Viewership for Overwatch world cup

I know that numbers looked impressive but
for example last years English stream had only 8k less viewers during peak (226 638 compared to 218 301)
what is good is the fact that national streams had a lot of viewers which can be seen by overall twitch peak being higher by 80k viewers (321 960 and last year 231 994)
Here stats for this year: https://esc.watch/tournaments/ow/overwatch-world-cup-2017
And here last year: https://esc.watch/tournaments/ow/overwatch-world-cup-2016

here also stats for all the qualifiers to owc (and my threads if anyone interested)
Santa Monica
https://esc.watch/tournaments/ow/overwatch-world-cup-2017-santa-monica-qualifier
(https://www.over.gg/5170/santa-monica-owc-qualifier-viewership-observing#42)
Katowice
https://www.over.gg/5052/katowice-owc-qualifier-viewership#12
https://esc.watch/tournaments/ow/overwatch-world-cup-2017-katowice-qualifier
Shanghai:
https://www.over.gg/4815/number-of-viewers-for-the-overwatch-world-cup-shanghai-qualifiers#3
https://esc.watch/tournaments/ow/overwatch-world-cup-2017-shanghai-qualifier
Sydney:
https://www.over.gg/4893/number-of-viewers-sydney-qualifier#2
https://esc.watch/tournaments/ow/overwatch-world-cup-2017-sydney-qualifier

Numbers were better than people thought they'd be.

Pixelfish [#2]

Numbers were better than people thought they'd be.

not really, they were (on main stream) pretty much same as last year

https://twitter.com/_Ravager/status/926685896874840065
https://twitter.com/_Ravager/status/926963232534925315
viewership charts for day 1 and 2

oh yea downvote evil statistics, they deserve it

remiska [#3]

not really, they were (on main stream) pretty much same as last year

The overall was almost 2x as much as last year. That’s pretty good don’t you think?

penda [#5]

The overall was almost 2x as much as last year. That’s pretty good don’t you think?

321 960 and last year 231 994
did we learn different math?

I for one watch almost every match but watched it on the Blizzcon site, not on Twitch. Obviously we don't know how many people did that, but I imagine the numbers were in the thousands.

BigBad [#7]

I for one watch almost every match but watched it on the Blizzcon site, not on Twitch. Obviously we don't know how many people did that, but I imagine the numbers were in the thousands.

is that not just an embedded twitch player?

Well what really matter is that when blizzard push views they come...so we have to hope he will do the same for OWL even taking only a 1/3 would be a great numbers....real problem is that they didnt go with an european friendly timing....40 k french peoples and 7k from germany are big numbers

Generation1 [#8]

is that not just an embedded twitch player?

I'm not certain, but I don't think so. There was no chat, the stream quality options were different, and people said the colors were a little different (which is why I switched to watching in the first place).

Once they start offering those loot box, points, or whatever for viewing shit, its over. 1 mil+ viewers.

Special Mercy skin if you watch 4 games a week for the whole season.

good numbers. i was personally expecting the viewer count to be a lot less than last year.

Generation1 [#11]

Once they start offering those loot box, points, or whatever for viewing shit, its over. 1 mil+ viewers.

Special Mercy skin if you watch 4 games a week for the whole season.

i thinks reward in game for watch will perform pretty well....

twerp [#12]

good numbers. i was personally expecting the viewer count to be a lot less than last year.

why would you expect viewership to be lower?

remiska [#6]

321 960 and last year 231 994
did we learn different math?

Still an improvement regardless of Penda's lack of math skillz

Pixelfish [#15]

Still an improvement regardless of Penda's lack of math skillz

yes but i pointed it all out in the post:

what is good is the fact that national streams had a lot of viewers which can be seen by overall twitch peak being higher by 80k viewers (321 960 and last year 231 994)

and this improvement comes from the presence of national streams and with pretty much same number of viewers on English stream i would say that interest in overwatch hasnt improved much from last year

Generation1 [#11]

Once they start offering those loot box, points, or whatever for viewing shit, its over. 1 mil+ viewers.

Special Mercy skin if you watch 4 games a week for the whole season.

That would screw over Europeans even more though

remiska [#6]

321 960 and last year 231 994
did we learn different math?

oh I was looking at the average which was 405k for this year vs 231k for last year

penda [#18]

oh I was looking at the average which was 405k for this year vs 231k for last year

this is with chinese viewers so ignore these numbers as chinese viewership numbers are totally wrong

remiska [#19]

this is with chinese viewers so ignore these numbers as chinese viewership numbers are totally wrong

whats the logic for that? chinese people matter too dont they?

penda [#20]

whats the logic for that? chinese people matter too dont they?

as chinese viewership numbers are totally wrong

i already explained why, it turns out even some chinese over.gg member said to divide chinese viewership by 10 (source over.gg discord)