Originally published on Mar. 20, 2020
By Zane Miller
On Tuesday, March 17th, 2020, both NASCAR and MLR announced
that they will be starting their own virtual leagues set to commence this
weekend.
The virtual league for NASCAR is known as the ‘eNASCAR
iRacing Pro Invitational Series’, which is a mouthful of a name, but I’m
willing to give it a pass since it was probably put together on the fly. In this
new series, drivers from the three main NASCAR series will compete against each
other using iRacing simulators, instead of racing on the actual racetrack
itself. The first race is scheduled to start on Sunday afternoon.
While NASCAR’s virtual league is pretty
straightforward, as they already have a similar iRacing league running, MLR
took a bit of a different approach. In the ‘MLR 2020: Virtual’ each team will
have one of their players as representatives in the game, Rugby20, playing
against representatives from other teams. However, the MLR itself isn’t featured
in the game, the teams within the game are organized by country, similar to
what you would see in the Olympics. As a result, the teams were selected by
random draw as to which team they will be playing as in the game. The first
match is scheduled to begin on Friday night, as the regular season for MLR was
forced to conclude early.
I just wanted to point those out since I’m not sure
how much advertisement these new leagues are getting, I am definitely planning
on following along with them for however long they are needed.
NASCAR announcement: https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2020/03/17/nascar-iracing-introduce-enascar-iracing-pro-invitational-series/
MLR announcement: https://www.majorleague.rugby/news/major-league-rugby-launches-mlr-2020-virtual-in-response-to-covid-19-crisis/
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