The Country Games | |
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Genre | Reality television |
Created by | Trey Curran |
Directed by |
Jerrod Cantu Floretta Whittaker Theo Barajas Daniela Calderon Nicky Thiel |
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Presented by | |
Judges |
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Voices of | Rodrigo Devries |
Country of origin | Israel |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 20 |
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Location(s) | United States |
Running time | 60–150 minutes |
Production company(s) | |
Distributor | Country Contest Union |
Broadcast | |
Original channel |
ABC Freeform |
Picture format | 1080p HDTV |
Original run | 2 October 2017 | – present
The Country Games is an international Country Contest Union Israel-based reality television country competition to determine beautiful countries. It features sixteen countries every edition, who qualified from qualification rounds, who compete each week with cities in order to progress to the next and win the competition.
Created by Trey Curran from the Country Contest Union, the show began in 2017 and has since aired every month. In order to keep the contest interesting, each editions features new countries as previous countries must wait at least one edition in order to compete again; this also applies to judging countries who want to compete again.
The series consists of auditions, bootcamp, judges' houses, several weeks of live shows, semi-finals and the final amongst other rounds.
Following the first few weeks of the first contest, it became an outbreak hit surpassing the Country Contest to become the most successful CCU contest. The first contest saw a new presenter hosting the contest every week with the two most popular of male and female respectively hosting the final round of the competition. However, some elements of the first contest were criticized, even by some broadcasters, which resulted in changes for the second contest.
Series overview[]
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Original U.S. TV channel | ||
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Season premiere | Season finale | ||||
1 | 20 | October 2, 2017 | October 21, 2017 | Freeform / ABC | |
2 | 18[36][37][38] | November 17, 2017[39] | December 2017[40][41] | ||
3[42] | TBA | TBA | TBA | E! / Freeform |
Broadcast overview[]
Series | Start-Finish | Winner | Runner-up | Third place | Winning mentor | Presenter(s) | Main judges | Guest judges |
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I | October 2, 2017 to October 21, 2017 |
Australia Asia-Pacific |
Italy Europe |
Vietnam Asia-Pacific |
South Korea Asia-Pacific |
Emilia Clarke Ty Burrell |
KOR ZAF GBR USA |
CCU |
II | November 17, 2017 to December 2017 |
AUS MEX ETH DEU |
TBA |
Episodes[]
Season 1 (2017)[]
The first season consisted of 20 episodes, four which aired on Freeform and the rest on ABC. However, the CCU stated that due to a episode count restriction from ABC, they were not able to produce as many episodes as originally hoped.
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (in millions) |
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1 | 1 | "Qualification Rounds (I)" | Jerrod Cantu | Trey Curran | October 2, 2017 | 2.32[43] |
2 | 2 | "Qualification Rounds (II)" | Jerrod Cantu | Trey Curran | October 3, 2017 | 1.68[44] |
3 | 3 | "Qualification Rounds (III)" | Jerrod Cantu | Trey Curran | October 4, 2017 | 1.33[45] |
4 | 4 | "Qualification Rounds (IV)" | Flora Whittaker | Trey Curran | October 5, 2017 | 1.42[46] |
5 | 5 | "First Live Show (Day 1)" | Theo Barajas | Trey Curran | October 6, 2017 | 7.86[47] |
6 | 6 | "First Live Show (Day 2)" | Theo Barajas | Trey Curran | October 7, 2017 | 5.32[48] |
7 | 7 | "Second Live Show (Day 1)" | Jerrod Cantu | Trey Curran | October 8, 2017 | 6.09[49] |
8 | 8 | "Second Live Show (Day 2)" | Jerrod Cantu | Trey Curran | October 9, 2017 | 5.82[50] |
9 | 9 | "Third Live Show (Day 1)" | Theo Barajas | Trey Curran | October 10, 2017 | 5.71[51] |
10 | 10 | "Third Live Show (Day 2)" | Theo Barajas | Trey Curran | October 11, 2017 | 5.53[52] |
11 | 11 | "Fourth Live Show (Day 1)" | Theo Barajas | Trey Curran | October 12, 2017 | 5.97[53] |
12 | 12 | "Fourth Live Show (Day 2)" | Theo Barajas | Trey Curran | October 13, 2017 | 5.49[54] |
13 | 13 | "Fifth Live Show (Day 1)" | Flora Whittaker | Trey Curran | October 14, 2017 | 6.07[55] |
14 | 14 | "Fifth Live Show (Day 2)" | Flora Whittaker | Trey Curran | October 15, 2017 | 6.22[56] |
15 | 15 | "Quarter-final (Day 1)" | Jerrod Cantu | Trey Curran | October 16, 2017 | 6.55[57] |
16 | 16 | "Quarter-final (Day 2)" | Jerrod Cantu | Trey Curran | October 17, 2017 | 6.72[58] |
17 | 17 | "Semi-final (Day 1)" | Daniel Caleron | Trey Curran | October 18, 2017 | 6.68[59] |
18 | 18 | "Semi-final (Day 2)" | Daniel Caleron | Trey Curran | October 19, 2017 | 6.82[60] |
19 | 19 | "The Final [Day One]" | Nicky Thiel | Trey Curran | October 20, 2017 | 7.36[61] |
20 | 20 | "The Final [Day Two]" | Nicky Thiel | Trey Curran | October 21, 2017 | 8.07[62] |
Season 2 (2017)[]
- American director Jerrod Cantu returns to direct the premiere of the host country.
