IPL6 officially cancelled, IGN's official statement

rip esports

Mike I love you BibleThump

their professionalism sucks... watch their news videos and watch how all of the cast besides ross stumble on their words, they don't care for the material they're reporting on etc.

"and we thank every one of the millions of people who tuned in to our events and coverage over that time."

Millions? Really? That's an honest question. What exactly attracted millions of people to IPL events?

Jerks

@4

probably the other games. and what you quoted said "tuned in", which covers stream viewers.

weak

Sucks for the people who bought plane tickets.

lol @ frauds leaving fgc for that.

@6, actually I WAS referring to streaming views. EVO reaches about 100K views and I'm guessing IPL had other more popular games that attracted more viewers than most FG tourneys. But still, I hardly think that all IPL events combined over the course of 2 years broke 2 million views. If they did, they wouldn't have to cancel. That's actually what I find strange.

Did anyone ever take IPL seriously? God knows I didn't.

@10 if you combine all their video views from all 4 of their twitch channels , you get a total of 161,797,638 views.

@12 wow, that is indeed pretty high. I guess they were much more active than I thought. Thanks for the info.

Rofl Capcom nice choice in partnering with IPL.

for real wtf Capcom... are they really saying they're done?

@10
Evo get's 100,000 views? Where is that statistic from? I remember last Evo getting well over a million unique views. Unless that's somehow a different statistic.

@16,

What #10 was talking about was concurrent viewers.

@16 I think evo hit 100k simultaneous views during marvel top 8

total views was probably much higher

Yes, I was referring to the highest # of views per session, but I wouldn't say "millions" of views because a) 100K is the highest they get per session and that's only top 8 of the big events, and b) adding up the number of views throughout the tournament would be inaccurate because for all we know, those could be the same viewers, that only ever max out at 100,000 unique viewers. Saying it's "millions" of viewers would be a gross misrepresentation. Only big sporting events can attract that kind of viewership, not esports, and certainly not fighting games, at least not yet.

Well, this is what happens when Capcom finally gets into IPL: It shuts down. I mean, the causes were because IGN got bought out, but still, that's some shoddy luck.

Does this mean no more Mike Ross neighborhood? Because that is seriously the most tragic of all news.

@10 What's the use of getting 2 million stream monsters who are happy with their free stream? And when they made 1 million bucks in losses from their last event?

@10 What's the use of getting 2 million stream monsters who are happy with their free stream? And when they made 1 million bucks in losses from their last event?

Final Round Killed IPL

Awww man, the fighting game content was REALLY REALLY entertaining! Such a waste to see it go so soon :(

Only 3/4 months ago did this seem like amazing progress for fighting games
Matt Dahlgren interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HK0CC...
and I think nearly everyone can agree it going to be great to have that level of exposure and what it could bring to fighting games outside of the community, so I personally find this all to be bullcrap on IGNs part.
Ab-so-lute WANK!

"Now there are more tournaments than ever before competing for people's time and attention, so we're no longer in a position to commit the resources required to run another major independent event."

This is evasive and dishonest language. They had already committed to it, and then decided not to do it, leaving a lot of people in the lurch.

This new owner just doesn't care and/or doesn't know wtf they're doing.

Then again, they made massive losses on the first street fighter event, so maybe it's not very profitable...or something.

Just look on the bright side. Now top players don't have to choose between this and Final Round.

Far as i heard no fighting games were headlining ipl6