ESL and Twitch extend their successful live esports partnership

Live esports isn’t going anywhere.

Twitch, the leading site for livestreaming gameplay video, announced today that it has extended its partnership with the ESL esports organization. Fans of Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and League of Legends can expect to keep seeing ESL’s events for those games broadcasting on Twitch throughout 2016. In 2015, the ESL One Cologne event for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive set a record on Twitch with 1.3 million people all watching at the same time. That contributes to making Twitch the go-to spot on the Web for a competitive gaming market that is on pace to reach $1.1 billion in spending by 2019. It also helps ESL stay relative with gamers, which in turn helps it earn sponsorship deals.