32 million people watched League of Legends Season 3 World Championships

It's astounding how this simple game that's fairly new (2009) has took the gaming world by storm, props Riot.

Hmm, these numbers seem high , so where did all these people watch the final? because on twitch it never got above i think it was around 300-500k and half of those numbers were bots. and the rest was some active and others just idling in the room.

Still its nice numbers but unconfirmed numbers are just unconfirmed.

It never ceases to amaze me how many actual gamers are so hesitant to acknowledge e-sports as a thing that people are interested in. Just because it's not considered a real sport, which is fine... It doesn't fit into the same category as physical sports. But they are still highly competitive and not everyone who has ever picked up a controller in their life can do the things these pro gamers can, it takes an enormous amount of skill and mastery of your craft... Just like real sports. Well, whatever. good for LoL and the e-sports scene... I'm not a LoL player or even a viewer of e-sports but none the less this is very impressive. It's a shame more gamers aren't too supportive of this stuff, because I can see this as the kind of thing that helps gaming come out to the masses as not just something that's for losers or a waste of time, but something that people can dedicate their lives to without fear of being looked down upon by the average non-gamer. Just like pro athletes.

In Korea?

that's crazy. Not the game, but that's huge. Some real life sports dont even get that attention now.

It would be really cool if these championships were a whole season long and toured the world, id love to be in the crowd for a dota match

Its funny how ignorant and arrogant people are, you dont have to like league infact you can hate it if you got nothing but negitive shit to say why bother saying it. Only reason people have to comment and put in there 2 cents they have to feel there opinion means something when it means nothing at all. You dont have to like something to respect what they've achieved, its just like sports where people are like oh i hate the patriots or i hate this sports star etc its like do you know them personally what u hate them over a game oh what u hate them cause u live somewhere and thats not where you live. Its so pathetic

That's crazy.

I don't even follow this gaming league stuff at all.

Wonder what all the fuss is about...

I'm not a big eSports person, but I do enjoy watching the LOL/DOTA championships. The high level pros do some crazy stuff sometimes and the teamwork makes it interesting. Plus it's all a top down view, so you can easily tell what's going one (vs. watching FPS multiplayer games that are hard to spectate).

I'm not going to start buying gamer jerseys or live tickets, but to me it's more entertaining than watching baseball. To each their own, I say.

ultra face-palm

It would be wanderful to see where they got all these views from, it certainly wasn't from any public streaming site, and measuring how many people watched on TV is not only difficult as it mostly relies on surveys, but unlikely as you would assume fans of this would be on their far more convenaint computers....

Sorry, but I do not see where these several million views came from, they are either lying or have mixed up some numbers at some point.

It's true no matter how much people on gamespot like to bash and troll (which is a lot of people). Dota 2 got a crap load of views for the finals as well.

To answer the question as to why more league of legends players aren't spamming this forum... reddit. Almost all league of legends player comment there, not forums like this where it is full of CoD noobs and console fanboys. It is just a waste of time because no matter what anyone says, some troll will come and shit talk them.

I don't believe this at all.

Ehhh? 32 mils? You would think there would be a lot more excitement in this thread... but noooo.. just a few little birds chirping..

I remember Dota 2 and that fucking Compendium crap. Yeah thanks Valve, I love looking at nerdy Asians, thanks for giving me pointless card drops every time I play a game. An to think that peoples purchases actually paid at least half their prize money. Foolish people. This is why game watching is bad. An yeah, enjoy Twitch an shit like that on your Xbones.

Sports is different. People train hard to become athletes and sportsmen and it takes great physical effort. Whilst it isn't as mentally challenging, put one of those nerds on a field an they'll be crying it's too cold. Oh no wait a second, by << LINK REMOVED >> 's reasoning anybody who watches drama on TV must then become an actor/actress, or a murderer, or a super hero, etc etc

32 Million people sat around to watch people play a video games when they could have used that time to play a game them selves or have used that time to do something meaningful, what a bunch of losers.

I guess if you've ever tried watching streams on Twitch then you probably just assume all things like this suck. Well let me tell you guys, these games are intense and pretty interesting. I just hate the new in-house apps coming to to next gen consoles that will have everyone and their brother streaming their boring, skill-less matches. But there will always be events like this where you can watch some actual matches of skill and strategy.

32 million souls with less of a life than me.