Tournament edition

Arena of Valor International Championship 2020

The online 2020 Arena of Valor International Championship brought 12 teams from six regions together from November 19 to December 20, with MAD Team defeating Saigon Phantom in the final.

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Competition snapshot

Organizer

Garena and Tencent Games[1][7]

Garena's event notices identify it as the competition publisher; VnExpress independently reports Tencent Games and Garena as event organizers.[7]

Host and dates

Online · Nov 19–Dec 20, 2020[1][3]

The official schedule lists an online event and online regional broadcasts.[1]

Champion

MAD Team; Saigon Phantom was runner-up[3][4][5]

Combined prize pool

USD 500,000 announced[1][3]

Games

Arena of Valor[1]

Participant scale

12 teams · six regions[1][3]

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Reach & distribution

Audience

Cumulative views

More than 109 million

Garena-reported cumulative views across the event's broadcasts; this is not a unique-viewer count.[3]

Simultaneous viewers

More than 600,000

Garena-reported simultaneous online viewers; platform methodology is not stated.[3]

Distribution

Broadcast platforms

YouTube, Facebook and Garena Live

The event was broadcast in English, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian.[3]

Overview

The fourth AIC edition moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic and brought together 12 teams from six regions. Garena reported more than 109 million cumulative views and over 600,000 simultaneous viewers across five language broadcasts; these organizer-reported figures use different audience measures. MAD Team won the title after facing Saigon Phantom in the final. All 12 participants now resolve to canonical Arena of Valor Team pages. No edition-specific commercial sponsor was verified in the official event materials reviewed.[1][2][3][4]

References10

[1]AIC 2020國際錦標賽小組賽抽籤結果出爐！ — Garena 傳說對決
[2]《Garena傳說對決》AIC 2020國際錦標賽四強名單正式出爐 — Garena 傳說對決
[3]AIC 2020國際賽獲選全球規模最大的電競直播賽事之一 — Garena 傳說對決
[4]AIC 2020國際賽總決賽12月20日開打 MAD Team挺進軍冠亞賽 — Garena 傳說對決
[5]Arena of Valor International Championship 2020 — Liquipedia Honor of Kings Wiki — Liquipedia
[6]S-Tier Tournaments — Liquipedia Honor of Kings Wiki — Liquipedia
[7]Three slots for Vietnam in international esport event — VnExpress International
[8]Znews
[9]ONE Esports
[10]DuniaGames

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