Supply: Drone Racing League
Genius Sports activities is betting on the success of drone racing.
The worldwide sports activities knowledge firm signed a licensing settlement with the Drone Racing League to launch DRL into the skies of sports activities betting.
“The multi-year partnership will reimagine the gaming panorama, marking an preliminary step in the direction of making a first-ever, league-approved drone racing product in the USA,” in keeping with a DRL press launch. The settlement will authorize licensed sportsbooks to draw a brand new viewers of drone racing followers into the world of betting.
The partnership kicks off because the 2020 DRL Allianz World Championship Season airs on NBC, NBCSN, Twitter and Fb Watch — that includes the greatest drone pilots on the earth dealing with off on the DRL SIM, an immersive drone racing online game out there on Xbox and Steam.
“Followers all around the world love the Drone Racing League — and now, by our unimaginable new partnership with Genius Sports activities, they’ll quickly get to wager on it too. With our minute-long races filled with stats round pace, crashes, and competitors, skilled drone racing is on the quick observe to be one of the best sport to wager on,” DRL President Rachel Jacobson stated.
“The Drone Racing League is all about delivering real-time, data-driven content material to extremely engaged followers worldwide. Their core goals align carefully with our personal, making this the best partnership to unleash DRL’s unbelievable product with our international community of sportsbooks and their clients,” stated Genius Sports activities CEO Mark Locke.
Genius Sports activities advises prime sports-governing our bodies together with the NBA, NASCAR and the English Premier League. The corporate will leverage DRL’s official knowledge to construct a reside betting product to be offered to authorized sportsbooks in regulated territories world wide.
“Unique entry to DRL’s cutting-edge drone know-how and official knowledge throughout reside and digital drone races will allow Genius Sports activities to create a real-time gaming platform that gives up-to-the-second odds with transparency, accuracy and safety, in addition to a set of wagers and prop bets.”
