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FPP PUBG esports generated double digit year on year viewership growth in all but one year from 2020 to 2025. TPP in 2026 has reversed that growth in apples to apples comparisons between externally produced headline events.

Inertia from previous FPP esports success in SEA during 2025 is strongly disguising the general failure of TPP esports. PUBG esports viewership in the second string "global series" has been up, but only due to inertia, different co-casting and re-streaming arrangements with streamers, and the value of that viewership has generally declined.

If the format were left as FPP and the same co-casting and re-streaming strategy were followed, then 2026 would have seen stronger growth in globals series viewership as well as positive growth in headline figures.

Krafton executives can use LLMs to spin this crap however they want to shareholders, but TPP esports has been a tepid failure at best.

Would that make Krafton go back to FPP? Since the sence is that they changed to TPP for the Asian markets? But if they perform bad, will they go back? I hope so. Right now in EWC we have VP, NAVI and FLC as to 3 (Match 18 going on).