More than two million viewers tuned in for the Evo 2011 World Finals last weekend, tournament organisers declared today.
In a news release sent out this afternoon, the finals, held July 29 to 31 at Las Vegas, recorded more than 2 million unique viewers on its Ustream.tv feed, serving more than 1.9 million hours of video content. Viewers tuned in for an average of 55 minutes each.
As further evidence of Evo 2011′s mainstream penetration, the names of the four finalists still alive on July 31 were all simultaneously trending topics among Twitter’s top 10 for that day, according to the news release.
SOX
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 1:43 PMesports
Reign
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 3:04 PMWell said.
gman
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 3:33 PMtoo bad australians were mostly working or at uni during the finals…
GmBH
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 3:48 PMI was streaming it a work with two colleges watching it with me. Amazing battles, I’m sad its over.
Grandmaster B-Funk
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 9:26 PMwas so devestated i missed the finals
but i agree that they are more popular now, i mean, this was the first one i watched and i loved it! i can’t wait for the next one!!