Over 400,000 viewers tuned into the Overwatch League on its first day

Tweeting final night time in regards to the first day of the occasion, Goldhaber stated:

Overwatch League has peaked over 415okay viewers. On Day 1. #OWL2018

— Ben Goldhaber (@FishStix) January 11, 2018

Particularly spectacular about these numbers was that the video games had been going down at fairly unfriendly EU hours, but the streams nonetheless introduced in huge viewer figures. For occasion, on the English stream, the height numbers through the first match was 387,000.

These numbers additionally don’t embody Chinese viewers, anybody watching on the MLG stream, or folks watching on the official cellphone app. Considering the MLG stream and cellphone app produce a better high quality, increased bitrate feed, that might imply there are lots of further viewers we aren’t capable of observe.

The numbers additionally held fairly regular by the night time, with the English stream solely going as little as 275,000 – when Dallas Fuel had been getting stomped by the Shanghai Dragons.

It’s not such a shock the occasion attracted so many eyeballs, the Overwatch League has had an enormous PR push during the last 24 hours. Still, it’s an ideal begin to the brand new occasion and it’s set a excessive watermark for subsequent days to goal for.