{"id":2241,"date":"2026-07-20T16:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.goranked.gg\/en\/news\/dplus-kia-sweeps-ewc-2026-lol-final-viewership-jumps\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:36:20","slug":"dplus-kia-sweeps-ewc-2026-lol-final-viewership-jumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goranked.gg\/en\/news\/dplus-kia-sweeps-ewc-2026-lol-final-viewership-jumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Dplus KIA sweeps EWC 2026 LoL final; viewership jumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dplus KIA swept Karmine Corp 3-0 to win the Esports World Cup 2026 League of Legends title, ending a five-year title drought and claiming the club&#8217;s first tier-S championship.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karmine Corp reached the grand final after defeating Anyone&#8217;s Legend and then eliminating T1. The European organization set an all-time peak viewers record for the club and drove a rise in French-language viewership.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Average concurrent viewership rose 33.5%, peak viewers increased 22.2%, and total hours watched grew by about 30%. The tournament ran fewer broadcast hours than the 2025 edition.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 200 channels co-streamed or broadcast the matches, a roughly 60% increase from the prior year. Traffic increased on Twitch, YouTube and Naver&#8217;s CHZZK. Streams in Korean and English exceeded their 2025 benchmarks.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several pre-tournament favorites were eliminated earlier than expected, producing multiple upsets across the bracket.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By peak viewers, the League of Legends competition was the most-watched completed event at EWC 2026 to date.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dplus KIA swept Karmine Corp 3-0 to win the Esports World Cup 2026 League of Legends title; average concurrent viewership rose 33.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"newsroom_tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dplus KIA Sweeps EWC 2026 LoL Final as Viewership Jumps<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dplus KIA swept Karmine Corp 3-0 to win the EWC 2026 LoL title. 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