Method’s coverage of the race to be the world’s first guild to complete the new World of Warcraft raid takes over Twitch with more than 4M hours watched across two top five 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.

Madness to the Method

Coverage of the World of Warcraft race to world first on esports organization Method’s official channel and Method guild master Scott “Sco” McMillan’s channel combined to win the week with 4.5M hours watched.

The channels began coverage of Method’s raid progression on Wednesday from the Red Bull Gaming Sphere in London once the European guilds gained access to the in-game content. With no guild having completed the raid on its mythic difficulty yet, Method is still streaming from London, and over the course of the week Method and McMillan have broadcast for 92 and 83.6 hours, respectively.

Method’s official channel, which has included a rotation of announcers to call the action as it happens, has boasted the stronger concurrent viewership numbers with an average of 29K. McMillan’s channel had an average of 17.16K CCV last week.

Smash and Dash

The first major Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament of the season, Genesis 6, served as the only high-level esports event outside of Riot Games’ League of Legends leagues to take place during the week. Even though it didn’t push any specific title into the top 10 for content, the collection of all competition for the event resulted in 1.41M hours watched.

The three-day event in Oakland, California, boasted 16 competitions across a multitude of titles, namely Super Smash Bros. , leading to 100 hours of airtime and an average of 29.27K CCV. Most coverage on Twitch from the event was of the newly released Super Smash Bros. Ultimate game that drew strong viewership early in December right before the holiday season.

Missing in Action

For a second straight week, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has failed to make it into the top 10 due to a lack of airtime. With just eight hours of broadcast time, Blevins averaged 33.7K CCV and only drew 307.2K hours watched as the very beginning of the week.

The lack of streaming was a result of Blevins going to Atlanta to attend events surrounding Super Bowl LIII and the NFL 100 anniversary celebration. With Blevins missing most of the week, and Fortnite’s top streamer for the week Turner “Tfue” Tenney only streaming 35 hours, Fortnite as a title struggled against LoL in its fight to be the most-watched title on Twitch.