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Just Chatting sits at the top of the charts for another week in a row as six categories again manage to record at least 12M hours watched on Twitch.
Meanwhile, League of Legends has taken back its position ahead of Riot Games’ new auto-battler game mode Teamfight Tactics as viewership for the beta test slows slightly.
The following content is ranked according to the total number of hours watched on Twitch 
from Monday to the following Sunday, with data compiled using TEO Access.
Still Time to Chat
While many titles have seen a fluctuation in viewership over the course of the summer for various reasons, Just Chatting has not only continued to be a stable category in terms of viewership, but it’s also managed to see some growth as well.
Since May, the category has seen an increase in hours watched on Twitch and this past week, a usual suspect, Félix “xQc” Lengyel again led the way in terms of viewership with 745K hours watched across 52 hours of airtime.
Other popular influencers to use the category this week included Herschel “DrDisrespect” Beahm, who posted 458K hours watched on an average of 71K CCV across 6.5 hours of airtime.
Back on Top?
League of Legends has spent the past few weeks playing second fiddle on Twitch to beta testing for Riot Games’ new auto-battler strategy game Teamfight Tactics, which technically is a game mode inside of LoL, but this week, the more established multiplayer online battle arena game was able to push its way back ahead of TFT.
Since beta testing began, TFT has generated impressive viewership and shown the potential to become one of the top forms of content on Twitch as the leader in an up-and-coming strategy-based genre of games. However, with much of its attention being tied to its connection to LoL there is a chance that the hype surrounding TFT could either hurt LoL or end up falling flat if influencers return to LoL.
Gaining Steam?
Last week, Apex Legends began to regain traction for the first time since its dominant debut on Twitch in February and March with a little bit of help from high-profile personality Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, and this past week, EA’s battle royale game managed to use esports to continue to leverage that boost.
The game was able to see another week-over-week bump in viewership thanks again in part to Grzesiek’s 1.6M hours watched with an average of 38K CCV. However, this week, the game also saw a boost in viewership with help from a special esports event run by Twitch called the Twitch Prime Crown Cup.
Apex Legends content on the official Twitch Prime channel spanned 11 hours with nearly 1M hours watched averaging 65K CCV making it the second most-watched channel for the title this week.
