Sun Oct 04 — South Korea took back-to-back Asian Games League of Legends gold without dropping a game. Faker sat out the final. He still outread every teammate who played it — and two of them, Zeka and Canyon, have no article to be read.
Tue Sep 29 — A trio of Korean fighting-game veterans, average age 41.7, beat Japan 5-2 for gold on 27 September. Two days later, English Wikipedia readers still looked up Faker — who hadn't played a match yet — about ten times as often.
Tue Sep 22 — The Esports at the 2026 Asian Games page averaged 276 English Wikipedia reads a day in early September. By the day after the opening ceremony, that hit 2,537 — 9.2 times the baseline, building for days before the Games opened.
Thu Aug 13 — Split Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai and Malay Wikipedia reads by month. All eleven esports players in the panel peak in the same month, and they agree in three of the four years we measured. The footballers never once agree.
Thu Aug 13 — We said Korean esports players in the Southeast Asian Wikipedias all peak in one month. Split by game, 85.7% of them play League of Legends. Korea has more StarCraft II players, and four of them have an article in those editions.
Thu Aug 13 — Chinese, Swedish and American esports players have articles in the Southeast Asian Wikipedias at roughly the rate Korean players do. 9.1% of theirs draw enough reads to measure, against 71.4% of the Korean ones.
Thu Aug 13 — Four Southeast Asian Wikipedias, twelve months, 926 Korean athletes. Three of the four read almost only football. In the fourth, esports takes 60.6% of the reads and the most-read Korean athlete is not a footballer.
We hold 417 tags in all. 242 of them are on a single piece, and we do not publish a page for those — the tag still shows on the article, it just does not become an address of its own.