Twitch Top 10: March 12th-19th. FPS Tournaments Take The Crown

Gaules dominated Twitch with Counter-Strike streams, showcasing an impressive 80.4% growth despite focusing on Variety content. Tarik climbed to the second spot fueled by successful VALORANT streams, boasting a remarkable 387.4% growth.

Counter-Strike and VALORANT were the big games this week. Gaules stood out with Counter-Strike streams driving significant watch time despite a focus on Variety content, showcasing an impressive growth rate of 80.4%. Tarik excelled in VALORANT streams, achieving remarkable growth of 387.4% and securing the second spot in the rankings. Jynxzi maintained a top position with Siege streams despite a slight decrease in watch time, highlighting the strength of his content. 

In terms of games, VALORANT experienced a surge in popularity thanks to the VCT stage 1 tournament, while Overwatch 2 saw significant growth due to a major update, reclaiming its spot in the top 10. Overall, the week showed fluctuations in watch time across various channels and games, reflecting the dynamic nature of Twitch viewership trends.

1. Gaules

Gaules spent most of this week making Variety content, but his Counter-Strike streams generated more watch time than the rest of his broadcasts combined and multiplied by 2. His growth at 80.4% this week was impressive.

2. Tarik

Tarik’s VALORANT streams remain a huge hit, giving him the most growth out of anyone in the top 10 with 387.4% and landing him in the second-place spot for this week's ranking.

3. Jynxzi

Jynxzi only played Rainbow Six Siege this week, without any Just Chatting streams, a first in weeks. This predictably saw a decrease in watch time for him at 6.5%, but this still represents the strength of his career, where without using Just Chatting Streams, he can still make it to the top 3.

4. VALORANT

The official Twitch channel for VALORANT broke into the top 10. This was a big week for the FPS. the VCT stage 1 tournament was massive to the popularity of the game this week. 

5. Kamet0

Kamet0’s consistent cycle of games led him to great success this week. His VALORANT streams did quite well, increasing his watch time by 28.6%.

6. Baiano

Baiano lost a small percentage of watch time this week, despite League of Legends’ overall great performance. Without a large tournament to rebroadcast, this is to be expected.

7. Caseoh_

Caseoh_ had a busy Variety Gaming schedule this week, with remarkably consistent performance. Despite his consistency, he saw a 19.1% drop in watch time

8. Papaplatte

Just Chatting streams grew Papaplatte’s audience this week by a substantial 53.7% percent. The usual Variety content also performed well.

9. KaiCenat

KaiCenat performed poorly this week (for one of the biggest streamers on the platform), almost not making it to the top 10 list at all with a decrease of 39.1%.

10. fps_shaka

fps_shaka continues to see consistent growth with his Variety content. his usual GTAV streams performed the best, but Street Fighter 6 was an important fixture of his lineup this week as well.  

The Statistics

Here's a breakdown of statistics on the top Twitch streamers for March 12th through the 19th, as tracked by Sullygnome. Watch time represents how much time viewers tuned in for, and stream time is the total time they were live. Peak viewership shows a streamer's most viewers at any point in the month, while average viewership shows the most regular amount of viewers. 

Followers are the number of unique Twitch accounts following a streamer, and followers gained to show the growth or decline of that number for each streamer this month.

0. Just Chatting

Just Chatting is always the largest category on Twitch. The largest category on the platform is down a fairly significant 5.3% in terms of watch time, which is a substantial change from the previous week’s trend of lower numbers for that statistic. A decrease like this can be indicative of a downward trend in terms of the platform's engagement.

1. Grand Theft Auto: Five (GTAV)

Grand Theft Auto has been the most popular game on Twitch all year, and it looks like that trend is set to continue into March. Watch time decreased this week slightly at 1.9%. This is further evidence of a general decrease in engagement across the platform.

3. League of Legends

League of Legends is this week’s most popular esport. Watch Time decreased by 7.1%which is a fairly substantial decrease.

4. VALORANT

VALORANT saw a sharp increase in activity this week. With a 32.2% increase in activity, this was the second-largest increase in the top ten this week. VCT stage 1 was responsible for the substantial uptick in watch time this past week.

4. Counter-Strike

Counter-Strike increased sharply with a watch time increase of 30.9%. The CS2 Copenhagen Major is responsible for a massive uptick in traffic towards the FPS esports classic.

5. Fortnite

Fortnite saw a decrease of 19.6 percent in terms of watch time, which is a meaningful decrease. No large-scale events this week may be responsible for this decrease in watch time.

6. Dota 2

Dota 2 lost 33.1% of watch time this week, which is the largest on this week’s top 10. There were no major tournaments this week, which breaks the trend of the last several weeks.

7. Overwatch 2

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Overwatch 2 watch time grew by 56.2%, and it was the only game in the top 10 to grow across all statistics this week. A major update sparked new interest in the game, returning it to the top 10 for the first time in weeks.

8. Apex Legends

Apex Legends lost a large amount of watch time with a decrease of 10.7%. This could be the result of the seemingly large gains Apex Legends made over the last several weeks with tournaments being a regular occurrence, and their absence this week. 

9. Call of Duty: Warzone

Call of Duty

Warzone maintains it’s spot on the bottom part of the top 10 list, with little action in either direction. Most statistics trend towards small growth across the board, but Warzone has been stagnant for several weeks now. 

10. Rainbow Six Siege

The increase of Jynxzi and others streaming has landed Siege in the top ten for the first time in weeks. The increase of the game went up by a massive 71.8% 

The Statistics

Here's a breakdown of statistics on the top games on Twitch from March 12th to March 19th as tracked by Sullygnome. Watch time represents how much time viewers tuned in for, and stream time is the total time streamers broadcasted that game. Peak viewership shows most viewers watching that game at any point in the month, while average viewership shows the most regular amount of viewers. Peak channels show the largest number of streamers broadcasting that same game concurrently, whereas the average channels show the regular amount of channels broadcasting a game one would expect to see. The Average Viewer Ratio represents the number of hours watched (Watch time) divided by the number of hours streamed.