Last of Rating-Strike: Offensive WorldwideIntel Extreme Masters Katowice 2020 Competition set a record to watch the not-so-great Counter-Strike event, probably due to the last minutes due to the global meltdown.
Analysts at Esports Charts rounded out the final total of 1,002,132 views, claiming to be the new record for ESL's Intel Extreme Masters series. It also looks a lot more viewers than last year's Berlin Major and last year's Kakowow Major.
Katowice 2020 defeated Natus Vincere in a 3-0 win over G2 Esports. The three-day funeral of the weekend was played at Sikowice in the 11,500-seat Spodek Arena without fans, after Polish health authorities issued a license for the event. Organizers said it was a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19, called the coronavirus.
ESL Champion & # 39; s IEM Katowice 2020 StarCraft 2 He returned to the stadium at the weekend, and Rogue from Jin Air Green Wings defeated Zest 4-1 in the final seven times. The organizers, however, had to cancel the IEM Expo-related event. They said they would start giving refunds
The outbreak of coronavirus, declared by the World Health Organization to be urgent around the world, has resulted in a blockade of travel, accommodation and other routes around the world. This week, Blizzard Entertainment canceled the three-week Overwatch League play between now and March 22. Earlier, the games had been moved from China to South Korea, but the country has since been hit hard by a virus.
The spread of the coronavirus has also been responsible for the voluntary cancellation that affected the arrival of large companies at PAX East 2020 in Boston this weekend, and on Friday, postponing GDC 2020 in San Francisco until sometime this summer. Coronavirus is also blamed for the chronic delay of the Nintendo switch port The Outer Worlds. The port is built by the Shanghai-based Virtous Games, which is closed due to foreign detention and other restrictions in China.
