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The Mid-Season Invitational 2025 is on the precipice of a new series viewership record for its grand final between Gen.G and T1. Before this exciting match kicked off, the Opening Ceremony for this epic Korean derby delighted fans, both in the arena and at home, with a dark, tribal atmosphere.
Just before Gen.G and T1 walked out to take their places on stage, the MSI 2025 dimmed the lights for the grand finals pre-show, a Japanese Taiko drum performance. As the Korean esports professionals walked out, T1 — especially Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok — enjoyed the lion’s share of the applause. After all the players had reached their computers and silence settled, a T1 chant slowly spread among the fans.
Viewership for the MSI 2025 rapidly picked up as the pre-show performance commenced. The build-up broadcast received hundreds of thousands of viewers, but the MSI 2025 finals Opening Ceremony quickly surged past 1,000,000 Peak Viewers (PV). This metric continued to tick upward rapidly as the teams got ready to start the first map of their best-of-five match; by the time the Pick and Bans phase had begun, viewership was rapidly approaching 1,500,000 PV.
Viewership statistics presented in this article are preliminary and may change as our team works to refine our data.
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