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ELeague Major grand final had more than 3.6 million total reach

Zorine Te
Last weekend’s ELeague Major broke several records. (Turner)
Last weekend’s ELeague Major broke several records. (Turner)

Last weekend saw the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ELeague Major hosted by Turner and WME | IMG. Turner has revealed the viewership statistics of the event, which broke records, including the highest number of concurrent viewers on a single stream with over one million streamers.

According to new statistics shared by Turner, the ELeague Major grand final had a total reach of more than 3.6 million viewers on Turner Broadcasting System alone, 1.8 million of which were first-time ELeague watchers.

The Eleague Major’s Twitch channel, EleagueTV, was the number one channel on Twitch for seven consecutive days. Viewers watched more than 2.4 billion minutes of footage over Twitch, TBS, YouTube, and GOTV. The event also garnered 2.6 million video views across Facebook and Twitter.

Danish team Astralis took home first place and a cool $500,000 in prize money. For more ELeague Major coverage, we have a further breakdown of the results, a look at Astralis’ journey to the top, and plenty of interviews from the tournament in our CS:GO hub.