eSports has always been a medium that has done well with live streaming. With online video platforms like Twitch, eSports have grown up on the Internet rather than more conventional broadcast platforms.
To further this digital environment for eSports, Twitter just added eSports to their ever-broadening array of live streamed sporting events, by hosting a feed of Eleague’s Counter Strike: Global Offensive tournament in Atlanta. Twitter streamed two semifinal matchups, along with a final that held a $1.4 million prize pool. Polish team Virtus Pro took home the biggest chunk of the prize money, $340,000, when they defeated Swedes Fnatic.