Drone Racing League and Google Cloud Partner

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Drone Racing League Partners with Google Cloud for 2022-23 Algorand World Championship Season

by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby

Today, the Drone Racing League (DRL) and Google Cloud announced the formation of a partnership that will oversee the launch of the 2022–23 DRL Algorand World Championship Season, bringing the first professional drone race to Silicon Valley.

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Presented by Google Cloud, the DRL Race in the Cloud will bring in the 2022-2023 racing season on October 11 at 7:30 p.m. PST at San Jose’s PayPal Park, with tickets currently available.

The race will coincide with the opening night of the Google Cloud Next annual conference. Conference attendees will be able to take part in the Google Cloud Fly Cup Challenge, a competition for developers to predict race outcomes and provide tips to DRL Pilots using DRL’s race data. Starting today, the competition…