Led by the Overwatch League, esports took over Twitch this past week, taking up six of the top 10 spots for most-watched channels.
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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Shoot Your Shot
Intel
Extreme Masters Sydney 2019 at Qudos Bank Arena helped ESL’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive channel generate the second-most hours watched of any esports-related content, behind only the Overwatch League .
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The event isn’t a Major, but the 16-team event with a $250K USD prize pool attracted participation by some of the world’s top CS:GO teams such as Team Liquid
and Fnatic . With a powerful lineup of teams, the final two days of live action on Twitch pulled an average of 55K and 66K concurrent viewers (CCV), respectively, for Saturday and Sunday.
Additionally, the final two days of live game coverage pulled more than 1M hours watched for just a little more than 16 hours of airtime. While the tournament started on April 30, the vast majority of the event’s viewership came closer to the weekend for its three-day playoff that started with a session of live coverage averaging 47K CCV Friday.
Method to Madness
Following February’s World of Warcraft raid race that helped esports organization Method show the potential of competitive raiding as a spectator esport, the recently-released WoW mini-raid paid dividends for Method players’ personal streams.
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While mid-tier raids aren’t typically taken as seriously by all guilds, the new content, and the competitive atmosphere it brings with it, gave a boost to channels like “MethodJosh.” The raid race didn’t have enough prominence to elicit the broadcast Method gave the “Battle of Dazar’alor” in February, but it helped Method’s top player channel peak at 421K hours watched on May 1 with a 15-hours stream averaging 27K CCV.
Going to Disney
The Mars Dota 2 League Paris Major kicked off this week, and its top two channels combined to produce 2M hours watched on Twitch. The tournament’s group stage was played on Saturday and Sunday, and despite the event only having two days worth of action, it was enough to put two Dota 2 esports channels in the top 10.
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As has been the case with other Dota 2 events this year, the Russian-language broadcast posted comparable, or better, viewership than the official English-language broadcast on Twitch. The main channel for coverage average 39K CCV, but a higher amount of broadcast time by the Russian-language channel helped it produce 1.1M hours watched with an average of 30K CCV.
