The Masters Toronto final between Paper Rex and Fnatic reached a peak of more than 1.1 million viewers. This is lower than that of Masters Bangkok earlier this year, likely as a result of the BLAST.tv Austin Major final coinciding with the Toronto finale.

Masters Toronto final peaking at 1.1 million viewers
The final, which PRX won 3-1, ultimately reached a peak of 1.1 million viewers, according to data available via esports data platform Esports Charts. This number excludes viewership from China, where platforms often use alternate tracking methods that make it difficult to gauge clear figures.
This number was considerably less than the 1.3 million peak reached during Masters Bangkok final between T1 and G2 Esports back in March. That said, average viewership was up from 407k in Bangkok to 473k in Toronto.
Perhaps a more apt comparison would be Masters Shanghai 2024, last year’s equivalent Stage 1 global event. There, viewership only reached 914k in its final between Gen.G and Team Heretics, while the tournament also only had 340k average viewers.
Popular final matchup
Within the VALORANT Champions Tour, there could hardly have been a better grand final matchup to draw in viewers. Fnatic are one of the game’s most tenured teams, one of only two with multiple global trophies, and has a core of Boaster, Alfajer, and Chronicle, who are hugely popular in the scene.

Paper Rex are another fan favourite, also with a long-standing core — theirs with f0rsakeN, d4v41, Jinggg, the currently-benched mindfreak, and head coach alecks. While PRX draw in spectators due to the popularity of many of their players, they also amassed a large fanbase, in part, as a result of two global finals losses: Masters Copenhagen in 2022 and VALORANT Champions in 2023.
They were the biggest and most popular team to have not yet won a major title, and so their next chance to do so in Toronto brought with it a considerable amount of eyeballs.
2.8 million peak before the VCT Toronto final?
While Esports Charts’ data had the grand final peak at 1.1 million, Riot Games has claimed that the tournament already reached a peak of 2.8 million viewers earlier in the tournament.
The difference would come from Riot’s access to more accurate Chinese viewership stats, and so the 2.8 million figure would likely include a significant bump from esports’ largest region.
It’s not a certainty that the grand final series would’ve topped this, given that no Chinese sides were present. Though if it did, it would make no sense for Riot not to share the good news.
Viewers lost to Counter-Strike
It’s entirely likely that the Masters Toronto peak would’ve been higher had its grand final not coincided with Counter-Strike’s BLAST.tv Austin Major final. The peculiar overlapping of schedules meant that some tactical-FPS fans would’ve had to choose between the two.

Counter-Strike — the longer-standing game title — far outdid VALORANT on the day, with the Major final reaching a peak of 1.8 million spectators.
While obviously not all of those would’ve watched the Masters Toronto final had there been no CS action, its not too far-fetched to imagine that there are a decent chunk of fans that enjoy both of the rival titles, and so would have watched Paper Rex’s historic victory were it not for Team Vitality’s era-defining win.