Gentle Mates defeated Team Vitality 4-2 in the Grand Final of the RLCS 2026 Boston Major to claim the championship. And the all-French matchup delivered an audience to match. The event peaked at over 624,000 concurrent viewers, surpassing the previous all-time RLCS record by 33.3 percent and marking the first time in the franchise’s history that viewership crossed the half-million mark.
That previous benchmark—468K viewers at the RLCS 2022-23 World Championship—had stood for over two years. In an incredibly positive sign for Rocket League‘s growth in 2026, the Boston Major broke it not at a World Championship, but at the opening international stop of the season.
