VALORANT Skyrockets to the top of Twitch with Nearly a Million Concurrent Viewers

Aditya Singh Rawat
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VALORANT Skyrockets to the top of Twitch with Nearly a Million Concurrent Viewers

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With the embargo lifted on VALORANT and streamers showcasing the pre-recorded gameplay on Twitch, the game has already skyrocketed to the top of the streaming platform becoming the most-viewed game with its full reveal.

The game nearly clocked one million concurrent viewers with various popular streamers like TimTheTatman, summit1g, LIRIK, pokimane, Gotaga, Yassuo, and many more streaming VALORANT, as viewers hoarded onto their streams to watch the exclusive gameplay while also challenging their luck to see if they can get the ‘closed beta access key’ via a random drop while watching the streams.

VALORANT Skyrockets to the top of Twitch with Nearly a Million Concurrent Viewers


At the time of writing this article VALORANT was just shy of a million concurrent viewers by a margin of 5000 viewers, leaving behind other gaming titles like CS:GO, League of Legends, Resident Evil 3, and others, in the dust.


The VALORANT closed beta which is scheduled to go live on 7th April will require players to have a key in order to access this beta. Limited quantities of these access keys are currently being dropped randomly to viewers who are watching the game being streamed on Twitch.


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Aditya is the in-house CS:GO writer at AFK Gaming. While his understanding of the esports space is not restricted by geographical borders, his current focus lies in the Asian region. Understands and follows almost all major esport titles.