What are the top 10 most watched esports in 2018? Market research company Newzoo have revealed the top 10 most watched esports during 2018 so far. Newzoo have ranked esports based on how many combined hours fans have watched the games on both YouTube and Twitch, with popular MOBA League of Legends leading the pack with a massive 240 million hours watched. Behind LoL is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with 212 million hours followed by DOTA 2 in third with 180 million hours. The full top ten list is as follows: League of Legends \u2013 240 million hours – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive \u2013 212 million hours – DOTA 2 \u2013 180 million hours – Overwatch \u2013 96 million hours – Hearthstone \u2013 43 million hours – Heroes of the Storm \u2013 19.5 million hours – StarCraft 2 \u2013 17.5 million hours – Rainbow Six Siege \u2013 14.5 million hours – PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds \u2013 14 million hours – Rocket League \u2013 13 million hours – Notable by its absence from the list is the ultra-popular Fortnite Battle Royale, which has dominated the gaming industry since its launch in 2017. Read More: Sony exec predicts cross-platform will come to other games \u2018over time\u2019 following Fortnite – Esports consultant Rob \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau states that this is due to Newzoo only recording hours spent watching \u201ccontent from professionally organized esports competitions and does not include pro players individual streams\u201d, which works against Fortnite, where pro players stream their gameplay of the Skirmish events. Popular console esport Call of Duty also failed to break into the top 10, sitting in 11th place with just over nine million watched hours on Twitch and YouTube. MLG\u2019s Director of League Operations Adam Apicella disputed this number, stating the number was \u201cway off\u201d, and that the Call of Duty World League had \u201chad more than double\u201d Newzoo\u2019s estimated hours watched alone. This is wrong. We had more than double this for CWL alone. Also not sure if the totals include VOD on YT per your YT reference, but that would add a lot as well. \u2014 Adam Apicella (@MrAdamAp) October 4, 2018 While Newzoo\u2019s statistics include Twitch and YouTube, they currently don\u2019t measure hours watched on Facebook. Due to ESL\u2019s exclusivity deal with the social media platform, it\u2019s possible that CSGO and DOTA 2 could climb those ranks if the numbers from Facebook were included. It\u2019s likely that League of Legends will increase the gap on its closest competitors during the 2018 installment Worlds. LoL\u2019s World Championships began on October 1, and with many fan favorite teams still to play, it\u2019s likely that all eyes will be on South Korea in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What are the top 10 most watched esports in 2018? Market research company Newzoo have revealed the top 10 most watched esports during 2018 so far. Newzoo have ranked esports based on how many combined hours fans have watched the games on both YouTube and Twitch, with popular MOBA League of Legends leading the pack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}