Is Sea games popular in Thailand?

I understand that this event is made as a "semi-competitive" sport events where athletes have chances to compete and learn from neighboring southeast asian nations. In Vietnam, I constantly get such news "Thais players cheating, match fixing, unfair referees, etc." from the event. It has been known that the event's organizer always try to adjust the games a bit to their favor but I have never seen such blatant manipulations by the organizing nation.

I wonder if it's being followed by a large population in Thailand? Or no one really cares about it.