What this is
Players and attendance at the 2016 Pokémon World Championships in San Francisco: more than 1,600 players and about 3,000 people in all.
How it’s built
- Reported at the time by GamesBeat, a games trade site: “More than 1,600 players … about 3,000 altogether are attending.”
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
Other accounts differ: NBC News reported more than 1,700 players, and a Pokémon executive later recalled about 1,500 players and 4,000 attendees. Treat 2016 attendance as roughly 3,000–4,000.
Where it comes from
How Pokémon Go is boosting the Pokémon World Championships GamesBeat · August 2016 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
More than 1,600 players are competing for $500,000 in prizes ... about 3,000 altogether are attending the event.
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