Credit: lolesports/ Riot Games
Semi-final matches in the League of Legends Championship Series 
(LCS) and LoL European Championship (LEC) Spring Split helped Riot Games’ broadcast lead all channels on Twitch.
Every week, The Esports Observer releases a list of the top 10 Twitch channels, ranked by total number of hours watched for the week, from Monday through Sunday, with data compiled using TEO Analytics.
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Playoff Potential
The LCS and LEC Spring Split Playoffs on Riot Games’ Twitch channel led all other channels in terms of viewership for the first week of April, generating 3.5M hours watched with an average of 58K CCV, peaking at 293K.
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Despite the weekend only including two matches for each league, the best-of-five nature of LCS and LEC playoffs boosted Riot Games’ airtime total to 54.43 hours, well above average airtime during the regular season that hovered around 45 hours.
While more teams played during the regular season, as opposed to the eight that played this weekend, regular season matches were best-of-one. So even though, two of the weekend’s matches were three-game sweeps, the channel was able to post more hours of airtime than it typically does when peripheral coverage and re-runs are accounted for.
Maintenance Work
Jaryd “Summit1g” Lazar has seen the top personality on Twitch for the fourth week in a row, posting 2.5M hours watched. Lazar continued to play Grand Theft Auto V role play exclusively during the week. Despite the total being his lowest over the four-week span, this week included one of Lazar’s only days off from streaming since March 12. Taking off April 2 ended Lazar’s 14-day streak of broadcasting.
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Over the four-week period, no channel, including Riot Games, has posted more hours watched. The closest influencer to matching Lazar’s 12.1M hours watched total was Turner “Tfue” Tenney with 8.1M hours watched.
Climbing the Ladder
StarLadder’s StarSeries & i-League Season 7 for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive helped two StarLadder channels make it into this week’s top 10 for a combined 3.8M hours watched.
The Russian and English-language streams averaged 13K concurrent viewers and 21K CCV respectively. The Russian-language stream achieved the highest peak of either channel with 118K CCV.
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The event in Shanghai at Baoshan Sports Center featured a $500K prize pool and was played from March 30 through this Sunday. Outside of the primary broadcasts on Twitch, ImbaTV served as a Chinese stream.
