{"id":26458,"date":"2022-12-05T21:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T02:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=26458"},"modified":"2022-12-05T21:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T02:15:19","slug":"cdl-records-fourth-highest-viewership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/cdl-records-fourth-highest-viewership\/","title":{"rendered":"CDL 2023 opening weekend draws huge viewership numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opening weekend of the Modern Warfare 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/call-of-duty\/league\/\" title=\"Call of Duty League betting guide\">Call of Duty League<\/a> season recorded the fourth-highest viewership mark in CDL history. <\/p>\n<p>Across the opening weekend of the 2023 Call of Duty League, the viewership peaked at 192,943 viewers &#8212; according to the stats released by Esports Charts. <\/p>\n<p>The MWII Major 1 Qualifiers were only ranked below the last three CDL Championships on Modern Warfare, Vanguard and Cold War. <\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the franchised <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/call-of-duty\/\" title=\"CoD esports betting\">Call of Duty<\/a> competition came into existence and its streaming services moved exclusively to YouTube, but the viewership dropped dramatically between then and 2022. <\/p>\n<p>However, at the start of the Modern Warfare 2 season, CDL returned to Twitch exclusively.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Week one of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CDL2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CDL2023<\/a> had the FOURTH highest viewership in the Call of Duty League era, peaking at 192k (according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EsportsCharts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EsportsCharts<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Top 5 all time<\/p>\n<p>1) MW2019 Champs 331k<br \/>2) Vanguard Champs 275k<br \/>3) Cold War Champs 238k<br \/>4) MWII Major 1 Qualifiers 195k \u2b05\ufe0f<br \/>5) Vanguard Major 1 157k<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CDL Intel (@intelCDL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intelCDL\/status\/1599827211212951552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The team that viewers wanted to see was OpTic Texas, as they recorded the two highest viewer counts &#8212; 170,766 viewers in their first match against Minnesota ROKKR, and 192,943 in their second match against Florida Mutineers.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that the numbers are so impressive is that these matches over the weekend were only Stage 1 Major online qualifiers, and the numbers they are being compared to are grand finals with millions of dollars in prize money on the line. <\/p>\n<p>We may only be one weekend in, but it seems that the move back to Twitch will be a success for the CDL in 2023. <\/p>\n<p>\u2028<a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call of Duty League opening weekend has recorded the fourth-highest viewership numbers, behind only the last three CDL Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57,735,2841,1403,821,823,1825],"class_list":["post-26458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-call-of-duty","tag-call-of-duty-league","tag-cdl-2023","tag-cod","tag-florida-mutineers","tag-minnesota-rokkr","tag-optic-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26458"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26485,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26458\/revisions\/26485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}