yea something like this, korea russia twitch streams had 106k and 16k youtube (see in my post, i put youtube as well) so yes 120k
during canada russia peak was 90k for twitch and at the same time 12k youtube so little bit over 100k ;)

I think its far more likely rogue will have las vegas

yea thats why i put hours for every match (also i feel bad that most of comments in this thread are my own :P but yea numbers might not be super interesting but i realy like statistics and comparing them)

Long version:
Korea vs. Netherlands (12:00 cest, 19:00 korean time, 6:00 east coast)
As every first game viewership begun low but quickly grew and at the half time was at 50k viewers (youtube 10k). Korean stream led the way with 25k folowed by english with 17k. After the half time number of viewers kept growing and
reached 64k. (14k youtube)

Poland vs. Austria (13:20 cest, 20:20 korean time, 7:20 east coast) (how the fuck matt makes barage work every fucking single time?!?!?!?!?!)
Prodably one of the least hyped matches but one that could have been the most competitive. After losing most of korean viewers streams settled at just above 40k viewers. (10k youtube). Throughout match number of viewers grew at a slow but steady pace reaching 45k by the half time and 47k during 2nd half of match and peaked at just under 52k (still 10k youtube). Interesting things is popularity of this match amongst russian viewers (it might be because next match has russia) and number of polish viewers (1.5k)
(as much as i want to see more of japanese players i want some of polish players to make it into pro scene)

Canada vs. Russia (15:20 cest, 22:20 korean time, 9:20 east coast)
Match for which i waited the most (at least before qualifying games). started just little bit lower then where previous game left with 50k viewers but after 1st map number of viewers grew to 70k, a lot of viewers came from russia - 7k viewers comparted to usuall 2k-3k and interestingly from korea - 14k compared to 4k during poland vs australia. (12k youtube). by the time there were 75k people watching (12k youtube) 2nd half of the match begun with around 75k viewers and peaked by the end of the match with 90k. (12k youtube)

Singapore vs. Turkey (17:00 cest, 2:00 korean time, 11:00 east coast)
Arguably least hyped match of the whole tournament. It had aroun 60k viewers throughout whole first half. (10k youtube)During 2nd half number of viewers grew to 65k (12k youtube)

Korea vs. Russia (18:40 cest, 3:40 korean time. 12:40 east coast)
Prodably most anicipated game begun with 70k viewers but soon number of viewers started growing and reached 95k before map 2. (youtube 14k) It kept growing and during map 3 broke 100k viewers and menaged to break day 1 peak with 106k viewers. (youtube 16k)

Canada vs. Netherlands (20:20 cest, 3:20 korean time, 14:20 east coast)
A lot of viewers (specialy korean because it was 3am in korea monday) tuned out after korea vs russia match ended so the game started with "only" 68k viewers. Number of viewers grew just a little bit to 70k (12k youtube) and peaked at 72k viewers.
(ill repeat myself, i dont think any game next weak will have more viewers then this weeks games with korea)

detailed stats for day 1 (repost) (lets ignore with chinese):
https://esc.watch/tournaments/ow/overwatch-world-cup-2017-katowice-qualifier
https://twitter.com/EsportsCharts/status/894153157504364544

here sydney: (lets ignore with chinese)
https://esc.watch/tournaments/ow/overwatch-world-cup-2017-sydney-qualifier

and shanghay (again ignore with chinese viewers):
https://esc.watch/tournaments/ow/overwatch-world-cup-2017-shanghai-qualifier

clearly highest twitch peak was during katowice (and thats for day one only)

Short version:
Korea vs. Netherlands about 50k viewers and peak at 64k (78k with youtube)
Poland vs. Austria 45k viewers peak at 52k (62k with youtube)
Canada vs. Russia 70k-75k viewers and peak at 90k (102k with youtube)
Singapore vs. Turkey just under 60k throught most of the match, peak at 65k (77k with youtube)
Russia vs. Korea around 100k viewers and peak at 106k (122k with youtube)
Canada vs. Netherlands under 70k viewers and peak at 72k (84k with youtube)

if rogue gets some partner (aka money) they'll prodably take las vegas

Sources: Blizzard to add Team EnVyUs as Austin-Dallas Overwatch League
not official but:
http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/20267274/blizzard-add-team-envyus-austin-dallas-overwatch-league-rep

my question is, how many more teams we will have in owl because there is just no way well have only 7 teams. with 7 teams how will you have year full of games? playing through internet will put teams from korea and china at a disadvantage and with only 7 teams amount of flying players would need to do to fill whole year with games (i would say 12-20 teams is minimum). Id say rogue will take las vegas im fairly sure well see few eu citys (russia has a lot of rich people interested in esport) and looking at contenders id say blizzard has some number of teams they want to see in league (8 teams for eu and 8 for na in contenders)
good read

link pls

Yea such a boring match, oh wait its not, we watch pro scene for great games and playes not results, if you want results just check after match ended

you just got downvoted more then i do when i insult people

your comments are bigger waste of time and it took me half a secend to read them, so that sais something about theirs quality

