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10-11 Proleague Finals Match Ranks 1st in Viewership
The fervor over e-sports remains unchanged in its 10 year history.
The 2010-11 Shinhan Proleague finals match achieved a viewership of over 1% through Ongamenet’s live broadcast on the 19th.
The finals between the two rival telecommunications corporations recorded an average viewership ratio of 1.777% (16-19 male, TNmS scale) and ranked 1st during its broadcast time on cable TV.
The fact that mass viewership was recorded by teenagers rather than people in their 20’s is evidence that Brood War remains popular in following generations since the first Proleague finals in 2003. The final set between Flash and Best reflected the most response from viewers, achieving a max viewership ratio of 2.514% (21% of males aged 16-19). In other words, 2 out of every 10 male Korean high school students watched the last set of the Proleague final.
The popularity of Proleague continued on the internet as well. From the beginning to the end of the finals match, "Flash", "Action", "Bisu", "Best", "Violet", "Ongamenet", and other Proleague-related subjects reached upper levels on the search bar rankings in individual portal sites. Netizens also showed interest in "Ryu Ji-hye" and "Yellow".
Appropriately living up to his nickname “Final Boss”, Flash was awarded MVP after leading his team to victory with two wins. KT is now the 2nd consecutive winner in Proleague since they twice defeated SKT1 in both the last 09-10 season and the most recent 10-11 season.
http://esports.dailygame.co.kr/news/read.php?id=49054
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Hell yeah! Long live brood war!
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This match was so amazing to watch. I can understand why so many people watched it. LONG LIVE BROOD WAR!
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Hooray! Here's hoping MBC doesn't actually stop broadcasting BW
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wow NUMBER 1 out of all cable TV broadcasts!!!
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Nice. How much people is that percentage of viewership?
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On August 21 2011 13:47 Crunchums wrote:
Hooray! Here's hoping MBC doesn't actually stop broadcasting BW
heres to hoping 
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this doesn't really mean anything unless you compare it with ratings from previous years.
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Broodwar lives strong in the koreans heart!
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ALLEYCAT BLUES50748 Posts
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On August 21 2011 13:51 hmmm... wrote:
wow NUMBER 1 out of all cable TV broadcasts!!!
clarified that it's number 1 during it's time on broadcast; no doubt a very proud achievement
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Man, I wish 2 out of 10 of my peers watched Starcraft. At least then I wouldn't be so quite and clueless in most conversations .
I can only imagine how awesome it would be to be able to talk BW with so many peers IRL.
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I hope the current and (potential) future sponsors take notice.
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Katowice25012 Posts
Very cool! The data coming out of Korea lately seems so inconsistent though I don't know what to think whenever these things come up.
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SO nice to get some good news once in a while about brood war...
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i used to be scared pro-bw as we knew it was gonna go down soon with the rumors of mbcgame closing down and wemade disbanding but this has alleviated my fears
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good indication of BW having a stronger future than most would think Looking forward to next year's PL season
Any idea if there's going to be another All-stars event? I would LOVE for that to happen, def one of the best BW events of the year
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