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Top 50 streamers in Dec 2012 (plus Top 100 2012!*)

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Conti
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany2516 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-03 19:51:44
January 03 2013 19:46 GMT
#1
                                                                                                                                    *Minus Jan. and Feb., see below for more info.
Hey there, and happy new year everyone!

Welcome to a very special edition of the top 50 streamers list! You'll get your usual top 50 streamers list from last month, of course. But on top of that, you will also get the first top 100 streamers list for the last year! That's right, the top 100 Starcraft 2 streamers of 2012 list is here.

That's not all, though. Remember how I keep repeating that the big events (GSL, IPL, MLG, etc.) don't offer their live viewer numbers, and that I therefore don't publish any event viewer numbers? Well, there's one big event that started recently that does not play by those rules. And it just so happens to be a hugely popular event with regular casts. So, get ready for some Proleague numbers.

Table of contents
  • Top 50 streamers in December 2012
    • Sorted by avg. viewer
    • Sorted by avg. viewer * hours streamed
    • Stray observations
  • The big picture
  • Top 100 streamers in 2012
    • Sorted by avg. viewer
    • Sorted by avg. viewer * hours streamed
    • Stray observations
  • Proleague viewers
  • Older entries


Huh? What's this?

For those of you who don't already know what this is about: I'm gathering various data from all the streams that are presented on teamliquid.net (viewers, game, events, etc.) and use that data to produce the pretty tables you see below. The tables only contain SC2 players (that is, people streaming games of Starcraft 2 being played by the streamer themselves) and not casters, teams or other streams. The tables also only contain Starcraft 2 related activities. So CatZ streaming Dota2 will not be taken into account, for instance.

For live stream data, go and visit soiii's site http://sc2streamnumbers.com/ where you can check out detailed graphs of stream viewers of every stream. (Thread here). Please check it out, it's pretty awesome. I thought about doing something like that at some point, but soiii did it way better and prettier than I could've ever done.

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. And "HotS%" is the percentage of Heart of the Swarm streaming compared to Wings of Liberty. A full green bar means the player streamed only HotS, a grey bar means he only streamed WoL.

Now, Without further ado, here's this month's tables:

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Haha, just kidding. Seriously, though, is anyone the least bit surprised?

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Stray observations

  • Out of the top 10, 6 streamers have not streamed at all in November. Welcome back, Grubby, Naniwa, MC, Taeja and Sen! And of course, welcome, Jaedong.
  • Between IdrA, Stephano and Jaedong, the most watched stream will most likely be an EG Zerg for all eternity.
  • I have decided to include djWHEAT in the streamers lists from now on. I originally placed him in the caster's category (because he is!), but recently he's been streaming a lot of himself playing the game, making him eligible for the list. If any of you know of any other casters not in the list who also stream their games, please let me know!
  • Similarly, if you find any mistakes or errors in the lists, please do let me know, especially concerning team changes. Note, however, that the list does not reflect team changes that happened after Dec. 31. So yes, I know that desRow found a team (congrats to him!), but by the time the list was compiled, he was still teamless.
  • Also, apologies to desRow, who asked for a graph of viewers by the hour to see when people are watching streams in general. Haven't yet found the time to do one, though I will most likely add one in the future, either in this thread or next month's. Promised!
  • Some notable absentees this month: Destiny (Switched to LoL), Hero, Polt, violet, Incontrol (), Sheth.
Well, That's all I can think of for now.

The big picture


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(The actual numbers are not important, it's the ratio between month that's important.)

As expected, viewer numbers went up last month. They're still far from September's numbers, but personally, I'm still not worried. I expect the HotS viewer numbers to steadily rise until the release of the game, while the WoL numbers will most likely fall somewhat, and then crash the moment HotS is released. For the overall numbers, however, I do not dare to make any predictions.

The big list (Top 100 2012)


One thing that needs explaining here is the "months active" column. Each bar represents a month. If it's red, the streamer in question did not stream, if it's green, he did (even if he's just streamed for a few minutes in the entire month). I did not start gathering data until mid-March, so the bars for January and February are greyed out, since I do not have any information for those. So yes, the tables are not for the entire year, technically speaking, but I figured you guys would appreciate them anyhow. The HTML version does not contain any additional information, I'll still link to them for convenience, though.

Also, for the purpose of this list, "Retired" means that the person has stopped playing SC2 competitively. That does not mean that they are out of the scene entirely.

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More stray observations

  • EG streamers are kinda popular, aren't they?
  • The award for most streaming hours in the last year goes to.. Hui! His #1 spot in the viewers*hours category really doesn't come as a surprise, really. 2514 hours streamed in the last year! For comparison, a year tends to only have 8544 hours in total. A close second is ProTech with 2388 hours streamed.
  • So many retired players.
  • Again, if there's any mistakes, please do let me know!


