EPTWelcome this month's edition of the top 50 streamers list.
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%2007.png)
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/top%2050%202014%2007x.png)
Stray observations and musings
- Congratulations, Apollo, for narrowly stealing the #1 spot in the average viewer category from Winter. Apollo streamed just a few hours before and after the vs. MC showmatch, but that was enough to slightly edge out on the average viewer count.
- Winter remains the undisputed champion in the viewers*hours category, however. Lots of average viewers plus a ton of streaming hours does that to you.
- The reign of teamless players continues this month too, with 4 out of the top 5 of each list not being on any team.
- Stephano and Jaedong lost a good amount of viewers this month, over 900 and 700, respectively. Neither streamed a whole lot, though, so there's not a whole lot to read into this.
- Notable streamers who made it to last month's list, but did not make it this month or who did not stream at all: MMA, Innovation, Hero, Snute, Center, Kangho, qxc, Symbol, Ret, Mvp.
- 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%2007.png)
(The actual numbers are not important, it's the ratio between month that's important.)
Note that these are player streams only.
Not a whole lot to say. Player stream viewers have been largely stable in the past few month, though not at a very high level.
As I said last time, I'm going to retire the other graph that shows all stream viewer numbers, since there are premier events now of which I do not have the numbers (MLG).
WCS/GSL
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/WCS%202014%2007.png)
Another WCS season has ended. The numbers haven't been as good as the one of the previous seasons, but they're still quite respectable. It also looks like WCS America and Europe are slowly getting closer in terms of viewership.
Proleague & ATC
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8028950/TL/Proleague%20ATC%202014%2007.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 June 2014
- 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
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