EPTIPL4 with 346,000 concurrent online viewers - Page 4
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Wrathsc2
United States2025 Posts
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ronpaul012
United States769 Posts
On April 18 2012 07:31 BearStorm wrote: I've gone to an IPL/MLG and a couple of NASLs. IPL had the best production quality by FAR. However each event had its own different atmospheres. NASLs were generally smaller and had less things to do during downtime. MLGs seemed more like a general event with lots of areas of interest since there are a lot places to watch and of non-starcraft related attractions. IPL felt like it had the more formal setup. The great venue and the general staff made the event seem a lot more formal as well as the massive hall for the mainstage gave it a more prestigious feeling. Hopefully each event tries to find its own personality so the viewers can continue getting different experiences from each. I don't get why people still think that IPL has the best production quality? Their camera shots of the players always comes at the worst time, they only had 2 streams running with plenty of downtime, their casting isn't as good (yes this is part of production) and perhaps the most annoying is that despite paying for the hd streams, I still have to watch all the annoying ads. I still think IPL is pretty good, but they've lost their title of production value kings. | ||
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Micket
United Kingdom2163 Posts
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
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Farmer Poopy
258 Posts
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marcesr
Germany1383 Posts
On April 18 2012 05:17 Kennigit wrote: 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  So its becoming a competition between CBSi/gamespot and IGN? | ||
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TheMatrix
51 Posts
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. They release them for Sponsors. Plus even if it was just for show, I'd want to know how good or bad SC2 or esports is doing. I guess the majority of those views were LoL though, as SC2 was averaging about 40k viewers | ||
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Micket
United Kingdom2163 Posts
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cccever
17 Posts
On April 18 2012 08:39 Doodsmack wrote: 350k must include Korean viewers, since the IPL4 tourney was being broadcast in Korean. with around 1.5k viewers... | ||
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Adreme
United States5574 Posts
On April 18 2012 09:01 Micket wrote: I still don't understand how Homestory Cup 4 got more viewers than IPL4 for sc2. It seems like sc2 is just falling off a bit. I really didnt expect that many viewers for this event from sc2 fans. Even HSC while getting some nice views for the finals didnt really hit the numbers it seems like MLG and Dreamhack and probably GSL get. It seems like those tournaments get a signifigant boost from having existed for as long as they did and building a base. Actually this makes me wonder that if MLG had 250k with no LoL is 500k concurrent for a e-sports event coming soon? | ||
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NachiMe
250 Posts
On April 18 2012 07:41 ronpaul012 wrote: I don't get why people still think that IPL has the best production quality? Their camera shots of the players always comes at the worst time, they only had 2 streams running with plenty of downtime, their casting isn't as good (yes this is part of production) and perhaps the most annoying is that despite paying for the hd streams, I still have to watch all the annoying ads. I still think IPL is pretty good, but they've lost their title of production value kings. He was talking about the live experience, you're talking about the stream experience. | ||
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Yoshi-
Germany10227 Posts
On April 18 2012 06:18 Fanek wrote: https://twitter.com/#!/MLGSundance/status/192344426855661570 pro BW from OGN coming? When is Anaheim? I heard that there shall be a dota2 tournament in Anaheim. So dunno maybe related. | ||
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Freud
Sweden54 Posts
On April 18 2012 05:17 ChuCky.Ca wrote: nah they can tell sponsors behind closed door its pretty much a dick measuring contest omg... if you don't know anything about this... why comment? As a marketing proffessional I know for a fact that you are wrong. Try meeting with every single company in the world behind closed doors to have a 30 min chat about this. In Sweden we have ~1 000 000 companies. Would need a big sales force... | ||
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Lysanias
Netherlands8351 Posts
Source ? | ||
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tdt
United States3179 Posts
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Inflicted
Australia18228 Posts
They counted GOM player viewers as well, which isn't shown/found anywhere. | ||
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Tyree
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
On April 22 2012 16:43 Tyree wrote: LoL is a juggernaut, i wonder if it will stabilize or increase further. And i wonder what kind of legs it has, looking several years ahead. the thing about LoL is that its hard to monetize it from a tournament perspective. Yeah, it gets huge numbers. BUT the games last so damn long. You get a commercial break once an hour. They need to figure it out for it to become truly sustainable imo. It certainly has potential, but needs work. | ||
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redDuke
Australia207 Posts
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MVega
763 Posts
Also not really sure why some people act like it's competing with SC2. Different genre of game, different audience. Not as much overlap as people would like to believe. I mean I know a lot of SC2 players that play LoL/HoN/Dota 2 but I only know 2 or so that watch it. I play it (a bit) and I tried watching a LoL stream a couple times and it just bored me to death. Must be me though. Anyway hurray for 346k concurrent viewers, go eSports! Hopefully it's not long before we get a million for a western event, because as others have said I'm sure some of the Asian events have hit that mark by now. | ||
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