ESL’s Katowice event was another massive success

E-sports events continue to draw bigger audiences in 2015.

ESL, a major competitive-gaming organization, is revealing today that its most recent events attracted more than 1 million simultaneously online viewers and 100,000 in-person attendees. The Intel Extreme Masters and ESL One tournaments, which took place March 12 through March 15 in Katowice, Poland at the Spodek Arena, were some of the company’s biggest yet. ESL claims that 1 million for concurrent viewers was on Twitch alone, and it represents a new record for audience size for a single event on that video site. Globally, across all video platforms, ESL claims that more than 1.6 million people were watching at once.