Did someone say Proleague?

Please take these numbers with a grain of salt, since I have very few datapoints for some of these games. Remember that I record the stream viewers only every 15 minutes. Short games combined with a 4-0 win can end a Proleague match pretty quickly, giving me not a a whole lot work with. That's the exception, though. On average I have 7-10 numbers to work with per match, giving me rather accurate average viewership numbers.

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Not a whole lot to say about these. Gogo EG-TL!

Phew. That's all for this month! Hope you guys enjoyed, as always. Any kind of feedback is more than welcome!

Older entries
  • Top 50 streamers in November 2012
  • Top 50 streamers in October 2012
  • Top 50 streamers in September 2012
  • Top 50 streamers in August 2012
  • Top 50 streamers in July 2012
  • Top 50 streamers in June 2012
  • Top 50 streamers in May 2012
  • Who is the most popular streamer?(Numbers inside!) (March-April 2012)
ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
January 03 2013 19:49 GMT
#2
So much information @___@. JD's stream had 25k views before even going live, it was pretty disgusting(ly awesome) Great write up.
dUTtrOACh
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada2339 Posts
January 03 2013 19:54 GMT
#3
Sweet! Cella made #29 & #33!
twitch.tv/duttroach
ragz_gt
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
9172 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-03 19:56:22
January 03 2013 19:56 GMT
#4
Half of Cella's hour are drunk skype call though >.<V
I'm not an otaku, I'm a specialist.
kochanfe
Profile Joined July 2011
Micronesia1338 Posts
January 03 2013 19:57 GMT
#5
Great data man. Keep it up!
"The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long." - Lao Tzu
iMrising
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States1099 Posts
January 03 2013 19:58 GMT
#6
lololol the cella stream XD
I thought desrow joined fxo?
$O$ | soO
Ichabod
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1659 Posts
January 03 2013 20:01 GMT
#7
Very nice year-end charts. I wonder how much of the reduction in hours is due to the college semester starting up in september(isn); I got very busy by the middle of November and couldn't watch much at all.

Lots of interesting trends to analyze over the coming years, thanks for providing this information!
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44450 Posts
January 03 2013 20:01 GMT
#8
EG EG baby baby baby!!!
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
Serimek
Profile Joined August 2011
France2274 Posts
January 03 2013 20:03 GMT
#9
You'll get a star eventually
SC2 is the best game to watch and was the best to play before I grew old and slow...
archonOOid
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
1983 Posts
January 03 2013 20:05 GMT
#10
You are awesome!!! Keep it up for 2013 and you will be a god among us regular TL users.
I'm Quotable (IQ)
R3DT1D3
Profile Joined January 2012
285 Posts
January 03 2013 20:10 GMT
#11
Holy crap Hui and Protech. They streamed like 1/3 of the total number of hours from March-December.
.Wraath
Profile Joined May 2012
United States262 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-03 20:11:24
January 03 2013 20:11 GMT
#12
I miss ForGG. Thanks for the work though OP
Adebisi
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada1637 Posts
January 03 2013 20:14 GMT
#13
Thanks for the post, great info.
dUTtrOACh
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada2339 Posts
January 03 2013 20:24 GMT
#14
On January 04 2013 04:56 ragz_gt wrote:
Half of Cella's hour are drunk skype call though >.<V


I'd rather watch drunken Cella Skype call random people than anything else, though there's something to be said for Jaedong's stream - "One does not simply not watch Jaedong's stream.".
twitch.tv/duttroach
Kluey
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada1197 Posts
January 03 2013 20:25 GMT
#15
Top 100 in 2012 is almost all EG. o_o
Prevolved
Profile Joined March 2011
United States573 Posts
January 03 2013 20:26 GMT
#16
holy check! cool stats, great post, thank you.
Know thyself.
nmetasch
Profile Joined April 2012
United States600 Posts
January 03 2013 20:30 GMT
#17
Do the proleague numbers only pertain to the english stream?
grs
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Germany2339 Posts
January 03 2013 20:31 GMT
#18
Surprised Knowme is not on the list this month with the amount he streams.
NotRandoMNamE
Profile Joined August 2012
80 Posts
January 03 2013 20:34 GMT
#19
seems like proleague numbers are heavily dependent on how long the match is and whether or not EGTL is playing
revel8
Profile Joined January 2012
United Kingdom3022 Posts
January 03 2013 20:36 GMT
#20
Thanks a lot Conti, for this thread plus all your work with these streaming numbers throughout 2012. Fascinating to see.
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