Fortnite's Global Championship Day 2 draws its crowd late

On its own, the tournament upload is now carrying about three-quarters of the official esports channel's daily views.

Channel: Fortnite Competitive Story of September 28, 2026Trari Newsroom

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FORTNITE GLOBAL CHAMPIONSHIP | DAY 2

"FORTNITE GLOBAL CHAMPIONSHIP | DAY 2" went up on September 24 and then hardly moved. It now sits at close to 900,000 views, and almost all of them arrived in a single day, four days after it was posted.

That one video is doing most of the work on Fortnite Competitive, a channel that already draws far more daily views than esports neighbors such as StarCraft and the Apex Legends Global Series. The audience is mostly watching, not talking. Likes run into the thousands, while comments barely register beside them. Perhaps viewers who missed the live action are only now catching up?

Fortnite Competitive is Epic Games' own home for the game's tournament play, and a championship broadcast is exactly what it was built to carry.

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The numbers

The figures show a tournament video that sat almost untouched for days and then took over most of the channel's daily traffic.

views per day, this video

typical day

0

now

874,516

subscribers

405,000

total views

49,781,575

views per day

1,139,986

the video

views

874,897

likes

12,584

comments

155

days online

4

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Fortnite Competitive

405,000

Apex Legends Global Series

400,000

Naughty Dog

378,000

StarCraft

354,000

Jurassic World Evolution 3

349,000

LEGO Fortnite

346,000

As of September 28, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.