EPTSC2, WoW and Hearthstone to be shown on ESPN3. That's 5 ESPN's better than pro dodgeball at least!
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
SC2, WoW and Hearthstone to be shown on ESPN3. That's 5 ESPN's better than pro dodgeball at least!
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Crot4le
England2927 Posts
On November 07 2014 14:33 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: https://twitter.com/ESPN3/status/530464694063366145 SC2, WoW and Hearthstone to be shown on ESPN3. That's 5 ESPN's better than pro dodgeball at least! Dude your references are out of control. | ||
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Pandain
United States12989 Posts
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
OH SHIT I REMEMBER THAT NOW LOL | ||
The_Templar
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lichter
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
On November 07 2014 14:35 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not... go ahead and makes your jokes mr jokey jokemaker | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46136 Posts
The Ocho ahahahahaha well played :D | ||
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VeNoM HaZ Skill
United States1528 Posts
On November 07 2014 14:40 The_Templar wrote: Great news. Hopefully this brings people to sc2 and not just hearthstone/wow. Well the good news is WoW isn't particularly exciting to watch for most people and the ones who do watch it will have already played it, so mission been accomplished. Hearthstone has as much curb appeal to a casual audience as your neighborhood crackhouse does, because who the fuck wants to watch cards fight each other? So hopefully this will be SC2's chance to pull in a little spotlight. | ||
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OtherWorld
France17333 Posts
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
On November 07 2014 14:44 VeNoM HaZ Skill wrote: Well the good news is WoW isn't particularly exciting to watch for most people and the ones who do watch it will have already played it, so mission been accomplished. Hearthstone has as much curb appeal to a casual audience as your neighborhood crackhouse does, because who the fuck wants to watch cards fight each other? So hopefully this will be SC2's chance to pull in a little spotlight. Well, Hearthstone streams tend to get like 50k viewers, so a lot of people do apparently :/ On November 07 2014 14:45 OtherWorld wrote: I don't know much about ESPN3, is this a 'real' TV channel or an Internet-only channel that is owned by ESPN? Also isn't it the channel that broadcasted part of TI4? Good news anyway (: It's a satellite TV thing I think. And ya, TI4 was on it, so apparently that did well enough that they're willing to try other games. | ||
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
On November 07 2014 14:44 VeNoM HaZ Skill wrote: Well the good news is WoW isn't particularly exciting to watch for most people and the ones who do watch it will have already played it, so mission been accomplished. Hearthstone has as much curb appeal to a casual audience as your neighborhood crackhouse does, because who the fuck wants to watch cards fight each other? You have to keep in mind, people like to watch stupid things. | ||
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Prime198
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iiGreetings
Canada563 Posts
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VeNoM HaZ Skill
United States1528 Posts
On November 07 2014 14:45 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: Well, Hearthstone streams tend to get like 50k viewers, so a lot of people do apparently :/ It's a satellite TV thing I think. And ya, TI4 was on it, so apparently that did well enough that they're willing to try other games. I guess I should be clear on what I meant by a casual audience on a sports station, I mean older teens into young adults. I think Hearthstone's audience is right up there with the Minecraft youtube audience (kids). On the other side of things, didn't Sundance mention maybe getting MLG on ESPN 3 oh so many years ago | ||
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
On November 07 2014 14:50 VeNoM HaZ Skill wrote: I guess I should be clear on what I meant by a casual audience on a sports station, I mean older teens into young adults. I think Hearthstone's audience is right up there with the Minecraft youtube audience (kids). On the other side of things, didn't Sundance mention maybe getting MLG on ESPN 3 oh so many years ago I'm really not sure what the true demographic for Hearthstone is. I kind of imagine it's pretty diverse myself but I'm not sure, sort of like MtG. | ||
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vult
United States9400 Posts
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
On November 07 2014 15:02 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: I'm really not sure what the true demographic for Hearthstone is. I kind of imagine it's pretty diverse myself but I'm not sure, sort of like MtG. It is pretty diverse. For example my comp sci prof and his seven year old daughter both play hearthstone  . The demographic is different from MtG though, since Hearthstone is a much younger game and also easier to get into. There's a lot more people who fit in the casual demographic of a sports station and play Hearthstone than most people would think. Not sure if they'd watch it though. | ||
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Wolf
Korea (South)3290 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20338 Posts
because who the fuck wants to watch cards fight each other? Is that really how you're going to describe every card game in existence? | ||
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Cricketer12
United States14000 Posts
On November 07 2014 14:33 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: https://twitter.com/ESPN3/status/530464694063366145 SC2, WoW and Hearthstone to be shown on ESPN3. That's 5 ESPN's better than pro dodgeball at least! Holy shit this is awesome, nice find guitars | ||
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EJK
