The Overwatch League "reached 10 million unique viewers across all platforms and an average of 280,000 viewers per minute on Twitch and MLG during its opening week," Blizzard announced on Wednesday, according to Jacob Wolf of ESPN.com. The league's opening day, Jan. 10, "saw the most significant web traffic of the four-day event." The peak concurrent viewer count was 437,000 on Twitch and MLG alone during a match between the Dallas Fuel and the Seoul Dynasty -- formerly Team EnVyUs and Lunatic-Hai, respectively. Blizzard said that opening day saw an average of 408,000 viewers per minute on Twitch and MLG, "which is more than Amazon's first livestream of Thursday Night Football at 372,000 viewers per 30 seconds in September and Twitter's inaugural Thursday Night Football event" in '16, which "boasted an average of 243,000 viewers per minute." The league was broadcast in four different languages -- English, Chinese, Korean and French -- on six different platforms: Twitch, MLG, ZhanQi TV, NetEase CC, Panda TV and its own Overwatch League website (ESPN.com, 1/17).
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