Joblife, Mandatory Hit 43,482 Peak Viewers at VALORANT Challengers

VALORANT Challengers 2026 France: Revolution Stage 2 reached a peak of 43,482 viewers during the Playoffs Upper Bracket Final between creator-owned teams Joblife (Toma JLTomy Abdellaoui) and Mandatory (Adrien ZeratoR Nougaret). Both teams were the main audience draws across the event.

The event was the Stage 2 playoffs of the France Challengers circuit for Riot Games’ VALORANT. Eight national teams competed for Circuit Points and spots at VALORANT Challengers 2026 EMEA: Stage 2.

Joblife and Mandatory were the only teams to record more than 500,000 Hours Watched. They also led average viewership, with roughly a 5,000-viewer gap between them. Matches involving those two teams accounted for five of the top entries on the most-popular matches list. WIP Esports finished runner-up and featured among the most-watched matchups.

Community broadcasters tied to the teams delivered high channel totals. JLTomy and ZeratoR each accrued more than 300,000 watch hours on their streams and were the only individual channels to record peak viewership above 10,000. Official tournament channels recorded lower single-channel peaks.

Joblife defeated WIP Esports 3–1 in the Grand Final. Joblife and WIP qualified for VALORANT Challengers 2026 EMEA: Stage 2, where they will join 12 other European tier-2 teams to compete for EMEA Points and berths at Stage 3. All eight participants earned Circuit Points for the season. The two lowest-placed teams moved to VALORANT Challengers 2026 France: Revolution Stage 2 – Up & Down to face four additional challengers for a place in the national Challengers circuit.