With live sports on hiatus, NASCAR esports get ridiculous TV ratings - snydercalkin

Amid the global coronavirus general, live sports are on appreciation round the world, and fans of athletic competition are going huffy with boredom. While plenty of reverberant esports events give been cancelled, besides, gaming has the advantage of allowing online competition – and TV networks have condemned notice. After a successful televised consequence, NASCAR esports is expanding big-time on traditional television.

The first – oh god this name is overmuch – eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Serial publication event on Fox Sports this past Sunday drew over 900,000 TV audience. As ShowBuzzDaily shows, that's well behind galore otherwise line programs, but it's a register-setting number for esports. As NBC Sports notes, that's the biggest longstanding Tv set viewership for any esports event – ever.

Now, Fox has committed to spreading the stentorian NASCAR iRacing flavor on Trick Sports, and will demonstrate galore of the events connected the important Fox broadcast network. The racing games event faced a number of real drivers in competition, and took place at the digital version of the Homestead-Miami Speedway, which was set to glucinium the site of the weekend's now-postponed proper-life race.

The close event will disseminate William Ashley Sunday, March 29 at 10:00 PDT / 13:00 EDT / 18:00 BST at a virtual Texas Motor Speedway – once again, the site of the weekend's cancelled real number-life event.

"Befuddle Sports iRacing was the all but-watched telecast on FS1 since the general-induced sports closure began on Butt o 12," the broadcaster says in a press release, "and Sunday's most-watched sports telecast on cable idiot box, as well Eastern Samoa ranks Eastern Samoa the highest-rated esports Television set program in history."

There are certainly some big caveats to those records – it's not like there's much in the means of televised sports to compete against in good order immediately – just it looks like the days of old-school sports fans complaining about watching multiplayer games on TV might in conclusion be numbered.