Day one detailed stats, i dont want to brag but i said twitch peak was at 105k viewers :) (add 10k youtube viewers and you have peak w/o chinese viewers)
https://esc.watch/tournaments/ow/overwatch-world-cup-2017-katowice-qualifier

here also some charts:
https://twitter.com/EsportsCharts/status/894153157504364544

if poland played against nl like their playing against sk and austria they could take map maybe even more

It looks like poland was so much stronger against korea then nl

ok, updated day 2 post

as expected korea vs poland had highest peak of about 76k but also lower then yesterday because it was 1st match of the day, the rest of matches was between 40k and 50k but also lower then yesterday because it was 1st match of the day

When i posted detailed stream stats for season 3 of apex i got downvoted terribly and still have no idea why

what stars? i have only a 3rd of a star :( (i get into too many fights and am not really nice to people)

edit: stars just got updated, now i have 2 3rd of a star

https://clips.twitch.tv/SteamyEndearingSproutArgieB8 (this doesnt mean "victory")

Korea vs. Poland (14:00 cest, 21:00 korean time, 8:00 east coast)
As expected first match of the day started lower with just over 48k (12k youtube throughout whole match) and kept growing. By the half time it was at nearly 66k with korean stream leading the way with 32k english considerebly lower at 25k and french closing top 3 with 2.6k. By the half time polish stream broke 1k barrier as well. Peak for the first match was just before it ended and around 76k (much lower then yesterday but its to be expected because its the 1sr match of the day)

Netherland vs. Austria (lia) (15:15 cest, 22:15 korean time, 9:15 east coast)
This match started with 45k viewers and stayed at around 47k throughout whole match, youtube stream had 12k viewers. Nothing realy interesting and that was prodably to be expected because it wasnt realy exciting matchup.

Canada cs. Singapore (16:40 cest, 23:40 pm korean time, 10:40 east coast)
Again preaty consistant viewership throughout whole match, started with 40k and stabilized at 45k for the first 2 maps and 47k for later. Youtube stream again little bit over 12k. During last map number of viewers started growing preaty significantly, i think these were viewers for the next match coming early. Peak was around 51k

Russia vs. Turkey (18:00 cest, 1:00 korean time, 12:00 east coast)
My most anticipated match. Even before it started russian stream overtook korean in the number of viewers, its prodably because it got really late in korea and people stopped watching after earlier match ended (between these 2 matches number of korean viewers droped from 5k to 3.5k) and russian viewers tuned into their teams match (from 3k to over 5k). Match begun just shy of 45k viewers but viewership quickly grew to 50k and stayed at around this much for most of the match with a peak at around 52k (youtube stream had 10k viewers).

To make it clear my numbers include only official twitch streams

rolled over even more then poland

ok koreans need to learn how you do "victory" and how its not "victory"

https://clips.twitch.tv/SteamyEndearingSproutArgieB8 - twitch clip

it will

there were 2 guys and even with 2 guys it took more time then with france (just a small history lesson)

on te subject poland is alweys closer then i expected

i personaly dont think next weeks qualifier peak will be higher then this weeks. Prodably around 5k korean viewers compared to 46k, nuimber of western viewers will just not increase so drasticly

yea i know, i kept track of it during sydney but today im in a little bit of a hurry

(i'll post detailed statistics as soon as theye're available and keep this thread updated each day)

A lot of people expacted katowice to have much more viewers then previous qualifiers, they were pointing at good hours for western viewers. And while its true that todays peak is prodably the highest out of all qualifiers, viewers didnt come from europe or na but rather from korea.

During Korea vs. Austria (started 3:40pm cest that is 10:40pm korean time and 9:40am east coast so decent hours for everyone) specificly map 3 viewers peaked at around 105k viewers! thats much more then i ever excpacted. Whats interesting is that korean stream overtook english in the number of viewers (46k compared to 43k) during shanghay and sydney qualifiers there wasnt any stream that got even close to english.

