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GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51476 Posts
August 09 2009 03:25 GMT
#1
Pictures can speak one-thousand words.
I think the crowd this year was around 40-50k, might be wrong though.

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Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-09 03:29:28
August 09 2009 03:28 GMT
#2
It seemed smaller than previous years. Wasn't the alltime high > 100k? Was that SKT v. KTF?
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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
August 09 2009 03:37 GMT
#3
Idk, but either way, that's still a massive crowd!
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Hyde
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Australia14568 Posts
August 09 2009 03:39 GMT
#4
Looks like alot of people to me, so close to the water as well. The bridge looks lovely.
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NeverGG *
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom5399 Posts
August 09 2009 03:47 GMT
#5
I'm glad there was a decent turn out - the location they picked for Busan was gorgeous. I wish we'd had more time to play about on that beach last year ;_;
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Murdoink
Profile Joined March 2009
Chile1219 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-09 03:57:45
August 09 2009 03:55 GMT
#6
pic of last year (?) to compare:
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and another one, not sure what finals it's from
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MrHoon *
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
10183 Posts
August 09 2009 04:00 GMT
#7
On August 09 2009 12:28 Jibba wrote:
It seemed smaller than previous years. Wasn't the alltime high > 100k? Was that SKT v. KTF?

Yeah, but it was SKT vs KTF during the golden age of both teams

If CJ advanced instead of Oz (IM SORRY OZ FANS) I am pretty sure the crowd would've been much much much much bigger
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geegee1
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States618 Posts
August 09 2009 04:04 GMT
#8
so many people omg i need that many to watch me live <3
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ShOoTiNg_SpElLs
Profile Joined July 2003
Korea (South)690 Posts
August 09 2009 04:21 GMT
#9
According to fomos:
2004-07-17 Sky Proleague 2004 Finals - 100k (Hanbit vs SKT)
2005-07-30 Sky Proleague 2005 Finals - 120k (SKT vs KTF)
2006-07-29 Sky Proleague 2006 Finals - 40k (SKT vs MBC)
2007-08-04 Shinhan Proleague 2007 Finals - 70k (Samsung vs Lecaf)
2008-08-09 Shinhan Proleague 2008 Finals - 30k (Samsung vs OGN)
2009-08-07 Shinhan Prolaegue 08-09 Finals - 15k on Day 1, 40k on Day 2 (SKT vs Hwaseung)
StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
August 09 2009 04:23 GMT
#10
wow sweet
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
Avidkeystamper
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States8552 Posts
August 09 2009 05:17 GMT
#11
Samsung vs OGN, ouch =/
And there's only been 6 grand finals? That's so little.
Jaedong
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
August 09 2009 05:24 GMT
#12
On August 09 2009 14:17 Avidkeystamper wrote:
Samsung vs OGN, ouch =/
And there's only been 6 grand finals? That's so little.

Ummm starcraft is only 10 years old? Lol
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drinking
Profile Joined December 2008
Philippines281 Posts
August 09 2009 05:27 GMT
#13
wow that's a lot of audience excluding the viewers on livestream worldwide..
Try not. Do or do not.
Avidkeystamper
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States8552 Posts
August 09 2009 05:30 GMT
#14
On August 09 2009 14:24 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2009 14:17 Avidkeystamper wrote:
Samsung vs OGN, ouch =/
And there's only been 6 grand finals? That's so little.

Ummm starcraft is only 10 years old? Lol

Yeah, but before, a proleague season took less than 4 months, there's been around 14 MSLs and OSLs already.
Jaedong
justiceknight
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Singapore5741 Posts
August 09 2009 05:33 GMT
#15
ppl on livestream is already 2k view

129k is really crazy,where do they get the chairs? and the cleaners must be suffering alot
Deleted User 37864
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
780 Posts
August 09 2009 05:46 GMT
#16
Wow. 15k and 40k.
That is pretty low.
I am a bit disappointed. T_T
ShOoTiNg_SpElLs
Profile Joined July 2003
Korea (South)690 Posts
August 09 2009 06:35 GMT
#17
On August 09 2009 14:17 Avidkeystamper wrote:
Samsung vs OGN, ouch =/
And there's only been 6 grand finals? That's so little.

