NYDailyNews.com Article on the RedBull LAN and Esports.

[MrChaosTheory]

NYDailyNews.com:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/arts/2011/06/29/2011-06-29_professional_video_gamers_build_community_playi ng_halo_reach_for_big_money_prize.html

However I do find that the quoted callouts seem a little unlikely.

Interesting to see the outside perspective on Esports:

"It sounds like a joke, but e-sports are attracting a lot of attention. Major League Gaming reports that a record-breaking 22.5 million people from 164 countries watched the most recent tournament in Columbus, Ohio."

Also can I add that MLG never worded it "people" it was streams served. Which I'm sure includes refreshed and multiple streams viewed by one person. Similarly at the Red Bull LAN they report over 1.5 million views; although when I watched the viewer count never seemed to be over a thousand.

Anyway its great news to hear Esports outside of Korea is growing ever more popular and generating a lot of interest.

[Briimstone]

Yea i saw this earlier, great find. Also, when I was watching the Red Bull LAN, the viewer count always seemed to be around 3000-4000, I'm not quite sure when you were watching that you only saw 1000.

[MrChaosTheory]

Yea i saw this earlier, great find. Also, when I was watching the Red Bull LAN, the viewer count always seemed to be around 3000-4000, I'm not quite sure when you were watching that you only saw 1000.

In fairness to RedBull the only time I specifically looked was when they mentioned the views were over 1.5 million, at which point it was around a thousand.

Even so 3000-4000 to over 1.5 million is a rather large jump...

[MS eMeRaLd]

In fairness to RedBull the only time I specifically looked was when they mentioned the views were over 1.5 million, at which point it was around a thousand.

Even so 3000-4000 to over 1.5 million is a rather large jump...

Yeah i don't recall seeiing the view count over a few thousand, but i was watching live so maybe they were talking about views after a rebroadcast showing???

[MrChaosTheory]

They announced on the live stream. So unless they tallied the previous days video views aswell, I doubt it.

[MS eMeRaLd]

They announced on the live stream. So unless they tallied the previous days video views aswell, I doubt it.

Who the hell knows then.

[MrChaosTheory]

Pic from Adrenaline:

http://campl.us/b3l7

[MS eMeRaLd]

HaHa, that's so sweet. Shows how far gaming has come.

[Eamonn]

Pretty sure they meant 1.5 million hits on the site in total. Or individual hits.

edit: yeah thats what they meant. I just went to the jtv stream and it has 1,550,000 views.

[H3NRI3]

Great find!