Channels showing the Corsair DreamHack Masters Stockholm account for over 60% of the total hours watched in this week’s top 10.

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.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive



While the attention of audiences will fall on the FACEIT London Major next week, it was last weekend’s Corsair DreamHack Masters in Stockholm that brought out CS:GO viewers in droves this time around. The official English, Russian, and Brazilian broadcasts all made into our top ten, together accruing a total of 6.2M total hours watched—62.7% of the time watched of entire list.

While the tournament wasn’t the largest stop on the CS:GO circuit, Team North’s unlikely triumph over Astralis in the grand finals was, naturally, where the viewership peak occurred: a peak of 191K watched on the English stream alone, with a peak of 236.7K across all three.

The event marked the first time a Corsair DreamHack Masters event was held in Stockholm, Sweden. However, we can still compare viewership of this event last year’s edition in Malmö. The 2017 edition of the same tournament accrued a total of 7.6M total hours watched, which means there was an 18.4% reduction in total hours watched for the Stockholm tournament. Maximum concurrent viewership (max CCV) did increase though, with it only reaching 189.6K in 2017.

League of Legends



With their regular season play concluded, both the North American and European League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) just held their semi-final rounds. The result was the highest max CCV of the Summer Split, hitting 227.4K during Saturday’s final game in the match between Team Liquid and 100 Thieves .

Hearthstone



In a more busy esports week, the 2018 Hearthstone Championship Tour Europe Fall Playoffs may not have made it to number four on this list. Over half a million total hours watched still shows strength in the professional scene of this digital card game, especially when you consider the Summer Playoffs for the European region accrued 612.7K hours watched. So while the audience didn’t increase by much, it has remained consistent across the Championship Tour.