The event record was previously held by the league of legends worlds 2020 tournament, which logged 1.8 million concurrent viewers in october 2020. This put it just ahead of the 2019 edition, which counted 1.74 million concurrent twitch viewers in november 2019. This surpassed the previous record of 1.69 million concurrent twitch viewers who tuned to fortnite’s black hole event. The latter is notable in that these viewers were just watching what pretty much amounted to a blank screen.