Just how many people watch the GSL?

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The BoxeR Effect

Just over 48 hours ago StarCraft 1 legend SlayerS_BoxeR played his first games in a GSL event, his participation has had a huge effect around the globe and millions of people are hearing about the game.

When the match went live so many people wanted to watch that GOMTV and many other famous StarCraft sites couldn't handle the load. The below image shows that 774,866 people were logged in at one point, and that's just the Korean side.

Source: Team Liquid

Since then the Korean VOD has had over 1.1 million views.

With the English VOD is sitting in just over 100,000 views.

We're not sure exactly how many people tuned into the English stream but the most popular (known) re-stream had over 13,000 viewers at one point.

Just how many people watch the GSL?

This totals just over 2,000,000 views of one match in 48 hours, without considering how many people watched the official English live stream and the numbers continue to rise by thousands every hour.

The GSL is proving to be a massive success and with the return of BoxeR it is obvious that the Korean crowds are being drawn in. As he continues his efforts in the round of 32 we can only imagine how big the numbers will get.