Considering his success story, though, I doubt he'll be too sad about that. What few know is that Winter has streamed consistently for well over a year before he has gotten any noticeable viewer numbers, and we can see here that those definitely hurt his average for the year. What may be more surprising is his #10 spot in the average viewer category.

It's probably not surprising to find Winter at the #1 spot in the viewers*hours category for 2014, considering he's been dominating the lists for the past few months.

Sure, he may have retired, but that did not stop him from staying the streamer with the highest average viewer count two years in a row. Either ranking has its advantages and disadvantages, and thus I present both.Р”Р‡or either table, I have a minimum required stream time of 5 hours to be included in the list. The latter table favors those that stream a lot, while the former table favors popular streamers regardless of how much they stream. One is sorted by the average viewers, the other is sorted by the average viewers times the hours streamed. The data I gather is then turned into the tables you see below. So, for instance when CatZ is streaming Dota2, it will not be taken into account. The tables also only contain Starcraft 2 related activities.

The tables only contain SC2 players (that is, streams of people playing games of Starcraft 2) and not casters, teams or other streams. For those of you who don't already know what this is about: I'm gathering various data (viewers, game, events, etc.) from all the streams that are presented on (those that you can in the sidebar to your right) and use that data to produce the pretty tables and graphs you see below.

November 11 2015 streamer showdown