EPTTIME: Can eSports Finally Make it Big in America? - Page 4
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NKexquisite
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
On June 09 2012 02:41 Scootaloo wrote: Horrible times for Europeans and AFAIK koreans don't make up a large segment of the usual MLG viewers (I'm guessing amongst others because we don't provide korean casting). And ofcourse there's that American football thing and IIRC the European football championship starts sunday as well (could be wrong IDGAF about either football). Maybe they'll set a attendance record but a stream viewer one won't happen, especially with how low quality MLG's free stream usually is. IPL was at horrible times for Europeans as well, yet set the record for online viewership. This MLG has more hype and anticipation around it than any tournament I can remember. With all the stuff they are doing with Blizzard (WCS, HotS) and the Kespa tournament, there is certainly an electric buzz around MLG Anaheim. And not to mention, they have LoL, the key to breaking any viewership record. MLG Providence broke it when they ran LoL. IEM WC had it when they broke the record. IPL had it when they broke the record. LoL is why these records have been broken over and over. So combine LoL with the most hyped SC2 tournament ever, it adds up to record breaking stream numbers. | ||
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mememolly
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
On June 09 2012 04:56 mememolly wrote: I don't see how being on TV will change a lot, the UFC is on TV and the fighters are lucky to make 5 figures unless they are top top dogs, I guess it is a step forward but I can't see it changing much for the players apart from the elite few; and for a westerner looking into a career path esports will still be a risk Isn't it a big risk to devote your life to trying to become an NFL or NBA player? Or are we talking about the scene as a whole with all types of jobs? Or is it about the risk vs the reward for going down the path of a professional player in those sports? | ||
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TheSir
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On June 09 2012 02:44 colingrad wrote: there's no american football thing that i can think of going on, and the euro football champ is on earlier than MLG will be for the most part Eurocup started today but you have a lot of big events this weekend like NBA playoffs, NCAA, NHL finals, UFC, French Open finals, MLB draft/opening, WSOP etc etc etc. And as far as i know the majority who watch SC2 are either people who play the game themselves or people who like sports in general (SC2 is the only game who comes close to it). If MLG wants to break records they need new viewers and with so many big events this weekend that will almost be impossible. And it doesn't really matter if other events don't overlap with MLG schedule, especially for Europeans it wont matter. So from where does MLG want to get those new viewers? E3 promotion wont help as we saw on the MLG E3 streams (it's pretty known that most gamers want to play games instead of watching anyway). And it's not the best event to start watching SC2 cause the schedule is a complete mess for new people with 3 separate tournaments on 1 schedule, not to mention only like 30% of the main tournament (the championship) will be available to people who dont buy a pass (which new viewers wont buy) I think they wont even reach 50k viewers average on the SC2 streams this weekend. I just dont see any reason why they would be able to break viewing records. (SC2 minded that is) | ||
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Alryk
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Coolness53
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Fueled
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Haustka
United States221 Posts
if u dont think so... do some more research of ur own | ||
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Sumahi
Guam5609 Posts
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BrosephBrostar
United States445 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States16071 Posts
E-SPORTS!!!! | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10346 Posts
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