EPTEdit: Now slightly more accurate. I accidentally excluded the LotV Launch Event from the two lists. Thanks to Incontrol for letting me know of the wrong numbers!
Table of contents
Huh? What's this?
For those of you who don't already know what this is about: I'm gathering various data (viewers, game, events, etc.) from all the streams that are presented on teamliquid.net (those that you can in the sidebar to your right) and use that data to produce the pretty tables and graphs you see below. The tables only contain SC2 players (that is, streams of people playing games of Starcraft 2) and not casters, teams or other streams. The tables also only contain Starcraft 2 related activities. So, for instance when CatZ is streaming Dota2, it will not be taken into account.
The data I gather is then turned into the tables you see below. One is sorted by the average viewers, the other is sorted by the average viewers times the hours streamed. The latter table favors those that stream a lot, while the former table favors popular streamers regardless of how much they stream. Either ranking has its advantages and disadvantages, and thus I present both.
For either table, I have a minimum required stream time of 5 hours to be included in the list.
The list
Due to space limitations, I have to shorten the headers and leave some data out of the tables presented here. You can get the full tables from the links below.
The headers aren't as clear as I'd like them to be thanks to this, so here's a quick explanation, just in case: "Viewers" denotes the average viewers in the given month. "Hours" are the hours played. "Place diff" and "Viewer diff" are the place and viewer differences compared to last month.
Also, the HTML version linked beneath the images has some more information that I had to leave out due to space limitation, most notably the featured status of the players.
Now, Without further ado, here's this month's tables:
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/top%2050%202015%2004.png)
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/top%2050%202015%2004x.png)
Stray observations and musings
- As expected, SC2 streamers got a nice boost from the launch of the LotV beta. It's the first time in ages that we've gotten a peak viewership of >10000 for a SC2 player stream. Huzzah.
- It's been a while since we had a streamer making it to the very top of both lists. Congratulations, Destiny!
- And congrats to Rotterdam for getting #2 on the viewerhours category despite barely streaming any LotV at all.
- For what it's worth, Winter had an average of 1417 viewers last month, streaming 197.75 hours. That would have put him at the #8 spot in the viewers category, and the #1 spot in the viewerhours category.
- Notable streamers who made it to last month's list, but did not make it this month or who did not stream at all: Soulkey, Byun, Hero, Violet.
- If you find any mistakes or errors in the lists, please do let me know, especially concerning team changes or players that you are absolutely sure should be on the lists, but are not.
The big picture
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/Monthly%20viewers%202015%2004.png)
(The actual numbers are not important, it's the ratio between month that's important.)
Note that these are player streams only.
A rise in viewership is probably no surprise to anyone. The rise isn't that significant, though. Then again, if you look back to the HotS beta, you see that there wasn't a rise in viewership at all back then. In fact, the following months viewership actually declined, due to less players playing the beta (They still have to be the best at the current game, after all). Viewership exploded once the game actually came out, though. We shall see if the same pattern will happen this time around.
WCS/GSL
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/WCS%202015%2004.png)
WCS is doing pretty well, guessing from the WCS Season 1 Playoffs numbers. An average of close to 55000 viewers isn't bad at all.
Proleague
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8028950/TL/Proleague%202015%2004.png)
Proleague is steady as always. I'm not sure what's with the low numbers for the two matches, I assume that's more of a glitch/error on my side than anything. Normally, the second match of the night has more viewers, not significantly less.
That's all for this month. Hope you guys enjoyed, as always. Any kind of feedback is always welcome!
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