On October 21 2011 03:47 Taf the Ghost wrote:
So, I believe this means MLGs are doing more views than G4TV does an entire night. Or several other cable channels.

Interesting thought.

G4 is lucky to get 100,000 views a week.

dooraven

Australia2820 Posts

October 20 2011 18:49 GMT

#122

Ah thanks, anyway if SC2 puts up 140kish (should be resonable) and Lol puts up 120kish (it probably will, assuming Riot adversities the event into their client again) then this is going to be demolished at Providence (assuming Lol actually works and the Riot's spectator client doesn't crash).

Novalisk

Israel1818 Posts

October 20 2011 19:05 GMT

#123

On October 21 2011 03:49 dooraven wrote:
Ah thanks, anyway if SC2 puts up 140kish (should be resonable) and Lol puts up 120kish (it probably will, assuming Riot adversities the event into their client again) then this is going to be demolished at Providence (assuming Lol actually works and the Riot's spectator client doesn't crash).

The downside is that LoL viewers are used to free HD streams which MLG doesn't provide, so I'm not sure the LoL numbers for MLG will be at their usual high. Still, Providence will be a major stepping stone to eSports if all goes well.

Nemireck

Canada1875 Posts

October 20 2011 19:11 GMT

#124

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 had the same problem for the first two seasons that I watched, when I was being a cheapskate and watching for free.

If you have $30 kickin around, you can purchase the entire year commercial-free.

Best decision I ever made. The only problems I've had were universal stream crashes that were usually fixed within 5 minutes, if not right away.

Fealthas

607 Posts

October 20 2011 19:20 GMT

#125

I think the MLG would do better with a larger prize pool.\n But this is great news!

KimJongChill

United States6429 Posts

October 20 2011 19:23 GMT

#126

Crazy numbers!

Amornthep

Singapore2605 Posts

October 20 2011 19:24 GMT

#127

Congratulations. All streams were smooth @ max quality throughout the event.

Zorkmid

4410 Posts

October 20 2011 19:24 GMT

#128

I kinda feel bad for Carmac and IEM that they were up against MLG that weekend. I watched both but IEM viewers were just a sliver of the people that tuned into MLG.

Evangelist

1246 Posts

October 20 2011 19:31 GMT

#129

The viewer numbers might actually be considerably larger than that once you take into account the rather large number of Barcrafts ongoing, which use one or two streams.

The Barcraft I was at had around 30-40 people.

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

October 20 2011 19:32 GMT

#130

Woooo! Esports!!

Ryalnos

United States1946 Posts

October 20 2011 19:32 GMT

#131

On October 21 2011 04:31 Evangelist wrote:
The viewer numbers might actually be considerably larger than that once you take into account the rather large number of Barcrafts ongoing, which use one or two streams.

The Barcraft I was at had around 30-40 people.

Not to mention Montreal... (600)

MiKTeX

United States234 Posts

October 20 2011 19:39 GMT

#132

On October 21 2011 04:32 Shellshock1122 wrote:
Woooo! Esports!!

this

Drake

Germany6146 Posts

October 20 2011 19:39 GMT

#133

when i imagine that alot barcrafts have 50-100 guys watching, this is even bigger !

shifty

United States280 Posts

October 20 2011 19:40 GMT

#134

I mean even Kalmazoo Barcraft had 80 there. And Not every stream just has one person watching it.

jmbthirteen

United States10734 Posts

October 20 2011 19:47 GMT

#135

Yep, these are very impressive numbers. I think it would be safe to say the vast majority are sc2 views as well.

Taf the Ghost

United States11751 Posts

October 20 2011 19:48 GMT

#136

On October 21 2011 03:49 MattO1337 wrote:

Show nested quote +

G4 is lucky to get 100,000 views a week.

If there wasn't a weird set of sponsor issues, you could reasonably see MLG taking over G4 for some weekends.

Oddly enough, one of the reasons that SC:BW works well on Korean TV is the Korean system for commercials is to do them in 5+ minute blocks. So you can run an entire game, then drop a bunch of commercials.

JiYan

United States3668 Posts

October 20 2011 19:54 GMT

#137

wow great, i hope sundance doesnt get too ambitious and changes too many things with mlg, this progress is great

Longshank

1648 Posts

October 20 2011 19:56 GMT

#138

I'm not sure how it works, if I had two streams running, does that counts as two concurrent viewers? If so, the number is heavily inflated since most of us had two or more streams running at the same time except for at the end of sunday.

caradoc

Canada3022 Posts

October 20 2011 19:57 GMT

#139

wow, when he tweeted that previous stream records had been crapped on, I didn't think it meant numbers this big.

181k unique concurrent viewers is respectable for a lot of tv shows with decent budgets.

caradoc

Canada3022 Posts

October 20 2011 19:58 GMT

#140

On October 21 2011 04:56 Longshank wrote:
I'm not sure how it works, if I had two streams running, does that counts as two concurrent viewers? If so, the number is heavily inflated since most of us had two or more streams running at the same time except for at the end of sunday.

no-- that will count as one unique concurrent view, but if you watch for an hour it will count as 2 hours total.