The World´s Most Watched Biannual Sporting Event is This Weekend

Cool man. I'll be watching basketball.

you must have been on your phone and it auto corrected Spain to The World

you can go edit your post so it's accurate.

Barca all the way baby

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The World

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The World´s Most Watched Sporting Event is This Weekend

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Clermont vs Toulon

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Annual Sporting Event

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Not once per year, but twice a year (sometimes four times a year)

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When and what channel?

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I suggest you do some research. Hint: give me your best Superbowl viewing numbers.

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are you seriously going to sit here and tell me that a game between two spanish teams is more watched than finals in the world cup? look that up.

I understand they estimate somewhere around 400 million watch this game, which i find hard to believe considering half the world is sleeping when it airs and in the US you need a channel that maybe 2% of the country has on their cable lineup, and when i say cable line up i'm not being accurate b/c beIN is only carried by Directv and Dish and it's not part of any normal package. You have to pay extra for it.
so if china isn't watching (sleeping, don't care), india isn't watching (sleeping, don't care), the usa isn't watching (don't care), indonesia isn't watching (sleeping, don't care), pakistan isn't watching (sleeping, don't care), Russia (starting to fall asleep, taking over Ukraine) isn't watching, where are they getting 400-500 million viewers from?

i would have to think that the Mexicans and Brazilians must be the ones bumping this up.
Of the top 13 most populated countries in the world, they are the only two (brazil and mexico), well, and Nigeria, that are awake to watch it. over 57% (is what those top 13 countries not including Nigeria, brazil and mexcio make up) of the world is sleeping, with the US not caring enough to contribute much.
Not one place gave a number a viewers from the usa in the past. based on the fact that you have to have beIN to watch it, and very little do, i can't see how we factor in there.

i would just like to see where they get there numbers from. Just seems far-fetched to me for a game that has little meaning on the outcome.
Hell i follow soccer and didn't know they were playing this weekend.