continues to expertise robust progress in peak viewership, though its common viewers slipped. The league reached a peak of 426,912 viewers, almost 100,000 greater than the earlier 12 months, however common figures dipped barely from 163,033 to 155,918.
The height was reached in the course of the grand finals between RRQ vs Paper Rex, with different standout matches together with RRQ vs Talon (377,910), T1 vs RRQ (334,624), and PRX vs Talon (322,681), confirming RRQ and PRX as key viewers magnets within the league.
Not like the earlier two leagues, the competitors’s playoffs proved to be a significant draw, with the highest 4 hottest matchups occurring throughout that stage of the occasion.
There has additionally been a significant shift within the language distribution. In VCT Pacific Stage 2 2025, Japanese streams peaked at 153,488 viewers, down from final 12 months’s 235,302. In the meantime, English-language broadcasts reached 142,313. This was partially pushed by ZETA and DFM’s excessive engagement in final 12 months’s stage 2, which noticed each groups featured within the most-watched sequence of the break up 2.
VCT CN Stage 2
VCT China confirmed indicators of stabilisation in 2025, sustaining comparable peaks to final 12 months whereas considerably bettering in common viewership. The league recorded a peak viewers of 37,537, barely beneath 39,601 in 2024, however its common viewership greater than doubled from 5,027 to 10,555. That being stated, information recorded by Esports Charts doesn’t embody Chinese language mainland viewership, so it’s laborious to actually analyse the league’s home success..
Essentially the most-watched matchup of the break up was EDG vs Hint Esports within the playoffs. Different robust showings included FPX vs Wolves (33,109), EDG vs BLG (31,210), and the grand ultimate between DRG vs BLG (30,001).
The soar in sustained viewership in 2025 suggests the league is steadily constructing a extra constant fanbase exterior of China, even when its ceiling stays behind the opposite VCT areas.
