ESailing World Championship
Annual esports regatta simulation recognized by World Sailing.
The Esailing World Championship (ESWC) is an annual esports competition first held in 2018. It is officially recognized by World Sailing, the main sports governing body, and features real-time regatta simulation via video game. The competition has been supported since 2018 by the French company Virtual Regatta, and esailing has been selected by the International Olympic Committee for the Olympics Esports Weeks and Olympics Virtual Series.
Quick Facts
- Number
- Annual
- Established
- 2018
- Administrator
- World Sailing
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Did You Know?
- Since 2020, the Esailing Team World Championship has been organized among supporting national federations of World Sailing.
- The inaugural Olympic Esports Week in Singapore in June 2023 included esailing, with its finale held on 23 June.
Olympics Virtual Series (OVS) Esailing Champions
The Inshore Series featured three events with boat types 49’er, Laser and Nacra 17, held on the shores of Kiel, Rio de Janeiro and Marseille. An Offshore Race ran from Rio to Tokyo.
2024 America's Cup Eseries
In September 2024, the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup entered esports with AC Sailing and the first-ever esport AC championship. The competition used the America Cup sailing simulator game developed by Emirates Team New Zealand.
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