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Novalisk
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Israel1818 Posts
April 17 2012 20:26 GMT
#21
350k seems weird to me. I never once saw the LoL stream hit over 200k(though I wouldn't be surprised if it got a bit over that), and I highly doubt the SC2 stream got 150k even with GOM Player GSTL numbers added in, seeing as it peaked at about 80k on the main stream IIRC.

I'm guessing they added numbers from the other streams as well?
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leperphilliac
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States399 Posts
April 17 2012 20:27 GMT
#22
On April 18 2012 05:23 Kazeyonoma wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2012 05:22 ChuCky.Ca wrote:
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...


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.



Would love to see what was the original content of the post, kinda weird to have some innocuous statement seem to result in a ban.

But anyways, those numbers are INSANE. MLG SC2 had what, 60k in its prime? So the large majority of the viewership seems to come from LoL... time to see what LoL is about I suppose :D
NeMeSiS3
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Canada2972 Posts
April 17 2012 20:33 GMT
#23
if they had of posted all this information with the extremely cool decals MLG did when they did it (it was boss) i would have been far more interested
FoTG fighting!
beefhamburger
Profile Joined December 2007
United States3962 Posts
April 17 2012 20:36 GMT
#24
On April 18 2012 05:26 Novalisk wrote:
350k seems weird to me. I never once saw the LoL stream hit over 200k(though I wouldn't be surprised if it got a bit over that), and I highly doubt the SC2 stream got 150k even with GOM Player GSTL numbers added in, seeing as it peaked at about 80k on the main stream IIRC.

I'm guessing they added numbers from the other streams as well?

LoL got ~210-220k at some point and I believe some of the Stephano games broke 100k so I say it's entirely plausible.
1sz2sz3sz
Profile Joined January 2012
Andorra173 Posts
April 17 2012 20:41 GMT
#25
I dont see MLG having more viewers than IPL even though Sundance is implying that on twitter

MLGs biggest number they had was 241k across all platforms and that included LoL.
Antoine
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States7481 Posts
April 17 2012 20:42 GMT
#26
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.

As I said a few hours ago on twitter, i would be SHOCKED if a chinese event never managed to top 350k, considering numbers i heard just for DIVINA. Basically there's no way this is true, and they should reword it to says non-asian or Western event.
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Kipsate
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Netherlands45349 Posts
April 17 2012 20:43 GMT
#27
On April 18 2012 05:42 Antoine wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.

As I said a few hours ago on twitter, i would be SHOCKED if a chinese event never managed to top 350k, considering numbers i heard just for DIVINA. Basically there's no way this is true, and they should reword it to says non-asian or Western event.

Dota 2 international had milions watching

dem chinamen, they come with many.
WriterXiao8~~
beefhamburger
Profile Joined December 2007
United States3962 Posts
April 17 2012 20:48 GMT
#28
On April 18 2012 05:42 Antoine wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.

As I said a few hours ago on twitter, i would be SHOCKED if a chinese event never managed to top 350k, considering numbers i heard just for DIVINA. Basically there's no way this is true, and they should reword it to says non-asian or Western event.

Was the Dota entirely online or was it lan? I think by "event" they might have meant having players phsyically at an event to play with a live stream. That's the only reasoning I could come up with.
Meteora.GB
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada2479 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-17 20:52:21
April 17 2012 20:51 GMT
#29
Awesome to hear the numbers keep growing. Keep on preaching the love of e-sports.

On April 18 2012 05:48 beefhamburger wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2012 05:42 Antoine wrote:
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.

As I said a few hours ago on twitter, i would be SHOCKED if a chinese event never managed to top 350k, considering numbers i heard just for DIVINA. Basically there's no way this is true, and they should reword it to says non-asian or Western event.

Was the Dota entirely online or was it lan? I think by "event" they might have meant having players phsyically at an event to play with a live stream. That's the only reasoning I could come up with.


I would like to say LAN but I never recalled seeing a crowd for Dota 2, they never filmed any of the players least to my knowledge...
Yoshi-
Profile Joined October 2008
Germany10227 Posts
April 17 2012 20:51 GMT
#30
WDC the biggest lan in china should easily get more than a million viewers.

The international(a lan) should have had 1.4M viewers at one point.
cRaZypYRo
Profile Joined August 2007
Germany191 Posts
April 17 2012 20:51 GMT
#31
i'm wondering whether the western esport will ever crack the one million mark ;D gj IPL keep it up
Attican
Profile Joined October 2010
Denmark531 Posts
April 17 2012 20:57 GMT
#32
Cool stuff, even though LoL had a majority of the views it's still interesting. I wonder how long it'll be until a tournament gets to half a million.
canikizu
Profile Joined September 2010
4860 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-17 21:01:15
April 17 2012 20:58 GMT
#33
On April 18 2012 05:51 cRaZypYRo wrote:
i'm wondering whether the western esport will ever crack the one million mark ;D gj IPL keep it up

If they start to hire Chinese commentators, they will break it easy.
Currently, western esports is exclusively for people who can listen to English, sometimes there're German, French streams, but very rare. Even the Koreans don't really watch Western Tournament that much, if they watch it, they're not gonna spend 5 hours to watch it, so exhausting.

People should start doing that. Instead flying in 10,000 different English casters, they should diverse to some other language too.

The only bad thing about it is the number maybe high, but it doesn't impress the sponsors too much because Chinese or Asian market is still relatively small.
SoKHo
Profile Joined April 2011
Korea (South)1081 Posts
April 17 2012 21:02 GMT
#34
I ended up missing ipl since i was away for so long
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PraetorianX
Profile Joined September 2010
Sweden780 Posts
April 17 2012 21:06 GMT
#35
So wait, 346k, is that for one stream (the main stream) or are they adding up all the numbers of the individual streams to get that number?

Do we know if that was during the finals, or semifinals, or what?

It says it's the biggest viewership outside Korea. Does anyone know what number has surpassed that - I'm guessing, some kind of GSL finals?
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Aunvilgod
Profile Joined December 2011
2653 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-17 21:08:38
April 17 2012 21:07 GMT
#36
Impressive. Maybe the production quality was better for LoL.

Even Homestory cup had a better production and that is of course not counting the general epical awesomeness of Homestory cup.
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mtn
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
729 Posts
April 17 2012 21:10 GMT
#37
On April 18 2012 06:06 PraetorianX wrote:
So wait, 346k, is that for one stream (the main stream) or are they adding up all the numbers of the individual streams to get that number?

Do we know if that was during the finals, or semifinals, or what?

It says it's the biggest viewership outside Korea. Does anyone know what number has surpassed that - I'm guessing, some kind of GSL finals?


As far as I know and read somewhere, GSL had their numbers in Millions and not in hundreds of thousands of people watching.
Fanek
Profile Joined July 2010
Poland344 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-17 21:18:14
April 17 2012 21:18 GMT
#38


pro BW from OGN coming?
When is Anaheim?
hello
v3chr0
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States856 Posts
April 17 2012 21:19 GMT
#39
Greeaaaat news for Esports. Good job IPL.

We all know those LoLers will get bored, and when they do - there is no other solution but SC2.
"He catches him with his pants down, backs him off into a corner, and then it's over." - Khaldor
KiF1rE
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States964 Posts
April 17 2012 21:24 GMT
#40
On April 18 2012 05:17 Kennigit 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.

Because there is competition obviously. https://twitter.com/#!/MLGSundance/status/192344426855661570 . 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



also a fact that is commonly missed. Is that when the esports community posts huge numbers and says growth.... Guess what that attracts? Media, hype, sponsors, which is even more growth.
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