The Overwatch League Grand Finals find themselves in a crowded esports weekend, interspersed with high-prize tournaments for PUBG, CS:GO, and Fortnite.

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.

Dota 2



By sheer breadth of content, the $100K prize pool Dota Summit 9 tournament helped Beyond the Summit’s Twitch channel take the top spot. Colloquially known as “The Summit”, the series is known for its on-the-couch commentary and a homebrew production style that will leave hardcore esports fans feeling right at home. You’ll need to be comfortable, given the lengths of the broadcasts; a single game of Dota 2 can last between 20 minutes to well over an hour, and with 15 matchups across the whole event (as well as additional content skits), it’s not hard to see why a single day of play accrued over 1M total hours watched.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive



Turner and IMG’s ELEAGUE already holds the record for the highest peak viewership for a single Twitch broadcast—1.1M for the Boston Major. Even without an official stamp of approval from CS:GO developer Valve , ELEAGUE was able to attract an impressive audience with last week’s $1M prize pool tournament. Compared to the finals week of last year’s ELEAGUE Premier, the series saw a 104.6% increase in total hours watched, with maximum concurrent viewership (max CCV) increasing from 91.6K to 156.5K. There’s also the Russian coverage from CSRuHub—with the additional 612.2K total hours watched shown in the graphic above—was the second-most watched CS:GO channel of last week.

PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS



After a year of esports trials with ESL , Starladder , and other organizers, the game that began the battle royale craze held its first developer-run, major international tournament. The PUBG Global Invitational 2018 (PGI 2018), held at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, followed the same tactic as recent Fortnite competitions by allowing spectators to watch individual streams for every competing team, as well as an overall view with commentators.

Total hours watched for PUBG, from March 23, 2017 (day of game’s release on Steam early-access) to July 29.



The main PUBG channel drew in the bulk of the audience, peaking at 184.4K during the Charity Showdown on Friday. That only tells half the story however: overall, the total max CCV for PUBG on Twitch this day was 575.6K, the highest in the game’s entire history. In the West, the competition was also streamed on YouTube, Twitter, and Mixer, with some estimates putting the total peak to over 440K. Given that Chinese esports organization OMG won on the final day, it’s not hard to imagine even greater audience levels coming in from China—though official figures from this region are not yet available.

The PGI 2018 sets up a new era of battle royale esports, with cartoonish rival Fortnite already several weeks into its own tournament series. If the genre is able to break into the esports mainstream, the fact that there will be as many broadcasts as competitors is going to have a disrupting effect on the way esports viewership can be quantified here on out.

Overwatch



Last but not least, we have the grand finale to Blizzard Entertainment’s flagship esports property. TEO has already contextualized the Twitch viewership for the broadcast, and Blizzard provided its own worldwide viewership figures for the finals, with a total audience delivery of 289K viewers on U.S. linear and digital properties, and a total global average of just over 861K viewers. While Overwatch’s first primetime TV appearance wasn’t a game changer in terms of audience numbers, its main Twitch broadcast peaked at 319.1K and averaged 84.8K, both higher than any other stream last week.

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.