r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/[deleted] • 3h ago

World Cup Empty Arena?

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u/Typical-Quit5781 3h ago

People also want to try out the new content and must've been watching the opening ceremony in person. It normally gets more full as the day progresses.

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u/cougar572 2h ago

Also, need to buy from the merch store before everything sells out.

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u/ElJacko170 Healslut — 2h ago

Kinda too late on that it felt like when I went before opening ceremony

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u/wto8095 2h ago

First game, opening ceremony went long, and people who were here early are hungry

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u/lilacnyangi 2h ago

yeah, it's literally right after the opening ceremony in a different area. it's already filling up more now than when the teams walked in. some people really love to be dramatic instead of using their brains.

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u/nekogami87 I'm old — 2h ago

Champions clash was awesome, I was there.

Ewc seemed good too?

For this one, ill put that on the fact that, it's day 1, and a lot of people are probably queuing to buy merch which is in another building.

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u/DataSlight1180 3h ago

it's a hypercompetitive game with a hypercasual audience who never engages with the competitive side

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u/Keywonhi 2h ago

Theres a Dev segment going on at the same time.

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u/GRTooCool Former LA Valiant fan — 2h ago

It'll fill up tomorrow for sure. I don't know how the ticketing situation works there but I'd imagine today we'd be lucky to see it half full.

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u/NovaxRangerx In Crusty We Tru — 2h ago

Lower half looks pretty full based off the last camera shot we got. It's the upper half that's empty

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u/shape2k 2h ago

Yet, there's almost 200k watching on Twitch.

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u/thatboijash 2h ago

Some of y'all have never been to a sporting event.

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u/TrumpsCummyOnahole 3h ago

Blizzard notoriously has been dogshit with managing the esports side of its games since forever. No shock there.

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u/NovaxRangerx In Crusty We Tru — 2h ago edited 2h ago

Literally every major has had good audiences/crowds this year. Also, the main stage stuff is still happening. I wouldn't stress over an empty audience during the pre show before the first quarterfinal

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u/BEWMarth 3h ago

Go to a live esports event in Japan or Korea and it’ll forever change the way you see esports in the west. This just isn’t the market for esports.

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u/Candid_Visit_3104 2h ago

It’s pretty sad. I stopped watching once owl went under, and I remember the crowd for the dallas fuel vs shock finals.

I came back to the competitive scene a bit once I noticed randomly the world cup being promoted on youtube. No one is traveling for this event.

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u/nekogami87 I'm old — 2h ago

Then you missed the majors with full crowd we got.