League Of Legends' Faker Shatters Twitch Viewer Count Record

In his first livestream on his own channel, League of Legends pro Faker (Lee Sang-hyeok) shattered Twitch's concurrent viewer count record with nearly 250,000 concurrent viewers.

It's no surprise. Faker is one of the only two players in the world to have won the League of Legends Championship twice.

“We’ve believe Twitch to be the ideal platform to best showcase our T1 player’s skills,” SKT sports division director Sun Jung Kim noted in a statement translated from Korean sent to GamesBeat from Twitch. “We wish everyone to enjoy T1 player’s gameplay on Twitch, a global platform with numerous global LoL fans.” -GamesBeat

Who knows when he'll return to stream? But when Faker does, he may break his own record again.