Most Viewed Esports Teams in 2023

In 2023, the esports industry experienced a number of significant events. League of Legends has set a new viewership record as mobile games continue to dominate the Southeast Asian market. At the same time, new games and tournaments appear regularly, adding something new. However, despite all these achievements, teams are the main core of the esports sphere. Fans passionately follow their favorite players, and teams are what make eSports events exciting for a wide audience.

This article on evaluating esports teams for 2023 focuses on those who made this an exceptional year for esports. Instead of identifying the most watched teams, data for the entire year was analyzed to rank the most attractive eSports teams for viewers. Here we are talking specifically about teams, and not about e-sports organizations. Esports organizations often have multiple teams competing in different disciplines, but for this assessment we collected watch time data for each individual team. Teams' "watching hours" are calculated based on views on streaming services, excluding Chinese platforms where there is no reliable data for analysis.

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Blacklist International (Mobile Legends: Bang Bang)

In third place in the Blacklist International ranking is the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang team from the Philippines. Over the course of the year, they played 67 matches and accumulated 74.61 million hours watched. This equates to roughly half of all mobile gaming audiences on Twitch in 2023.

In the world of esports mobile gaming, Blacklist International presents itself as a key force. The Philippines, together with Indonesia and Malaysia, plays an important role in this market. Fans have actively supported Blacklist International throughout the year, highlighting the importance of this Filipino team in the world of ML:BB. During their match against RRQ Hoshi at the M4 World Championship, the team attracted 4.27 million viewers at its peak. This became the highest viewership rating for the tournament in its entire history, despite the fact that the match was not a final.

ONIC Esports (Mobile Legends: Bang Bang)

ONIC Esports, a team that plays in ML:BB, takes second place in this ranking. The team's Indonesian players captured the attention of viewers, adding a hugely significant 121.08 million hours of viewing time across platforms across 62 matches throughout the year. This huge number of viewers can be compared to the total viewing time on Twitch in a short period of time. Their match against AP.Bren at the M5 World Championship, which topped 5 million concurrent viewers, shows just how popular Indonesian rosters have become in eSports. While ONIC Esports' total viewership time for 2023 has been huge, there is another team that has attracted even more attention from viewers.

T1 (League of Legends)

T1 from the League of Legends deservedly took first place in the ranking of the most watched eSports teams in 2023. The Korean team has kept viewers on edge during the League of Legends World Championship and has racked up a staggering 129.25 million hours watched this year, nearly 8 million more than the next most popular team. Their showdown with Weibo Gaming at Worlds 2023 set a new eSports viewership record of 6.4 million viewers. This figure was likely even higher due to the rivalry between the Chinese and Korean teams, but data from Chinese streaming platforms was not included due to the unreliability of the information. Although T1 expectedly took the lead, ONIC Esports was not far behind (only 8 million hours watched). With the rise of eSports in mobile gaming, this gap will likely narrow and we may see changes in the rankings in the future, with mobile gaming becoming the dominant eSports genre.