This weekend saw the most amount of eSports on TV to date with 5 programs including replays.

EVO 2017 ON ESPN2

While some headlines may say "EVO dropped from last year", it was a paltry 20K viewers or 10% from last year and there's clearly two reasons why: A ton more content conflict than last year and #WinterIsComing

What's also interesting is that the EVO Street Fighter V Finals were also broadcast on DisneyXD adding another 101,000 viewers and surprisingly wasn't mentioned in most press.

SUPER SMASH BROS. ON DISNEYXD

This one is by far the most surprising one for me.

The total viewers 184,000 beat the EVO Street Fighter V Finals on ESPN2 which is amazing. While the 18-49 numbers were the lowest % of any eSports program over the last 2 years, that should be expected based on the demographic of the DisneyXD audience which skews younger.

Programming it at 6PM on a Sunday during dinner hour - so the younger viewers could watch it - was a very smart move.

Again, also not touted in the press was that this was also shown on ESPNU. While the viewership was negligible, the content is great for that audience.

[Edit: New feature writer Jordan Fragen will have a deeper analysis on EVO 2017 overall and DisneyXD next week].

In the perfect timing department, on Monday ESL announced a programming partnership with DisneyXD.

Who's next on the TNL eSports Guest Podcast series being recorded today?

This handsome gentleman, Craig Levine, CEO of ESL North America and we'll discuss this new partnership and a whole lot more.