It wasn’t the race, it was the scheduling. 11 hours of starcraft in a single day was ridiculous, and the finals were at an awful time for anyone but the West Coast.
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I already explained clearly why that doesn’t explain the entire difference in peak viewership. But I’m not that invested in arguing over it either. I think most likely it is a combination of factors that contributed. One of which could be a uni-race tournament. Others contributing factors could be a bit of what you say. That seems quite likely. But you sound quite certain like you know what you say as fact, and no one else could possibly be correct once you have spoken, so I will let you bask in your certainty. 
Oh, they were pretty late for us too. And too late to the 0yers also, which is why I was generally unimpressed by the gameplay we saw in the finals.