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Due to ongoing exams, this month's edition is somewhat brief and hastily done. My apologies in advance for any errors or mistakes that find their way in here.
However, there's some good news, too! Finally, there is proper azubu.tv integration. Rejoice! That means that a lot of big names are back in the lists. Assuming they've got enough viewers, that is.
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%202014%2006.png)
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/top%2050%202014%2006x.png)
Stray observations and musings
- Stephano has the most average viewers. What else is new?
- And Winter is the number one in the viewers*hours category again as well. However, this marks the first month in a long time in which his rise in viewership has finally stopped. He also streamed considerably less last month, but since Destiny also streamed less, he remains #1. For now.
- Speaking of which, in last month's thread there was some discussion about viewbotting, including accusations against Winter. He said that he was viewbotted by others a few times (gaining +1000 viewers for a few hours), but never initiated it. A cursory glance at my data supported his claim of isolated, brief incidents, but of course that does not prove anything. Anyhow, the reason I'm mentioning this is because I found some peculiar numbers while compiling this month's list. Some streamers who usually average <50 viewers suddenly got far more viewers than that for a few hours on the 6th. Up to 70.000 more, to be precise. Just like that, 70.000 viewers within 30 minutes, and then 2 hours later they were back to 50. A very blatant sign of viewbotting, and more than likely not initiated by the streamers themselves. I had to purge those numbers from the database or those streamers would've "made" it to this month's list. So, yes, viewbotting is very real, and while I can easily detect and deal with blatant cases like these, the more subtle cases will go unnoticed by me. There's nothing I can do about that, unfortunately.
- As mentioned above, azubu.tv numbers are finally part of my database. That's good. As we can see, the azubu.tv streamers barely made an impact on the list. That's bad. Maybe their viewership will come closer to twitch's over time.
- 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%202014%2006.png)
(The actual numbers are not important, it's the ratio between month that's important.)
Note that these are player streams only.
Player stream viewers are down again a bit. Big events like Dreamhack, MLG and HomestoryCup most likely played a big role in that.
Overall stream views
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/Monthly%20viewers%202014%2006 all.png)
(The actual numbers are not important, it's the ratio between month that's important.)
This graph does not include MLG!
I said I would most likely retire this graph once MLG shows up, and I still plan on doing that. However, I've included it this time just to show that, even despite MLG not being part of the graph (due to unavailable viewer numbers), overall SC2 viewer numbers have gone up in the last month. With MLG, we can assume that the bar would be a good bit larger still. We're not dead yet!
WCS/GSL
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/WCS%202014%2006.png)
The WCS numbers have been bigger once, but they're still not all that bad.
Proleague & ATC
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8028950/TL/Proleague%20ATC%202014%2006.png)
That's all for this month. Hope you guys enjoyed, as always. Any kind of feedback is always welcome!
Older entries
- Top 50 streamers in May 2014
- Top 50 streamers in April 2014
- Top 50 streamers in March 2014
- Top 50 streamers in February 2014
- Top 50 streamers in January 2014
- Top 100 streamers of 2013 (+ Top 50 of December)
- Top 50 streamers in November 2013
- Top 50 streamers in October 2013 (+ WCS numbers)
- Top 50 streamers in September 2013 (+ WCS numbers)
- Top 50 streamers in August 2013 (plus WCS numbers)
- Top 50 streamers in July 2013 (plus WCS numbers)
- Top 50 streamers in June 2013 (plus WCS numbers)
- Top 50 streamers in May 2013 (plus WCS numbers)
- Top 50 streamers in April 2013 (+ WCS/GSTL/SPL!)
- Top 50 streamers in March 2013 (HotS numbers!)
- Top 50 streamers in February 2013 + Proleague/GSL
- Top 50 streamers in Jan.2013+Proleague/GSL viewers
- Top 50 streamers in Dec 2012 (plus Top 100 2012!*)
- 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)
3 weeks abroad for gigs will do that. Hope to improve in July! 
