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Riot Games’ World Championship is back on the track of setting records all over. After the latest record of 32 million unique viewers from 2013 wasn’t quite reached in 2014 (with 27 million unique viewers), this year’s Worlds Final between SK Telecom T1 and the Koo Tigers was seen by 36 million unique viewers, becoming the most watched esports event of all time.

From Paris to Berlin, and over all stages of the competition, Riot announced an all-time high of 360 million hours of live esports viewed—nearly doubling 2014’s total hours viewed of 194 million. Over the course of the 73 games, the World Championship 2015 had an average concurrent viewership of over 4.2 million, with the average fan watching for well over an hour per viewing session.

These numbers, of course, only look to increase, with esports entering international mainstream prominence after large media networks like BBC, HBO, ESPN, and Turner have all staked out areas of coverage. With esports clearly on the rise, and with League at its head, there’s no telling how far these records will actually go in the future.