Interesting fact is also popularity of overwatch in france, french stream was alweys 3rd (after english and korean) with 4k-5k but i'd like to reminde that when "frogue" was playing to qualify for blizzcon french viewers peaked around 23k!

rest of the matches had considerebly less viewers but still quite a lot, above 50k (peak for canada vs. turkey around 65k)

(its posted before last match but i just cant watch it)

im currently keeping track of katowice viewers and numbers are really impressive (first day might already have higher peak then other qualifiers)

4th season might drop even lower because of total lack of western teams and im not sure krean viewers will make up for western (but thats only twitch streams)

exactly, why did blizzard chose this place? its so fucking small

https://esc.watch/tournaments/ow/ogn-overwatch-apex-season-3 - APEX season 3

detailed stats (ignore english stream numbers and twitch peak is korean and english streams combined)

just reminder, this was season 2 - https://esc.watch/tournaments/ow/ogn-overwatch-apex-season-2

edit: i just noticed that i estimated peak at around 64k and it was 69k but still preaty close :P (also why downvotes for this? im just posting statistics i seriously dont get it)

helo nl? poland has no pro players why you getting rolled over?

phew they rocovered

and we now know why tickets got sold out so quickly wp blizzard theres space for like 20 people there

jump bug was not game breaking bug like what danteh was doing

Danteh (from arc6) got suspended for using sombra exploit on stream
https://dotesports.com/overwatch/pro-overwatch-player-suspended-16385

https://clips.twitch.tv/TastyAdorableWaspDoubleRainbow - twitch clip

rip9

No memes, im disappointed...

Im getting serious hltv vibes, but its not something bad ;) good read

"For the record, Tombha has been revealed the manager of Team Gigantti since he shared those thoughts. So be sure to let him know how RIGGED the tournament is in Twitch chat."

RIGGED TOURNAMENT PogChamp RIGGED TOURNAMENT PogChamp ... :P

but im actualy rooting for french boys from gamersorigin

nonetheless it means owl is getting realy close

i know that current contracts most likely dont allow it, still i dont like it, also some might try to finde the gap in contracts brcause of this "Players will be considered members of an Overwatch League team only when they sign the Overwatch League Player Agreement with the team of their choice and it is approved by the Overwatch League." and its little bit too much blizzards interference into contractsfor my liking

well, check my comment above^ ;)

"Players associated with established Overwatch teams—even teams from organizations that have been announced as part of the Overwatch League —are not automatically signed to those rosters. By the same token, the Overwatch League does not preclude eligible players from joining any League team because of a previous team affiliation, as long as they are legally able to join. Players will be considered members of an Overwatch League team only when they sign the Overwatch League Player Agreement with the team of their choice and it is approved by the Overwatch League."
this on the other hand i dont like, blizzard is pretty much allowing players to screw their current teams and sign to ones that are in owl i hope it wont turn out like this but its a sad possibility

thats nice i didnt know about it

that actualy would be great and it would boost viewers thus helping grow competitive scene

Its not directly connected to overwatch but its nice to see some governament recognizing popularity of esports and that its a form of competitive sport

Philippine governament has created The Games and Amusements Board (GAB), the regulatory board for professional sports and games: https://dotesports.com/general/philippine-esports-government-support-16297

http://www.thekraftgroup.com/overwatch-boston/
super interesting read with some insight into owl (will nrg finally have team?)

"Teams will sign players to one-year guaranteed contracts with the option to extend the contract for an additional year." and
"Teams will provide player housing and practice facilities during the season which will meet professional standards set by the Overwatch League." this is nice

i want more sexy mercy mate,

T H I C C mercy thighs are life

i just came to conclusion that beause FOOTBALL is truly an europen sport eu>na is true even in lucio ball ;)

well it actualy is preaty profitable to make exclusive skin, lets say they release super skin (at the witch mercy level) and after 2 years they make this skin available in some "super exclusive one of a kinde" lootboxes, everyone willl buy it and more exclusive skins there are more commonly you can make one of these "exclusive" skins available

wargaming (company behinde wot) is making it and are are earning shit ton of money (yes thats a unit in si system to measure amount of money) with only one true exclusive and the rest beeing "exclusive untill we come up with good enaugh reason to sell it again"

also if no one missed to buy skins during event there would be no exclusives so thats the point

last 4 seasons i played only placemant to get spray and no more comp :P (i droped so low coz of this) quick play is just fun whether you win or lose and comp is just not fun for me for now

i personaly will try lucio ball (last year i was away from pc for most of summer games)

Fuck
Skins you CAN'T get (why cant we edit tittles again?)
in other knews im still shit at writing anything longer then 2 zentences

edit: thanks to some admin for fixing tittle ;)

Fact that old skins come back with summer games might mean we will be able to get every skin at some point even if we missed them at original event its nice but i personaly think it would be good to have some skins that are not possible to get anymore (to be precise we have some like noire widow or origins skins), they would create buzz in matches with people asking how did he get it and it would be super good feeling when you actualy have one (or more) of them and just make skins exciting. This opinion is not based on cs go skins coz you can trade them and how good skins you have just means how much money you want to spend on them but rather on world of tanks, in wot there are tanks that were taken from shop for soime reason (it differs from one to the other) and you cant buy them anymore (most famous typ 59) and when you take one of them to battle people look at it ask you about it (and sometimes troll you)

Making more exclusive skins would make them so much more exciting now you know you prodably will be able to get every skin at some point once you grinde enaugh loot boxes and you stop carrying about them

what do you think? do you agree or not?