ESL partners with RENNSPORT for $500,000 R1 Esport Series circuit RENNSPORT & ESLESL has announced that it has partnered with RENNSPORT, a new virtual racing platform, for a tournament circuit with over half a million dollars on the line in 2023. The ESL R1 virtual racing circuit promises to \u201cset a whole new standard for virtual racing\u201d by bringing together car manufacturers and players. RENNSPORT is an upcoming ultra-realistic sim-racing game that is being developed by Munich-based publisher Competition Company. The team behind the game includes \u201cprofessional drivers, racing strategists, programmers and esports experts,\u201d according to the German company. The ESL R1 circuit will feature four esports teams from ESL\u2019s other esports competitions \u2013 MOUZ, FURIA, Heroic and FaZe \u2013 and eight manufacturer partners, with each team being represented by four drivers. Below you can find the 12 teams that will compete in the 2023 R1 sim-racing circuit: Apex Racing Team – BMW M Team BS+COMPETITION – FaZe Clan – FURIA – G2 Esports – Heroic – Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Esports Team – Mercedes-AMG Team Williams Esports – MOUZ – Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team – R8G eSports – Team Redline – R1 Esports Series set to start ESL\u2019s upcoming IEM Katowice event in February will mark the launch of the ESL R1 Spring Season with the first two rounds of play. The season will then transition to online with six more rounds between March 13 and May 8, on Fridays and Mondays. The top 24 players of the Spring Season will then race at the ESL R1 Spring Major at the RENNSPORT Summit. The event will take place on May 27-28 in Munich. The second season, ESL R1 Fall Season, will kick off in August online and will culminate in the Fall Major at DreamHack Winter, in J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping, Sweden, from November 23-25. \u201cEsports is the world\u2019s fastest-growing media and entertainment segment with a young and digital oriented fan base,\u201d says Competition Company CEO Morris Hebecker. \u201cThat\u2019s why EFG is an important partner for us, in order to jointly anchor the fascination of racing in the virtual world as well as to position ourselves in the existing world of esports in the long run.\u201d The R1 Esport Series circuit will have \u20ac500,000 ($520,000) on the line in 2023, though it\u2019s unclear how much the winner of each season will earn. Sim-racing fans will be able to watch the competition on ESL R1\u2019s Twitch and YouTube channels. RENNSPORT is not yet available to the public, with the game expected to enter a closed beta phase in the coming weeks. Only four cars (Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo, Porsche Mission R, Porsche 911 GT3R, and BMW M4 GT3) and two tracks (Goodwood Hill Climb and Hockenheimring) have been confirmed so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ESL partners with RENNSPORT for $500,000 R1 Esport Series circuit RENNSPORT & ESLESL has announced that it has partnered with RENNSPORT, a new virtual racing platform, for a tournament circuit with over half a million dollars on the line in 2023. The ESL R1 virtual racing circuit promises to \u201cset a whole new standard for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}