Shanghai's Group Stage Day 5 nears two million in hours

Most uploads on the VALORANT Champions Tour channel open to a far smaller crowd, and this one outpaced that many times over before its first day was half done.

Channel: VALORANT Champions TourStory of September 30, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 2,864,336 views a day, 209 times a normal first day on this channel (13,713).

VALORANT Champions Shanghai — Group Stage — Day 5

The Day 5 upload from VALORANT Champions Shanghai was close to two million views within about half a day of going up, and it was still climbing quickly.

That builds on a strong run for the event. Day 4's upload had just crossed the million mark, and the next day's pushed well past it before a full day was out. For this channel, a first day usually looks very different. A typical upload here collects only a small slice of that in its first twenty-four hours, so Day 5 left the channel's normal start far behind almost straight away.

The video comes from Champions, the season-ending world championship of the VALORANT Champions Tour. The tour is Riot Games' official competitive circuit for VALORANT, the tactical shooter it released in 2020. Shanghai has hosted a top-tier VCT event before: Masters Shanghai in 2024. This time the city has the biggest event on the calendar, and the group stage is where the title contenders sort themselves out before the playoffs.

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The numbers

The figures show a first day that the channel's usual uploads rarely come near.

the video's first day

usual first day here

13,713

this video

2,864,336

subscribers

1,310,000

total views

419,480,621

views per day

1,097,601

typical day: 1,967,510

the video

views

1,996,122

likes

15,535

comments

19

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Google Play

1,590,000

100 Thieves

1,460,000

Plants vs. Zombies

1,450,000

VALORANT Champions Tour

1,310,000

Marvel Rivals

1,290,000

Warhammer

1,090,000

As of September 30, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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