This Sunday, 1,288,302 people simultaneously tuned into Twitch to watch the finale of first annual Fortnite World Cup. According to Twitchtracker, this is the second highest peak viewership the game has ever seen.

While Twitch records can be dubious and are ever-changing, this is no doubt a banner turn out for the fledgling esports series. Taking place at New York's Arthur Ashe Stadium, the tournament managed to fill quite a few of the stadiums 23,000 seats. The energy was electric both at the stadium and on Twitch as players competed for an enormous $3 million grand prize.

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The record for peak viewership of Fornite was actually 1.5 million viewers, which happened June 13, 2018 at a similarly hyped competitive event: the first Pro-Am Fortnite tournament which paired esports pros with celebrities. Streamer Ninja and DJ Marshmellow took home the win at that event and, with mid-2018 being the height of Fortnite-fever, it isn't difficult to imagine that tournament breaking records on Twitch.

Still, 1.3 million isn't far off, and is an even more impressive figure considering virtually none of the popular Fortnite players on Twitch, with the exception of Tfue, even qualified for the tournament. In fact, the winner of the solo cup was a relatively unknown 16-year-old player named Bugha. It's evident that the draw wasn't celebrities and big name, but rather the game itself was able to pull in over a million concurrent viewers.

The record shouldn't be confused with the peak concurrent viewers of a single stream: this figure was derived from a combination of all the World Cup streams as well as every one else who was streaming Fornite Sunday. The stream that holds the record for most simultaneous viewers is actually last years CS:GO ELEAGUE Grand Finals in Boston, one of the major Counter-Strike events sponsored by Valve, which peaked at 1.1 million viewers on January 28th, 2018.

Interestingly, CS:GO tournament streams actually hold the top 8 spots on the list of biggest streams, with Fortnite appearing as number 9 during a Ninja stream. The rest of the biggest streams for the most part are Riot games broadcasts of League of Legends tournaments.

There's no doubt that esports are a huge draw for Twitch and are getting bigger every year. This weekend, the major fighting game event EVO takes place at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Could EVO surpass Fortnite World Cup's viewership? Unlikely, but with every future esports event views will continue to climb higher and higher.

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