United States1302 Posts
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astray71
United States325 Posts
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
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TelecoM
United States10760 Posts
Hoping for the best though! Blizzard obviously trying to do some big things. | ||
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Apollo_Shards
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Zenbrez
Canada5973 Posts
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shamas4410
United States1 Post
User was banned for this post. | ||
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laaaaaaaamee
Australia95 Posts
The last 2 months of sc2 has been so sad for me cause everyone i love or root for falls D: But the hype has never been more real for me! | ||
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Dragonspear
United States28 Posts
On November 07 2014 15:29 Wolf wrote: Never see dat leeg of legens on teev tho This year's world championship was on ESPN 3 as well for League of Legends | ||
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klipik12
United States241 Posts
I had to go look it up... :/ | ||
Inflicted
Australia18228 Posts
On November 07 2014 16:02 EJK wrote: the real question is did it beat dota 2's TI4? I believe they were on espn 2 Both Ti4 and LoLWC was on ESPN3 I think | ||
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imJealous
United States1382 Posts
On November 07 2014 14:50 VeNoM HaZ Skill wrote: I guess I should be clear on what I meant by a casual audience on a sports station, I mean older teens into young adults. I think Hearthstone's audience is right up there with the Minecraft youtube audience (kids). On the other side of things, didn't Sundance mention maybe getting MLG on ESPN 3 oh so many years ago And I think you don't realize how out of touch you are with the audience for that game. Hearthstone's audience is anyone who has played world of warcraft or magic the gathering, which combine into a massive demographic that is much broader and wider reaching than that of our beloved starcraft. | ||
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Meavis
Netherlands1300 Posts
On November 07 2014 17:45 imJealous wrote: And I think you don't realize how out of touch you are with the audience for that game. Hearthstone's audience is anyone who has played world of warcraft or magic the gathering, which combine into a massive demographic that is much broader and wider reaching than that of our beloved starcraft. yep, hearthstone is a pretty fun game even, sometimes the RNG can be frustrating, but there are moments of intense strategical play or crazy RNG fun. | ||
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TOAA
United States38 Posts
eSports has come a long way... T_T brings tears to my heart that the U.S is going to stream this LIVE! on TV! | ||
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Ctone23
United States1841 Posts
On November 07 2014 16:07 astray71 wrote: Anyone know the numbers on ESPN for League of Legends Worlds? Haha are we already doing this? | ||
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Vindicare605
United States16123 Posts
On November 07 2014 14:40 The_Templar wrote: Great news. Hopefully this brings people to sc2 and not just hearthstone/wow. SC2 is by far the best spectator sport (of these 3 at least). Don't let streaming numbers fool you. I don't doubt SC2 will benefit the most from this kind of exposure. | ||
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-Celestial-
United Kingdom3867 Posts
On November 07 2014 17:45 imJealous wrote: And I think you don't realize how out of touch you are with the audience for that game. Hearthstone's audience is anyone who has played world of warcraft or magic the gathering, which combine into a massive demographic that is much broader and wider reaching than that of our beloved starcraft. Not just WoW. Warcraft in general. Personally I play it off the back of W3 that I used to play as a teen all those years ago. That being said of the three I think SC2 is in the best position as its probably the best of the three as a spectator sport; so that should help the numbers considerably. Whether any of them will turn into players or more long term followers... *shrug* Who knows? | ||
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REyeM
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Anacreor
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pNRG
United States333 Posts
On November 07 2014 14:45 OtherWorld wrote: I don't know much about ESPN3, is this a 'real' TV channel or an Internet-only channel that is owned by ESPN? Also isn't it the channel that broadcasted part of TI4? Good news anyway (: ESPN3 is usually found in "extended" cable packages through your cable TV provider. Basically it's a premium TV channel. It also streams directly online I believe... | ||
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Noonius
Estonia17413 Posts
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
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Cinim
Denmark866 Posts
On November 07 2014 14:47 ninazerg wrote: You have to keep in mind, people like to watch stupid things. When WoW had even more players, they would get maybe 30k viewers(except for blizzcon maybe), when it was an established eSport. Now the playerbase is reduced and eSport in WoW is waaay less consistent(it's only really a tournament at blizzcon, that is it). It has never been exciting as an eSport, and never will be | ||
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dogen
Belgium108 Posts
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creamyturtle
United States487 Posts
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Dranak
United States464 Posts
On November 07 2014 14:45 OtherWorld wrote: I don't know much about ESPN3, is this a 'real' TV channel or an Internet-only channel that is owned by ESPN? Also isn't it the channel that broadcasted part of TI4? Good news anyway (: It's a streaming service that requires you to have an ESPN subscription through a cable/satellite provider to access. Which pretty much defeats the entire purpose of being a streaming service. | ||
