August 17, 2026, on the San Francisco 49ers front. The crown changed hands 1 time before the day was done. When the last hour closed, TMZ stood on top of the hill, having held the summit for 20 of the day's 24 tracked hours.
The day's decisive strike came at 04:00 UTC, when TMZ ripped the hill away from AdamSchefter. The lines below the summit churned too: 17 overtakes were logged across the elite ranks in total.
Between them, the 8 tracked armies fired 130.0M engagements across the day. The single hottest hour belonged to AdamSchefter, who detonated 5.0M engagements in the 01:00 UTC hour alone.
In sheer volume, TMZ was the loudest army of the day with 41% of tracked engagement, ahead of AdamSchefter (21%) and nypost (18%).
BATTLE LOG · ALL TIMES UTC
03:00 UTCTMZ overruns espn (#2)
03:00 UTCABC7 overruns ProFootballTalk (#5)
04:00 UTC⚔ TMZ SEIZES THE HILL from AdamSchefter
04:00 UTCespn overruns nypost (#3)
05:00 UTCnypost overruns espn (#3)
06:00 UTCnypost overruns AdamSchefter (#2)
07:00 UTCAdamSchefter overruns espn (#3)
07:00 UTCProFootballTalk overruns ABC7 (#5)
08:00 UTCJoshNorris overruns ABC7 (#6)
10:00 UTCespn overruns AdamSchefter (#3)
12:00 UTCAdamSchefter overruns espn (#3)
16:00 UTCAdamSchefter overruns nypost (#2)
17:00 UTCespn overruns nypost (#3)
18:00 UTCnypost overruns AdamSchefter (#2)
19:00 UTCAdamSchefter overruns nypost (#2)
20:00 UTCespn overruns AdamSchefter (#2)
23:00 UTCnypost overruns espn (#2)
FINAL STANDINGS OF THE DAY
#1 TMZtwitter👑 20h on the hill · 53.4M engagements · 41% of the day
#2 AdamScheftertwitter👑 4h on the hill · 27.6M engagements · 21% of the day
#3 nyposttwitter23.0M engagements · 18% of the day
#4 espntwitter18.8M engagements · 14% of the day
#5 ProFootballTalktwitter4.2M engagements · 3% of the day
#6 JoshNorristwitter1.7M engagements · 1% of the day
#7 ABC7twitter1.3M engagements · 1% of the day
#8 kron4newstwitter102.9K engagements · 0% of the day
covering the 8 elite armies tracked hour-by-hour · 24 hours observed · signals by LunarCrush 🌗