A player wins a drone race by having the best score; this is calculated by the time taken to complete a course and the amount of checkpoints the player reaches. One of the sports main professional bodies is the DRL or Drone Racing League, all the drones are built in-house and their competitions take place in a number of locations including warehouses and sport stadiums. The ‘pilots’ wear goggles that give them a first-person view when flying to allow them to see what the drone sees which is really vital as the course is 3D and the drones go out of view of the naked eye for most of the race. Every lap a pilot is given a new drone which is previously checked for correct control and video feed.
Mobile throwing
This sport started in 2000 in Finland but is now spreading around the world with championships and teams in the US all the way to the Czech Republic and Liechtenstein. Players throw mobile phones and are judged on their method and distance. There are 4 major categories- Original or traditional, Team original, Freestyle and Junior. The original means that competitors have to throw the phone over the shoulder and the winner is the player who throws it the farthest, Freestyle is judged on the aesthetics and creative choreography, Junior is for those under the age of 12 and Team original is similar to Original but the teams scores are added up. Phones that are allowed to be used vary between events with some specifying a model and others allowing any phone over 220g to be used and in the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships these options are provided by the sponsor.
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