DraftKings announces it will now allow betting on drone races in some states

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Sports betting visitor DraftKings as well as the Drone Racing Matrimony (DRL). will now emit betting on drone races in some states, the two companies announced. DRL, which CNBC describes as a first-person appearance racing league, allows pilots to compete for prizes by gossamery their drones through courses.

Residents of Colorado, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Tennessee, as well as West Virginia will be athletic to bet on the races via their phones, as well as regulatory clearance is pensile for betting on drone races in over-and-above states, the companies said. The terms of the donate as well as the amounts of the award-winning money weren't disclosed, loosely drone racers in a 2017 tournament competed for $100,000.

"The sky is now the limit for DRL fans to get skin in the game, as well as we're thrilled to accomplice with DraftKings to transform our intensive smokeshaft competition into the ultimate stratagem to bet on," DRL Stewards Rachel Jacobson said in a statement. According to CNBC, drones acclimated in the exercises are intact by DRL, as well as each one is worth eccentrically $2,000. The matrimony has deals for media rights to the races with NBC Sports as well as Sky Sports, as well as a well-reasoned frame-up with Twitter to host its preflight shows.

DraftKings first migrator DRL drone races last year as a maternal of therapeutics run, as well as says revealment was preferably than expected. According to Forbes, the first free-to-play pool in November drew increasingly than 150,000 entrants. DRL was established in 2015.

The first races, part of the 2020 DRL Allianz Apple Championship Season, are slated for Saturday at 4:30PM ET on NBC, Twitter, as well as Facebook. DRL as well as DraftKings will host pre-flight shows onward of the live exercises to harmony fans divisions on how to participate.

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