IPL4 Tops MLG To Biggest eSports Event Outside Of Korea

Written by: Jarrett Robertson (@_Caltu_) | April 17, 2012 4:01 pm

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IPL4 is now officially the highest viewed eSport event out side of Korea.

Bringing in over three million unique online viewers, six million hours of content was viewed with a peak of 346,000 concurrent online viewers.

This beats MLG’s numbers from last season where Providence only had 240,000 for its peak of online concurrent viewers and 3.6million hours of content viewed.

But was it all StarCraft 2?

No.

League Of Legends was the star of the show in Vegas at IPL4, on Twitch.tv there were over 200,000 online viewers at one point.

It is no lie that IPL4 was a monumental undertaking and it delivered, showing that League Of Legends is a force to be reckoned with.

With the latest MLG event at Columbus not having public numbers, this may be an empty announcement on IPLs part. Keep an eye out for a possible announcement, as MLG will always want to one-up their biggest competitor in the US.

These numbers from IPL are astounding.

If ever anyone doubted whether eSports is rising in popularity, these figures will blow their minds.

IPL4 Tops MLG To Biggest eSports Event Outside Of Korea

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djsjr

Sup netflix
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Quinn/504633100 Jason Quinn

netflix sellout what?
Sharuko

I saw the stat on Reddit, but how can it have more viewers than “The International” the DOTA2 event that Valve hosted that had like 1.5 million viewers.

Also, I don’t think MLG will push LoL more because I remember hearing Sundance saying he wants to push Blizzard DOTA. But who knows.
- ChristopherMitchell1
  
  DOTAWAAH? This DOTA2 thing… I don’t know what you are talking about lol
ChristopherMitchell1

lol netflix >.> But I was able to watch the LoL championship matches and enjoyed it very much! Didn’t even know (or care) that SC2 was at that event. GO TSM!!!
Tyler Woidan

Would LOVE more esports on Gamebreaker. Love the little LoL coverage that there is here already. Must… have… more!
Gerard Dellemann

Please notice that what helped LoL a lot is that the game itself promoted the IPL stream (ingame link). Simple and brilliant thing to do by Riot. Tbh Blizzard could learn a lot from the commercial mind of Riot.