These are only the ones that have been held at Kwang An Ri (the place it was held yesterday).
Kwang An Ri is known as the "holy land" of e-Sports in Korea.
BanZu
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3329 Posts
August 09 2009 07:36 GMT
#18
On August 09 2009 14:46 scyper wrote:
Wow. 15k and 40k.
That is pretty low.
I am a bit disappointed. T_T

Well, according to others there was a pretty bad storm just the day before. So I guess that somewhat explains it. :/

And also, the first day didn't really matter as the second day would determine the winner. So I guess 40k isn't too bad since Samsung vs OGN only had 30k.
Sun Tzu once said, "Defiler becomes useless at the presences of a vessel."
MuShu
Profile Joined March 2005
United States3223 Posts
August 09 2009 08:06 GMT
#19
On August 09 2009 15:35 ShOoTiNg_SpElLs wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2009 14:17 Avidkeystamper wrote:
Samsung vs OGN, ouch =/
And there's only been 6 grand finals? That's so little.

These are only the ones that have been held at Kwang An Ri (the place it was held yesterday).
Kwang An Ri is known as the "holy land" of e-Sports in Korea.

Why is it considered that? Is that where e-Sports first started or something?
FranzF1
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Chile1710 Posts
August 09 2009 09:01 GMT
#20
mmm 40k of people its a lot IMO... wow thats a lot... really... on my country when the chilean team plays against another country its like 60k of people... and thats the most popular sport here, u have to think also that only 20k could see something. the rest just have to look at the screens lol
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foeffa
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Belgium2115 Posts
August 09 2009 11:35 GMT
#21
That is mind boggling. Fantastic to see SC attracts this kind of crowd.
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ArvickHero
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
10387 Posts
August 09 2009 13:40 GMT
#22
there was a possibility of the finals being delayed due to some warning about a hurricane/typhoon, it was raining like hell on Thursday, rained like hell in the first half of Friday, and light sprinkling on Saturday night, they started handing out those cheap plastic raincoats because of that haha

Weather definitely had impact, and so did the day chosen for Day 1 (Friday)
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AtlaS
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1001 Posts
August 09 2009 13:59 GMT
#23
40k seems like a pretty respectable number, I guess, but nothing like the 120k from a few years ago. It would've been great to see a bit higher, but at least it's an improvement from last year. I feel like Starcraft is unfortunately missing the sort of "drama" and rivalries that it had a few years ago and now it's starting to show in the numbers.
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nK)Duke
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Germany936 Posts
August 09 2009 14:32 GMT
#24
i bet if skt would have let boxer played, the audience would have 4 times more people
Fr33t
Profile Joined June 2008
United States1128 Posts
August 09 2009 15:16 GMT
#25
On August 09 2009 22:59 AtlaS wrote:
40k seems like a pretty respectable number, I guess, but nothing like the 120k from a few years ago. It would've been great to see a bit higher, but at least it's an improvement from last year. I feel like Starcraft is unfortunately missing the sort of "drama" and rivalries that it had a few years ago and now it's starting to show in the numbers.

What about Jaedong vs Bisu, Jaedong vs Fantasy, Jaedong vs Flash, Jaedong vs Effort, etc...? jk

I can't believe that 120k people actually went to the same match, how the hell did they set that up so everyone could even see anything?
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tonight
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States11130 Posts
August 09 2009 16:32 GMT
#26
Just so hard to believe that that many people would show up for something like this. You have to consider that a good portion of the people coming may have never even played SC before.
if I come without a thing, then I come with all I need @tonightsend
omfghi2u2
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States831 Posts
August 10 2009 02:01 GMT
#27
On August 10 2009 01:32 tonight wrote:
Just so hard to believe that that many people would show up for something like this. You have to consider that a good portion of the people coming may have never even played SC before.


I doubt it. Three channels devoted to starcraft? I am sure almost every korean native knows about starcraft.
Kyuukyuu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada6263 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-10 02:35:51
August 10 2009 02:35 GMT
#28
Knows about != Played/care about

It's like how I know about WWF.
Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27151 Posts
August 10 2009 02:47 GMT
#29
Considering the typhoon that dumped a billion liters of water on Asia the last three days, they did pretty well. That 120k number was always suspicious to me imo. Also, it is considered teh "holy land" because esports is working hard to create mystique and history.
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