ARCADE

a film by Kurt Vincent and Irene Chin
EVO first day impressions: I’m speechless. I remember last year EVO’s grand-finals stream had 16,000 viewers. And the stream crashed. I remember watching my first Starcraft II tournament stream at 8 in the morning EST and it had 50,000 viewers. I was stunned, I felt hurt for the fighting game community. I wondered if it could ever grow to the heights of other prospering video game communities. But today, at 4 in the afternoon on a weekday, on the first day, during pool play, the viewership has more than doubled from last year grand-finals! I say more than, because that screen grab is only one of the streams! There’s a second stream with 8,00 viewers! I can’t quite describe how amazing it feels to see the fighting game community grow, all I can say is that I can’t think of anything else I’d rather watch right now than EVO. -Reed

EVO first day impressions: I’m speechless. I remember last year EVO’s grand-finals stream had 16,000 viewers. And the stream crashed. I remember watching my first Starcraft II tournament stream at 8 in the morning EST and it had 50,000 viewers. I was stunned, I felt hurt for the fighting game community. I wondered if it could ever grow to the heights of other prospering video game communities. But today, at 4 in the afternoon on a weekday, on the first day, during pool play, the viewership has more than doubled from last year grand-finals! I say more than, because that screen grab is only one of the streams! There’s a second stream with 8,00 viewers! I can’t quite describe how amazing it feels to see the fighting game community grow, all I can say is that I can’t think of anything else I’d rather watch right now than EVO.

-Reed

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