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Thats right, MLG has done it again!
Major League Gaming (MLG), the world's largest competitive video game league, continued its record-breaking 2011 Pro Circuit season with 181,000 unique concurrent online viewers tuning in for the live streaming broadcast of the Orlando Pro Circuit competition last weekend. The fourth consecutive record-breaking online broadcast of the season, Orlando viewing numbers surpassed the previous record of 138,000 concurrent viewers for the Raleigh Pro Circuit in August. Over the three-day competition on October 14-16th, more than 3.2 million hours of video were consumed online and more than 15,000 fans attended in person. Working with Streamworks, the global, end-to-end streaming company that delivers a superior video experience across any network to any device, MLG delivered uninterrupted 720p high definition, high-quality video streams of the competition. Pro Circuit competitions and rebroadcasts of all matches are available on MLG.tv.
Sundance DiGiovanni, CEO, Major League Gaming said:
“The record-breaking viewership of our live broadcasts this year is truly elevating the global presence of eSports, placing MLG viewing in the same ballpark as traditional TV viewing numbers,”
Congratulations to MLG for amazing weekend and great record!
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Hurray!! :D
I went there live this weekend on Sunday, and i can safely say it was awesome. The energy of that room was so hype the entire time, it was sick!
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great, stuff like this shouldnt make it harder to get sponsors 
and mlg has great production=good pr for e-sports
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Congrats, it was amazing being there!
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up 43k unique viewers is in the region of a 1/3rd increase in numbers. pretty sick. with the prize pool being so low (turning away a lot of europeans) things are looking even better for next year when 'everyone' will be heading out there for every event. i wouldnt be suprised to see 225k+ viewers for providence / 2012. great news for mlg
did ipl ever reveal their viewer figures?
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MLG has gone a long way since the disastrous first event.
I'm so glad that they are leading the growth of eSports, thanks to them for all that they have achieved!
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On October 20 2011 22:18 turdburgler wrote:
up 43k unique viewers is in the region of a 1/3rd increase in numbers. pretty sick. with the prize pool being so low (turning away a lot of europeans) things are looking even better for next year when 'everyone' will be heading out there for every event. i wouldnt be suprised to see 225k+ viewers for providence / 2012. great news for mlg
did ipl ever reveal their viewer figures?
I haven't seen or heard anything yet.
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i still had to reload the stream on sunday after every add ~~
anyways, nice numbers
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Congrats!
less in between time of matches and a bit more price money would be nice ..... anyway Good Job!
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great news.
do they release the numbers per game wise? I would be interested to see that.
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Glad they're doing well, but hope they dont stop trying to improve. Personally I got a very much interrupted 480p stream, not an uninterrupted 720p. Pretty much every commercial had me refreshing 1-2 times because screen went black. Missed plenty of starts of games beacuse of it. Stability was much better in Raleigh.
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this is even more impressive since this was the first mlg where barcrafts really exploded, so imagine adding up all those nerds watching from 1 stream in a cafe and the numbers will be even higher! ^^
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Gratz....MLG truly deserves the best .
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I wonder how Providence will do. It is the National Championship, but the most popular players (Idra, Huk, Naniwa, MMA, etc) won't probably be playing until later Saturday due to the way the tournament is formatted. I wonder if Providence can bring people in with the open bracket play for most of the weekend.
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On October 20 2011 22:21 Grettin wrote:Show nested quote +On October 20 2011 22:18 turdburgler wrote:
up 43k unique viewers is in the region of a 1/3rd increase in numbers. pretty sick. with the prize pool being so low (turning away a lot of europeans) things are looking even better for next year when 'everyone' will be heading out there for every event. i wouldnt be suprised to see 225k+ viewers for providence / 2012. great news for mlg
did ipl ever reveal their viewer figures? I haven't seen or heard anything yet.
On the Saturday Live On 3, David Ting was a guest and said there were over 100,000 concurrent viewers.
(Note: IPL3 was Thursday-Sunday and this statement was made on Saturday.)
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Good to see they included unique viewers from the get go this time. Saves us some pages of annoying talk about how many viewers there actually were. 
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I just wish that MLG would use Twitch.tv or something like that. Their streaming program is like the worst I've ever seen.
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On October 20 2011 22:28 Kreb wrote:
Glad they're doing well, but hope they dont stop trying to improve. Personally I got a very much interrupted 480p stream, not an uninterrupted 720p. Pretty much every commercial had me refreshing 1-2 times because screen went black. Missed plenty of starts of games beacuse of it. Stability was much better in Raleigh.
I don't know I had the opposite experience. Has some problems previous MLG but this time I essentially ran 4 streams the weekend out.
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