T1 and JD Gaming meet on Day 8 of VALORANT Champions Shanghai
The full-day replay put a Korean favorite against a Chinese side at a home Champions, and the comment section turned into a debate about the Chinese teams' run.
VALORANT Champions TourStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,538,897 views a day, 100 times a normal first day on this channel (15,439).
VALORANT Champions Shanghai — Group Stage — Day 8
"VALORANT Champions Shanghai — Group Stage — Day 8" is the whole broadcast of the day, matches, tech pause and all. The VALORANT Champions Tour channel is Riot's official home for the game's pro circuit. Fourteen hours after it went up, the replay had passed a million views, close to a hundred times what a long upload here usually draws on its first day.
The headline match was T1 against JD Gaming. Both organizations are better known to many people for League of Legends, where T1 is the club of Faker. Here the setting gave the match extra weight: a Chinese team playing at a world championship held in China. Viewers' timestamps put the start of the T1 series well past two and a half hours in and show it running to three maps.
Most of the conversation underneath is about that home-region question. Many commenters say the Chinese teams have struggled in Shanghai. Others point out that JD Gaming was close to taking the series early, and a few joke about how quiet the arena sounded. As usual, someone posted a spoiler shield with timestamps for people who want to skip ahead without seeing results.
The day's clips found an audience too. A short with the voice comms behind PatMen's Bulldog ACE ran about five times past the channel's usual start. The description bills the event, running from September 24 to October 18 with sixteen teams from the Americas, China, EMEA and Pacific, as the fight for the biggest trophy of the year.
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What viewers say
JDG genuinely had a 2-0 chance had they not throw that 6-11 lead on map 1, which is an unheard feat from CN on global stage
@raditjasjaSee it on YouTubeSPOILER BLOCK >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
(Timestamp in below)
Game 1 : 35:56
TECH PAUSE #1 : 1:15:49 - 1:16:51
Game 2 : 1:31:33
T1 VS JD Gaming
Game 1 : 2:37:45
Game 2 : 3:48:17
Game 3 : 4:28:42@thegoodgood-22See it on YouTube
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- Channel
- VALORANT Champions Tour
- Subscribers
- 1,320,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 13,760,708
- Channel views, pace per day
- 3,382,160 (on a normal day: 2,006,015)
- Video published
- October 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,172,346 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,538,897
The numbers
The replay's first hours are far beyond what a long upload on this channel usually does in a full day.
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