What this is
Growth in the World Championships' audience on different bases: in-person attendance rose 6–10 times from 2016 to 2025, depending on the 2016 figure used (3,000–4,000); online peak viewers rose 2.4 times from 2017 to 2025.
How it’s built
- Attendance from press and organiser reports; online peak viewers from Esports Charts, which tracks esports streams.
What we assumed
- Attendance multiples are not like for like.2016 was a closed event; 2025 and 2026 were open to the public, and 2026 included the Pokémon XP fan event.
- Online peak viewers are the like-for-like series.Esports Charts measures each year the same way.
Sanity check
108,751 ÷ 46,143 = 2.36.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- 2025/2016 at 4,000: 6.25 to 7.5
- 2025/2016 at 3,000: 8.3 to 10
- 2026/2016 at 4,000: 12.5
- Esports Charts peak 2017->2025: 2.36
- 2017->2026: 4.67
- 2018->2026: 8.91
- 25000/4000 = 6.25
- 30000/4000 = 7.5
- 30000/3000 = 10
- 50000/4000 = 12.5
- 108751/46143 = 2.36
- 215668/24215 = 8.91
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