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Welcome this month's edition of the top 50 streamers list.  There will be no comparison columns to the previous month this time around due to my, ahem, small problem I had with gathering data on the month before. Otherwise, everything's back to normal. Rejoice!
Again, thank you so, so much Stijn from fuzic for helping me out last time!
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:
Stray observations and musings
- Stephano is the #1 once again, with the highest average viewer count. He lost a couple of hundred viewers from last month, but it's still more than enough to retain the first place.
- Speaking of "more than enough", nobody beats Winter in the viewers*hours category anytime soon, it looks like.
- With Kespa contracts running out left and right, we've had some big names leaving the Korean teams. Which is bad, on the one hand. On the other, that means we got to watch players like PartinG, Rain and FanTaSy stream, and they all got quite respectable numbers.
- Notable streamers who made it to last month's list, but did not make it this month or who did not stream at all: MarineKing, MC.
- 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%2009.png) (The actual numbers are not important, it's the ratio between month that's important.)
Note that these are player streams only.
Due to the missing data, the graph skips one month. Player stream viewer numbers have been quite stable in the past few months.
WCS/GSL
Overall, WCS numbers are quite stable. The Ro16 groups for both WCS EU and WCS NA are comparable to last season's numbers, which is also true for the Ro4 GSL numbers. Let's see how the finals do.
That's all for this month. Hope you guys enjoyed, as always. Any kind of feedback is always welcome!
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Thanks for the stats each month! Not too many surprises here ^^
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Excellent stuff as always. Glad to see that the numbers are stable.
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Is it possible to get the "big picture" graph for tournaments?
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Aw, no breakertv?
Well, I mean I was broadcasting a tournament with my own personal channel, nothing more and nothing less...
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I respect the passion of Winter for this game, but I can't understand how people can watch this stream and like it...
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On October 01 2014 22:19 Chylvain wrote:
I respect the passion of Winter for this game, but I can't understand how people can watch this stream and like it...
Yesterday I wrote "Rise the Kappa guys!" in thr chat, 3k viwers, only 3 or 4 answered. Meh, usually with 100 viewers there's more activity in the chat...
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Viewbots for Winter ?
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On October 01 2014 22:23 SuperHofmann wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2014 22:19 Chylvain wrote:
I respect the passion of Winter for this game, but I can't understand how people can watch this stream and like it... Yesterday I wrote "Rise the Kappa guys!" in thr chat, 3k viwers, only 3 or 4 answered. Meh, usually with 100 viewers there's more activity in the chat...
Maybe his viewers aren't retarded?
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On October 01 2014 22:12 BreAKerTV wrote:
Aw, no breakertv?
Well, I mean I was broadcasting a tournament with my own personal channel, nothing more and nothing less...
It's player streams only
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On October 01 2014 22:24 The_Red_Viper wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2014 22:23 SuperHofmann wrote:On October 01 2014 22:19 Chylvain wrote:
I respect the passion of Winter for this game, but I can't understand how people can watch this stream and like it... Yesterday I wrote "Rise the Kappa guys!" in thr chat, 3k viwers, only 3 or 4 answered. Meh, usually with 100 viewers there's more activity in the chat... Maybe his viewers aren't retarded?
Maybe his viewers aren't viewers? Who knows
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On October 01 2014 22:27 SuperHofmann wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2014 22:24 The_Red_Viper wrote:On October 01 2014 22:23 SuperHofmann wrote:On October 01 2014 22:19 Chylvain wrote:
I respect the passion of Winter for this game, but I can't understand how people can watch this stream and like it... Yesterday I wrote "Rise the Kappa guys!" in thr chat, 3k viwers, only 3 or 4 answered. Meh, usually with 100 viewers there's more activity in the chat... Maybe his viewers aren't retarded? Maybe his viewers aren't viewers? Who knows
How can Kappas be real if our viewers ain't real?
+ Show Spoiler +(Just trying to make a joke, NOT judging!)
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On October 01 2014 22:24 The_Red_Viper wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2014 22:23 SuperHofmann wrote:On October 01 2014 22:19 Chylvain wrote:
I respect the passion of Winter for this game, but I can't understand how people can watch this stream and like it... Yesterday I wrote "Rise the Kappa guys!" in thr chat, 3k viwers, only 3 or 4 answered. Meh, usually with 100 viewers there's more activity in the chat... Maybe his viewers aren't retarded?
considering hes catering for 12 year old kids I would doubt it. And come on, a non retarded Twitch chat???
btw is Stephano still streaming his SH turtle style?? never get to watch him because of timezones...
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Isn't it well known and publicly accepted that Winter's stream is filled with bots, which may or may not be his (If I read my sources correctly, it's out of his control, but who knows).
Anyways, I find it slightly odd to have a stream KNOWN to be almost exclusively bots in the top 50 streamers list.
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On October 01 2014 22:27 SuperHofmann wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2014 22:24 The_Red_Viper wrote:On October 01 2014 22:23 SuperHofmann wrote:On October 01 2014 22:19 Chylvain wrote:
I respect the passion of Winter for this game, but I can't understand how people can watch this stream and like it... Yesterday I wrote "Rise the Kappa guys!" in thr chat, 3k viwers, only 3 or 4 answered. Meh, usually with 100 viewers there's more activity in the chat... Maybe his viewers aren't retarded? Maybe his viewers aren't viewers? Who knows
Look up all the arguments that happened before, if you are reasonably mature and don't think there is a huge conspiracy going on you will come to a fair conclusion.
I am just not sure if you are even interested in doing that, hating is more fun.
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What I'm just try to undestand why watch him. Nobody reaches 3k viewers EVERYTIME. Only Stephano and Grubby did sometimes, but often is lower then 3k. He can reach 3k latw in the night and also during GSL and Proleague. People like Parting, Rain, Innovation, DRG and lot of other dont reach 3k. So why? He is not famous, is not funny, hasn't skill and doesn't have boobs. So?
EDIT: also has very low activity in the chat for having lot of viewers
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On October 01 2014 22:37 SuperHofmann wrote:
What I'm just try to undestand why watch him. Nobody reaches 3k viewers EVERYTIME. Only Stephano and Grubby did sometimes, but often is lower then 3k. He can reach 3k latw in the night and also during GSL and Proleague. People like Parting, Rain, Innovation, DRG and lot of other dont reach 3k. So why? He is not famous, is not funny, hasn't skill and doesn't have boobs. So?
Why do more people listen to justin bieber than to well crafted music? Oh there are different tastes, who would have known
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How anyone can look at Winter's 451,074 V*H and think hes not V*botting? That's nearly 4x more than the closest competitors (who have built their fanbase(s) since the dawn of sc2 time). Not to mention the EPIC slowness of his chat considering there are 4x more people diving in and out of his channel. What kind of person spam joins channels without at least spamming the chat? Robots, that's who.
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On October 01 2014 22:35 Kevin_Sorbo wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2014 22:24 The_Red_Viper wrote:On October 01 2014 22:23 SuperHofmann wrote:On October 01 2014 22:19 Chylvain wrote:
I respect the passion of Winter for this game, but I can't understand how people can watch this stream and like it... Yesterday I wrote "Rise the Kappa guys!" in thr chat, 3k viwers, only 3 or 4 answered. Meh, usually with 100 viewers there's more activity in the chat... Maybe his viewers aren't retarded? considering hes catering for 12 year old kids I would doubt it. And come on, a non retarded Twitch chat??? btw is Stephano still streaming his SH turtle style?? never get to watch him because of timezones...
Yes i am sure he is catering for 12 year olds, that might be the reason he gets huge amounts of donations every month, little children have a lot of money to spend
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