Current Events > Overwatch Grand Finals viewership average was 860,000. Is that good?

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known2FAIL
07/31/18 2:59:27 PM
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https://twitter.com/slasher/status/1024360587135016961?s=21

Blizzard is reports that the average concurrent live viewership for the OWL finals was over 860,000. This includes all streaming platforms worldwide including China (Twitch, MLG, PandaTV, NetEase) and linear TV (ESPN) combined.


A few things. This includes streaming and prime time ESPN. This also includes China.

This was the inargural season (1st ever season) of professional Overwatch. This is my first Esport I really got into. I heard other Esports pull numbers that make this look small. However those are really popular and well established Esports. 860,000 still sounds good but China might be heavily inflating those numbers. I don't know how hardcore China is with Esports.

So.. is an average viewer count of 860,000 for the Season finals good?
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iClockwork
07/31/18 3:01:19 PM
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No league had something around 32 million viewers for its finals.
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Doe
07/31/18 3:02:43 PM
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Didn't Blizzard like force comp Overwatch into existence by pouring millions upon millions of dollars into teams
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halomonkey1_3_5
07/31/18 3:06:42 PM
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Doe posted...
Didn't Blizzard like force comp Overwatch into existence by pouring millions upon millions of dollars into teams

yes

but they also planned it that way from the beginning, because they didn't want to risk it turning into comp TF2
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