{"id":1062,"date":"2019-07-30T14:10:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T14:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/fortnite-world-cup-beats-twitch-viewership-record-esports"},"modified":"2024-07-21T16:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T16:45:36","slug":"fortnite-world-cup-beats-twitch-viewership-record-esports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/fortnite\/fortnite-world-cup-beats-twitch-viewership-record-esports","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite World Cup beats Twitch viewership record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><p>Fortnite Battle Royale has been the most popular game in the world for nearly two years now, releasing in September 2017 with no clue of how huge it would grow.<\/p><p><\/p><p>The inaugural Fortnite World Cup took place this past weekend, from July 26-28, in New York&#8217;s Arthur Ashe Stadium. It featured a total &#36;30million prize pool split evenly between the duos and solo tournaments, with <a aria-label=\"teens leaving the venue as millionaires at the end of the weekend (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/fortnite\/teens-millionaires-fortnite-world-cup-2019\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">teens leaving the venue as millionaires at the end of the weekend<\/a>. Whilst Emil &#8220;Nyhrox&#8221; Bergquist Pedersen and David &#8220;Aqua&#8221; W. took home the duos championship and split &#36;3million between them, the man who stole the show was Kyle &#8220;Bugha&#8221; Giersdorf, who won the solo tournament in dominant fashion, nearly doubling the number of points that the runner-up had. He has since appeared on Jimmy Fallon to discuss his monumental win, linked below.<\/p><p><\/p><figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jimmy Interviews Fortnite World Cup Solo Champion Kyle &quot;Bugha&quot; Giersdorf\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OMlew5x8lFU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure><p><\/p><p>Now, though, the numbers have been released, and it has been confirmed that the Fortnite World Cup was the most viewed esports tournament in Twitch history.<\/p><p><\/p><p>Clocking in at 1.3 million concurrent viewers watching the solo tournament, which also featured <a aria-label=\"top stars like Tfue (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/fortnite\/pro-fortnite-streamer-tfue-sues-faze-clan\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top stars like Tfue<\/a>, the Fortnite World Cup beat out the previous record held by the ELEAGUE Major in <a aria-label=\"CS:GO (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/cs-go\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CS:GO<\/a>, which peaked at 1.15 million concurrent viewers.<\/p><p><\/p><figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fortnite-World-Cup-viewership.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fortnite-World-Cup-viewership.gif\" width=\"770\" height=\"347\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure><p><\/p><p>Fortnite already held the record for Twitch viewership, with 1.6 million viewers tuning into the celebrity pro-am at last year&#8217;s E3, which was won by Ninja and Marshmello.<\/p><p><\/p><p>The duos event also peaked at around 1 million concurrent viewers on Twitch placing it firmly in the upper echelons of esports events to be shown on Twitch.<\/p><p><\/p><p>All in, the Fortnite World Cup hit over 2 million viewers on both days, also assisted by some streamers co-streaming the event.<\/p><p><\/p><p><strong>Hopefully, with more eyes on the industry, we&#8217;ll see more esports grow as a result of the huge reach of the Fortnite World Cup.<\/strong><\/p><p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite Battle Royale has been the most popular game in the world for nearly two years now, releasing in September 2017 with no clue of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"yes","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fortnite"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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