Credit: Turner “Tfue” Tenney
A week with little esports action surrounding Memorial Day led to an overall decline in Twitch viewership among the platform’s most-watched titles.
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.
Taking Some Downtime
With or without esports, League of Legends is consistently one of the most-watched games on Twitch, but this past week the game saw a drastic week-over-week decline in viewership following the conclusion of the Mid-Season Invitational.
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So far this year, LoL has been Twitch’s top game in terms of viewership. However, on a week when it didn’t have the extra few million hours of viewership that leagues like the LoL Championship Series (LCS) and LoL European Championship (LEC) typically provide, the game was bested by Fortnite , which has been typically stronger influencer-based content on Twitch.
The WoW Factor
World of Warcraft has seen its resurgence continue this week as top influencers participate in a closed beta for WoW Classic, set to come out at the end of August. Viewership during the past two weeks significantly outperformed the recent mini-raid race.
The only other time this year that WoW has eclipsed the 1M hours watched mark for multiple days in a week was while esports organization Method was streaming its successful race to world first for the raid “Battle of Dazar’alor” at the beginning of February. During the period of time, WoW has more than 1M hours watched for seven days in a row.
Missing In Action
Fortnite may have moved up the charts to become the most-watched content on Twitch this week, but its total viewership for the week actually saw a slight decline from last week.
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A quick look at the hours watched totals by all influencers streaming Fortnite can easily explain the dip, though. While influencer-based content has a strong potential to create viewership volatility during holiday weekends like the one for Memorial Day in the U.S. this past week, Turner “Tfue” Tenney’s dip in total hours watched represented about 1M hours watched less for Fortnite this week.
After details regarding Tenney’s lawsuit with esports organization FaZe Clan went viral last week, the battle royale gamer took some time away from his stream, and as a result, his total airtime for the week was 20 hours, down from nearly 60 the week before.
His average concurrent viewership for the week was 81K CCV, up from 50K the previous week, but that wasn’t enough to make up for the lost airtime. Because of how influential streamers such as Tenney and Tyler “Ninja” Blevins are to a game like Fortnite, the loss of airtime could be seen as one reason for a slight dip by Epic Games’ battle royale title.
