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Just saw this artice on IPL4 viewer numbers.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The IGN Pro League (IPL), competitive video game league presented by IGN Entertainment, today announced that its most recent event - IPL 4, held April 6-8 at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas - drew an all-time high of 346,000 peak concurrent online viewers, the largest-ever online viewership for an eSports event held outside of Korea.
Partnering with GOM TV to host the finals for Korea's Global StarCraft Team Leagues (GSTL) - the first time a GSTL final has been hosted outside of Korea - IPL 4 reached more than 3 million unique online viewers. More than 6 million hours of video content was viewed online over the course of the 3-day event. The event sold out its physical venue, bringing more than 10,000 spectators to The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas - the first time eSports favorites StarCraft II and League of Legends have hit the Las Vegas strip.
Pretty sick, thought they were still lagging behind MLG in this respect.
Hopefully this brings good competition to make both MLG and IPL improve.
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MLG and IPL are not competing. They are both doing their own thing.
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No surprise with league of legends there
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Good for IPL, but I'm pretty sure that a good chunk of those views were from the LoL stream. No where in the article does it specifically say Starcraft hit those numbers. Now that's not a bad thing at all, as it just means that IPL is going to continue growing, but at the same time it was a joint effort on both LoL and SC fans.
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On April 18 2012 05:10 solidbebe wrote:
No surprise with league of legends there
Yeah, this seems like it's talking about IPL4 in general. LoL had twice if not three times as many viewers at most times.
Still though, amazing event for ESPORTS!
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I know the LoL stream views were hitting like 150k. MLG hasn't really done a good job w/ adding LoL in its business, I know they did LoL like twice I think?
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I hope they won't release the separate numbers - don't want more people arguing with eachother. This is great for eSports.
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For the SC2 numbers, they were about 100k across all SC2 streams at one point.
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Is there a reason for companies to release their viewership numbers aside from the penis measuring contest between MLG and IPL? As a viewer, I only care about the quality of the product, and knowing that more people are watching does not affect this in any way.
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On April 18 2012 05:15 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:
Is there a reason for companies to release their viewership numbers aside from the penis measuring contest between MLG and IPL? As a viewer, I only care about the quality of the product, and knowing that more people are watching does not affect this in any way.
For sponsors...........:O
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It's still pretty cool, even if it was more LoL then SC2. 346k people all watching professional esports at once is fucking awesome. Makes me proud to be a part of it :D
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On April 18 2012 05:16 Depetrify wrote:Show nested quote +On April 18 2012 05:15 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:
Is there a reason for companies to release their viewership numbers aside from the penis measuring contest between MLG and IPL? As a viewer, I only care about the quality of the product, and knowing that more people are watching does not affect this in any way. For sponsors...........:O
nah they can tell sponsors behind closed door its pretty much a dick measuring contest
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On April 18 2012 05:15 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:
Is there a reason for companies to release their viewership numbers aside from the penis measuring contest between MLG and IPL? As a viewer, I only care about the quality of the product, and knowing that more people are watching does not affect this in any way.
Because there is competition obviously. . Healthy or not, it doesn't matter - IPL and MLG are direct competitors. CBSi (which owns gamespot), is a direct competitor of IGN. It's no coincidence that they would partner with MLG 
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Don't worry people will tune of for LoL and stay for the SC2 action... just like Halo in MLG
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On April 18 2012 05:15 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:
Is there a reason for companies to release their viewership numbers aside from the penis measuring contest between MLG and IPL? As a viewer, I only care about the quality of the product, and knowing that more people are watching does not affect this in any way.
A good product gets watched and any company will release good news. More people use or invest in products that are doing well than products that are not.
I wonder how many there were watching GSTL finals if the gom player was included.
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On April 18 2012 05:17 ChuCky.Ca wrote:Show nested quote +On April 18 2012 05:16 Depetrify wrote:On April 18 2012 05:15 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:
Is there a reason for companies to release their viewership numbers aside from the penis measuring contest between MLG and IPL? As a viewer, I only care about the quality of the product, and knowing that more people are watching does not affect this in any way. For sponsors...........:O nah they can tell sponsors behind closed door its pretty much a dick measuring contest
If they're looking for specific sponsors , yes.
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On April 18 2012 05:10 kiy0 wrote:
MLG and IPL are not competing. They are both doing their own thing.
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sure hes wrong they are competitors but how does that deserve a ban...
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On April 18 2012 05:22 ChuCky.Ca wrote:Show nested quote +On April 18 2012 05:10 kiy0 wrote:
MLG and IPL are not competing. They are both doing their own thing.
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User was temp banned for this post. sure hes wrong they are competitors but how does that deserve a ban...
post got edited, he might've had other stuff taken out of the post.
on topic:
Grats to IPL, glad that in general things are on the up and up for esports.
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IPL 4, held April 6-8 at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas - drew an all-time high of 346,000 peak concurrent online viewers, the largest-ever online viewership for an eSports event held outside of Korea.
Actually like every dota1 tournament in china has more viewers.
But for "Western" esport this may be true.
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On April 18 2012 05:22 ChuCky.Ca wrote:Show nested quote +On April 18 2012 05:10 kiy0 wrote:
MLG and IPL are not competing. They are both doing their own thing.
User was warned for this post
User was temp banned for this post. sure hes wrong they are competitors but how does that deserve a ban...
He probably edited in the User was warned part. He edited his post once and nothing changed but the warning being added.
Great news for IGN, hopefully this leads to more awesome stuff from MLG as well.
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