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//: MLG Anaheim Spring Championship 2013 - StarCraft II: HotS, LoL & CoD: Black Ops 2
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HoodWinked
Member
LOL 100%
HoodWinked
Member
CALL KOTAKU. that was brutal
Livibee is absolutely adorable. I haven't seen her in at least like 2 years, since she was casting with her sister.
Watching MaximusBlack get his shit pushed in by Nony was especially entertaining.
Watching MaximusBlack get his shit pushed in by Nony was especially entertaining.
I'm pissed I missed this. I haven't watched Weedamins stream in a long, long time.
HoodWinked
Member
after hearing wheat talk about idra i went and looked at his twitter LOLOL
jim2point0
Banned
Cheese: The Tournament
This might be the first game to go longer than 10 minutes O_O
This might be the first game to go longer than 10 minutes O_O
Completely unsurprising based on the players.
MaximusBlack was of course going to be 100% cheese.
Bubbles has always been one of the most notoriously cheesy Protoss on all of NA GM ladder since 2010.
Livibee choosing to cheese a well-known pro is almost to be expected.
So, par for the course.
Catz vs Dragon is actually the first even match of the night that I've watched.
jim2point0
Banned
I don't see Dragon realistically pulling this out unless Catz has an aneurysm
mysteriousmage09
Member
omg those fungals!
PhoenixDark
Banned
Catz
HoodWinked
Member
jim2point0
Banned
~108,000 viewers on the LoL stream
~32,000 viewers on SC2
What the efffff
~32,000 viewers on SC2
What the efffff
SC2 has been on a continuous downward trend for the past few years, while LoL has been going constantly upward.
Those LoL numbers are really low for an event of this caliber.
jim2point0
Banned
I just don't know how anyone can stand watching it. I don't play either of these games, but I find StarCraft far more interesting. Brood War even more so (RIP....)
Crimsonlink
Member
Euro is mostly asleep. Plus its almost 12 am here in EST time.
BTW SOUND! Holy crap that Hellion runby.
Popular SC2 players bring the viewers. This MLG doesn't have many big players.
demosthenes
Member
Erm, maybe you missed the numbers from the WCS tournaments?
Not arguing that LoL is growing to be huge but the numbers I've been seeing recently for SC2 have been pretty good.
edit: And like Aaron said. These are mostly bad matches with not great players. That doesn't pull big numbers.
I'm actually happier with the lineup in this MLG than most events. Most of my favorite players are the mid-tier NA players -- not because of their skill, but mostly just because of their personality, and I have a penchant to root for the underdogs.
Yeah. WCS EU has been getting 50k views across their channels for round of 32, but they've had players like MVP and Stephano. A big finals with popular players will break 100k easy. Also with the way Blizzard screwed over China, Starcraft isn't popular there, and isn't getting those viewers.
I was under the impression that LoL and SC2 both pulled in more viewers than CoD. I guess that impression is wrong?
Edit: Yep, CoD running lowest viewership right now. Can someone explain why the CoD prize money is so high?
Edit 2: Oh, I see. That 400k is not for this particular event, and is for the whole team.
Edit: Yep, CoD running lowest viewership right now. Can someone explain why the CoD prize money is so high?
Edit 2: Oh, I see. That 400k is not for this particular event, and is for the whole team.
I'm quite surprised that that many people want to watch NA teams play to begin with.
smh
@_@
I've been out of the loop and spending too much time in the FGC lol. Over there people shit bricks at 15K payout like once a year.
Squirrel Killer
Member
I'd ask for someone to school me in esports, but I think that would be taken wrong.
beats watching EU.
basing this on what? those meaningless all-star matches?
Both territories blow compared to asia anyways at this point.
I don't see how All-Star matches were meaningless when it gives NA extra slots at worlds but okay. Asian League scene is overrated anyways outside of a few standout players.
Because they weren't even real teams, but instead combinations of the best players that don't have alot of experience playing together, and like you know...LoL is a team game? Okay? We'll see next time teams from both territories are tested i guess, but in recent history EU teams have raped NA teams.
http://leaguepedia.com/wiki/Premier_Tournaments
Do your research, you should quickly notice the general Korea>EU>NA trend in tournaments where all territories are represented in 2012 and 2013. We haven't had a recent international tournament and i'll give NA the benefit of a doubt. Again we'll see.
Fuck man the downtime is fucking bad :/
There are literally no real tournaments with crossover between EU and NA throughout this entire year. If you break down the teams statistically NA teams come out ahead of EU. The level of play is embarrassingly low in EU LCS. NA teams regularly pull in more viewers than EU so you're full of it either way.
k, lol mah bad