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Drone Racing League Comes to PayPal Park on October 11

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September 15, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS)San Jose Earthquakes News Release

SAN JOSE, Calif. – PayPal Park, home of the San Jose Earthquakes, will host the Drone Racing League (DRL) on Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. PT. DRL is the world’s premier professional drone racing property and will provide spectators with a thrilling, tech-driven sports competition where the world’s best drone pilots race high-speed drones through an immersive neon-colored aerial course. Tickets are available here.


The DRL Race in the Cloud Presented by Google Cloud will mark the 2022-2023 DRL Algorand World Championship Season opener.

“Google Cloud and the Drone Racing League are globally recognized for technology innovation, progressive thinking, and making the future happen today. We are thrilled to partner with Google Cloud to engage their worldwide community of developers through our sport,” said DRL President Rachel Jacobson. “Together, we will launch our 2022-23 DRL Algorand World Championship Season with a spectacular drone race as part of Google Cloud’s marquee event of the year.”

2022-23 DRL ALGORAND WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON

The 2022-23 DRL Algorand World Championship Season will start airing high-speed drone racing across all dimensions on November 19, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. PT on NBC, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Doubling down on where Gen Z fans want to watch drone racing, DRL will expand its media distribution to top streaming platforms this season, including TikTok, where the league has 5 million followers.

The world’s 12 best drone pilots race high-speed drones through iconic sports arenas, DRL SIM virtual maps, and a metaverse world on the Algorand-blockchain to be crowned the DRL Algorand World Champion. The DRL race locations include PayPal Park and a championship in loanDepot Park, home to Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins. Virtual courses in the DRL SIM game on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, and Epic Games include the U.S. Air Force Boneyard Map.

DRL partners including Algorand, the leading high-performance blockchain platform, Google Cloud, T-Mobile, the U.S. Air Force, and Draganfly, the award-winning, industry leading drone systems and solutions provider, will activate throughout the season.

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