The 2025 League of Legends sports season not only introduces one but also two new regional tournaments. In addition to LTA connecting North and South America, Riot Games has launched the League of Legends Championships of the Pacific (LCP), combining two major tournaments of Southeast Asia: VCS (Vietnam) and PCS (Taiwan. , Japan, Oceania). The first event in the season highlighted the potential of strong viewers from matches between teams from Vietnam and Taipei.

Although this unity is a completely new concept for the Americas, Southeast Asia has started to approach the unification of regional tournaments since 2023, when the top teams of the tournament LCO from Oceania began to participate in PCS's playoffs. In the 2024 season, Japan has also been integrated into the playoffs structure, significantly improving the level of competition: Fukuoka Softbank Hawks has emerged as a strong opponent, constantly challenging Taiwan's leading teams and Two second time at the playoffs.

CTBC won the second championship in the history of the team and returned after a disappointing 2024 season 

Vietnam has now joined the most promising group of areas of League of Legends sports viewers. The number of domestic viewers has grown since the late 2010s, but Coronavirus pandemic has temporarily slowed down this development momentum. Strict restrictions have led to the cancellation of events, and Vietnamese teams cannot participate in international tournaments such as Mid-Season Invitational and Worlds. However, since 2022, everything has gradually improved. By 2024, VCS has achieved a record number of viewers, making the expansion of this large Southeast Asia tournament reasonable and at the right time.

Unlike LTA, only tournaments across the region in the first and third period of the season, LCP maintains a unified competition structure throughout the year. Before the season began, the biggest competition was expected to be between the strong teams of PCS and Fukuoka Hawks. However, the Vietnamese teams, especially Vikings Esports, have made a strong impression. Vikings almost reached the final twice, first passed the upper branch and then crossed the lower branch, but unfortunately there was no surprise.

Finally, the final was the confrontation between Taiwan teams, and CTBC Flying Oyster won. They will represent this area to participate in the new international tournament, First Stand 2025.

LCP statistics viewers

As expected, the largest increase in viewers from Vietnam, with Vietnamese teams creates a significant increase in the number of viewers. The most popular team from Vietnam attracts 24% more viewers than the top teams from any other country.

The most viewed matches in the tournament often have the participation of teams from Vietnam.

The most interesting thing came from the match in the playoffs, where Vikings confronted CTBC Flying Oyster, the last championship team. Before this match, Vikings eliminated Fukuoka Hawks and Talon, strong teams. Finally, the decisive match reached a peak with more than 261,000 viewers simultaneously: 30,000 more than the match with the second highest number of viewers in the event.

Unfortunately, the final does not create strong interest. The final match is the confrontation between the dominant teams from the previous PCS season, and for all Vietnamese teams eliminated, the tournament witnessed a significant decline in the number of viewers. The decisive match only attracted 110,000 viewers simultaneously, down 58% compared to the most anticipated match of the event.

Note: Statistics do not include data from China's broadcasting services due to the way of monitoring their specific viewers' activities.

Overview and event have achieved quite good viewers, although the gap between the giant Vietnamese fans and other Southeast Asian countries is still obvious, especially when comparing between the The highest and average viewers in the entire event. On average, the event maintained 86,700 viewers simultaneously every 5 minutes, this figure is even slightly lower than the LTA North.

LTA is clearly the leader in the number of viewers between new tournaments.

In terms of viewers, LCP is usually lower than LTA, but LTA has not achieved the optimal number. This result is understandable, because Brazilian fans often participate more passionately than Vietnamese fans in domestic matches: despite being eliminated from the first round of Cross-Conference, Brazilian teams are still Attract a significant audience in LTA South matches.

The LCP season will continue in April, but before that, CTBC will play at First Stand, where they will face Hanwha Life Esports, Team Liquid, and winning teams from LPL and LEC. First Stand will start on March 10.