The second season consisted of 18 episodes, a decrease due to the CCU's decision to cancel the qualification rounds. As a result, Freeform no longer aired live episodes but rather reran them.
SBS served as the host broadcaster of the second season, with the contest originally airing in the network.
ABC cancelled the broadcast of the series following the conclusion of the third live show, which led to CCU 'being very angry' about the decision. However, CCU announced within hours that Freeform agreed to serve as the new American broadcaster.
ABC later stated that the ratings had "picked up" in the first season as the competition was held in the US, with American hosts every week; something that was not done in the second. ABC then stated that should the US ever host the competition again, it would "be honored" to broadcast alongside Freeform. However, the CCU stated that as the US hosted and judged the first edition, it would only ever be able to host again should it win an edition (which could happen earliest in the fourth edition due to "hosting rules").
Following the broadcast, Freeform renewed the broadcast for a third season. However, the channel stated that it would only broadcast 15 episodes next series. Due to this, CCU searched for another American channel to broadcast the first few episodes. The CCU later announced that E! would broadcast the first few episodes of the third season as "much more episodes" were ordered by the host broadcaster of the edition.
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (in millions) |
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21 | 1 | "The Games Begin" | Jerrod Cantu | Trey Curran | November 17, 2017 | 6.33[63] |
22 | 2 | "First Live Show (1)" | Natosha Large | Trey Curran | November 19, 2017 | 3.98[64] |
23 | 3 | "First Live Show (2)" | Natosha Large | Trey Curran | November 20, 2017 | 3.63[65] |
24 | 4 | "Second Live Show (1)" | Joeann Fultz | Trey Curran | November 21, 2017 | 3.22[66] |
25 | 5 | "Second Live Show (2)" | Joeann Fultz | Trey Curran | November 22, 2017 | 2.93[67] |
26 | 6 | "Third Live Show (1)" | Glenn Mueller | Trey Curran | November 23, 2017 | 2.54[68] |
27 | 7 | "Third Live Show (2)" | Glenn Mueller | Trey Curran | November 24, 2017 | 2.19[69] |
28 | 8 | "Fourth Live Show (1)" | Maxwell Meier | Trey Curran | November 25, 2017 | 1.22[70] |
29 | 9 | "Fourth Live Show (2)" | Maxwell Meier | Trey Curran | November 26, 2017 | 1.07[71] |
30 | 10 | "Fourth Live Show (2)" | Maxwell Meier | Trey Curran | November 27, 2017 | 1.07[72] |
31 | 11 | "Fifth Live Show (1)" | Crista Preston | Trey Curran | November 28, 2017 | 0.95[73] |
32 | 12 | "Fifth Live Show (2)" | Crista Preston | Trey Curran | November 29, 2017 | 0.87[74] |
32 | 12 | "Sixth Live Show (1)" | Natosha Large | Trey Curran | November 30, 2017 | 0.79[75] |
33 | 13 | "Sixth Live Show (2)" | Natosha Large | Trey Curran | December 1, 2017 | 0.72[76] |
34 | 14 | "Semi-Final (1)" | Clarita Weston | Trey Curran | December 2, 2017 | 0.88[77] |
35 | 15 | "Semi-Final (2)" | Clarita Weston | Trey Curran | December 3, 2017 | 0.82[78] |
36 | 16 | "Grand Final (1)" | Angelo Oldham | Trey Curran | December 4, 2017 | 1.17[79] |
37 | 17 | "Grand Final (2)" | Angelo Oldham | Trey Curran | December 5, 2017 | 1.52[80] |
Season 3 (2018)[]
- American broadcast: E! (Episodes 1–5; 19–20); Freeform (Episodes 6–20); ABC (Episodes 19–20); Lifetime (Episodes 19–20)
Worldwide syndication[]
Every edition, the host country's competing broadcaster can choose a different broadcaster to host some or all shows, which is syndicated from by other international broadcasters.
United States[]
ABC served as the host broadcaster in the first contest, where it was watched by most viewers. After the broadcast, ABC announced that it would continue showing the program for its second season thanks to the high viewers. A partnership with Freeform continued as the show gave it high ratings.
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