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Esports Update: Longer Airtime Does Not Mean More Hours Watched

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GDQ was January’s most-watched e-sports tournament. A look at the streaming figures also reveals that longer airtime does not always mean fans will spend more hours watching. We are introducing this monthly esports data column to provide a quick update of the most important esports consumption behavior, particularly as is relates to streaming. 

For prior esports updates, click here.

Ranking: Last Month’s Most Popular Esports Tournaments

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Foto via @gamesdonequick

In January, Orlando was home to the global Awesome Games Done Quick (GDQ) 2020 tournament, a semiannual video game speed run charity marathon held in the United States. Held since 2010, this year’s tournament raised US $3.16 million, according to data provided by StreamHatchet. This represents a new  donation record for a GDQ event.

But GDQ is not only popular for raising big amounts of money, it also was January’s most-watched e-sports tournament. The event reached 38.4 million views through streaming platforms. This is more than double the views Method – Race to World First: Ny’alotha Event reached, which came in second place in this month’s ranking in terms of views. The next GDQ tournament will be played at the end of June, in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Also relevant in this month’s data is the fact that time played does not necessarily translate into hours watched. Method – Race to World First: Ny’alotha Event was the longest tournament, by far, with 5,498 minutes. GDQ went on for only 989 minutes. Race to World First: Ny’alotha Event reached 12.375 thousand hours watched, while GDQ almost doubled it with 22.095 thousand hours watched.

Date Tournament Prize Pool Hours Watched* Peak CCV** AVG CCV*** Views Airtime
Jan 4th 20
Jan 4th 20
Awesome Games Done Quick 2020 22,095,216 261,042 119,448 38,421,190 989:0
Jan 18th 20
Jan 26th 20
DreamLeague Season 13: The Leipzig Major $1,000,000 12,896,190 316,783 133,597 14,204,743 614:0
Jan 28th 20
Feb 8th 20
Method – Race to World First: Ny’alotha Event 12,375,006 105,312 46,031 17,633,650 5,498:0
Jan 24th 20
Mar 21st 20
LEC 2020 Spring Season 11,974,014 470,138 203,593 13,493,603 468:0
Jan 25th 20
May 25th 20
LCS 2020 Spring Season 10,182,510 381,637 176,250 9,931,718 264:0

*LIVE HOURS WATCHED: The Total live hours watched for a specific event across all major NA streaming platforms

**PEAK CCV: The Time-dependent maximum concurrent sessions that watching the top moment of the broadcast across multiple streams

***AVG CCV: The Time-dependent average concurrent sessions that watched a broadcast across multiple streams

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