Last year, 32 million people watched the much anticipated World finals of League of Legends. This year the figure was 27 million unique viewers. However, those who tuned in watched more of the action as the average viewing time increased from 42 minutes to 67 minutes.
The actual final game registered a record amount of viewers with 11.2 million unique viewers (up from 8.7 million in 2013). Riot Games did not reveal whether this huge viewership affected the player numbers in-game, but we can only assume those numbers dropped somewhat during the final game.