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.