Over 600,000 viewers tuned in to watch shroud’s Valorant debut with Sentinels – Dexerto

On By Garmin Philip

Over 600,000 viewers across the main streams of the Riot Games Valorant Champions Tour and multiple co-streams watched Michael ‘shroud’ Grzesiek play his first official match for Sentinels in the VCT North American Last Chance Qualifier.

The peak viewership count of 608,385 makes the tournament the most-watched North American Valorant tournament to date. It ranks seventh for peak in-game viewership, behind only Valorant Champions, VCT Masters LAN, and Twitch Rivals, according to esports graphics.

In their first match for the team against The Guard, Sentinels lost 2-1, shroud 39/59/25 on Viper and Astra.

Viewership numbers are a combination of Riot’s streams, which peaked at 133,000 viewers on Twitch and 69,000 on YouTube, according to esports graphicsand various streamers big and small like Spencer ‘Hiko’ Martin, Tarik ‘tarik’ Celik, Jay ‘sinatraa’ Won, Kyedae Shymko, and shroud’s own Twitch channel with partner Hannah ‘Bnans’ Kennedy as host.

tarik had the highest number of individual viewers, peaking at around 196,000 viewers, dwarfing the main stream. The Kyedae and shroud channels drew the next number of viewers from the watch parties, peaking at around 41,000 and 78,000 peak viewers respectively. Valorant as a category on Twitch reached over 550,000 viewers during the match.

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Valorant is coming off a poor Copenhagen Masters tournament in terms of viewership.

shroud in Sentinels

The former Counter Strike professional and content creator announced his signing by one of the most popular organizations in Valorant on July 8 for the NA LCQ. A popular streamer for almost three years after his retirement from esports, shroud’s debut was highly anticipated.

Sentinels as a team also helped attract viewers as one of the most dominant teams in Valorant in 2020 and 2021, with Tyson ‘TenZ’ Ngo, the most popular player in the region, also on the team.

Sentinels as a team have been through a tough 2022 as the team was unable to do an international tournament, they did all the major events in 2021 and have been through multiple roster moves.

One such move saw them secure Jordan ‘Zellsis’ Montemurro, who also made his debut for the Sentinels in this match.

Sentinels and shroud will continue their LCQ journey in the lower bracket against a team yet to be determined as of press time.



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