Just randomly hopped on twitch to see what bfe hour numbers are for these respective games.
MK11-340
Soul Caliber VI - 1
Samurai Showdown 3
Dragon Ball Z - 152
Tekken - 653
Street Fighter V - 1800
Cant remember the other games in the EVO lineup, nor be arsed to even look them up. Praise be Boon's restored hairline! Point of the matter is that there's still interest in MK11, and they would have surely garnered a vast number of views for EVO. As it stands right now, I'm not tuning into any of this sludge unless it's some off the wall hype action that I read about one week after the fact. Perhaps if some random moment like "who b*tch is this?" happens, I'll give af. Aside from that, just give me MK, or give me death.
Exactly. And I'd be willing to bet those high numbers for SF5 are possibly because a top player was streaming, or there was some event I.e. when WNF is on, SF5 often has a bump to 1000 plus viewers. The same goes for MK11...Destroyer's CGL tournament had over 900 viewers on it's own last week. My point is that on any given day, the numbers for Tekken 7, SF5 and MK11 are often around the same.
I mean, Hyper Combo Unchained, a tournament held in Birmingham ( England, not Alabama, in case I send any of you Americans off on a wild goose chase to compete there next year
) has over 5,000 views on Ketchup and Mustard's channel, where as T7 has less than 1000. Of course, it's probably because most of the people who had this pop up in their Recommended this weekend follow K and M primarily for MK11 content, but the bottom line is if you say Evo dropped MK11 because of views, you're just being wilfully ignorant.
Saying that, I strongly doubt either party is going to come out and say why this decision was made, and that is something the community may just have to learn to live with.