'Counter-Strike' match breaks Twitch's streaming record

A Counter-Strike: Global Offensive match shattered a Twitch viewership record Sunday, reaching over 1 million concurrent viewers during the exciting finish of the ELeague Major.

ELeague's Twitch channel hit 1.026 million concurrent viewers while live broadcasting the grand finals of the 10th CS:GO Major between Virtus.pro and Astralis, breaking Twitch's previous single-channel concurrent viewer record of 890,000.

Twitch senior esports manager Christian Tamas tweeted the achievement during the event, with the highest number of viewers tuning in right after the match's conclusion when Astralis held up the ELeague Major trophy in victory. The previous record of 890,000 concurrent viewers was already broken earlier in the match during the second game of the best-of-three series. Read more...