Over the weekend, the world's largest fighting game tournament event EVO 2019 took place in Las Vegas, Nevada. One of the games on show was Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which just so happens to have smashed a world record in the process.
The game reportedly reached a peak viewership of more than 279,000 on Twitch this weekend, beating the record for any game in EVO history. Last year saw Dragon Ball FighterZ set the record number for EVO's main stream viewership with 258,000. The news comes from esports insider, Rod Breslau (thanks, Eurogamer):
It's good to see Smash Ultimate be received so well by the EVO crowd; earlier this year it was revealed that the event would be dropping fan-favourite Super Smash Bros. Melee in favour of the new release, which was originally met with a mixed reaction among fans.
Now, then. We'd better get back to practising with the game's latest fighter addition.
[source twitter.com, via eurogamer.net]
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Well to be fairly honest, could you honestly be surprised considering how hype the sets were?
There were so many good plays from MKleo, Tweek, Glutonny, Raito and many other players.
I'm going to enjoying playing and watching Smash Ultimate for years to come.
Colors weave into a spire of flames...
Let’s go ssbu!!! F$@! Fortnite
Melee fans on suicide watch
The grand final was INTENSE! What an amazing tournament!
@iLikeUrAttitude MkLeo winning as usual. The only guy who could stop him got knocked out after beating him.
That's cool. At least no one has been hit with seafood this time.
Almost got to see the Grand Finals' end before I had to go to work. It was hype!
@ReaperExTenebris For the longest time the problem with melee players was that they were not pushing the new games. They stayed in there box and only played melee. Did they really start to support Ultimate?
Sony sponsors an event where the lone Nintendo game is the most popular title.
hehe. Love it!
@Heavyarms55
Said like a true fanboy. Smh...
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