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The Mid-Season Invitational for League of Legends boosts viewership for the title keeping it as the only game to record more than 20M hours watched February.
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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Mid-Season Madness
League of Legends’ Mid-Season Invitational came to its conclusion this past week helping the game eclipse 20M hours watched for the 13th week so far this year. No other game has pushed that figure since February when Apex Legends was still leading Twitch.
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With LoL esports taking a short break before the LoL Championship Series
starts back up at the beginning of June, it could be expected that the game’s viewership could see a dip much like the one it had following the end of the LCS and LoL European Championship’s Spring Split playoffs. However, due to the game’s strong base of influencers, it will likely still hover around the top three most-watched games on Twitch.
A Whole New World
World of Warcraft fans on Twitch are currently being hit with a hard case of the nostalgia as Twitch’s top WoW influencers participate in the game’s “Classic” beta. Over the years, WoW has seen countless changes to its gameplay and has had massive amounts of content added to its massively multiplayer online gaming world.
In an attempt to win over fans that long for the beginning days of WoW, Blizzard Entertainment
is working to release a version of its staple franchise that is as close to the original version as possible.
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As a result, beta testing for the new — or should we call it old — game has attracted the attention of WoW broadcasters who also have an itch for that nostalgic WoW feeling. So far, viewership for these personality streams has even surpassed hours watched totals for the popular raid race streaming that esports organization Method has begun to monetize and broadcast.
No Time to Talk
The “Just Chatting” category on Twitch was created as a division of the “IRL” label on Twitch that encompassed a mass amount of different sub-genres, and since its inception in late September of 2018, Just Chatting saw immense growth.
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However, the category has seen viewership stagnation lately and this past week its 11.8M hours watched total marked the lowest week for viewership of Just Chatting in 2019. As top Twitch influencers continually veer toward playing social-friendly games, the need for Just Chatting and frequency of Just Chatting sessions could be effected as top broadcasters like Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris play more titles like Grand Theft Auto V and WoW.
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