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The six-day, 12-team Dota 2 tournament, ESL One Birmingham, led a surge in esports viewership on Twitch as five of the top 10 channels this week were esports-centric.
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.
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Back in Action
After a bit of a dead period for esports on Twitch, this past week was filled with high profile esports events, but none had viewership as strong as the ESL
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Together those two channels combined for 5.9M of Dota 2’s 10.6M hours watched on Twitch this past week. With just one predominantly Russian team playing, viewership on the English-language broadcast averaged 29K concurrent viewers, higher than 20K CCV for the Russian-language broadcast. This happened despite the English-language channel having nearly 40 more hours of coverage.
Gotta Get Down on Friday
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has been inconsistent the past few weeks when it comes to streaming his attempts at qualifying for the Fortnite
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Turner “Tfue” Tenney has spent most of the year posting stronger viewership than Blevins, but with Tenney not participating, Blevins’ eight-hour stream averaged 105K CCV totaling 853K hours watched. Blevins followed up his Friday Fortnite stream by streaming his World Cup qualifier on Saturday, but that stream recorded a significantly lower 52K average CCV peaking at just 74K.
Southwest Shootout
DreamHack
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This marks the first time that a CS:GO tournament’s coverage has made it into the top 10 channels since the Intel Extreme Masters Sydney event run by ESL that recorded 2.4M hours watched from April 29-May 5 on ESL’s main CS:GO Twitch channel.