The images were obscure during the big three-day e-sports final of the shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: The over 11,000 seats in the Spodek Arena in Katowice remained vacant. As Precautionary measure against the spread of the coronavirus
Record attendance despite empty hall
However, the empty swept-up spectator stands did not prevent the e-sports teams from competing against each other in the grand finale. The fans in turn did not miss the opportunity to follow the event via the stream. They even set a spectacular record of over 1,000,000 simultaneous viewers.
In the big CS: GO showdown on Sunday, March 1st, the e-sport clans G2 Esports and Natus Vincere faced each other. The Ukrainian team Natus Vincere put G2 Esports in their place on the last map with a crushing result of 16-2 and finally won the game with a 3-0 overall victory over G2 Esports.
So Natus Vincere not only took home their first win of the year, but also a quarter of a million dollars in prize money. Even if this victory had to come from the audience ranks without applause.
– Natus Vincere (@natusvincere) March 1, 2020
The fear of the corona virus is currently sweeping away some event halls. The GDC and PAX East recently jumped more and more important participants, the GDC has even been postponed.
