Competition
Live Professional Series
Coming in 2027
Regional competition. Live arena. Las Vegas.
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Regional competition. Live arena. Las Vegas.
The Live Professional Series is SFL competition at its highest altitude. Regional. Physical. Earned.
This is air combat simulated like it has never been done before. Pilots fly full-scale cockpits under full motion, holding precision while the platform throws a dynamic, three-dimensional fight at them, as close to the jet as you can get without leaving the ground.
The Live Professional Series is the arena stage of SFL competition. Where the Online Tournament Series brings pilots together across the world through a standardized digital environment, the LPS brings the best of them into the same room. Three Regional Qualifiers, rotating across AMER, EUR, MENA, and APAC, determine who earns the right to stand in Las Vegas for the SkyMasters Cup. Every event is live. Every result is final.
Three steps. No shortcuts. Every pilot who stands in Las Vegas earned the right to be there.
The LPS path runs in one direction. Compete in your regional qualifier. Top performers advance. The season closes at the SkyMasters Cup.
Earn entry into your Regional Qualifier through OTS performance or direct regional eligibility. Compete live at the arena event. Every trial. Every bracket engagement. All of it on record.
The top pilots from each Regional Qualifier earn the designation of Region Champion. They carry their region's standard to Las Vegas. The result is theirs to defend.
The annual SFL championship. Region Champions compete under the same standardized conditions that govern every SFL event. One result. Final record.
North and South America. The AMER qualifier determines who carries the Western Hemisphere into Las Vegas.
The European qualifier. Live arena competition to determine who represents EUR at the SkyMasters Cup.
Middle East, North Africa, and Asia-Pacific on rotation. The third qualifier slot cycles between regions each season.
This is where the LPS leaves the OTS behind. Every event runs on the same standardized hardware, the rig and the headset, identical at every venue and locked down so no one gains an edge from personal gear. But the real test is physical.
Pilots strap into a full-scale cockpit and fly under full motion. The platform puts them in the motion of a dynamic, three-dimensional fight as faithfully as anything short of the jet itself, real scale, a full cockpit to manage, and the pitch and roll of every maneuver working against them. Holding precision under that load is the discipline the LPS is built to test, and real-time vitals put the intensity on screen so the audience sees exactly what it costs. The only variable is the pilot.
The LPS arena event runs five days, and the competition is only part of it. The week brings the entire DCS world under one roof. A press day opens the gates to media and pilots. An expo floor puts the developers and hardware makers who build for DCS in front of the people who use it. Historical exhibits honor the aircraft and the heritage the sport stands on. Spectator aviation experiences hand attendees the controls. And through all of it, the live competition runs on the same standard that governs every SFL event.
Before the first run, the league opens the doors to media and partners. Pilots step up for interviews, the season's stakes get laid out, and the announcements that shape the week land here. By the time the competition begins, the room already knows what's on the line.
The studios, developers, and hardware makers who build the DCS world set up on the expo floor. New rigs, peripherals, and software, demoed by the people who made them, in front of the people who fly with them. It's where the sport and the industry behind it meet.
The aircraft on the screens have real histories, and so do the pilots who flew them. The LPS puts that heritage on display. Exhibits trace the machines, the missions, and the aviators behind the stick, the men and women the simulation is built to honor, drawing the line from today's competitors to the ones who flew the originals.
Competition rigs on a single stage, lit for broadcast. No back rooms, no remote setups. Every pilot flies in the open, in front of everyone. The hardware is identical down to the seat, so nothing separates one run from the next but the pilot flying it. Spectators read every input as it happens, and the cameras catch the angles the crowd can't.
Immersive headsets put the audience inside the aircraft, tracking the pilot who's actually flying it. The closest a spectator gets to the fight without wings of their own. Off the competition floor, interactive stations hand attendees the controls, full DCS setups running the same airframes the pros fly. Strap in, pull some Gs, and feel what the trials really demand before you watch them decided live.
Broadcast-grade from the first merge to the last. Live telemetry on every pass, multi-angle coverage that misses nothing, and production that reads the fight with Formula 1 precision and delivers it at esports scale. Every merge, every score, every call, pushed to every screen tuned in, the same front-row standard whether you're in the arena or watching from home.
The LPS does not accept applications. It accepts performance records. Start with the OTS. Build the record. The arena opens to those who earn it.
