eSports: the final stages of the 2016 Eleague tournament (Counter Strike) broadcast live on Twitter

Twitter broadcast the semi-finals and the final of the 2016 Eleague, a tournament of the game "Counter Strike: Global Offensive" (a first-person shooter game), live from Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta (2,750 seats), Georgia (United States) on 29 and 30/07/2016. This is the first eSports event to be broadcast live on Twitter.

"eSports fans go to Twitter to see and talk about what is happening now in competitive gaming. Gamers are one of the largest and most engaged audiences on Twitter, and we are thrilled to partner with Turner and WME-IMG to bring them the live content from Eleague and Twitter commentary they are already looking for, all on one screen," said Anthony Noto, CFO of Twitter, on 28/07/2016.

This non-exclusive agreement completes a series of acquisitions and partnerships recently made by Twitter to broadcast sports content.

• The Eleague (resulting from a partnership between the Turner Group and WME-IMG ) was also broadcast on Twitch website (the first global platform for broadcasting video games belonging to Amazon) as well as the TBS channel (Turner…