EVO 2017's Street Fighter V finals was the most viewed for a Fighting Game event

As one of the most recognizable video game properties on the planet, Street Fighter has always made its mark and presence felt in the Fighting Game Community and its tournaments - but it achieved a milestone at this year's Evolution Championship Series at Las Vegas for earning the distinction of being the "Most Viewed" segment during the EVO 2017 SFV Finals.According the official Capcom Pro Tour website - 5 million viewers tuned in to see the Top 8 players who made the finals duke it out against one another, with the final two being Tokido vs Punk for the grand finals and the Japanese player using Akuma emerging as the victor of that battle!

CPT x EVO Wrap-Up!
Check out this beautiful "CPT x EVO 2017" wrap up video from the folks at Capcom themselves.

ICYMI: EVO 2017 was HYPE - Jedah coming to MvCI, Geese to Tekken 7, & Abigail to SFV

And so ends another EPIC year of fighting game goodness gathered in a tournament event in Las Vegas - the 2017 edition of the annual "Evolution Championship Series" or EVO has ended, and with it comes a list of hard earned championships that were fought among some of the best of the BEST pro-gamers and fighting game players from around the world. If you want to check out the results, Shoryuken.com has it all listed in their EVO subsite.

Otherwise if you want a taste of things - here's the GRAND FINALS where Japan's Tokido took on the young American prodigy Punk in a match that's definitely going in history!


In addition, lots of REVEALS were made in the show that you just have to see!

MVCI - Jedah Gameplay
TEKKEN 7 - Geese Howard Reveal Trailer
SFV: Abigail Reveal Trailer
All I can do is quote what Tokido said in his winning speech - "Fighting Games are GREAT".