The Country Games

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	Season	Episodes	Originally aired 	Originally aired	Original U.S.TV channel
Season	Season	Episodes	Season premiere 	Season finale 	Original U.S.TV channel
 	1 	20 	October 2, 2017 	October 21, 2017	/
 	2 	18aaa 	November 17, 2017a	December 2017aa 	/
 	3a 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	/
=== Broadcast overview ===
Series	Start-Finish 	Winner 	Runner-up 	Third place 	Winning mentor 	Presenter(s)	Main judges 	Guest judges
I 	October 2, 2017toOctober 21, 2017	AustraliaAsia-Pacific	ItalyEurope	VietnamAsia-Pacific	South KoreaAsia-Pacific	 	KOR ZAF GBR USA	CCU
II 	November 17, 2017toDecember 2017 	 	 	 	 	 	AUS MEX ETH DEU	
== Episodes ==
=== Season 1 (2017) ===
The first season consisted of 20 episodes, four which aired on and the rest on . 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. inseries	No. inseason	Title 	Directed by 	Written by 	Original air date	U.S. viewers(in millions)
1 	1 	"Qualification Rounds (I)" 	Jerrod Cantu 	Trey Curran	October 2, 2017 	2.32a
2 	2 	"Qualification Rounds (II)" 	Jerrod Cantu 	Trey Curran	October 3, 2017 	1.68a
3 	3 	"Qualification Rounds (III)"	Jerrod Cantu 	Trey Curran	October 4, 2017 	1.33a
4 	4 	"Qualification Rounds (IV)" 	Flora Whittaker	Trey Curran	October 5, 2017 	1.42a
5 	5 	"First Live Show (Day 1)" 	Theo Barajas 	Trey Curran	October 6, 2017 	7.86a
6 	6 	"First Live Show (Day 2)" 	Theo Barajas 	Trey Curran	October 7, 2017 	5.32a
7 	7 	"Second Live Show (Day 1)" 	Jerrod Cantu 	Trey Curran	October 8, 2017 	6.09a
8 	8 	"Second Live Show (Day 2)" 	Jerrod Cantu 	Trey Curran	October 9, 2017 	5.82a
9 	9 	"Third Live Show (Day 1)" 	Theo Barajas 	Trey Curran	October 10, 2017 	5.71a
10 	10 	"Third Live Show (Day 2)" 	Theo Barajas 	Trey Curran	October 11, 2017 	5.53a
11 	11 	"Fourth Live Show (Day 1)" 	Theo Barajas 	Trey Curran	October 12, 2017 	5.97a
12 	12 	"Fourth Live Show (Day 2)" 	Theo Barajas 	Trey Curran	October 13, 2017 	5.49a
13 	13 	"Fifth Live Show (Day 1)" 	Flora Whittaker	Trey Curran	October 14, 2017 	6.07a
14 	14 	"Fifth Live Show (Day 2)" 	Flora Whittaker	Trey Curran	October 15, 2017 	6.22a
15 	15 	"Quarter-final (Day 1)" 	Jerrod Cantu 	Trey Curran	October 16, 2017 	6.55a
16 	16 	"Quarter-final (Day 2)" 	Jerrod Cantu 	Trey Curran	October 17, 2017 	6.72a
17 	17 	"Semi-final (Day 1)" 	Daniel Caleron 	Trey Curran	October 18, 2017 	6.68a
18 	18 	"Semi-final (Day 2)" 	Daniel Caleron 	Trey Curran	October 19, 2017 	6.82a
19 	19 	"The Final [Day One]" 	Nicky Thiel 	Trey Curran	October 20, 2017 	7.36a
20 	20 	"The Final [Day Two]" 	Nicky Thiel 	Trey Curran	October 21, 2017 	8.07a
=== 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.
* American broadcast: (Episodes 1–7); (Episodes 8–17)
No. inseries	No. inseason	Title 	Directed by 	Written by 	Original air date	U.S. viewers(in millions)
21 	1 	"The Games Begin" 	Jerrod Cantu 	Trey Curran	November 17, 2017	6.33a
22 	2 	"First Live Show (1)" 	Natosha Large 	Trey Curran	November 19, 2017	3.98a
23 	3 	"First Live Show (2)" 	Natosha Large 	Trey Curran	November 20, 2017	3.63a
24 	4 	"Second Live Show (1)"	Joeann Fultz 	Trey Curran	November 21, 2017	3.22a
25 	5 	"Second Live Show (2)"	Joeann Fultz 	Trey Curran	November 22, 2017	2.93a
26 	6 	"Third Live Show (1)" 	Glenn Mueller 	Trey Curran	November 23, 2017	2.54a
27 	7 	"Third Live Show (2)" 	Glenn Mueller 	Trey Curran	November 24, 2017	2.19a
28 	8 	"Fourth Live Show (1)"	Maxwell Meier 	Trey Curran	November 25, 2017	1.22a
29 	9 	"Fourth Live Show (2)"	Maxwell Meier 	Trey Curran	November 26, 2017	1.07a
30 	10 	"Fourth Live Show (2)"	Maxwell Meier 	Trey Curran	November 27, 2017	1.07a
31 	11 	"Fifth Live Show (1)" 	Crista Preston	Trey Curran	November 28, 2017	0.95a
32 	12 	"Fifth Live Show (2)" 	Crista Preston	Trey Curran	November 29, 2017	0.87a
32 	12 	"Sixth Live Show (1)" 	Natosha Large 	Trey Curran	November 30, 2017	0.79a
33 	13 	"Sixth Live Show (2)" 	Natosha Large 	Trey Curran	December 1, 2017 	0.72a
34 	14 	"Semi-Final (1)" 	Clarita Weston	Trey Curran	December 2, 2017 	0.88a
35 	15 	"Semi-Final (2)" 	Clarita Weston	Trey Curran	December 3, 2017 	0.82a
36 	16 	"Grand Final (1)" 	Angelo Oldham 	Trey Curran	December 4, 2017 	1.17a
37 	17 	"Grand Final (2)" 	Angelo Oldham 	Trey Curran	December 5, 2017 	1.52a
=== Season 3 (2018) ===
* American broadcast: (Episodes 1–5; 19–20); (Episodes 6–20); (Episodes 19–20); (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.