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Today all the build up and discussion ended and the points started to count in Auckland as the first two races of the PRADA Cup officially kicked off.

Whether it be for the Challengers or the Defender, the speed at which the whole fleet is developing has already taken even the experts by surprise.

After over three years of waiting, the wins, the loses and the points will really start to count. The PRADA Cup is set to start on January 15 with the three Challengers competing to qualify to race against the America's Cup Defender Emirates Team New Zealand in the America's Cup Match.

As if written into the script, the final race was the one that mattered when it came to who would take the PRADA America's Cup World Series Auckland trophy.

SailGP today announced two new venues that will be added to the European leg of the global championship's second season in 2021.

Four match races have been held on the second day of the PRADA ACWS Auckland on race course C, the preferred playing field as it brings the racing right into the heart of the Waitemat? Harbour, with a shifty and puffy Northwest breezes between 10 to 14 knots.

The first racing day of the PRADA ACWS Auckland has just concluded and New York Yacht Club American Magic is leading the provisional ranking after winning both the matches they raced today. In second position comes Emirates Team New Zealand (1 point), third Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli (1 point) and fourth INEOS TEAM UK (0 points).

In less than three weeks four international teams from New Zealand, Italy, United States, and Great Britain will line up for the first time on their second generation of flying AC75's for the PRADA America's Cup World Series Auckland and the PRADA Christmas Race (December 17-20).

Organisers of the World Match Racing Tour today announced a new agreement with the People's Government of Bao'an District of Shenzhen, China to host the World Match Racing Tour Finals from 2021-2025.

As Phil Robertson's China One Ningbo and Torvar Mirsky's Mirsky Racing Team streaked out to 4-0 leads in their respective groups at the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing World Championship, it's hard to believe all of the skippers, including those two, who talked of being rusty coming into this regatta.

After a year in which too many regattas were postponed or cancelled due to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, the specter of International One-Design (IOD) sloops thrashing about Hamilton Harbour is welcomed by all associated with the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing Worlds, which begin tomorrow with gold and silver awaiting the winner at week's end.

What's that old saying? Two's company, but three's a crowd. What about four second generation 75-foot flying monohulls about to descend on the Hauraki Gulf? As the Auckland temperatures begin to warm up, so will the action on and off the water for all of the teams now in Auckland as the days countdown to race time.