WatchESPN is down during the National Championship and fans are losing their minds
By Devin Keller
When all you want to do is watch the College Football National Championship and your main source isn’t working, you get fired up.
The day is finally here and you’re ready to watch the biggest game of the season, the CFP Championship Game. All you have to do is open up your WatchESPN app and you’re set to go. However, that isn’t necessarily working for the match up tonight. The fans are getting noticeably angry at this malfunction and we’re here for the best reactions.
#WatchESPN if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it? Or just let it slip?
— David Sons (@dsons) January 9, 2018
It’s the second one. You’re doing the second one.#CFPNationalChampionship pic.twitter.com/r3TFjT0LiI
Indeed. It seems like the one thing that people want to work out of the week doesn’t seem to be working. That has to be the most frustrating aspect of sports, not being able to view it when you have the access.
@espn. Retweet if #WatchESPN ruined the #CollegeFootballPlayoff for you.
— Chris Lirot (@canadiangtr) January 9, 2018
We’re all here for you. Most of the country has been affected by this disaster of a failure on the app’s part. The biggest stage of the year can’t be viewed by those who have access to the WatchESPN app they so desperately need in times of desperate measures to catch some final football action of the 2017 season.
@Espn your “WatchESPN” app might be the most useless product on FireTV. Constant freezing and crashing. Happens all of the time - only app that does this pic.twitter.com/DtfowyLJDM
— DH15 (@DHeald15) January 9, 2018
#NationalChampionship ESPN should bow out of future broadcast rights - #watchespn app is an epic failure
— Greg Ransone (@islandad) January 9, 2018
Live look at the watchESPN app pic.twitter.com/Mj4EOPTaoH
— ÅŁÊX (parody) (@ahonz91) January 9, 2018
Words like garbage, disaster, and just simply bad can describe the annoying freezes, malfunctions, failures and awful loading times that this app consists of. Again, when the biggest games are on, it seems like nothing works for this app. Now, these failures are obviously caused by the overflow of traffic because of the overwhelming popularity of a game like the National Championship of college football. However, with how big of a network ESPN is, you’d think they’d figure it out.
That is not necessarily the case. These fans are trying to watch the biggest game of the year and can not seem to access it. The ones that can experience freezes and unknown error pop-ups that drive you absolutely insane. With the obvious outrage of tonight, the tweets sure do make up for all the frustration coming out of the WatchESPN app. There truly are some very funny people out there on Twitter.
That feeling when you're trying to watch the #NationalChampionship on #WatchESPN app. pic.twitter.com/kr4EVqL29d
— Jeremy Lewis (@imjeremylewis) January 9, 2018
We send our condolences to those trying to watch Alabama and Georgia on WatchESPN and are unable to fully enjoy the viewing experience.