Esports Charts released viewership numbers for competitive and non-competitive categories on Twitch streaming platform for the third quarter of 2020 and although Dota 2 is far from being one of the most popular games by many of the metrics used, it took the first place in terms of audience engagement.

TOP 10 esports games by audience engagement on @Twitch .
(Q3 2020)
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— Esports Charts (@EsportsCharts) December 24, 2020

While Dota 2 is at top of the charts in terms of engagements, followed by CS:GO with just two points behind, in terms of most watched games, the non-competitive ones emerged as the most popular. The Just Chatting Twitch category is the most watched through the third quarter of 2020, with 500 million hours watched, which is 130% higher than League of Legends, on the second position with 394 million hours watched.

Along with Just Chatting, there are five non-competitive games in the top 10 of the most watched categories on Twitch, with Among Us, Fall Guys, Grand Theft Auto V and Minecraft at the top of the charts.

According to Esports Charts, more than 10 million unique viewers tuned in for online/offline tournaments, which is around 10% of all people who spent time watching broadcasts.

League of Legeneds is the second most watched Twitch category with 794,000 peak viewers and 11.4 million unique viewers, while Dota 2 is the most popular category in the CIS region, with more than every third viewer occasionally watching this game.