Total championshiper viewer informaiton

aWildFizzAppears·Oct 20, 2014·1 votes·483 views

Like the post from riot last here seen in the link below, how soon can we expect this years stats to be posted? I looked and couldn't find them yet.

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/esports/esports-editorial/one-world-championship-32-million-viewers

3 Comments

2pudge1cupOct 21, 20141 votes

Why does it matter? They will just fudge numbers again. I mean if you believe that 32 million figure I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

aWildFizzAppearsOct 21, 20141 votes

Why does it matter? They will just fudge numbers again. I mean if you believe that 32 million figure I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

How is that unreasonable considering how popular esports are in korea and china?

2pudge1cupOct 22, 20141 votes

Because 32 million is beyond what actual sporting finals like Stanley Cup, World Series, etc. get. Only ones that get beyond that value is world cup/superbowl.

Esports are popular in Asia but still have a long long way to go to reach real sports. Numbers that high are just idiotic. Maybe 10%, 20% tops of those reported numbers could be believable.

Besides, if those viewer numbers were true, we'd be seeing riot make $200k for a ~15 second ad spot on it. And the ads wouldn't be for some small potato company gamer headphones/mousepad. They would be for apple, microsoft, google, etc.

People tend to have this with large numbers. They lump things together that are in fact orders of magnitude apart because a big number = a big number. That is far from the case.