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The World of Warcraft raid race helped esports organization Method lead the way for viewership on Twitch again this past week.
Meanwhile, the Fortnite World Cup maxed out at more than half a million viewers on Sunday, averaging nearly 200K viewers over 21 hours of coverage throughout the weekend.
The following channels are ranked according to the total number of hours watched on Twitch 
from Monday to the following Sunday, with data compiled using TEO Access.
To the Victor Go the Spoils
Esports organization Method completed its third victory in the World of Warcraft race to be the world’s first guild to beat all bosses in a new raid since beginning to stream its efforts, and it’s no surprise that the guild’s Twitch channel reaped the benefits of its players’ success.
After a falling out with Red Bull that resulted in the energy drink brand having its own competing stream featuring other guilds, Method still managed to dominate Twitch in terms of viewership. While this raiding race lasted significantly longer than the previous one at the end of January, the build-up to Method’s win on Sunday was evident by the channel’s viewership.
As guilds slowly but surely progressed on the final boss of the player-vs-environment instance, the average CCV of Method’s channel increased with fans interested in being able to say “I was there watching” when the boss was finally defeated.
World Cup Worthy
Despite the Fortnite channel regularly producing sub-par viewership compared to personal streams over the course of the year during online qualifiers for the World Cup and other events, the World Cup this weekend produced the strongest viewership for any channel broadcasting Fortnite all year.
Peaking at more than half a million viewers, the main Fortnite channel averaged 196K concurrent viewers racking up 4.4M hours watched in just three days of broadcasting and 21 hours of airtime.
Co-Stream, Co-Star
Turner “Tfue” Tenney and Tyler “Ninja” Blevins weren’t able to tend to their personal streams much over the weekend because they were in New York for the World Cup. However, Twitch’s top Fortnite influencers were able to generate massive viewership over the weekend by co-streaming the exact broadcast that the Fortnite channel was airing in live time.
There was no editing or voiceovers involved, but with a strong enough fanbase, the influencers were able to get support from their viewers who decided to watch the same World Cup broadcast that they’d get on the Fortnite channel on a personal stream instead.
While the viewership of channels like Blevins’ and Tenney’s took away from the main Fortnite channel, the viewership helped Fortnite as a category accrue 14M hours watched from Friday to Sunday.
