EPTEVER 2009 OSL viewership shows why OSL is awesome - Page 3
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Alethios
New Zealand2765 Posts
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Stratos_speAr
United States6959 Posts
On January 29 2010 14:42 We Are Here wrote: yeah id like to know how well it compares with other sports; because, quite frankly, i have no idea if thats a good number xD okay i just did a quick wiki search for the AFL finals television viewers. each year got roughly 3ish million, so 500k dont seem like a lot =[ Athletic sports (at least in the U.S.) get a significantly larger audience. Think about it this way. Korea's overall population is about 50 million. 0.5 / 50 = about 1% of the entire population watched the OSL finals. The NBA finals (i think in '06) had a viewership of 13 million. The USA has 300 million people. 13/300 = about 4% of the entire population watched the NBA finals. Now, compare percentages: 1% vs 4%. So, a decade-old computer game battle between two mega nerds attracts about 1/4 of what the NBA finals attracts. I'D SAY THAT'S PRETTY DAMN FREAKING GOOD To be fair, you should probably compare it to the popular sport in the U.S. (which is football). "...the NBC television network broadcast attracted an average U.S. audience of 98.7 million viewers, making it the most-watched Super Bowl in history." That's a lot of people. Not downplaying the 500k that OGN got, just gotta make a fair comparison. That's for Super Bowl 43 (2009's). | ||
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FaCE_1
Canada6184 Posts
e-Sport will never be able to reach the popularity of Home town Sport club. If you start talking about % in highest even (OSL Final is the highest even soo.) Try to find the % of ppl in Quebec that would watch the Hockey game if the Canadien was in the seven game of Stanley cup. I can tell you it would be over 30% of the population | ||
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Iplaythings
Denmark9110 Posts
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Velr
Switzerland10921 Posts
Population 7-8 Million. Avg people watching live at the stadiums: Year 2009: ~9000 Year 2008 ~10'000 Average peoplle watching on TV (only the german channel, so your looking at a population of 4.5 Millions): 320'000. These numbers get way higher for important games. No, these OSL-Numbers are not impressive. | ||
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Ikonn
Netherlands1958 Posts
On January 30 2010 00:30 Velr wrote: I just made some comparisons to premier swiss football league.. Population 7-8 Million. Avg people watching live at the stadiums: Year 2009: ~9000 Year 2008 ~10'000 Average peoplle watching on TV (only the german channel, so your looking at a population of 4.5 Millions): 320'000. These numbers get way higher for important games. No, these OSL-Numbers are not impressive. Football is a very old sport, accepted by the entire population of most countries in the world. Most people grew up with it. Starcraft is ten years old and primarily aimed at youth. Not comparable in that way. | ||
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haster27
Taiwan809 Posts
On January 29 2010 14:48 Sharp-eYe wrote: because they were all talking about it real life. we dont have the luxury Moreover, TL is international community. We should assume all Starcraft fans around the globe posted bar Korea - which does decrease the astounding number of TL's posts. | ||
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Holgerius
Sweden16951 Posts
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Velr
Switzerland10921 Posts
I wouldn't call this very "unfair". 0.01% of the total koreans watch the second most important final in one of their most favorite sports life... On swiss numbers this would be 750 guys that go watch a final. All i want to say: It's just not impressive at all. | ||
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searcher
277 Posts
On January 30 2010 01:13 Velr wrote: 0.01% of the total koreans watch the second most important final in one of their most favorite sports life... On swiss numbers this would be 750 guys that go watch a final. Mathematics fail. 500k/50 million = 1%, so 75,000 guys. | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10921 Posts
I think it's great that there are actually *many* people that watch starcraft/e-sports... But i also think it's success gets overexagerated. Thats my whole point. | ||
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searcher
277 Posts
Nevertheless your overall point stands I think. There are many comparisons which make Starcraft's popularity seem nothing to get excited about. But given that it has only been 10 years since you could watch e-Sports on TV, and given that (as someone above has shown) it already has a quarter of the NBA's popularity, I'm not that disappointed. | ||
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motoroia
Canada70 Posts
Soccer - National soccer team matches generally produce high tv ratings, but K-league has lost its popularity over the past 3~4 years. I wouldn't say SC is as famous as K-league, but it's catching up. Baseball - National baseball team&KBL has become very very popular over the past 3~4 years. Basketball - no one gives a fuck. Volleyball - the player with the highest salary gets paid half of what Bisu gets paid. I would say if OSL final and Volleyball final were taking place at the same time, 8 out of 10 would watch OSL Other sports ( like the ones in Olympic such as swimming, wrestling, table tennis etc..) - they only get attentions during Olympics. As soon as Olympics is over, ppl don't give a shit anymore | ||
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motoroia
Canada70 Posts
exceptions are when national competitions like World Cup, WBC, Olympics etc. take place | ||
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SuperJongMan
Jamaica11586 Posts
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meeple
Canada10211 Posts
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CynanMachae
Canada1459 Posts
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Zoler
Sweden6339 Posts
On January 29 2010 14:17 Sharp-eYe wrote: and they said esports was dying there. It is  | ||
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DreaM)XeRO
Korea (South)4667 Posts
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Tom Phoenix
1114 Posts
Keep in mind that in their May 2008 presentation of the industry, KeSPA itself placed the number of e-Sports enthusiasts in Korea at around 18 million. Now keep in mind the following: - In spite of a large number of e-Sports titles, StarCraft`s professional scene is still by far the most popular. - The OSL Finals is one of the most important events in StarCraft progaming. It can preety much be described as an equivalent to Wimbledon in tennis and Champion`s League in football/soccer. Considering those two facts and the figure above, the statistics presented here are abysmal at best and catastrophic at worst. It means that since 2008, the e-Sports industry in Korea has taken a significant nosedive. I already knew before that not everything was great in Korea as far as e-Sports was concerned. But this makes me significantly more worried. =/ | ||
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