Events for Valve’s top games, Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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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Two Times the Fun
ESL One Mumbai last week wasn’t quite the same level as a Dota 2 Major, but the twelve-team, six-day event with a $300K prize pool still managed to make its mark on Twitch attracting 2.2M hours watched across its top two channels.
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The tourney was led in terms of viewership by the Russian-language broadcast that averaged 31K concurrent viewers for its live Saturday broadcast and 25K CCV for its Sunday broadcast. In March, average viewership for DeamHack’s DreamLeague Season 11 was also led by the event’s Russian-language channel. ESL’s English-language broadcast averaged 27K CCV for its Saturday broadcast, and it’s Sunday coveraged averaged 22K CCV.
The Professional
Two of the four pools in the ESL Pro League Season 9 played this past week helping ESL’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive channel reach 1.9M hours watched making it the second most-watched esports channel of the week.
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The regional sixteen-team events started on April 12 and goes through May 23, but in its first week of action, only one pool of four teams was decided. The channel averaged over 30K CCV during three separate eight-plus hour long broadcasts.
This week the event will see its fourth and final pool play out. Following the completion of the first round of pool play, the top eight teams will be divided into two groups for another round to be played next month.
Around the World
Fortnite World Cup qualifications have begun, and with it, viewership is up for some of Twitch’s top influencers like Tyler “Ninja” Blevins and Turner “Tfue” Tenney.
Jaryd “Summit1g” Lazar has led Twitch in terms of viewership since the middle of March with his Grand Theft Auto V role play streams, but top Fortnite streamers like Blevins and Tenney have made a name for themselves on the platform due in part to their ability to provide entertaining streams during competitive events.
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Perhaps the biggest difference in viewership has come for Blevins who produced an average of 25K CCV during the first week of the month. That average increased to 33K CCV last week, and this week, he averaged 41K CCV.
Blevins also managed to record the highest average CCV for a single broadcast by any of the three streamers this week with 80K on Sunday, up from Tenney’s average of 71K CCV on Saturday.