K-Championship: K-Challenge launches its E.Sailing Inshore championship in partnership with Virtual Regatta
The K-Championship marks an unprecedented collaboration between K-Challenge and Virtual Regatta, the leader in eSailing. This international championship offers eSkippers from around the world the opportunity to compete on technical and demanding courses. Through a series of intense regattas, lasting around ten minutes, players will attempt to qualify for the grand final scheduled for December 2025.
Virtual Regatta Inshore is the ultimate playground for sailing and online competition enthusiasts. It involves taking on intense challenges at the helm of legendary boats. In the K-Championship, players will pilot F50s, foiling catamarans, and Flying 75s, latest-generation foiling monohulls, two types of high-tech boats capable of speeds of over 100 km/h. Intense regattas are on the horizon, featuring technical battles on demanding courses where every maneuver and every strategy counts.
Whether playing solo or multiplayer, each race is an opportunity to push your limits and compete with the best skippers.
With its realistic gameplay and precise weather management, Virtual Regatta Inshore offers short but intense races, where boat control and speed of execution are essential to dominate the rankings.
In practical terms, when and how can you participate in the K-Championship?
Tactics, speed, precision, and strategy in short formats, the K-Championship is an opportunity to experience the adrenaline rush of high-speed competition.
Starting today and throughout the 2025 season, e-skippers will be able to take the helm of an F50 and a Flying 75 to compete against an international community.
K-Championship format:
_At each stage of the international SailGP circuit, regattas will be organized in our lobby zone* with a qualification system for a small “Knockout” final with the 12 best players at the end of the Grand Prix.
_The top two players from each small “Knockout” final will qualify to participate in the season's grand final, which will be held in mid-December.
Between each SailGP stage, Flying 75 regattas will be organized. These will also serve as qualifiers for the grand final.
_Everyone will have to optimize their ranking during the various regattas to try to win great prizes and secure a place in the Grand Final, which will be held on December 13 at 2 p.m.
_Registration is available via the following page https://www.virtualregatta.com/inshore-game/ or via the Adhoc apps on the Apple Store or Google Play
* Lobby Zone: The K-Championship lobby zone is a dedicated space where skippers can find all the challenges of this competition, listed in chronological order. From the main menu, they can access this space to view current and upcoming races and their conditions of participation.
** Types of rewards:
Official clothing from the K-Challenge Racing teams, including SailGP France
Unique experiences such as attending training sessions or meeting the sailors
Fan Cards to access the Fan Club and go behind the scenes with our teams
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They said:
Thomas Gauthier, Director of Virtual Regatta: "Virtual Regatta, the world leader in eSailing, is pleased to formalize its partnership with K-Challenge to create the K-Championship, an international competition that makes top-level regattas accessible. For more than eight years, Virtual Regatta Inshore has established itself as the benchmark for regatta enthusiasts, bringing together thousands of eSailors around the world every day. This collaboration with a team of excellence such as K-Challenge validates our shared vision of innovation. Our alliance will enable us to develop initiatives that will further enhance the experience of our passionate community and support our desire to innovate in the digitalization and democratization of sailing, both in France and internationally."
Stephan Kandler, Founder and Co-CEO of K-Challenge : "K-Challenge has been committed to promoting high-level team sailing by all means for 25 years. We launched one of the first live 3D regattas on the internet during the One Ton Cup 2000. Boats, athletes, media, and technologies have evolved considerably, with digital technology playing an increasingly important role. E-gaming is now essential for getting our fans on board, so this partnership with Virtual Regatta is simply the best deal we could have hoped for in terms of our digital strategy, which is set to be further strengthened in the near future. There are plenty of surprises in store for players, and we hope that many of them will try their luck."
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About Virtual Regatta Inshore is a real-time, multiplayer simulation of short regattas on technical courses, upwind and downwind, allowing players from around the world to compete in regattas lasting around 5 minutes. This simulation strictly follows the official “Virtual Racing Rules of Sailing” developed with the International Sailing Federation, which has awarded the title of “eSailing World Champion” every year since 2018.