Seventeen League of Legends champions die for every baby that is born, and many other crazy facts put just how big a game this online multiplayer is into perspective.
League of Legends certainly has a huge presence online, with a robust and enthusiastic competitive community, too. But I bet you never thought one livestreamed competition could bring in as many viewers as four times the population of Lichtenstein, Germany.
This video debuts a new series being hosted on Machinima, called “Graphic Content.” It’s like an infographic, but animated.
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Lichtenstein is a country, not in Germany. Also, that video just demonstrates how rapidly the world’s population is expanding, rather than how many LoL players are dying each second.
How is “gragas” “gar-gas”?
Dota 2 international finals had more than 500k in 2012 and Lichtenstein is not a part of Germany, it is a discrete country.
thats a personal streaming record. the s2 finale had millions of viewers.
567k concurrent viewers for the grand finals of The International 2, a game that’s technically not even released yet. LoL had millions of viewers ACROSS the duration of the tournament like Dota 2. It peaked at around 1 million concurrent but its playerbase is far bigger so more Dota players were watching as a proportion of their entire playerbase. LoL also had TV broadcasts in Korea and China – Dota 2 did not. All in all both games pull in lots of viewers but I find LoL more boring to watch and the S2 finals were disappointing compared to TI2 due to all the technical issues and cheating.