nontraditional sports over the years," said Josh Watson, operations Rocket League Prices manager of Psyonix’s eSports division, in a press release. "Adding eSports and Rocket League to that lineup is something we at Psyonix are very excited about. We can not wait to carry this opposition to a whole new target market.”

Two new audiences, in reality. Earlier this month, NBC Sports introduced a -on-two Rocket League match with a $100,000 prize pool. The event might be televised on NBC Sports from August five thru August 27. Both the X Games competition and the NBC broadcast deal got here together as a result of collaboration among Psyonix and FACEIT, an eSports platform.

In different Rocket League news, Psyonix introduced that the game RL Trading will launch on Switch this coming holiday. The assertion came during Nintendo’s E3 Direct move, and accompanied months of speculation and uncertainty stemming from Rocket League’s network in addition to its developer.