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Rocket League tournament is set to be broadcast on BBC Sport, marking the Rocket League Items channel’s first esports broadcast of 2021.

Rocket League‘s first event of the yr, the Rocket League Championship Series X, will cross live Saturday, January 9. Players can be in a position to watch the match on BBC Sport online, the BBC Sport app, and BBC iPlayer. This received’t mark the primary time the BBC has given a domestic to Rocket League tournaments. In 2020, the channel broadcasted the sport’s European Spring Series.

Past being the first match broadcast at the BBC this yr, the RLCS X is also converting how lovers get to observe and interact with aggressive Rocket League. According to a press release, the event collection, which started out this beyond Summer, is taking an open, occasion-primarily based method. Prior tournaments have used league play formats with bi-annual seasons. This circuit will stop with the Rocket League World Championship. Last 12 months’s championship game turned into canceled because of the Covid-19 Rocket League Items Shop pandemic, with developer Psyonix pumping an extra $250,000 USD into the prize pool. The modern prize pool for this 12 months’s Rocket League World Championship is one million dollars.