#MSI2024, unlike past international events, showed a fairly large increase in community casting for Riot Games events. Caedrel has 1.5M more Hours Watched than the official channel on Twitch. On every game day, its broadcast was topped by the English channel Riot Games.
In recent years, Riot has allowed community casting at its international events, similar to what Counter-Strike and Dota 2 have done for many years. While such actions improve the overall viewership of the tournament and attract new audiences, they can sometimes negatively impact the audience of the official channel (as seen with Polish CS co-casts and russian Dota/CS co-casts).
In the case of co-casting, if both positives and negatives. It strongly saturates esports with a new audience, but at a distance can cause problems for the official studio cast, at least in the case of sponsors. There are already co-casters in other games that have alternative sponsors to studios, and are able to show a higher Engagement Rate because the streamer is more active with the audience, and the audience is friendlier with him.