Haha, yeah this is the first thing that came to my mind when I finished reading the OP. Its good to see that MLG is doing well. ~Million viewers is what an average TV show gets, so that shows that ESports is indeed becoming more mainstream. I realize that this number includes world wide figures and the TV shows I am referring to are in the US market, but its still a big step forward.

uikos

United States132 Posts

June 14 2012 14:58 GMT

#24

LoL imba in getting a lot of viewers ;___;'' All my friends were watching LoL that weekend...

Juggernaut477

United States379 Posts

June 14 2012 15:04 GMT

#25

On June 14 2012 23:52 hitpoint wrote:
I'm really just interested in knowing the Sc2 viewer numbers thb. Hope someone can tell us.

Yeah I was skimming the article and saw 4.7mil and got really excited since thats almost as many copies of the game that have sold.

Pjorren

Sweden777 Posts

June 14 2012 15:18 GMT

#26

MLG has the biggest eSport dick in North America.

Amazing news though. I wonder how many spectators there are for each game.

Alryk

United States2718 Posts

June 14 2012 15:30 GMT

#27

Would be interesting to see numbers by game. LoL was probably ahead of SC2 Because of how their client works and it having an overall bigger playerbase sinceits free, but growth anywhere is awesome :D

StarStruck

25339 Posts

June 14 2012 15:31 GMT

#28

On June 15 2012 00:30 Alryk wrote:
Would be interesting to see numbers by game. LoL was probably ahead of SC2 Because of how their client works and it having an overall bigger playerbase sinceits free, but growth anywhere is awesome :D

Way ahead.

WigglingSquid

5194 Posts

June 14 2012 15:33 GMT

#29

On June 14 2012 23:12 zezamer wrote:

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They ditched Twitch ?

Which is why the stream was flawless for me and, no doubt, many others in Europe. No offense to Twitch, their efforts are appreciated but their service in the EU is just not up to quality.

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

June 14 2012 15:37 GMT

#30

Congratulations, very impressive numbers :D

-stOpSKY-

Canada498 Posts

June 14 2012 15:40 GMT

#31

Wow more than 4.7 million unique views over the weekend. Congrats!

Linwelin

Ireland7554 Posts

June 14 2012 15:40 GMT

#32

LoL is doing well

snailz

Croatia900 Posts

June 14 2012 15:40 GMT

#33

did you guys really misspell Croatia in an official annoucment? :-( so sad panda now

Emix_Squall

France705 Posts

June 14 2012 15:53 GMT

#34

On June 14 2012 23:42 StimedSheep wrote:

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I would say the unique doesnt seem bloated. Think of it this way, people have places to be and things to do. Given the different time zones that MLG spans as well, you would be hard pressed to find someone being able to sit down and watch the entire tournament. There is always places people have to be so those numbers do not seem too bloated to me.

Agreed with that guy, don't think the numbers are bloated either. Number of unique viewers actually seems to me as the most relevant figure to see how well the even did. If you take things like average time per viewers, how bloated will it be from people leaving their stream open 24/7 even when they're not watching etc etc ...

Good job MLG on the viewership and the production but I hear you have a few things to work on as far as organization is concerned ...