LOS ANGELES, June 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (“Enthusiast Gaming” or the “Company”) (TSX: EGLX), a leading gaming and media company, today announced that its 10th anniversary edition of the event, hosted by Luminosity in partnership with Even Matchup Gaming, reached over 200,000 unique online viewers and peaked at over 60,000 concurrent online viewers while hosting a standing-room-only in-person crowd. The event was held at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel where over 2,500 live attendees participated in three days of live entertainment and high stakes competition, featuring a variety of fighting game titles, headlined by Super Smash Bros Melee and Super Smash Bros Ultimate, and including Rivals 2, Guilty Gear: Strive, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, Street Fighter 6, and Tekken 8. Event sponsors included Domino’s Pizza, Kids Help Phone, Focus Fuel, and Experience Ontario.
The event garnered tremendous engagement across its audience, with the primary Twitch stream broadcast reaching over 10.8% chat engagement and the average viewer consuming over 104 minutes of content, longer than many feature-length films. The chat engagement qualifies as one of the most engaged esports event chats in 2024.
“Events like showcase the purest form of community, where gamers come together for the sheer love of the game rather than enormous prize pools,” commented Alex Gonzalez, SVP of Talent & Gaming at Enthusiast Gaming. “The Super Smash Bros community continues to prove itself.