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Cluster__
United States328 Posts
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Deathstar
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we coming back to kill lol and make sc2 the rightful king of esports | ||
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KtJ
United States3514 Posts
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
On November 07 2014 22:32 Cinim wrote: When WoW had even more players, they would get maybe 30k viewers(except for blizzcon maybe), when it was an established eSport. Now the playerbase is reduced and eSport in WoW is waaay less consistent(it's only really a tournament at blizzcon, that is it). It has never been exciting as an eSport, and never will be I played WoW for almost 8 years and never cared for it as a spectator sport. It sucks as a spectator sport. | ||
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Azurues
Malaysia5612 Posts
but WoW is gonna kill this. No newbies is gonna understand what's happening. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23579 Posts
On November 08 2014 01:19 Azurues wrote: well this is really good. but WoW is gonna kill this. No newbies is gonna understand what's happening. Yeah WoW is horrible for a mainstream viewer experience. I played WoW and arena before, but I didn't understand 50% of what was going on when I watched an arena match at IEM. It's really freaking complicated. Starcraft 2 is really simple in comparison and a way better spectator experience. The concept of gathering resources, building 2 armies and trying to defeat the enemy is simple enough (also most people played C&C or AoE at some point), but WoW arena is just crazy. | ||
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Boucot
France15997 Posts
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TBone-
United States2309 Posts
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Zidane
United States1692 Posts
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SC2Towelie
United States561 Posts
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
On November 08 2014 02:30 SC2Towelie wrote: To give you an idea of what ESPN3 is, they are broadcasting the World Twinkie Eating Championship tomorrow... http://i.imgur.com/umLAtnJ.png Good to see esports are on that level then  | ||
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chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
On November 08 2014 02:35 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: Good to see esports are on that level then Like twinkies starcraft esports is forever | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
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VavPK
United States196 Posts
On November 07 2014 15:29 Wolf wrote: Never see dat leeg of legens on teev tho Not sure if this sarcasm, but league's grand finals was on ESPN3 as well. | ||
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jubil
United States2602 Posts
On November 07 2014 22:32 Cinim wrote: When WoW had even more players, they would get maybe 30k viewers(except for blizzcon maybe), when it was an established eSport. Now the playerbase is reduced and eSport in WoW is waaay less consistent(it's only really a tournament at blizzcon, that is it). It has never been exciting as an eSport, and never will be =( Before I got addicted to TL when WoL came out, I was compulsively on Arenajunkies for the WoW arena PvP scene. I think there used to be WoW arena 3v3 at IEM, WCG, and MLG, besides just Blizzcon. The games themselves were/are a bit of a clusterfuck, but the storylines were pretty fun to follow, and I have good memories of the tournament LRs, blogs, forums, and drama, though overall it was more underdeveloped, immature, and drama-filled than the SC scene. Hearthstone is a much better eSport viewer experience, and being F2P I'd expect that game to get the most bump from ESPN coverage out of the three. Even so, ESPN got plenty of negative tweets from traditional sports fans when it showed TI4, and I'd imagine the same thing will happen now. | ||
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Wuster
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On November 07 2014 14:44 VeNoM HaZ Skill wrote: Well the good news is WoW isn't particularly exciting to watch for most people and the ones who do watch it will have already played it, so mission been accomplished. Hearthstone has as much curb appeal to a casual audience as your neighborhood crackhouse does, because who the fuck wants to watch cards fight each other? So hopefully this will be SC2's chance to pull in a little spotlight. People love watching Poker, HS casts remind me quite a bit of the mind-game / predictive parts of Poker events on TV so I don't see why not? Besides, people have always watched Magic on Twitch or on TV (when it was on TV that is) and as others have mentioned, HS is probably the #2 game streamed on Twitch now anyways. | ||
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Moxx82
United States53 Posts
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Dranak
United States464 Posts
On November 08 2014 05:04 Moxx82 wrote: Searched all the channels we get, only ESPN and ESPN2. Go fucking figure. Espn3 is their online service, not a TV channel. | ||
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Dakkas
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On November 07 2014 14:50 VeNoM HaZ Skill wrote: I guess I should be clear on what I meant by a casual audience on a sports station, I mean older teens into young adults. I think Hearthstone's audience is right up there with the Minecraft youtube audience (kids). On the other side of things, didn't Sundance mention maybe getting MLG on ESPN 3 oh so many years ago There's your problem right there. You can't use your own perspective and apply it to a crowd. After all, professional poker is popular, no? | ||
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bigbadgreen
United States142 Posts
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