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Is SC2 dead (as a show) in Korea?

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Dickbutt
Profile Joined May 2015
Korea (North)129 Posts
June 08 2015 04:55 GMT
#1
Alright, let me just say I'm not doing the "ded gaem" circlejerk, I'm basing this solely on numbers and people I have talked to. Please don't start fighting in comments about which one is better than the other, because that is not my point at all.

I'm looking over Afreeca right now and the stream list consists of castovers for Proleague with less than 5 viewers per stream (usually 0 viewers).
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Meanwhile, Brood War ALWAYS has at least two thousand viewers, rebroadcasts of tournaments get thousands of viewers, live tournaments like the SBENU one go in excess of ten thousand viewers on Afreeca which is usually a castover of the live ESportsTV stream on YouTube.
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Seems to be the quite literally the other way around for Twitch.
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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
June 08 2015 04:59 GMT
#2
*looks at watch*

Hm, this should've been closed by now. That's odd.
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DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44257 Posts
June 08 2015 05:02 GMT
#3
I think you're mischaracterizing and cherry picking.
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Scarecrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Korea (South)9172 Posts
June 08 2015 05:06 GMT
#4
This comparison is so ridiculous
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Dickbutt
Profile Joined May 2015
Korea (North)129 Posts
June 08 2015 05:14 GMT
#5
On June 08 2015 14:06 Scarecrow wrote:
This comparison is so ridiculous

It's a question because I don't know and I'm genuinely curious as things like GSL and Proleague usually hover as many viewers as the top 3 BW private streamers put together.

I could be wrong and there might be another platform they are viewing on or just viewing it on TV
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Cheren
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
United States2911 Posts
June 08 2015 05:15 GMT
#6
On June 08 2015 14:02 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I think you're mischaracterizing and cherry picking.


What numbers could possibly make SC2 look good in Korea compared to BW? Maybe the television numbers that no one's ever seen, but I doubt it.

And I mean BW now, not in its glory days.
Alucen-Will-
Profile Joined October 2014
United States4054 Posts
June 08 2015 05:17 GMT
#7
I'm not sure regarding personal streams, but Sc2 proleague/gsl/ssl is doing fairly decently in terms of viewership in Korea atm. Supposedly last proleague finals had the best ever tv ratings korean sc2 ever had.

It does see that the personal streaming side of Korean sc2 is completely dead, though.
Dickbutt
Profile Joined May 2015
Korea (North)129 Posts
June 08 2015 05:22 GMT
#8
On June 08 2015 14:17 Alucen-Will- wrote:
I'm not sure regarding personal streams, but Sc2 proleague/gsl/ssl is doing fairly decently in terms of viewership in Korea atm. Supposedly last proleague finals had the best ever tv ratings korean sc2 ever had.

It does see that the personal streaming side of Korean sc2 is completely dead, though.

I was looking for an answer like this, thank you. Yeah, there was this really badass caster who was privately streaming games between KT and PRIME and it was not official, probably the Korean equivalent to ASL, and he only had 36 viewers
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SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
June 08 2015 05:26 GMT
#9
On June 08 2015 13:59 ninazerg wrote:
*looks at watch*

Hm, this should've been closed by now. That's odd.

According to my skype, every single moderator I know is offline right now. OP hit a perfect timing here it seems.
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JBright
Profile Joined September 2010
Vancouver14381 Posts
June 08 2015 05:31 GMT
#10
This isn't worth its own thread. Bring it to simple Q&A or something.
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