2017 ESPORTS TV RATINGS: NINTENDO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, THE CW, ELEAGUE
![2017 Nintendo World Championship on DisneyXD (Photo: Nintendo )](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578230a5e4fcb5fc31994d3d/1507677840261-JUP83CI8LLQ45DRHDWG1/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kIdCUW6_B7J2IyvzTyOx6HsUqsxRUqqbr1mOJYKfIPR7LoDQ9mXPOjoJoqy81S2I8N_N4V1vUb5AoIIIbLZhVYxCRW4BPu10St3TBAUQYVKcliBbrKcrgWZ1ZXWxalbolD0lUCP6fBO3JSc90IJprhLtQqC5nvS-T3mDLP-IaHsg/NWC.jpg)
2017 Nintendo World Championship on DisneyXD (Photo: Nintendo )
TNL Take: This week continues the eSports on TV trend with several key stats:
- DisneyXD broadcast the 2017 Nintendo World Championship for the first time and shows Nintendo's dedicated push into eSports in 2017 in addition to a great Sunday time slot of 5PM
- Not including DisneyXD's 60+ eSports programs to date, the total on all other channels including ESPN, TBS and the NFL Network has now hit 50 - more than double that of 2016
- The CW again benefitted by showcasing eSports during a key time slot - Tuesday Prime Time
[Due to the massive amount of programming, The Next Level will showcase the Top 25 in the weekly reports for easier viewing]
![TNL Infographic 062: 2017 eSports TV Ratings (Infographic: The Next Level)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578230a5e4fcb5fc31994d3d/1507677929224-Q78C8AJ9ADDKX38D6O39/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kNNMRMEOiz4kwHF2nJ9M2y57gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QHyNOqBUUEtDDsRWrJLTmdBiXHFoNc5WAb4zGC0jIhKNOHyLbKPX6lJgcbVhSWmbdHs6ERvdlPioeICzOWyiW/TNL+Infographic+062.png)
TNL Infographic 062: 2017 eSports TV Ratings (Infographic: The Next Level)
THE CW
Out of all the eSports programming over the past year, The CW has continually given the best programming time slots: Weekday Prime Time. Not including Candy Crush - please don't @ me - The CW again takes the #1 slot with their Chasing the Cup series, this time featuring Injustice 2.
Does this showcase the popularity of Injustice 2 and the Fighting genre for this audience? Not necessarily as ESPNU showed the same game on a Wed at 1AM and drew the lowest audience of any eSports program with 11,000 viewers.
More than likely the high viewership is The CW's reach, coupled with a great time slot; vs. the actual title as evidenced by the #2 program around another new game H1Z1.
DISNEYXD
We've already covered DisneyXD's massive eSports programming but this past week was a special one: the 2017 Nintendo World Championship were broadcast for the first time on the channel.
And it delivered.
![TNL Infographic 063: DisneyXD's eSports TV Ratings and Nintendo World Championship (Infographic: The Next Level)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578230a5e4fcb5fc31994d3d/1507678369433-31SRAY1H4MM757Q4M4LB/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kFa6AGEqeBM2A6sbAuRrbxN7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QHyNOqBUUEtDDsRWrJLTmeGJFBExPAw0P9MPzrkMfTLVDNgRl_4DjPZBFIwEVXHLx6HCzruKWDafj0-ZqAlwg/TNL+Infographic+063.png)
TNL Infographic 063: DisneyXD's eSports TV Ratings and Nintendo World Championship (Infographic: The Next Level)
Nintendo's family friendly games fits perfectly with DisneyXD's audience and it's not surprising that the 2017 World Championship would rank as #1 - what is surprising is that it drew 30%+ more viewership than the 2017 EVO Super Smash Bros. Finals which is the second ranked program.
Nintendo based games/events currently make up 6 of the top 7 ranked eSports programs on DisneyXD.
TBS
This week ELEAGUE had their Counter-Strike preview show before the start of the playoffs, which always perform well as it's just 1 hour vs. 3 hours.
The very interesting part is that this week, the Preview show was shown at 3AM and still garnered 300,000+ viewers.
Pretty amazing considering the time slot and more data showing the audience appetite for eSports shoulder content.