Twitter to play host to its first live eSports event this weekend
The business of where eSports are broadcast has proven to be a reoccuring story of 2016. Earlier this year, Facebook struck a deal with Activision to stream MLG eSports events, and TBS began broadcasting eLeague, which hosts the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament series.
Now this weekend, the eLeague championship games are heading to Twitter. In a press release sent out by eLeague today, the league says that while the normal TBS broadcast will be held at its normal times at 5PM EST on Friday the 29th and at 4PM on July 30th, a simultaneous broadcast of the event will be held on Twitch and Twitter.
While the Twitch coverage is nothing new, i…