A 10-year-old shooter is huge on Twitch right now – the Steam hit has almost as many viewers as LoL

On May 18, 2022By Garmin Philip

Valve is on the rise on Twitch right now: 10-year-old shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Steam) has more than doubled its viewer hours and is now almost on League of Legends. DOTA 2 (Steam) has also doubled its viewership. Esports is huge on Twitch in May 2022, only the odd spectacle surrounding the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard trial is even bigger.

Which games are the biggest winners on Twitch in the last 7 days? There’s a clear lack of big, new releases in 2022, but Twitch is still up 6% compared to the previous week (via sullygnome):

Counter-Strike Global Offense (Steam, by Valve) gained 128% in viewer hours compared to the previous week. That corresponds to 23.5 million more watched hours. This makes it the second biggest game on Twitch.
The MOBA Dota 2 (Steam, also Valve) also increases by 111%.
Even LoL is a big winner, with +14%: LoL is, as almost always, the #1 game on Twitch.

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Esports titles dominate Twitch in May 2022

Why do the 3 titles win? All three players are established esports titles going through a strong period. Because after long months with Corona, in which only online tournaments were played, spectators everywhere are now coming back to live events and there is atmosphere again:

At CS:GO, the tournament PGL Major Antwerp 2022 started on May 9: the winner can look forward to $500,000 in prize money.
At DOTA 2, a big tournament has also been taking place in Stockholm since May 12th: The ESL One Stockholm Dota Major: the winner will pocket $200,000.
In LoL, viewership goes up because of the big tournament MSI in Busan. This started on May 10th the winner gets at least $75,000. Also, LoL numbers are increasing as Tyler1 pulls off antics in South Korea.

With perfect staging around twitch streamers, LoL shows why they are years ahead of all e-sports games

Brazilian Gaules is by far the biggest streamer on Twitch

These are the big winners in the channels: With e-sports titles, the channels of the organizers themselves always benefit, i.e. PGL for CS:GO, ESL_DOTA 2 for DOTA 2 and Riot Games for LoL.

But individual streamers are also benefiting greatly from the e-sports craze: The Brazilian Gaules has by far the largest channel on Twitch in the last 7 days, with 13.7 million viewer hours, he has twice as many xQc.

The Brazilian is known for never turning off his stream, recordings run at night.

People apparently love watching a streamer watch e-sportspeople play: Gaules peaked at over 624,000 concurrent viewers on May 16.

People love watching Gaules follow the CS:GO tournament:

If you don’t watch e-sports, you’ll watch the big process with MMORPG streamers

what else is big Even though esports is big on Twitch, Just Chatting is even bigger. A lot here revolves around the trial between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp.

The MMORPG specialist and WoW expert Asmongold is at the forefront: the man with the expressive eyebrows proves to be a gifted entertainer. People love watching him watch the lawyers at trial.

WoW junkie Asmongold is just banging into endless hours of court proceedings: