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http://www.riftherald.com/2016/5/23/11746788/espn-riot-league-of-legends-broadcast-rights-500-million-dollars-lol-esports-twitch Reportedly, ESPN is closing in on a broadcasting contract for an eSports game worth 500 million US dollars. 
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Kibner posted:http://www.riftherald.com/2016/5/23/11746788/espn-riot-league-of-legends-broadcast-rights-500-million-dollars-lol-esports-twitch Correctly betting that people would rather watch call of duty than Big Ten football.
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It's League of Legends, not Call of Duty.
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The only video game I still play is NCAA Football 2012 so that was not an intentional trap but it seems like a good place to post "trap sprung" so trap sprung
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quote:It remains to be seen how the rights are worded and whether a switch to ESPN could cannibalize current broadcast partners online. The LCS accounts for almost 23 million hours of viewing time per week across YouTube, Twitch and LOL esports. Anyone have any idea how valuable 23 million hours per week for an international audience of teens and and 20-somethings is? I have no earthly idea or know anyway to find out.
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MourningView posted:The only video game I still play is NCAA Football 2012 so that was not an intentional trap but it seems like a good place to post "trap sprung" so trap sprung You root for Iowa so who's the real nerd here?
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I do find it funny that ESPN is doing this when they are cost cutting like hell. I'm not very convinced the audience watching eSports will go to ESPN instead of Twitch or whatever.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I do find it funny that ESPN is doing this when they are cost cutting like hell. I'm not very convinced the audience watching eSports will go to ESPN instead of Twitch or whatever. That's assuming it's not an exclusive broadcast rights deal or something. The contract hasn't even been officially agreed to so there is no knowing how any of it is structured.
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MourningView posted:Correctly betting that people would rather watch call of duty than Big Ten football. This is super depressing and entirely accurate.
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Kibner posted:Anyone have any idea how valuable 23 million hours per week for an international audience of teens and and 20-somethings is? I have no earthly idea or know anyway to find out. Yeah but what happens when those hours are longer split across four accessible platforms and go into whatever dogshit ESPN cooks up for it?
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eSports is a massively growing sector and everyone is gonna try to get in on it until the bubble collapses who knows when (if ever).
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Anals of History posted:This is super depressing and entirely accurate. That's much more a reflection of the football than the alternative.
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May 23, 2016 21:25
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Who the hell is watching someone play video games? I watch football and hockey because I can't actually do those things, whereas I can actually play video games. Might as well be watching a video of a guy walking down the street.
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May 23, 2016 22:54
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Old farts like missed when this happened, but watching other people play video games is huge now. No I don't get it either but whatever floats your boat.
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Sash! posted:Who the hell is watching someone play video games? I watch Rocket League but that's it. To be fair, the people that those watch are really really good at video games.
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Akileese posted:I watch Rocket League but that's it. To be fair, the people that those watch are really really good at video games. It's why EVO is fun as gently caress to watch on championship Sunday, and that they actually have an arena this year hopefully means it'll be beyond hype as gently caress.
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Sash! posted:Who the hell is watching someone play video games? Have you tried it? If the person is charismatic it can be fun.
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In a weird way, it's nice to see gameplay from someone who knows what they're doing rather than myself having to run around trying to find something or using a guide. But then again, most the games I own are sports games.
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Rick posted:Have you tried it? If the person is charismatic it can be fun. I watched SportsCenter for the first time in a while just now. Toronto beat Cleveland, SC was showing shots of happy, celebrating Canadians, and I'm always a sucker for that sort of thing. Then, despite having a crew on the court in Toronto, SC threw to Stephen A Smith in a Bristol studio, and I changed the channel. Loss leader garbage shouldn't anchor your programming, John Skipper.
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esports are cool and good, but who is gonna watch on espn when they can watch on youtube or twitch? if espn gets exclusives i'm pretty sure people will just watch some other stream
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I'd rather watch my friends be bad at video games in a living room than watch a bunch of supernerds compete on TV. I'll admit that that Daigo video where he parries everything with Chun-Li is the poo poo though.
