SRO e-Sports Championship!

guidofoc · Apr 10, 2020

SRO Motorsports Group

SRO Motorsports Group, the architect of modern GT racing

www.sro-motorsports.com

After the success of the charity race of March 29, SRO finally decided to create an e-Sports championship using ACC.
Here the link to register (only for real drivers and pro sim racers for now, us mortals will be able to register in a few days apparently):

SRO esports – 2023

www.sro-esport.com

Serge.M · Apr 13, 2020

Here’s the round only link:

I’m really surprised that RD isn’t giving these any attention, first the charity event which was awesome and now round one of this series. @Paul Jeffrey what’s up here?

DrRob · Apr 13, 2020

Honestly speaking I was a bit disappointed by the quality of racing. Maybe the amount of training the racing drivers got was lacking.
Kuno Wittmer was the most impressive driver of the bunch for me.

Funny was though, that I always misheard "Kenton Koch" as "Captain Cook". Couldn't unhear this...

Serge.M · Apr 13, 2020

DrRob said:
Honestly speaking I was a bit disappointed by the quality of racing. Maybe the amount of training the racing drivers got was lacking.
Kuno Wittmer was the most impressive driver of the bunch for me.

Funny was though, that I always misheard "Kenton Koch" as "Captain Cook". Couldn't unhear this...

Guessing a lot of drivers here haven’t really had much of any prior experience with ACC or even sim racing in general, looks like this will be changing now so things will improve.

DrRob · Apr 13, 2020

Serge.M said:
Guessing a lot of drivers here haven’t really had much of any prior experience with ACC or even sim racing in general, looks like this will be changing now so things will improve.

That is my hope. I will continue watching these events for sure.

guidofoc · Apr 13, 2020

Serge.M said:
Here’s the round only link:

I’m really surprised that RD isn’t giving these any attention, first the charity event which was awesome and now round one of this series. @Paul Jeffrey what’s up here?

Hmm but this is not the round one of the series I posted about. This is another event called "GT Rivals" organized by GTWC America.

AJ McDaddy · Apr 13, 2020

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Paul Glover · Apr 14, 2020

Serge.M said:
Here’s the round only link:

I’m really surprised that RD isn’t giving these any attention, first the charity event which was awesome and now round one of this series. @Paul Jeffrey what’s up here?

We have talked about it on our podcast! Search for RaceDepartment in your podcast app of choice.

DrRob · Apr 14, 2020

I think the OP was originally referring to this from GT World Challenge Europe:

SRO E-Sport Championship launches multi-event 2020 programme

- Five-round championship and grand finale confirmed - Separate classes for real-world drivers, top sim racers and public qualifiers - Best of each to face off in grand finale at fan-selected circuit

www.gt-world-challenge-europe.com

Calendar Pro and Silver Cup
Round 1 - Silverstone - 26 April
Round 2 - Total 24 Hours of Spa - 10 May
Round 3 - Nürburgring - 17 May
Round 4 - Barcelona – 31 May
Round 5 - Track to be decided by public vote – 14 June
Grand Final TBD

Calendar Am Cup
Round 1 - Silverstone – 16 May
Round 2 - Total 24 Hours of Spa - 23 May
Round 3 - Nürburgring - 30 May
Round 4 - Barcelona – 6 June
Round 5 - Track to be decided by public vote – 13 June
Grand Final TBD

But there is also this from GT World Challenge America:

SRO America Racers Set to Battle in New GT Rivals Esports Invitational

* Racers across SRO America series get ready to compete in the official game of GT World Challenge powered by AWS - Assetto Corsa Competizione. * A weekly esports invitational to take place every Sunday at 3pm ET. * Streamed live on Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook

www.gt-world-challenge-america.com