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HUYA acquires broadcast rights to ESL CS:GO and Dota 2 events

Tournament organisers ESL and DreamHack have entered an exclusive broadcast deal with Chinese live streaming platform HUYA.

The one-year deal will see the CS:GO Pro Tour and prominent Dota 2 tournaments broadcast exclusively on HUYA for 2020 in standard Mandarin along with other Chinese languages and dialects.

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The deal comes after negotiations between Modern Times Group (MTG), the parent company of ESL and DreamHack, and HUYA collapsed in January, resulting in MTG’s share price to fall 15.08 percent when the announcement was made.