Joey Cuellar has happily reported on his Twitter feed that ESPN2’s broadcast of the Street Fighter V Grand Finals for Evo 2016, from the Mandalay Bay Event Center, reached the eyes of 1,946,000 individual viewers.
EVO World Championships on ESPN reached 1,946,000 unique people with an average of 20 minutes! #Evo2016 #ESPN2
— Joey Cuellar (@MrWiz) August 1, 2016
He also clarified how the previously reported 201K figure refers to the average viewership, not unique viewers.
@mannyanekal @BearUNLV the 201k is the average amount. These numbers are from ESPN internal.
— Joey Cuellar (@MrWiz) August 1, 2016
Manny Anekal offered congratulations for the popularity of the event, and some comparative perspective on how successful the Street Fighter V broadcast was:
@MrWiz @BearUNLV Put it more simply – #Evo2016 was comparable with a @MLB regular season game! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/72x72/1f3ae.png" alt="