https://capcomprotour.com/street-fighter-v-evo-2017-finals-viewership-ever-fgc-event/
Despite its flaws I'm glad it's doing well in the FGC and continuing to grow a scene that's come so far from basically nothing. Again, a massive congratulations to Tokido for such a great performance!
Nearly 5 million viewers tuned in to watch an all-time great Street Fighter V final at Evolution Championship Series 2017. The finals aired on ESPN2 for the second year in a row and Disney XD for the first time, garnering an estimated total viewership of 3.1 million. Twitchs total unique viewership of 1.65 million brings the overall number to 4.75 million, the largest ever for an FGC event.
Nine different characters were used in top 8 -- Dhalsim, Chun-Li, Guile, Rashid, Zangief, Cammy, Karin, Nash, and Akuma. The players got to show off some ingenious technology with their respective characters in the highly entertaining finals. Some of the highlights of the finals were ECHO FOX|Tokido versus SPLYCE|Filipino Champ and DTN|Itabashi Zangief and Moke in nail-biting sets as they played for their tournament lives in the losers bracket.
Last year, Street Fighter V Evo 2016 finals averaged an estimated 201,000 viewers, with a total of 1.95 million unique viewers on the ESPN2 live broadcast. On average, a minimum of 271,000 people watched the Evo 2017 finals on ESPN2 and Disney XD. That estimate combined with the 216,000 max concurrent viewers on Twitch brings the total max concurrent viewership to well over 500,000 viewers. This is even more impressive considering that the Evo Street Fighter V tournament was broadcasted during the same time slot as the Season 7 premiere of HBOs Game of Thrones.
More people watched Street Fighter V at Evo 2017 than any other event but in case you missed out on the action, you can watch the re-airing of the Street Fighter V Top 8 Finals this Sunday, 8/6/17 at 6pm PST on Disney XD.
By: Michael Martin.
Despite its flaws I'm glad it's doing well in the FGC and continuing to grow a scene that's come so far from basically nothing. Again, a massive congratulations to Tokido for such a great performance!