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Apex Legends struggles again this week to push more than 10M hours watched while new titles in the top 10 such as Grand Theft Auto V and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice thrive with more than 13M.
The following titles are ranked according to the total number of hours watched on Twitch 
, from Monday to the following Sunday, with data compiled using TEO Analytics.
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Legends of the Game
Despite the League of Legends European Championship
taking the week off, LoL stood at the top of Twitch as the only title to record at least 20M hours watched.
While Riot Games’ main Twitch channel has been posting more than 2.5M hours watched on a regular weekly basis, this past week, with just the LoL Championship Series
(LCS) playing matches, the channel only hit 1.6M.
That didn’t stop LoL from outperforming every other title on Twitch with help from the LoL Champions Korea, the top Korean league, and top influencers including Tyler “Tyler1” Steinkamp and Hammoudi “Yassuo” Abdalrhman.
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While Riot Games led the game in hours watched, Steinkamp came in a close second place with 1.4M hours watched across 50.4 hours of airtime. Abdalrhman’s 985K hours watched over nearly 48 hours of airtime was enough for third place.
Serial Theft
Grand Theft Auto V roleplay streaming has continued to steal viewership from some of Twitch’s most-watched battle royale titles such as Fortnite and Apex Legends . Last week the title burst onto the scene with nearly 15M hours watched boasting streamers like Jaryd “Summit1g” Lazar and Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris, and this week the criminal-themed action game pushed its way past Fortnite reaching second place on the weekly chart.
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While many of the top streamers in Fortnite and Apex Legends, such as Turner “Tfue” Tenney, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, and Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, have stayed true to their battle royales, the movement of many streamers in the second tier of Twitch (those who typically sit just outside the top 10) has created a shift in the overall ecosystem.
Dance Of The Shadows
FromSoftware and Activision’s
recently released samurai-themed story-based game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice placed third on the charts this week with 15.1M hours watched. While the title’s single-player nature makes it unsustainable, the game’s playthrough time of more than 30 hours has helped it produce strong viewership during its release week.
While often times, new single-player games sneak their way into the top 10 for a short while, Sekiro firmly claimed its stake in this week’s top 10 beating out regular powerhouse games on Twitch like 2018’s most-watched game Fortnite and the newer battle royale title Apex Legends.
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Since it’s March 22 release, the game has been played by top streamers who are known to dabble in a variety of games such as Morris and Saqib “Lirik” Zahid. Morris provided the game 917K hours watched by streaming it for 37.47 hours. Zahid recorded 753K hours watched on the game over just under 30 hours of airtime.
