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Best time to stream Dota 2
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When do Dota 2 viewers outnumber Dota 2 streamers? The heatmap below compares hourly viewer demand with live-channel competition — the brightest cells are the windows where a new stream has the best chance of being found.
Top windows this month
- #1Tuesday 19:00~21K viewers/channel
- #2Monday 13:00~16.3K viewers/channel
- #3Wednesday 15:00~15.5K viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Tuesday 19:00 (UTC) — ~21K viewers spread across ~1 live channel.
viewers per live channel — brighter = better time to stream
Tuesday 19:00–20:00~21K viewers/channel~21K viewers~1 live channels3 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details
How long do Dota 2 streams take to peak?
Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked Dota 2 channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 9. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.
How this is measured
Based on hourly concurrent-viewer samples of 16 tracked Dota 2 channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (506 samples). Cells observed on fewer than 2 distinct days show as “no data” — a sampling gap is not the same as an empty timeslot. Numbers describe the channels we track, not all of Twitch, and skew toward established streamers.
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