This year's Classic has created a boom in Taiwan.

(File photo, photo by reporter Liao Yaodong)

[Sports Center/Comprehensive Report] This year’s classic game is the most successful since it was held for 5 times. The US magazine Forbes listed data today, including ratings, attendance, and merchandise sales. record high.

The report pointed out that the total number of spectators for this classic competition was 1,306,414, which is the largest number of participants since its inception in 2006. Compared with the previous 2017, the number of spectators increased by 20%.

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Viewership was also at record levels on TV and streaming, with 42.4 percent of Japanese households watching the championship match against the United States despite the game being played at 8 a.m. on Wednesday in Japan.

In addition, the quarter-final match between Japan and Italy had an audience rating of 48.7% in Japan, making it the highest-rated game in the history of the classic.

According to major league data, three of the four most-watched games in Classic history have come this year.

(The other one is the 2006 Japanese championship game against Cuba)

In addition, this classic also set a record for ratings in the United States, which is 69% higher than the peak ratings in 2017.

When Shohei Otani struck out his Angels teammate Mike Trout, the audience reached the highest peak of 6.506 million.

Japan vs. Mexico and the US vs. Cuba, the two semi-final games, are the most watched games in the US this year.

The average number of viewers was 2.403 million, an increase of 96% compared with the same period last year.

The report also said that in addition to Japan and the United States, ratings records have been broken in many countries this year, including Taiwan (151% growth in ratings and ranking first), Mexico (103% growth) in second place, and Canada (up 44%), South Korea (up 36%) in fourth, Puerto Rico in fifth (up 11%)

In terms of peripheral product sales, the turnover of products purchased through "MLBShop.com" and "Fanatics" also surpassed 2017 to become the highest in history, with a growth rate of 149%.

In Taiwan's Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium, Japan's Tokyo Dome, Phoenix Chase Stadium and Miami's Loan Depot Stadium, the sales of peripheral merchandise at these four stadiums have all hit record highs in competition history, more than 100% higher than in 2017.

According to the report, the key to the overall success of this year's classic is the dramatic tension of this year's competition.

The competition was broadcast in 163 countries and regions, with 63 different media partners covering the competition in 13 languages.

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