Quest for Olympic Virtual Sailing glory to commence on 17 March 2023
by Environment Sailing 1 Mar 04:03 PST
17 March – 5 May well 2023
Olympic Digital Sailing © Earth Sailing

Planet Sailing and Virtual Regatta have joined forces the moment again to provide players from about the earth the opportunity to take a look at by themselves versus the most effective and develop into an Olympic Esports Collection winner as component of the Worldwide Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Olympic Esports Sequence 2023.

Competitiveness in the Olympic Esports Series 2023 will choose put over two groups. A 30-day Offshore endurance race around the earth and and an Inshore levels of competition featuring several courses including the Nacra 17, 49er, ILCA.

The offshore classification will tour the world’s virtual oceans as players sailing the Ultime, a single of the sport’s swiftest lessons, race about the planet starting off and ending in Singapore, in which the Olympic Esports Collection finals will choose position.

Registration for this group opens Wednesday 1 March and members can indicator up below. The race alone will consider position from Friday 31 March right until Tuesday 2 Could.

The motion for the inshore group starts on 17 March 2023 with the very first of 8 qualifiers. The prime participant from every of the qualifier finals will progress to the reside finals, held in the course of the Olympic Esports 7 days in Singapore. They will be joined by the leading male participant and leading female player with the optimum rating all over the qualifiers.

The stay last will be held from Thursday 22 June till Sunday 25 June as element of the inaugural Olympic Esports Week at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre where by the top rated 3 gamers from the offshore classification will be awarded with their trophies.

Sailing joins eight sports now confirmed for the function. The are living closing will attribute archery (Tic Tac Bow), Baseball (WBSC eBASEBALL™: Ability Execs), Chess (Chess.com), Cycling (Zwift), Dance (JustDance), Tennis (Tennis Clash), Taekwondo (Virtual Taekwondo) and Motorsport (Gran Turismo).

Entire world Sailing Professional Director, Scott Over, mentioned, “The development in acceptance of esailing about the past 5 years has been remarkable, as demonstrated with the achievements of the former sequence ahead of Tokyo 2020 that attracted more than 250,000 gamers from 100 international locations. Virtual Regatta is the most common sailing sport in the world with additional than 1 million gamers for each yr.

“We are seeking forward to viewing the fierce competition for locations about the coming months as gamers race to guide their location in Singapore and the chance to compete live in entrance of fans for the prestigious title of Olympic Esports Series winner.”

Virtual Regatta founder, Philippe Guigné said, “This is the 2nd time Digital Regatta has featured adhering to the inaugural sequence in 2021. We are actually happy to symbolize sailing in esports along with some remarkable publishers and worldwide sporting activities federations.

“The OES is a critical component on the esailing calendar and with the introduction of the live function in Singapore, it really is going to be an amazing showcase of competitiveness and group.”

Olympic Esports Series inshore qualification gatherings:
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- OES Qualifier 1: Friday 17 March – Monday 20 March
- OES Qualifier 2: Thursday 23 March – Sunday 26 March
- OES Qualifier 3: Wednesday 29 March – Saturday 1 April
- OES Qualifier 4: Saturday 8 April – Tuesday 11 April
- OES Qualifier 5: Friday 14 April – Monday 17 April
- OES Qualifier 6: Friday 21 April – Monday 24 April
- OES Qualifier 7: Friday 28 April – Monday 1 May well
- OES Qualifier 8: Friday 5 May well – Monday 8 May possibly

The are living closing in Singapore will be accessible to view globally by olympics.com and social media channels.



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