I dare say that Starcraft 2 is still much bigger outside of Korea than inside, and that the large majority of stream viewers are non-Koreans, though I have no data for this.

It might be interesting to graph the times the Koreans stream to see if they stream at hours convenient for Koreans or us Foreigners.

DarJir

9 Posts

May 02 2012 15:47 GMT

#292

Wow.. destiny, maximusblack and ForGG putting in work. Gonna have to check those guys out cause I hardly ever watched them before. Always like to support the streamers who do it often. Glad to see whitera doing well because I always check him out. Polt is doing well be should be more popular. He does team games with fans!

And yes. PLEASE make it a regular feature!

Koshi

Belgium38799 Posts

May 02 2012 15:48 GMT

#293

Sexy stats. Didn't think Idra would beat Stephano.

Acertos

France852 Posts

May 02 2012 15:54 GMT

#294

Hmm u should go to Stephano stream more. I remember him doing like more than 20k one night

MrTortoise

1388 Posts

May 02 2012 17:32 GMT

#295

On May 01 2012 04:08 OzRe wrote:
wow idra is more popular than stephano :O

Yeah im kinda suprised by this.

One player is great and improving
the other is also arguably great but seems to be stagnating

Rassy

Netherlands2308 Posts

May 02 2012 17:33 GMT

#296

O nice stats,always love seeing them.

Koreans score low indeed,relative to their fame and skill.
Not sure why, maybe foreigners like to see foreigners more then koreans, it can also have to do with the time at wich they are streaming. Koreans often stream when its morning in europe and manny fans are at school/work?
Personally i always go Polt/Mkp/Stephano/Idra first and if none of them are streaming i look at other streams.

Destiny still doing well.
Somewhat suprised idra still tops stephano, but idra is still IDRA

It definatly cant be for his music choise lol.

Conti

Germany2516 Posts

May 02 2012 18:24 GMT

#297

Some posts here got me curious to find out when the Korean pros are streaming their games, and if they intentionally stream at times that would be convenient for the foreign fans. So I took all the Koreans from the top 50* and plotted their streaming hours by time of day. Behold!

(Large version also here)
Note that the largest spike, around 3pm KST, translates into 11pm PDT, not too bad a time for the fans in the west coast to watch streams, while the other spike, around 2am KST, translates into 7pm CEST, a very convenient time for us Europeans to watch streams. So, yeah, it looks to me like the Koreans do cater more to us foreigners than to the Korean fans at home, most likely because there's simply a whole lot more of foreign fans than Korean fans out there.

*MarineKing, SK.MC, Liquid`HerO, MVPDongRaeGu, TSLPolt, SlayerS_BoxeR, Liquid`TaeJa, oGsForGG, ST_Bomber, IM_LosirA, FnaticMoon, SlayerS_Alicia, oGsVINES, SlayerSCoCa, NSHS_jjakji, SlayerS_Cella, NaDa, EGJYP, SlayerS_Puzzle, Liquid`Zenio, ByuNPrime (Apologies if I missed one!)

revel8

United Kingdom3022 Posts

May 03 2012 14:35 GMT

#298

On May 03 2012 03:24 Conti wrote:
Some posts here got me curious to find out when the Korean pros are streaming their games, and if they intentionally stream at times that would be convenient for the foreign fans. So I took all the Koreans from the top 50* and plotted their streaming hours by time of day. Behold!

Interesting graph. I guess it would be possible to get confirmation from asking someone like Polt, or Hero whether Korean pros specifically target foreign audiences or whether they just stream at hours that are convenient for themselves. From what I have learned from Liquid players staying at OGS House and from Artosis' interviews, Korean pro-gamers stay up past 2am as normal practice and rise late at noon/early afternoon. The hours they keep are certainly not regular office hours in Korea.

PiQLiQ

Sweden702 Posts

May 03 2012 14:44 GMT

#299

LoL streamers are so top notch when it comes to streams. My friend TSMDyrus tops like 40+++k and average about 16+k/everyday.

I guess the attention to starcraft2 isn't as high yet and the way RIOT handles esports and community is much better than blizzard. I think if blizzard would care a lot more the viewers would increase greatly.