Impact on LoL World Championship Broadcast?…Naver Major Services Experiencing Service Disruption

[Asia Economy Reporter Seungjin Lee] Many Naver services experienced outages on the afternoon of the 6th. Some services were restored to normal after 5 hours.

According to the IT industry on the 6th, from around 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM that day, access disruptions occurred in Naver Shopping, Smart Store, Maps, News, Webtoon (Series), NOW., Blog, eSports, and others.

Most service disruptions were resolved within an hour, but the eSports service experienced outages for nearly 5 hours.

The outage is presumed to have been caused by an excessive number of users accessing Naver eSports to watch the '2022 League of Legends (LoL) World Championship (Worlds)' broadcasted by Naver eSports.

Naver stated in a notice, "From 11:47 AM for about 5 hours, access delays occurred in Naver Game eSports and Lounge due to increased traffic, and all services have now been restored to normal. We apologize once again for the inconvenience caused by the service disruption."

On the same day, Naver eSports broadcasted the 4th set of the Worlds finals starting around 1:00 PM, during which approximately 200,000 users accessed simultaneously.

At that time, fans and reporters watching the Worlds online via Naver switched to other broadcasters, AfreecaTV and Twitch, to continue watching the broadcast when Naver's stream went down.

A Naver official commented on the error, "The more users a service has, the more bottlenecks occur. It appears that the traffic concentrated on Naver eSports Worlds affected the service. There was no other event that caused such a significant traffic surge during that time."

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