Sacramento’s Aaron Jilg is one of the lucky attendees at the biggest drone speed race in California history, featuring competitors from around the globe. He’s still buzzing after the winners are crowned inside the Golden 1 Center, overlooking the futuristic course.
“Today was absurd!” Jilg says, after Team Elefun, featuring members from Norway and Sweden, claim the biggest chunk of the $25,000 pot. “I’ve never seen anything like this [competition]. So fast and so accurate — this could definitely be an X Games sideshow kind of thing. It’s like watching motorsports, but with a lot more technicality.”
Jilg is raving about the second Xfinity California Drone Speed Challenge, held at the Golden 1 Center on July 19 in downtown Sacramento. The race has turned the floor of the Kings’ arena into a glowing high-tech drone obstacle course lined with square, rectangular, and circular gates and barriers. The local arena was chosen for the championship race because it is considered one of the world’s most connected indoor sports and entertainment venues, and is powered by two 100-gigabit ethernet internet circuits from Comcast Business.
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