ForzaRC World Championship 2018

The Forza Racing Championship returns in 2018, where competitors will compete for more than US250.00 dollars in Forza Motorsport 7.

“Our vision for Forza is to bring together racing communities and automotive communities and real-world gamers and really create this huge community of players who love cars and love games,” said Dan Greenawalt, franchise creative director for Forza, in an interview with ESPN.

The tournament will begin with the ForzaRC 2018 Preseason Invitational on March 24 in Seattle. After that, the regular season will begin. It will be divided into two series, each with seven weeks of qualifying events and ending with a live playoff event with a US$75,000 prize.

After both series conclude, the top 24 drivers will be invited to compete in the ForzaRC World Championship, with a prize of US$100,000.

“Motorsports is a very expensive thing to get into,” said Greenawalt.

Greenawalt believes the goal of professional sim-racing esports is not to turn digital drivers into real-world drivers.

“That’s not really the case with esports today. The ultimate goal of being an esports competitor is to be an esports competitor. It will be a main champion,” said Greenawalt.

ForzaRC will follow a points system, and those with the most points will advance through the series. There will also be a new update for Forza Motorsport 7, which gives viewers new spectating features.

“I think it’s a mistake for us to mirror real-world racing. Because at the end of the day, real-world racing has someone’s life on the line,” said Greenawalt.

For Greenawalt, he feels there are some unique advantages in the simulation world, which he thinks traditional racing fans may find charming.

“The most fertile ground is not to look at what is impossible, but what is impractical,” said Greenawalt. While it is possible for the simulation to run on Pluto or the moon, that is taking it too far for the Forza team.

“When you start getting into track design, you start getting into a really interesting place. Where it’s plausible, real physics, it could happen on Earth. If you had trillions of dollars and the will, you could go build it. But you’d never do it because it wasn’t practical. That’s the space where I think we get into something really interesting,” said Greenawalt.

Series 1 will start on April 11. Broadcasts can be found on Microsoft’s streaming service Mixer.

Source: ESPN