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The Mid-Season Invitational for League of Legends pushed it ahead of Fortnite for the first time since the LoL Championship Series and LoL European Championship Spring Split’s conclusion.
The following titles are ranked according to the total number of hours watched on Twitch, from Monday to the following Sunday, with data compiled using TEO Analytics.
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Invitation Only
The Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) for League of Legends pits the winners of all of LoL’s top regional leagues, and as one might expect, its kickoff has been a boon for the title. Following the conclusion of the LCS and LEC Spring Splits, Fortnite made its way back to the top of Twitch, but with heavy hitting teams from across the globe competing in the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) LoL has regained the spotlight.
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Esports competition kept LoL ahead of Fortnite for much of the first part of the year, but with a small break in competitive action, Riot Games’ title experienced a lull in viewership. With the MSI running until May 19, the event will likely keep LoL at or near the top of Twitch for the coming weeks.
Off the Radar
Apex Legends has nearly become an afterthought on Twitch in terms of viewership in the past couple weeks, with Fortnite’s World Cup qualification process beginning, it has established itself, again, as the top battle royale game on the platform.
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However, Apex Legends’ decline has seen it drop out of the top 10, and it has even dropped below other battle royales like PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS in terms of viewership. With 2.2M hours watched this past week, the game ended April with consecutive declines in total hours watched every week of the month.
Extended Viewing Hours
World of Warcraft’s mid-tier raid proved to be anything but short. The two-boss instance stifled the world’s top competitive guilds looking to be the first to complete it. Due to the raid’s difficulty, it not only took longer for a group to claim world first, but it also resulted in more time for competitive raid race streaming.
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While the last raid race ended after just one week, this one helped to boost WoW viewership on Twitch for almost two weeks. The raid was released in the U.S. on April 23, but it wasn’t completed by any guild until Friday, May 3.
Though the winning guild, Pieces, did not stream their efforts, personal streams by members of esports organization Method led the charge for viewership of this extended race to world first. With the race taking longer than just one week, viewership for WoW on Twitch saw a sustained increase in hours watched with this past week’s total sitting at nearly double of any week prior to the raid’s release.
