OpTic Gaming vs. DRX is the most viewed match at VALORANT Champions 2022

The duel between the teams OpTic Gaming and DRX became the most watched in the framework of VALORANT Champions 2022. At the peak, 1,020,683 people watched the meeting. Thus, the current VALORANT Champions 2022 broke several records at once in terms of the number of simultaneous viewers.

Recall that according to the results of yesterday's match, the OpTic Gaming team beat DRX with a score of 3:2, thanks to which it made it to the grand final of the competition. Here the North American team will play with the LOUD team.

The day before, Riot Games announced that the Champions Collection had over $16,000,000 in revenue.

The most popular event in the history of the discipline is still VALORANT Champions 2021, which attracted 1,089,068 people at its peak.

VALORANT Champions 2022 takes place from August 31 to September 18 in Istanbul at the Volkswagen Arena. As part of the championship, sixteen teams from Europe, North and South America, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, China and Southeast Asia are fighting for a total prize pool of $1,000,000.

VALORANT Champions 2022 Interim Results

• 1st place: OpTic Gaming/LOUD - $300,000
• 2nd place: OpTic Gaming/LOUD - $150,000
• 3rd place: DRX — $110,000
• 4th place: FunPlus Phoenix - $80,000
• 5th-6th place: Fnatic and XSET — $60,000
• 7th-8th place: Leviatán and Team Liquid — $40,000
• 9th-12th place: Paper Rex, KRÜ Esports, 100 Thieves ZETA DIVISION — $25,000
• 13th-16th place: BOOM Esports, XERXIA, FURIA Esports and EDward Gaming — $15,000