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In terms of viewership, most conventional sports esports
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EA claims that viewership for the Madden 20 Club Championship is on par with totals for the Madden 19 Club Championship, but wouldn't disclose specific numbers since monitoring for its linear TV broadcast has not yet been completed. The tournament was mostly broadcast on line on Twitch. Throughout the Madden 19 Bowl tournament before this year, but the esport generated over 2.5 million viewpoints and a peak audience of 97,000 audiences. The peak amount of viewers symbolized a six-fold increase, based on EA.
The NFL in an email said that it is only at the halfway point of their Madden Championship Series season, but early indications indicate that the changes made to the esport league's major calendar have been favorable for audiences and players alike. "We are looking forward to the upcoming tournaments aligned to both the Super Bowl and draft to complete our assessment and understand the full effect of this change."
Still, while viewership of all Madden competitions is rising, it stays well behind other esports games that are popular. Fortnite game developer Epic Games said in August that the Fortnite World Cup Finals peaked at 2.3 million viewers around YouTube and Twitch. Meanwhile, the DOTA 2 racked in 1.9 million parallel viewers because of its The International 2019 team competition last summer.
"In terms of viewership, most conventional sports esports are a portion of what titles such as League of Legends and Counter-Strike get," explained Will Partin, director of research at Power Play, a video game and esports consulting bureau. "But it is important to comprehend that Madden is carefully incorporated into the wider NFL ecosystem. Major sports leagues seem at esports not as standalone money-making entities, but initiatives for deepening fans' link to football, basketball, etc.."
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