EPTWho is the most popular streamer?(Numbers inside!) - Page 2
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horsebanger
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Seldentar
United States888 Posts
On May 01 2012 03:54 Stanlot wrote: Man, I miss Cella's stream. When was the last time he streamed? I started watching his stream March 5, 2011 after everyone went from HuK's stream to Cella's when HuK went offline, and after a few months he was having troubles with streaming due to lag and it seems to me he has stopped ever since... :S I never see his stream online anymore T.T. Too bad because it was the best stream I've ever watched | ||
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MichaelDonovan
United States1453 Posts
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WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
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lodeet
United States147 Posts
It's like I still hope that one day he will stop being a fucking idiot and actually play the game. | ||
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Conti
Germany2516 Posts
On May 01 2012 04:13 Seldentar wrote: At least one of your numbers is wrong because I remember over spring break when Stephano was streaming before the Lone Star Cup he had AT LEAST 18k viewers, but I think he even got over 20k at one point. Good effort nonetheless and accurate enough I suppose. That's entirely possible. My script checks TL.net every 15 minutes, so the 20k viewers could have happened in a 15 minute time frame for my script to miss it. Another possibility would be TL.net itself not displaying the viewer numbers accurately. If you hover your mouse over a stream name you get the current viewers of a stream. That's the numbers I work with. If you happen to have the exact date, I could check my log and see what it says, though.  EDIT: Also note that, as I said in the OP, I started gathering data on 22.03., it's of course entirely possible (and likely) that the various streamers have had higher peak viewer numbers before that. | ||
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Tal0n
United States175 Posts
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TheRealPaciFist
United States1049 Posts
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Azarkon
United States21060 Posts
IMO, IdrA and Stephano have one thing in common - they have the highest amount of exposure and hype in the foreigner's scene. IdrA because of his bm, and because he *was* once the biggest name in Western eSports and has an enormous fan base. Stephano because he has a great personality, and because he *is* the biggest name in Western eSports, which also gives him an enormous fan base. But both are Zerg, too - and Zerg is fun to watch on stream. Are Naniwa and Thorzain going to be able to get the same viewer count? | ||
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OkStyX
Canada1199 Posts
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Conti
Germany2516 Posts
On May 01 2012 04:22 TheRealPaciFist wrote: My current fav to watch, Rainbow, not even on list! He didn't quite make it. Rainbow currently has an average viewer number of 472 (peak 1897). There is a ton of well known players who did not even come close to making it into the top 50. | ||
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Qwix
531 Posts
On May 01 2012 04:16 MichaelDonovan wrote: IdrA's peak viewer number is 15k? Didn't we get it up to 20k once for some kind of challenge? "with data gathered from 22.03.12 until today" | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46498 Posts
Only 3 Koreans in the top ten (MKP, MC, Hero). That's pretty interesting. Personality over ability level is definitely valued when it comes to streaming (although, obviously, none of the Most Watched Players are scrubs!). | ||
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EMIYA
United States433 Posts
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drbrown
Sweden442 Posts
On May 01 2012 04:19 Conti wrote: That's entirely possible. My script checks TL.net every 15 minutes, so the 20k viewers could have happened in a 15 minute time frame for my script to miss it. Another possibility would be TL.net itself not displaying the viewer numbers accurately. If you hover your mouse over a stream name you get the current viewers of a stream. That's the numbers I work with. If you happen to have the exact date, I could check my log and see what it says, though. EDIT: Also note that, as I said in the OP, I started gathering data on 22.03., it's of course entirely possible (and likely) that the various streamers have had higher peak viewer numbers before that. I was watching the stream when Stephano broke 19k, but if im not mistaken that was before the Lone Star Clash and thus before your script started recording the number of viewers, i dont think your script is wrong. However, Team Liquid is pretty slow on updating viewer numbers, often lagging about 2k behind, it's better to get them directly from twitch. | ||
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Velocirapture
United States983 Posts
Sure they are doing it for the money but they also realize that being available personally makes people get emotionally invested. The closest thing SC2 has had to this was Destiny back when he was first starting and look how well it has worked for him. SC2 will never reach its full potential if we keep propagating the myth that all pros need to do is play good games. | ||
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kochanfe
Micronesia1338 Posts
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kochanfe
Micronesia1338 Posts
On May 01 2012 04:19 lodeet wrote: IdrA is the most depressing player to watch, but somehow I am still drawn to his stream. It's like I still hope that one day he will stop being a fucking idiot and actually play the game. This is a silly thing to say... Despite all the hate, IdrA is still one of the top 10-15 foreigners in the world. | ||
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Conti
Germany2516 Posts
On May 01 2012 04:34 drbrown wrote: I was watching the stream when Stephano broke 19k, but if im not mistaken that was before the Lone Star Clash and thus before your script started recording the number of viewers, i dont think your script is wrong. However, Team Liquid is pretty slow on updating viewer numbers, often lagging about 2k behind, it's better to get them directly from twitch. It is better, yes, but there are so many streamers that it's not really feasible with my limited programming knowledge. The number of streamers in my database is a four figure one, checking them individually every 15 minutes seems like quite a task (especially since there are a handful of different stream platforms that are being used). Maybe I'll have a look at the various APIs of the platforms and see if I could get the numbers directly from them when I have the time. | ||
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