By Darren Allan
Blizzard’s pro gaming Overwatch League finally kicked off a week ago today, and quickly accrued a good deal of viewers – in fact, the first week of play witnessed over 10 million esports fans spectating the matches.
Games took place on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday last week, and the 10 million viewing figure includes all streaming services and everyone who watched around the globe, from Twitch viewers, to international partners such as Panda TV (a Chinese rival to Twitch), as reported by Gamespot.
This is the number of devices streaming the games, mind you, so the actual viewer tally was likely a fair bit higher, given that in some cases, multiple people would probably have been watching the action on one device.
The most-watched game was the match between Dallas Fuel and Seoul Dynasty on the first day of the league, which hit 437,000 peak concurrent streams on Twitch and Activision’s MLG. Seoul Dynasty emerged victorious 2-1.
Seoul success
In fact, with the week two matches underway today, Seoul Dynasty has bagged another victory, and is currently top of the league standings with an undefeated 3-0 record.
There’s good news for British Overwatch fans as well, as the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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