The author of the original industrygamers.com article clarifies that it is the second most watched livestream on livestream.com
The livestream.com viewership record for the royal wedding was 300,000 simultaneous viewers and 2 million uniques.
The dota 2 live stream for gamescom was hosted on the valve steam servers, and was reported to have 1.5 million simultaneous viewers (with about 1.2 million viewers from china)
dreamhack has also broken this 300k simultaneous viewer mark as well (albeit over multiple games)
You didn't mention the fact that you need to be careful with your searing totem usage for Magmatron's shield. You can easily end up breaking the shield with your searing totem + other random people's dots causing a wipe if you don't recall it early at 55-56%
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Sep 13th 2011 11:32PM (Joystiq)The livestream.com viewership record for the royal wedding was 300,000 simultaneous viewers and 2 million uniques.
The dota 2 live stream for gamescom was hosted on the valve steam servers, and was reported to have 1.5 million simultaneous viewers (with about 1.2 million viewers from china)
dreamhack has also broken this 300k simultaneous viewer mark as well (albeit over multiple games)
sources:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/30/royal-wedding-livestream-breaks-hearts-records/
https://www.facebook.com/joinDOTA/posts/247700551931398
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