The event that brings together the best MLBB teams in Southeast Asia as well as several guest teams, MSC 2023, ended last weekend. ONIC Esports successfully won the championship after beating Blacklist International with a score of 4-2 in the grand final.
However, who would have thought that ONIC Esports would be the most popular team at MSC 2023. This was reported by data released by Esports Charts, where ONIC matches dominated the three matches with the largest number of views at MSC 2023.
Yup, those three matches were against EVOS Legends, ECHO, and Blacklist International. ONIC Esports had these three matches in the knockout phase until the MSC 2023 Grand Final.
The match against Blacklist International itself set a record as the match with peak viewers reaching 3.6 million. ONIC Esports' match against Echo reached 2.7 million viewers, and their match against EVOS Legends reached 1.9 million viewers.
In addition to the knockout stage matches, ONIC Esports' match against the host's representative, Burn X Flash, also made it into the top 5 matches with the highest viewers. This match reached 1.1 million viewers. Meanwhile, in the fourth position, there was a duel of MPL MY and PH season 11 champions yesterday between Todak and ECHO with peak viewers of 1.3 million.
Still reported by Esports Charts, the total MSC 2023 has been watched for 40.5 million hours with an average viewers reaching 659.3 thousand. With this, Esports Charts also concluded that matches involving ONIC Esports had been watched by 25%, being the highest compared to other teams.
In total, MSC 2023 itself has been covered by more than 300 channels, including official broadcasts and community casters. According to Esports Charts, the Indonesian team's matches being the most watched also did not escape the role of Indonesian KOLs such as Emperor, R7, Oura, and others who did re-streams.
Not only a record for ONIC Esports, MSC 2023 was also recorded as the MLBB tournament with the highest viewers in Cambodia. The broadcast in Khmer language recorded 130.6 thousand peak viewers. Previously, there was the M3 World Championship which recorded 107.7 peak viewers.