CS2 vs Valorant: Global Viewership Battle

After the first image of Project A (VALORANT’s old code name) was released, the Riot Games shooter game was compared to the Counter-Strike franchise. The similarities between the games are a lot, from the gameplay to the roster weapons, but League of Legends have decided to introduce against and abilities to Overwatch 2 to make things different.

When Valorant was announced, every major esports organization was counting on Riot starting a competitive league just after the release and the developer and the publisher did in 2020 with the announcement of the VCT ecosystem.

The Viewership Data of CS2 vs Valorant Paints a Clearer Picture.

Looking at the Esport chart, we have come to know how the race is going on, looking at the number from China, where Valorant have big following, and are not compiled due ti the inaccessibility and nature of the data from the nation streaming platform.

Lookin at the data of Bird’s eye we saw that CS2 has surpassed Valorant in 2024 like it did every year, continuing a trend that was being going on since the start of the game.

The ecosystem of both the games is changing likewise, specially in terms of strongholds. Counter Strike’s biggest market was historically been the EMEA region with a lot of interest coming from Eastern Europe.

South America has also hotbed for Valve shooter fans with many teams who were competing on the high level. Valorant on the other hand has imposed the North America and in Asia, specially for China and Korea.

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Counter Stike 2 stats and Viewership

Looking at the 2024 stats a containment process between the strongholds. In CS2 like the Mongolz a team from Mongolia and who have been playing insanely good, there are making news all over the top charts.

Team Spirit is also giving a good performance fostering Russianviewership towards the Serbian team which takes part in the org’s new prodigy of Russian origins Danil Donk Kryshkovets. Where the decision to host the Major 2024 in Shanghai also contributed to the tamiliarizing of the Asian audience with the historic sports ecosystem.

The event was peaked at 1.33m Peak viewers was the second most watched of the year with the PGL Major Copenhagen setting almost had a record at 1.85m looking at CS2 has got biggest IEm Katowice ever, at 1.3m Peak viewers and a very strong ESL Pro League Season 21 which was reached more than 500,000 concurrent viewers.

Valorant stats and Viewership

Now looking at the Valorant 2024 has the largest event which was VCT Master Madrd at 1.69m viewership and was closely by Champions at 1.4m and Masters Shangai with 914,000. Yes it was quite hard the game did it best , but it was never close to the storylines which CS2 has made.

2025 has a decent start for the new gamer with more interest developing in Eurpe after the Kickoff event and masters Bangkok, which Riot Claims was the most Watched Valorant Masters event, looking at CS2 it did not got any event big as this yet, this year we can say Katowice is on par with his new record, a single tat both ecosystem are gaining traction from the last performance.

Looking at the Valorant both on the competitive and just on the gameplay side, we can say it is distancing itself more and more from CS2 style and flow due to the new agents that have abilities over gunplay.

Let’s just wait and watch which scene starts to have native players only in 2024. It is quite recent that many new professional players are entering the scene which has been made by those who started directly in Valorant and not from the CS2.