![]() ![]() Watching Trelleborg and New Holland deliver bale after bale in their last tournament was akin to seeing a pirouette perfectly executed their machines would skid up gusts of tire smoke as they swerved towards the shed, tossing a bale at precisely the right moment before making a seamless exit back to the field. "I would say that the games that are decided in the last second-those are the good games," says Hanno "Beatmaster" Meier, one-fifth of the Swedish Team Trelleborg. These wild cards make the Farming Simulator League exhilarating, especially when both teams are equally matched in skill. Aside from the mechanical challenge of manuveuring these heavy machines around-just driving a harvester straight (opens in new tab) has a bit of a learning curve-keen strategizing is also necessary. But in Farming Simulator League, athletes compete in groups of threes to harvest wheat, press bales, and deliver as many as possible in a tight 15 minutes. ![]() And after a nail-biting five-match showdown with French team New Holland (formerly known as The Fermiers Flamboyants), a team that threatened their dominance in the series of six online tournaments leading up to the World Championship, Team Trelleborg eventually emerged as the season's champion, walking away with €20,000 in prize money.Īll this hubbub may come as a surprise even to those who are familiar with Farming Simulator, a game that's known for the realistic, but perhaps mundane, pastoral work of cultivating crops, rearing livestock and harvesting trees. The league has taken off in Europe (opens in new tab), with live tournaments taking place around the continent, and this season’s World Championship just concluding over the weekend from November 19 to 20. ![]() The agricultural esport has also seen major brands like Trelleborg, Corteva, and Bednar sponsor events and enter teams of their own, such as two-time defending champs Team Trelleborg. The latest season of Farming Simulator League has seen teams harvesting swathes of golden crops while steering their chonky vehicles with the sort of finesse you'd expect to see in a Grand Prix. ![]()
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