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Sash! posted:Who the hell is watching someone play video games? Riot's presentation is better than any sports broadcast on Fox Sports 1. Again, this is not hyperbole. They have an Inside The NFL-type show, a fantasy show, pre-game, post game, and they sell out the Staples Center faster than any team in LA can. It's because they're extremely slickly produced competitions. They're sporting events, but instead of showing you something you think you can never do, they show you something you think you could maybe do. It taps the massive demographic of "people who play video games" which is everyone on the planet with electricity. This entire loving forum watches wrestling for 9 hours a week for some reason. It baffles me that watching something that has actual competitive stakes continues to be met with confusion.
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Also while I don't want to watch people playing video games either, my ability to play football relative to an NFL player probably isn't too far off from my ability to play video games relative to those dudes
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Sash! posted:Who the hell is watching someone play video games? Yea man how do you even get into playing hockey is there a secret club or something?
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Badfinger posted:Riot's presentation is better than any sports broadcast on Fox Sports 1. Again, this is not hyperbole. They have an Inside The NFL-type show, a fantasy show, pre-game, post game, and they sell out the Staples Center faster than any team in LA can. Okay, let me stop you right there. If ESPN got the rights to show this stuff, the only scenario is that the entire presentation would be about ESPN, just like they do for Monday Night Football. That's one of the biggest complaints about ESPN's MNF - NBC presents football in a way that shows off football, ESPN presents football in a way that is designed to show off ESPN. The presentation would be changed for the sake of making it more about ESPN, regardless of what the actual presentation is now. There'd be a lot of cross-branding promotion, commentary designed around people that have never played a video game in their life, and Stephen A Smith self-promotionally yelling about nothing. It's ESPN. This is ESPN's entire content strategy, regardless of what they show.
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ESPN is significantly better at actually broadcasting games than just about anyone else. I'll agree NBC's NFL broadcast is better but a lot of that is the respective slate of games they get. It's easier to make it all about football when you have the best game every week. I'll take ESPN's college sports coverage over anyone else doing it by a mile.
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the talent deficit posted:esports are cool and good, but who is gonna watch on espn when they can watch on youtube or twitch? if espn gets exclusives i'm pretty sure people will just watch some other stream Sash! posted:Who the hell is watching someone play video games?
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Even if there's "good" demand for eSports, no loving way is there $500 million for one game demand.
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Up Circle posted:Yea man how do you even get into playing hockey is there a secret club or something? 
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AsInHowe posted:Okay, let me stop you right there. I don't disagree with you, but I was addressing why someone would watch a video game, not why someone would watch it on ESPN or if ESPN is smart to buy coverage rights. quote:Even if there's "good" demand for eSports, no loving way is there $500 million for one game demand. I would be willing to bet the demand in total ad revenue etc is actually significantly higher than 500m over whatever 5-7 years, but probably not on ESPN. You'd miss the market outside of North America, which is very large.
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It's fascinating to watch people transform from cool, hip youngsters to cranky old men before my very eyes. (I don't understand e-sports either)
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Discussion of why watch a video game aside, Riot and ESPN both say there's no deal in the works. http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/23/espn-league-of-legends-riot-games-no-talks/ quote:"The story is inaccurate -- no active talks with ESPN at the moment," the Riot spokesperson said.
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Harlock posted:All I want is a dedicated chat box on ESPN2 spamming Kappa in prime time television. Among other things. If anyone can outracist Twitch chat, it'd probably be ESPN eSport chat.
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MourningView posted:ESPN is significantly better at actually broadcasting games than just about anyone else. I'll agree NBC's NFL broadcast is better but a lot of that is the respective slate of games they get. It's easier to make it all about football when you have the best game every week. I'll take ESPN's college sports coverage over anyone else doing it by a mile. Yeah, Fox is embarrassingly bad at college football production when you start to go past their A team. Even if ESPN isn't showing a game on anything but online they put effort into it.
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