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The Evo Championship Series sets a new bar for fighting games on Twitch, while Fortnite and FIFA advance their respective esports scenes.

Every week, TEO releases a list of the top 10 Twitch esports channels, ranked by total number of hours watched, from Monday through Sunday, with data compiled using TEO Audience Insights.

The Fighting Game Community (FGC)



Usually grouped together under multi-title tournaments, fighting game esports get their biggest chance in the spotlight this time each year. Evo , an annual event that focuses exclusively on the FGC, has been running since 1996—and recently spawned a spin-off in Japan. The premier event took place at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, and while you can read our full breakdown of the viewership statistics, the audience was nothing short of encouraging for this growing esports genre.

The combined total hours watched for all five main English-language Evo channels on Twitch was roughly 5.1M—a 54.5% increase from last year’s total of 3.3M. This stat isn’t even including the fact that the Street Fighter V portion of the tournament was simultaneously streamed on Capcom’s official FGC channel, and accrued roughly 1.1M total hours watched there throughout the tournament run. The star title from the tournament was Dragon Ball FighterZ, which led Evo to its highest ever max concurrent viewership (max CCV) of 253K.

Fortnite



While it accrued just 0.1M total hours watched more than last week, the official Fortnite esports reached its highest max CCV to date at 259.6K. Average CCV was also at its highest on the Friday of the Fortnite Summer Skirmish, at 190.4K–compared to the previous high of 141.2K in week two of the competition series. The solo-player, $500K prize pool event featured a new format called “Hold the Throne”, which rewards players for getting the most eliminations in a game. Holding onto that top spot earned the victor an additional $50K on top of their standard prize winnings.

FIFA



Last weekend was also the finals for the FIFA eWorld Cup. The event—held in London’s O2 Arena—featured a total prize pool of over $400K, with $250K of that going to Saudi Arabian winner “Mosaad “Msdossary” Aldossary. While our weekly top 10 graphic showcases the main Twitch broadcast’s performance, it’s worth noting that the event was streamed in four languages—English, German, Spanish, and Chinese—across several platforms, and also received television coverage on Sky and Sport1.

Max CCV for FIFA on Twitch, July 01 – Aug 05, 2018



FIFA as a game may not often break into huge numbers on Twitch, but as seen by the FUT Champions Cup earlier this year, its esports scene has a dedicated audience who will reliably tune in to a major broadcast.

The data in this article was collected from TEO Audience Insights. You can learn more about the platform and discover more streaming stats yourself by clicking here.