“Those events were postproduced, not live,” says Ellefson. DRL moved fast, leveraging its proprietary DRL Simulator and enlisting the same drone pilots who compete in IRL events (using the same controller and skills) to create a standalone SIM-based series called the 2020 FanDuel DRL SIM Racing Cup, which aired on NBCSN beginning in May. However, when the pandemic struck in March 2020, these IRL events came to a halt, and the league was faced with changing its plans for the 2020 season. Prior to 2020, each DRL season consisted of 12 drone pilots flying standardized racing drones (custom-built at DRL’s NYC offices). Speed is part of DRL DNA, so we like to do things really fast.” The Transition: From In-Person and Onsite to Virtual and in the Cloudįounded in 2015, the DRL is the world’s premier professional drone-racing property and, prior to the pandemic, hosted “in real life” (IRL) events all over the world, from London to Singapore to the U.S. We’ve evolved a lot since we started with this. “As part of that transition to virtual races, we created a totally new broadcast-production workflow, and we have moved very heavily into cloud-based technology. “It has definitely been a big transition for DRL, moving to cloud-based fully virtual racing,” says DRL COO Ashley Ellefson. 30 at 4:30pm ET on NBC, Twitter and Facebook. To produce live broadcasts featuring a dozen pilots and nearly 40 crew members located across the globe, DRL was able to develop a fully cloud-based production workflow that continues to evolve as its 2020 DRL Allianz World Championship season comes to an end on Saturday, Jan.
When the pandemic hit, DRL was able to rapidly shift from in-person races using physical drones to virtual races that take place at simulated courses in the DRL Simulator. The pandemic has forced sports leagues to dramatically change the way they conduct events, but perhaps no organization has undergone as dramatic a transformation as the Drone Racing League.
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