People on the front page responded to me saying I am incorrect in thinking tens of thousands of viewers is nothing. I just spent 20 minutes looking up TV ratings and the lowest rated show I found had 900k viewers. Most have 5-15 million. Chuck is about to be cancelled because it was the lowest rated scripted show on NBC with 5 million viewers.

I'm glad there is so much enthusiasm for this, honestly. But you need to face reality. Nobody cares. Nobody takes SC2 seriously. Professional SC2 is not even a fringe niche interest. It's not nearly big enough to be considered that.

It is very fair to say that putting in on TV would automatically boost its ratings. But gamers are some of the people most likely to watch a show streamed online vs on TV and SC2 still gets nothing ratings. How many hardcore gamers were online playing games when the GSL finals were aired? How many people were logged into the SC2 Europe, LA, and NA servers playing games while GSL was being broadcast? Even SC2 players statistically do not care very much about professional SC2.


Everyone's going to flame me but I'm just trying to keep people grounded in reality here.