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Riot Games drew 32M fans to its Season 3 League of Legends world championship

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Riot Games said today that it has logged some impressive numbers for online viewership of its Season 3 world championship for its League of Legends online game. The company said more than 32 million fans tuned in to the event, whose finale was held at a sold-out Staples Center, the same venue where the Los Angeles Lakers pro basketball team plays.

League of Legends is an extremely popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game where five players square off against five others. At its peak, the livestream broadcast of the event drew more than 8.5 million fans. A year ago, a total of 8.2 million fans watched, with a peak of 1.1 million watching at the same time. This year’s event took place in October.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.