2017 eSports TV Ratings: ELEAGUE Finals Reach 335K Viewers, #2 Show For 2017 and ELEAGUE’s Ratings History

ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational Winner Punk (Photo: Turner)

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TNL Take: This weekend saw ELEAGUE’s Street Fighter V Invitational come to a conclusion with Victor “Punk” Woodley winning the inaugural tournament taking home $150,000.

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• ELEAGUE Street Fighter: The Finals reached 335,000 total viewers and 183,000 in the 18–49 demo making it the top rated show for Street Fighter’s season as well as the #2 show for the year.

For comparison, If the ELEAGUE Finals were on The CW on a Thursday night at 9PM vs. on TBS on a Friday at 10PM, it would have been the #1 rated show for the year.

When looking at ELEAGUE’s TV ratings history, Street Fighter performed well when compared vs. Counter-Strike Season 1.

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This isn’t surprising as the Fighting genre is much easier for a casual fan to understand.

Here’s what I said last July in The Next Level 031 after ESPN showed Street Fighter at EVO last year:

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ELEAGUE announced the return of Counter-Strike this fall.

But there’s another league that ELEAGUE hasn’t announced yet and that could be even bigger than Street Fighter.

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