[Patch 3.10: Yimake Patch] General Discussion - Page 143

On August 07 2013 11:03 ticklishmusic wrote:
As of right now, League has 65K viewers on Twitch. DOTA2 has 5K.

I'm expecting concurrent viewers for S3 finals to hit 2 million.

On August 07 2013 11:03 ticklishmusic wrote:
As of right now, League has 65K viewers on Twitch. DOTA2 has 5K.

I'm expecting concurrent viewers for S3 finals to hit 2 million.

On August 07 2013 10:34 Lysteria wrote:
LoL having its World Championships after Dota is a big advantage, once the hype of the finals is done, Dota will not have a major event to oppose LoL.

On August 07 2013 11:31 TheYango wrote:

It was actually completely disastrous last year, but that's because RIot's initial handling of World's was completely idiotic and inept and everyone who watched both events had a laundry-list of things Valve had done better, irrespective of any bias toward either game. On what was apparently a larger budget and more tournament-running experience, Riot managed to produce a drastically inferior tournament.

On August 07 2013 11:31 TheYango wrote:

It was actually completely disastrous last year, but that's because RIot's initial handling of World's was completely idiotic and inept and everyone who watched both events had a laundry-list of things Valve had done better, irrespective of any bias toward either game. On what was apparently a larger budget and more tournament-running experience, Riot managed to produce a drastically inferior tournament.

On August 07 2013 11:34 Amethyst21 wrote:


But at least we got the emergence one of LoL's first villains - Woong.

Yeah TI2 was better than S2 finals by many metrics though the actual presentation of the final game between TPA and Frost was very good. The group stage? Not so much.

On August 07 2013 11:36 onlywonderboy wrote: But if the All-Stars event proved anything it's that Riot can put on an event of massive magnitude without issue

On August 07 2013 11:35 Seuss wrote:
Talking about DotA/LoL viewership numbers like this is literally dumber than the syrup/sauce argument we had today.

On August 07 2013 11:36 onlywonderboy wrote:
Yeah, the whole outside venue and connections issues really made the Season 2 finals look pretty bad at times. They brought it back with the actual finals though. But if the All-Stars event proved anything it's that Riot can put on an event of massive magnitude without issue

On August 07 2013 11:37 PrinceXizor wrote:

TPA v Frost was roughly equivalent to TI2's finals. but riot also had significantly more money and more time to accomplish roughly equivalent events. add to that the fact that the viewership has almost completely paid for TI3 this year. its not a production war riot can win at the rate its going. I can't imagine anyone but the most dire of fans having complete trust in riot after everything they've done since season 1.

apart from the cancelled closing ceremony and the fact that tencent took care of most of it instead of riot themselves. yeah

On August 07 2013 11:37 PrinceXizor wrote:

TPA v Frost was roughly equivalent to TI2's finals. but riot also had significantly more money and more time to accomplish roughly equivalent events. add to that the fact that the viewership has almost completely paid for TI3 this year. its not a production war riot can win at the rate its going. I can't imagine anyone but the most dire of fans having complete trust in riot after everything they've done since season 1.

apart from the cancelled closing ceremony and the fact that tencent took care of most of it instead of riot themselves. yeah

On August 07 2013 11:39 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Ehh, considering what All-Stars garnered, I'm pretty confident Worlds is going to make bank pretty easily.

On August 07 2013 11:45 TheYango wrote:
TBH prior to LCS there might have been something of an argument about LoL viewers not being "eSports viewers", because LoL has this unique phenomenon of the streamer as an entertainer in his own right rather than as an educational/informative platform supplementary to a progamer's lifestyle. Most stream viewers in DotA or SC2 watch personal streams with with the intent to learn from a good player, which thus focuses viewership primarily on "named" players (hence Dendi's stream viewership making up such an overwhelming percentage of DotA stream numbers). But in LoL, the stream evolved into its own form of entertainment where you're watching someone you know who is not really all that good because of his scatterbrained antics when a typical LoL game goes bad. That's precisely why Hotshot made his name early on during LoL streaming, and why Phantomlord is the most viewed streamer on twitch right now.

I could see why someone might assume that viewers of the "stream as entertainment" are not actually e-sports viewers interested in the development of the competitive game, but LCS more or less dispelled this myth.

On August 07 2013 11:06 onlywonderboy wrote:
Dis Biscuit T_T